I'm the happy owner of the Gibson F5 mandolin, featured at the beginning of this. Steve sold it to me (in 1993) because he thought '...the instrument is too good to not be played'. He also said 'You're obviously a player and not a collector' and gave me a real good price on it. Bless him. He made me promise to let him know how the mandolin was doing, so after a year or so I sent him a photo of 'Father of Bluegrass'Bill Monroe playing it, when I visited Monroe at his home in Tennessee in 1994. He wrote me back and said he was glad the instrument is in good hands. The mandolin is still in very good shape today, I'm happy to say. Thanks for posting this, Mark!

This is like a duchess interviewing a professor in guitars. Super classy.

This woman has a magnetic elegance. A lost quality...And Howe is a master, of course.

Clearly the world's greatest guitar player

Steve Howe is such an Intelligent and Quite Amazing Musician

The presenter is Harriet Crawley and she was a total BABE

Absolutely one of the greatest of all time. A musician's musician, named "Best Overall Guitarist" by Guitar Player magazine five years in a row in the late 70s and early 80s. He came to rock guitar from a classical and jazz background, as opposed to the blues players that were so common back in the day. An amazing technical player who still managed to sound so organic... no one else sounds like him.

Can’t say enough about this interview…just a brilliant guy, and doing all of this historical research well before the age of the internet was magnificent.

Steve probably knows the sound every fret on every string will make across such an amazing range of instruments.

I remember seeing this on a repeat in the early 90s. Steve seems really happy, relaxed and respectful. He certainly knows his stuff. That les paul sounds incredible.

Steve is the reason I play guitar. I heard him when I was a kid and was hooked.

I'm at odds: I love Steve more than anything...I love this elegant woman now almost as much!!

What a lovely lady he is talking to 👌
and what an amazing collection of rare gems.

You can really see the joy he has in collecting guitars, talking about guitars, and especially in playing guitars - his face really lights up, and his body language changes, when he starts playing. He eventually did publish a great coffee-table book, The Steve Howe Guitar Collection, with lots of great photos.

That was part of his collection in the 70’s, imagine what it would be today. I love Steve Howe. You  don’t get musicians like him anymore. What is good, are the many recordings we can still listen to.

1980s with 3 channels obscured show had more views than prime time show on cable in 2022

What a treat watching this. He is an elite player among elite players.

What a beautiful lady

Wow, they filmed it in The Tardis! Cool!

Incredible collection, and Steve is a real gentleman.