Steve is by far THE most underrated guitar player in rock history.

(R.I.P., Chris Squire. one of the all time great bass players)

His style is so unique. You can copy Blackmore, Hendrix or Van Halen, but Howe is a different nut to crack. Awesome.

Steve is a wizard of his instrument. Absolute genius

Steve Howe put Yes in the HOF. His addition on the Yes lp turned a band that would've languished in relative obscurity into the most surrealistic sound in progressive rock in the '70s. They didn't make sense lyrically, you couldn't dance to it, but their music just crawled inside your head and squatted there for life. Very few bands could say they created their own genre, but with the brilliant and lucky addition of Steve Howe, Yes stood alone in the cosmos and we were all the beneficiaries of this for decades to come.

His master of key, mode, scales and the mathematics of music are combined with a genius of creative ability. He plays things that no one would think of playing in ways that no one would think to play it. He has every technique from bending, harmonic picking, slides...just everything. He can do a million notes a measure, or simply strum. The only reason most people do not know him is because his music is so unique and hard to appreciate if you just want three chords and a pentatonic scale.

50 years later it remains sheer genius. Steve Howe was an absolute magician and his solos were nothing short of miraculous.

Damn, Steve Howe's playing was ON FIRE back in the day.

Steve's style has always amazed me. he fills in the background, plays in your face lead, playa rhythm, he does it all

Howe is as creative, innovative & flat out genius as it gets.  Fearless!

The early Yes tracks are masterpieces in every sense, musicianship, mysterious lyrics and production. Close To The Edge is one of the greatest tracks ever recorded, up there with 'Supper's Ready'. The Yes Album, Fragile and Close To The Edge are true classics. Some of Howe's playing in the later album Relayer is sublime. One of Britain's very best and creative guitar players with an instantly recognisable style of his own.

Two Steves, Howe and Hackett, quite likely the most accomplished self-taught guitarists in all of Prog and beyond!

My god these interviews are SO important to capture now, while we still can. I am terribly glad we have them!

This song and the entire "The Yes Album" absolutely blew me away when I first heard it when I was in my early 20's. Their sound was so completely unique and unlike anything else coming out at that time. I never tire of listening to them. R.I.P Chris Squire.

Steve Howe is one of the greatest.
Love the fill riff at 4:44 that is so signature Howe.

After all these years Yours Is No Disgrace is still my favorite Yes song.  And there are so many great tunes to chose from.

This is a musical masterpiece
Every time you listen its complexity and wonder grow - I've been listening to it for 30 years or more and still love it to bits

Yours is no Disgrace
Perpetual Change
Starship Trooper
... best songs amongst a huge selection of classics

Dreadful news about Chris' death
The music will live on
RIP - another musical giant departs us and we are less as a result

I'm so glad I got to see Yes in 1977 while they're still in their prime. The whole glam-rock outfit and everything. I floated all the way home and nothing to do with the "smokey" coliseum - ok, maybe a bit.

One of their best tunes, it never gets old

Astounding when you hear the story behind the songs you love, brings newer emotions

Steve Howe legend forever