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Steve Howe – Not Necessarily Acoustic (Live 1994) (@256)
10 Nov 2007
(Review from progreviews.com, progarchives.com)
Steve Howe’s first solo live album was recorded during two performances in mid-December 1994 in Philadelphia and Montreal. His stunning, unique and seminal guitarplay incorporates rock, classical, symphonic, jazz, ragtime, blues and perhaps a few more musical styles.
During the show Howe plays a sizable chunk of his past work. There were also a few songs that had never been released. Most were played on a variety of acoustic guitars, but a few songs were done on a very clean sounding electric.
All his classic guitar pieces are covered: “Clap”, “Mood for a Day”, “Sketches in the Sun”, “Ram”, “Cactus Boogie”, “Meadow Rag” and “Masquerade” to name but a few. Also included are a clipped “Roundabout” and a tastefully compiled suite excerpting all four sides of Tales from Topographic Oceans, the highlight of which is “The Ancient” sequence. Howe displays brief snapshots of his influences, in the covers “Country Mix” (a medley of five country tunes clocking in at under three minutes), “Arada” and the short but sweet “The Glory of Love”.
This is an hour-long mostly acoustic live showdown from Steve Howe, providing a near-perfect overview of his best guitar work.
Track List:
01. The Valley of Rocks (3:03)
02. Heritage (2:32)
03. Arada (1:08)
04. Country Mix: White Silver Sands/Green Bay… (2:57)
05. Excerpts from Tales from Topographic… (9:18)
06. Bareback (2:42)
07. Sketches in the Sun (2:58)
08. Cactus Boogie (2:09)
09. Second Initial (2:47)
10. Corkscrew (3:45)
11. The Glory of Love (1:14)
12. Dorothy (2:10)
13. Meadow Rag (2:26)
14. Concerto in D, 2nd Movement (2:34)
15. Surface Tension (3:22)
16. Masquerade (2:03)
17. Mood for a Day (2:59)
18. Swedish Rhapsody (0:53)
19. Whispering (1:00)
20. Roundabout (2:33)
21. Ram (1:51)
22. Clap (3:43)
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about 6 years ago
Hotfile!
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about 5 years ago
Loving the Eloy posts – I have a soft spot for the mid-era Planets / Time To Turn / Performance LPs (from around the time I saw them live) but I rather foolhardily gave my vinyl of these to a charity shop so nice to hear them again!Track 4 on the Steve Howe seems to be missing (it appears as an empty directory). Any chance of uploading it to complete the album? Keep up the good posts…
about 5 years ago
> Track 4 on the Steve Howe seems to be missing (it appears as an empty > directory).
> Any chance of uploading it to complete the album?
I re-checked the archive, track 4 isn’t missing.It has characters like ;-. etc. You may be hitting an unarchiver bug, perhaps trying another software to unzip might help.
about 5 years ago
Thanks friend for posting this nice album, if you happen to have his album called “Pulling Strings” Please post that one too. Rgds,
about 5 years ago
> if you happen to have his album called “Pulling Strings” Please post that one too.
I have it, will try to post soon.
about 5 years ago
Thanks for the reply.Track 4 would not unzip using Windows, 7-zip or Winrar.I think the problem was to do with the length of the directory / filename. Renaming it (whilst still in the .zip file) to a one letter name did allow it to unzip – track plays fine!
about 5 years ago
> I have it, will try to post soon.
Thanks so much…I wish it can be done at RS or mediafire.
about 5 years ago
I am having problems extracting with song 4 as well. Which unzipping program are you using? I tried several already all seem to get stuck due to the long filename or obscure character in the name.
about 5 years ago
Sakalli this is a great post. Which compression software are you using? I am having problems with the fourth song as well. Thanks a lot.
about 3 years ago
Rapidshare!
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OGG 2 -> http://tinyurl.com/yhkngwv
Password -> sakalli