Lbushwhack88
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Hey guys! Just a bored post I'm laying out after listening to some of his stuff lately, I'm not sure if anyone has talked about him much on here but if not here goes!
So it's safe to say that about 8 or 9 years ago when I was getting into instrumental guitar albums, I came across Greg's catalog and was just absolutely mindblown. The guitar tone, the licks, the just downright greasy funky FEEL that he exhibits on his melodic lines...and probably the most impressive thing to me of all surprisingly: The chords and progressions that he seamlessly wove into each song that just popped with complex but entirely digestible sonic genius.
I was listening to alot of Joe Satriani and Vai and some of the more "mainstream" players along that vein before I came across Greg, and thought I was learning who the true shred masters were, but when I listened to Greg's jump start for the first time, I felt like I was finally waking up to guitar heaven!! Greg's stuff made Satch Boogie sound like absolute CHILDSPLAY technically while still having the killer melodic hooks on top of the head spinning smooth-as-silk legato runs into the cosmos with his tapping licks, and he wasn't diming out his distortion, at least not after a few albums, when he really started refining his fusion chops.
I immediately wanted to start playing fusion, but most fusion I was trying to get into at the time just got so outside of the box and dissonant, and I absolutely hated that...It was such a great feeling finding someone like Greg who was playing jazz fusion guitar but was somehow finding a way to make it all sound SO tasty and accessible to my non-jazz-schooled ear at the same time.
Anyhow, I'm rambling and I apologize. If you guys haven't heard him, and you take your playing seriously, please do your ears a favor and listen to some of his music. His neoclassical stuff was a little cookie cutter, but after his first or second album, you will hear the playing of an incredibly talented and driven young Greg Howe at his absolute finest. It's not rocket science playing fast, but doing it with Greg's feel over the outstanding chord progressions he cooked up on his albums is just out of this world.
I've found that he isn't as shocking live, maybe a little bit of stage fright or not enough time warming up with the material, but he was / Is an absolute perfectionist with his studio cuts.
I'm about to start working through one of his tunes called The Terrace, it has some awesome chord changes and I'm gonna try to learn them all and figure out how they relate so I can take a look into his head and see just how he was coming up with some of those chord changes, just unreal to me.
Listen to this, you won't regret it!! And sorry for the novel!
If anyone is interested, I will at least post the chords to this song (and some others I'm gonna work on) in this post. Also, this post was entirely subjective! No disrespect to guys like Satch but that's what I hear!
So it's safe to say that about 8 or 9 years ago when I was getting into instrumental guitar albums, I came across Greg's catalog and was just absolutely mindblown. The guitar tone, the licks, the just downright greasy funky FEEL that he exhibits on his melodic lines...and probably the most impressive thing to me of all surprisingly: The chords and progressions that he seamlessly wove into each song that just popped with complex but entirely digestible sonic genius.
I was listening to alot of Joe Satriani and Vai and some of the more "mainstream" players along that vein before I came across Greg, and thought I was learning who the true shred masters were, but when I listened to Greg's jump start for the first time, I felt like I was finally waking up to guitar heaven!! Greg's stuff made Satch Boogie sound like absolute CHILDSPLAY technically while still having the killer melodic hooks on top of the head spinning smooth-as-silk legato runs into the cosmos with his tapping licks, and he wasn't diming out his distortion, at least not after a few albums, when he really started refining his fusion chops.
I immediately wanted to start playing fusion, but most fusion I was trying to get into at the time just got so outside of the box and dissonant, and I absolutely hated that...It was such a great feeling finding someone like Greg who was playing jazz fusion guitar but was somehow finding a way to make it all sound SO tasty and accessible to my non-jazz-schooled ear at the same time.
Anyhow, I'm rambling and I apologize. If you guys haven't heard him, and you take your playing seriously, please do your ears a favor and listen to some of his music. His neoclassical stuff was a little cookie cutter, but after his first or second album, you will hear the playing of an incredibly talented and driven young Greg Howe at his absolute finest. It's not rocket science playing fast, but doing it with Greg's feel over the outstanding chord progressions he cooked up on his albums is just out of this world.
I've found that he isn't as shocking live, maybe a little bit of stage fright or not enough time warming up with the material, but he was / Is an absolute perfectionist with his studio cuts.
I'm about to start working through one of his tunes called The Terrace, it has some awesome chord changes and I'm gonna try to learn them all and figure out how they relate so I can take a look into his head and see just how he was coming up with some of those chord changes, just unreal to me.
Listen to this, you won't regret it!! And sorry for the novel!
If anyone is interested, I will at least post the chords to this song (and some others I'm gonna work on) in this post. Also, this post was entirely subjective! No disrespect to guys like Satch but that's what I hear!
