I watched him perform this in Toronto this past weekend and he has not aged a day on stage and we were all excited when he played this for us! Keep rocking on!!!
Saw YES on their 1st tour w Alan White in '72(?), when he'd had 3 DAYS to prepare for it!! In support of "Fragile" & "Close To the Edge." Unbelievable show! Saw every tour after that for years, til members started playing musical chairs. Saw w Trevor Rabin & Geoff Downes, & later w reunion tours, once w L.A. Symphony at Hwd Bowl. Plus Asia, & solo tours w Wakeman, etc. NEVER a dull moment!! But Steve Howe has always been one of the biggest influences in my own playing, as has Rick Wakeman on keys. I blame him for my buying & using a Mellotron in LOTS of my own material, incl film & TV scores. Still have it! & Jon Anderson & the AMAZING (R.I.P.) Chris Squire... gigantic influences... ALL truly SO far above the norm... YES literally changed my life in a million ways! I'll always be grateful!!
or stanley jordan or ted greene, chet akins, michaelangelo batio, pat metheny or any one of a slew of much better guitarists. But this guy had a very fun playing
THE most organic guitar tone and technique in the world. Its right there. An absolute true master of the instrument. And when there were far fewer guitarists of this calibre to boot. Here we are decades later, and how many people do you see pulling this one off? Exactly, he was and is that good.
+Don Bishop Saw Steve 2 weeks ago and to this day he is having more fun then the audience. Well except for maybe me, I had a great time. Haven't had the pleasure in 20 years. Last yes show I saw was Big Generator.
Steve Howe is in my top 5 favorite guitar players of all time. He could go from classical style to country to rock to pop all in the same song without skipping a beat
I don't get tired of listening to him. Once he had moved to Asia and I didn't know he he made it and I was just passing by a record store and I heard a guitar solo. I immediately stopped and said to myself: Steve Howe? He had just finished recording with his new band, Asia. There are many guitarists, but his virtuosity and eclecticism are second to none. His solos, melodies, compositions and the way he plays...Wow! THE BEST OF THE BEST.
One month earlier than this recording, in November 1972, I hitchhiked to Notre Dame in my hometown of South Bend IN to see YES at the brand new Athletic and Convocation Center. I was 15YO & I could sing every word of every song from both Close to the Edge and the YES Album. . (For that matter, I could also sing Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick which is actually one long song on both sides of an album all the way through.) HA! Thank you Steve, this song and your performance of it are just astounding.
2:21 never noticed before what Steve's left hand's muscles look like while he performing this song. It takes enormous effort to make a steel strings guitar sound like this, yet he doesn't smear any single note.
This right here is a perfect showcasing of how musicians ALWAYS should enjoy playing music and always have a great time. Steve Howe is the perfect example. Long live.
It makes no matter what kind of mood I'm in, the moment I turn on YES this world and all it's troubles completely vanish . Beethoven once said it's great art if it has the ability to reach into another's soul and make the them feel what your feeling. YES does that without question, YES music is Iconic and maybe one day will be appreciated as the greatest thing that ever happened in music for in my opinion it is. YES ? Yes!!!!!!!
Howe, Page, Lifeson are three of my top favorite players! SRV up there too... all talented and could do things others couldn't, but Steve Howe definitely has more things unique to him.
Is not my favorite guitarrist, but he is one the best of the 70's in rock music with Hendrix and Van Halen, Page was not good at all but he innovated a lot (bad english, sorry)
Steve Howe is simply, Out of this world . Great guitar player. The best guitar players use the pinky finger a lot. A professional jazz guitar player I met told me this .
I remember sitting in my room dragged down by the most suffocating lot of top 40 junk and then this came on! I fell out my chair with excitement. It then went to a commercial and I never learned who was playing this incredible guitar. It was years later a friend turned me on to YES and there it was. Still my favorite!
Mind blowing. . . From a technical point of view no mistakes. Beautiful arrangement of parts that are each and every one exciting and breath taking. I so hope Dylan (who is now 55 years old) appreciates it and listens to his dear old Dad performing it on a constant basis. 😊
Love these guys, saw them many times over the years and have never been disappointed. Watching him do his thing on many guitars is an absolute treat. Everyone in this band is a musical genius and master at their craft.
I should have been born 10 years earlier. I studied classical piano when I was 5 6 and 7 brought this to my music teacher she couldn't teach me how to play it when she heard it she was amazed, remember the only technology that then was first generation computers, that IBM made where I went to a field trip in first grade. And being so young to study classical piano give me peace, if I wasn't running around outside with my cousins and my sister and the triplets and my best friend at the time Laura Flynn who played the classical piano with the same teacher as me. We actually both wound up in the National Guild of Piano players, where you had a perform on stage live and do a duet. I remember doing Fur Elise, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, and Clemente's sonatinas and Rondo's.and Schumann's, "The Merry Farmer".
It is one of my biggest goals to learn to play this song. I have been at the guitar for ten years, and probably have another ten to go before I can play it. One of the best songs for guitar ever written.
If you NEVER got the chance to see the original YES, "IN The ROUND" I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. OBVIOUSLY, WATCHING THIS, YOU missed one of the greatest guitar players the world saw or heard. One of the greatest line ups the world has EVER Witness, true GODS OF ROCK. I MISS MY BANDS FROM THAT TIME.
I'd like to punch the guy who filmed this in the face for not shooting this where we can see his entire guitar playing in one frame where we can see what he is doing with BOTH hands at the same time. The close ups of his face and one hand at a time shots are wasted.... . But it is better than nothing. STEVE HOWE RULES!
Shouts out Dylan thanks for blessing us with this track bruda. One of the greatest pieces of music of all time. Of course also shouts out my boy Steve for being a legend.
Learning this man's solos when I was in HS back in the '70s was as big a thrill as I ever knew: "Mood for a Day", "Relayer" "Close to the Edge," "Heart of the Sunrise", but this one was always beyond me. No way. "Heartbreaker" solo by Jimmy Page? "Hocus Pocus" by Jan Akkerman? No problem. But "The Clap", was just, no way. So so underrated as a guitar master. He was the Keith Emerson of the guitar--probably still is, though I've lost track since he left Yes. But learning to play his guitar pieces is one thing--being able to CREATE them out of your head the way he does, that's another. The difference between a lightning bug and lightning.
If you pause the video ( or slow it down ) around the 1:53 mark, you can see that Steve is holding the pick upside down - or at least using the rounded end and not the pointed tip .. Never noticed that before ... This is an absolute masterpiece
For all the people saying he was underrated this is true but it wasn't true in the 1970s. The only magazine on guitars that mattered was called Guitar Player Magazine where five years in a row he won best overall guitarist and was retired into the Hall of Fame. People did recognize his talent It just seems they forgotten.
"Dedicating this tune to a little boy Dylan…somewhere”…somewhere??? lol. I guess at home with the babysitter while you are absolutely killing it at this concert, Maestro Steve!
I watched him perform this in Toronto this past weekend and he has not aged a day on stage and we were all excited when he played this for us! Keep rocking on!!!
You are so lucky. YES still remains on my bucket list.
Saw YES on their 1st tour w Alan White in '72(?), when he'd had 3 DAYS to prepare for it!! In support of "Fragile" & "Close To the Edge." Unbelievable show! Saw every tour after that for years, til members started playing musical chairs. Saw w Trevor Rabin & Geoff Downes, & later w reunion tours, once w L.A. Symphony at Hwd Bowl. Plus Asia, & solo tours w Wakeman, etc. NEVER a dull moment!! But Steve Howe has always been one of the biggest influences in my own playing, as has Rick Wakeman on keys. I blame him for my buying & using a Mellotron in LOTS of my own material, incl film & TV scores. Still have it! & Jon Anderson & the AMAZING (R.I.P.) Chris Squire... gigantic influences... ALL truly SO far above the norm... YES literally changed my life in a million ways! I'll always be grateful!!
This song is very high on the list of things I will miss when I die
30 Days Sugar Free How u goin to miss stuff if yuz ded?
Maybe you’ll get to hear it for an eternity! 🤷♂️
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I love Steve howes country influences
When you're dead son, you'll have a lot more to be worried about.
To do that finger work on an acoustic is mind boggling! Definitely one of the best guitarists there ever was.
Try listening to Django Reinhardt. With only 2 fingers on his left hand. That is mind boggling.
or stanley jordan or ted greene, chet akins, michaelangelo batio, pat metheny or any one of a slew of much better guitarists. But this guy had a very fun playing
& strings look like piano wires.
@@donsimons9810 Which one of them can play a lap steel like SH?
So true.... We see the same thing.... True talent.... Amazing...
It amazes me what some people can do to a guitar
With it, or to it?
@@banfield1368 Often both
I like how he so frequently introduces classical music themes to his pieces.
That’ll be because he’s a classical guitarist by training.
@@munter10 he has no training and cannot read music
@@michaelhogan6770 That's the biggest rumour about him. He is in fact a professionally trained guitarist
THE most organic guitar tone and technique in the world. Its right there. An absolute true master of the instrument. And when there were far fewer guitarists of this calibre to boot. Here we are decades later, and how many people do you see pulling this one off? Exactly, he was and is that good.
The 1953 Martin 0018 helps
personally it looks like his action is a little high and he is struggling with it but what do i know.
Steve Morse does a GREAT job covering this!
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@@gfunkk i think you know quite a lot
@@stevec-b6214 either way, I still struggle to play this as well as Steve, even on an electric. The man is a true monster.
Seriously, who is having more fun - Steve playing or us listening? I think it's a toss-up! :)
+Don Bishop Saw Steve 2 weeks ago and to this day he is having more fun then the audience. Well except for maybe me, I had a great time. Haven't had the pleasure in 20 years. Last yes show I saw was Big Generator.
That guitar is having the most fun. Just listen to it enjoying itself!
One of the most technical guitar players ever. Wonderful . The most amazing to me is that he was always so humble
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I can play it pretty quick but not in the part where he hammers on and pulls of
Steve Howe is in my top 5 favorite guitar players of all time. He could go from classical style to country to rock to pop all in the same song without skipping a beat
I don't get tired of listening to him. Once he had moved to Asia and I didn't know he he made it and I was just passing by a record store and I heard a guitar solo. I immediately stopped and said to myself: Steve Howe? He had just finished recording with his new band, Asia. There are many guitarists, but his virtuosity and eclecticism are second to none. His solos, melodies, compositions and the way he plays...Wow!
THE BEST OF THE BEST.
One month earlier than this recording, in November 1972, I hitchhiked to Notre Dame in my hometown of South Bend IN to see YES at the brand new Athletic and Convocation Center.
I was 15YO & I could sing every word of every song from both Close to the Edge and the YES Album. . (For that matter, I could also sing Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick which is actually one long song on both sides of an album all the way through.) HA!
Thank you Steve, this song and your performance of it are just astounding.
Lucky you.
8 years recovering from a hand injury after trying that, its nearly better now
yes it's not wise for humans to attempt this...
That doesn't sound right
With months of practice and mountains of patience you can do it!! And it's a beautiful feeling hearing this masterpiece coming out of your guitar
Very hard work to do, but finally I made it through!
2:21 never noticed before what Steve's left hand's muscles look like while he performing this song. It takes enormous effort to make a steel strings guitar sound like this, yet he doesn't smear any single note.
This right here is a perfect showcasing of how musicians ALWAYS should enjoy playing music and always have a great time. Steve Howe is the perfect example. Long live.
Oscar Salman Prim . yep, fake hippies think Hendrix is the only greatest guitarist. Go show them how its done Howe!
He's simply the best
Forgot how much I loved Steve Howe. Always argued he was the best guitarist
steve howe guitar 唯一無二
It makes no matter what kind of mood I'm in, the moment I turn on YES this world and all it's troubles completely vanish . Beethoven once said it's great art if it has the ability to reach into another's soul and make the them feel what your feeling. YES does that without question, YES music is Iconic and maybe one day will be appreciated as the greatest thing that ever happened in music for in my opinion it is. YES ? Yes!!!!!!!
ハウが素晴らしいのは、ギター、弦楽器への探求心が尋常では無かった。自らに限界を設けず、ただ愛するギターを弾いていたいから、70歳を超えてもライヴを精力的に行っていると思う。
Most underrated guitarist of the 70's ,I could listen to Howe for hours on end. better than Page on his best day
Both page and Howe are amazing, but yes was more advanced. It's like comparing SRV to Alex Lifeson...
I feel SRV completely posessed the capability of playing Lifeson's works, but on the other hand I don't think Page could play what Howe plays.
Howe, Page, Lifeson are three of my top favorite players! SRV up there too... all talented and could do things others couldn't, but Steve Howe definitely has more things unique to him.
Sorry. But think that title goes to Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe fame.
Is not my favorite guitarrist, but he is one the best of the 70's in rock music with Hendrix and Van Halen, Page was not good at all but he innovated a lot (bad english, sorry)
My all-time favorite version of clap from one of my all-time favorite guitarists.
I can’t keep my mouth closed when I play guitar either so seeing Steve clown and move his mouth a lot like I do sure does make me feel better
Pure talent, favourite clip of him playing. I can't stop listening and watching that head bop!
I agree..
Steve Howe is simply, Out of this world . Great guitar player. The best guitar players use the pinky finger a lot. A professional jazz guitar player I met told me this .
Happy Birthday, Steve! 75 years old today!
A underrated most magnificent guitar player ever, I love Steve Howes music, simply delightful
What I would give for fingers that long. One of the best ever.
This song always makes me smile from head to toe.
Master
Never gets old
50 years later, here we are
Listening
Listening
I love Steve Howe and always have.
I remember sitting in my room dragged down by the most suffocating lot of top 40 junk and then this came on! I fell out my chair with excitement. It then went to a commercial and I never learned who was playing this incredible guitar. It was years later a friend turned me on to YES and there it was. Still my favorite!
first time seeing Steve play...i dont think ive seen ANYONE rock an acoustic like that.that was virtuosic
You should look up Tommy Emmanuel
What a joyful to listen Howe
Mr Howe, a unique acoustic guitar player, I take my hat off for him.
He never ever (EVER) make a mistake wile playing live. I have seen them too many times and he is flawless always.
Playing this great song on x1.25 makes it even more fun hehe :P What a great song this is!
Saw them do it live at Colt park in New Britain Ct. in 1978. One of the best concerts I ever went to. Yes I’m old.
None of the guitar gods could play this like Steve
What a joy to watch, so much love put into it, a true musician, love him, and his pants :)
Ciclopea2 me too
Mind blowing. . . From a technical point of view no mistakes.
Beautiful arrangement of parts that are each and every one exciting and breath taking.
I so hope Dylan (who is now 55 years old) appreciates it and listens to his dear old Dad performing it on a constant basis. 😊
Love these guys, saw them many times over the years and have never been disappointed. Watching him do his thing on many guitars is an absolute treat. Everyone in this band is a musical genius and master at their craft.
I so love this. My inspiration to play guitar. Right here.
Wonderful guitarist and wonderful musician
I should have been born 10 years earlier. I studied classical piano when I was 5 6 and 7 brought this to my music teacher she couldn't teach me how to play it when she heard it she was amazed, remember the only technology that then was first generation computers, that IBM made where I went to a field trip in first grade. And being so young to study classical piano give me peace, if I wasn't running around outside with my cousins and my sister and the triplets and my best friend at the time Laura Flynn who played the classical piano with the same teacher as me. We actually both wound up in the National Guild of Piano players, where you had a perform on stage live and do a duet. I remember doing Fur Elise, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, and Clemente's sonatinas and Rondo's.and Schumann's, "The Merry Farmer".
Great technician, brilliant and inventive. Top guitarist made Yes one of the most creative bands ever
I could watch this guy play his guitar all day long. So much joy and enthusiasm in his playing
Steve Howe is an artistic genius. Yes, He is built differently than the average person.
Those Gollum fingers of his just stick right on the correct note.
I saw them in Memphis in about 1972.....awesome then and now this still going on,,,,,,,,
Absolutely Incredible!!!
Maravilhosa interpretação !
Não me canso de a ouvir!
Steve Howe é o MAIOR !!
Master!! Greatness of lord.. why not Sir Steve Howe someday?
Momentos inolvidables que nos dió la música !!! Gracias por guardarlos y compartirlos
Looks like he's having more fun playing than we have listening! :)
Master guitarist and songwriter
It is one of my biggest goals to learn to play this song. I have been at the guitar for ten years, and probably have another ten to go before I can play it. One of the best songs for guitar ever written.
HAHAHAHA...bragger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just tried to play it. Not a hope - even after thirty years! Good luck! :-)
How(e) did it go?
Fun fact: A long time ago there was a guitar mag article featuring Mr. Howe, where the opening title read, "Yes, I'm doing fine!"
bluegrassrockflamenco=The Clap.good luck emulating this.Steve Howe.=Guitar God
Amazing performance....GO Steve get down boy!😅
He has a very American style of playing, I would have never guessed that it was written by such a talented Englishman
Indeed, "Clap" was originally intended by Howe to be a tribute to American guitarist Chet Atkins.
I thought Albert Lee was American for years.
He's a blues/jazz lover
@@jwandhistools hahaha
If you NEVER got the chance to see the original YES, "IN The ROUND" I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
OBVIOUSLY, WATCHING THIS,
YOU missed one of the greatest guitar players the world saw or heard. One of the greatest line ups
the world has EVER
Witness, true GODS OF ROCK. I MISS MY BANDS FROM THAT TIME.
Steve Howe is awesome - he introduced a classical sound into Rock n' Roll music. The Clap - beautiful!
te AMO Steve Howe y siempre te amaré. Simplemente magistral
My man Steve having a whole lot of fun playing is the best part
I'd like to punch the guy who filmed this in the face for not shooting this where we can see his entire guitar playing in one frame where we can see what he is doing with BOTH hands at the same time. The close ups of his face and one hand at a time shots are wasted.... . But it is better than nothing. STEVE HOWE RULES!
Me too...show us his fingers..left hand!!!
Free Soul search you tube for howeES175. videos of Steve playing lots of his songs with camera views of both hands.
Happy Birthday Steve!
Most overlooked guitarist all time
My sincere condolences to Mr. Steve Howe for the loss of his son ,Dylan. Clap will now be remembered for it's original inspiration.
Yes, My apology for the misinformation
I saw the 10 year anniversary concert in long beach and each one of yes played for a half hour each plus together best concert ever.
Shouts out Dylan thanks for blessing us with this track bruda. One of the greatest pieces of music of all time. Of course also shouts out my boy Steve for being a legend.
I could play this tune badly at one time in my youth. It gave me an appreciation for the mans genius on the guitar. 👍
I play this tune badly in my old age.
Learning this man's solos when I was in HS back in the '70s was as big a thrill as I ever knew: "Mood for a Day", "Relayer" "Close to the Edge," "Heart of the Sunrise", but this one was always beyond me. No way. "Heartbreaker" solo by Jimmy Page? "Hocus Pocus" by Jan Akkerman? No problem. But "The Clap", was just, no way. So so underrated as a guitar master. He was the Keith Emerson of the guitar--probably still is, though I've lost track since he left Yes. But learning to play his guitar pieces is one thing--being able to CREATE them out of your head the way he does, that's another. The difference between a lightning bug and lightning.
I saw him play this live two nights ago, and he played it with the same joy and swing captured in this video.
This was the best part of that whole show, although that isn’t saying much
Brilliant solo from Steve Howe 💯💯💯💯💯
Masterpiece, thanks very much Steve!!!
STEVE. Good Lord! It's better than the first time I heard it!
Magic, all the way through time, plus time, thanks!
Pure genius. My favorite guitarist.
Steve Howe is the best guitarist in rock.
Steve Howe !!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Just WOW!
At the end of this video I screamed out loud in my car “oh my God how do I like this twice!”
Most underrated, Nice to see others that agree
The most powerful guitarist in progressive rock!
If you pause the video ( or slow it down ) around the 1:53 mark, you can see that Steve is holding the pick upside down - or at least using the rounded end and not the pointed tip .. Never noticed that before ... This is an absolute masterpiece
Increible!
it's credible, this is Steve Howe!
Steve Howe is the type of guitarist that people like Greg Lake could only ever hope to achieve.
Wasn't Greg a Bassist?
Greg was a bassist
I saw him play this in 1976 or so, and it was mesmerizing
incroyable , une vraie performance , il joue avec tout son être un artiste
For all the people saying he was underrated this is true but it wasn't true in the 1970s. The only magazine on guitars that mattered was called Guitar Player Magazine where five years in a row he won best overall guitarist and was retired into the Hall of Fame. People did recognize his talent It just seems they forgotten.
LOVE IT!
Un monstruo!!! el mejor
If Mr. Steve Howe come near your area in a solo tour. Don't miss it. You'll thank me later.
Such a fun piece! :)
Timeless classic
"Dedicating this tune to a little boy Dylan…somewhere”…somewhere??? lol. I guess at home with the babysitter while you are absolutely killing it at this concert, Maestro Steve!
No words.
Beautiful
He makes it look easy
Master Guitar Wizard .... period
When I Listen to him....I look to my guitar and just cry