Well now this is impressive... (Greg Howe content)

Bucket

For a while now, I've pondered trying to learn "Jump Start", my favourite track by one of my favourite players, Greg Howe, but even the intro sounds pretty much insurmountable... check this out:



That's before you get to the incredibly fast tapping runs and so on. I even looked at a tab and it seemed like an impossible challenge - the fretting positions seem so weird and unintuitive, so I was giving up hope until I found this guy playing it perfectly, including slowing it down... playing starts at 0:35:



The thing that got me was just how close he sounds to the original - really impressive, no mean feat.

We must have some Greg Howe fans on here?

humbucko

Guy in the second video - must have taken some serious balls to attempt that.

The soul patch/fedora combo, I mean

viz

Bucket, I think you would really enjoy lessons with him; he would show you everything

jdgm

Howe is bloody good and on the latest Simon Phillips CD Protocol 4 he plays great!

Brad

Great tune and album, it was on heavy rotation for me about 10 years ago. Forget the tapping stuff (as impressive as that is), it's his innate sense of groove when soloing that really stands out for me.

I take it you've heard Extraction? 

viz

jdgm said:

Howe is bloody good and on the latest Simon Phillips CD Protocol 4 he plays great!

Did you see him at Ronnie Scott’s?

jdgm

viz said:

jdgm said:

Howe is bloody good and on the latest Simon Phillips CD Protocol 4 he plays great!

Did you see him at Ronnie Scott’s?

I wish....too expensive for me now. I DID see the 1st night of Jeff Beck there back in 2007(?) and that was £80!
Since then I've only been back to Ronnie's once to see Tribal Tech which was £40. A mate of mine just saw the Steve Gadd band with Michael Landau, said they were as amazing as you'd expect.
I am old enough to remember going there in the 70s for £3 or £5, parking for free in Soho Square, staying all evening and leaving well after 1a.m....

viz

jdgm said:

viz said:

jdgm said:

Howe is bloody good and on the latest Simon Phillips CD Protocol 4 he plays great!

Did you see him at Ronnie Scott’s?

I wish....too expensive for me now. I DID see the 1st night of Jeff Beck there back in 2007(?) and that was £80!
Since then I've only been back to Ronnie's once to see Tribal Tech which was £40. A mate of mine just saw the Steve Gadd band with Michael Landau, said they were as amazing as you'd expect.
I am old enough to remember going there in the 70s for £3 or £5, parking for free in Soho Square, staying all evening and leaving well after 1a.m....

Nice!

John_A

Great track, and that guy does an amazing job of it, doesn't even look like he's trying either!  

Vibetronic

@Bucket - got what looks like the official tab for it if you want it. First part at least looks like what this guy is playing. 

guitarmangler

Great playing and teaching , A+.

Leaving his fly unbuttoned for the close up, D-.

octatonic

Greg Howe?

Greg: "I dunno man, I just do what I do".

DLM

Vibetronic said:

@Bucket - got what looks like the official tab for it if you want it. First part at least looks like what this guy is playing. 

I remember authorised transcriptions for this album being released a few years ago.

Vibetronic

DLM said:

Vibetronic said:

@Bucket - got what looks like the official tab for it if you want it. First part at least looks like what this guy is playing. 

I remember authorised transcriptions for this album being released a few years ago.

yeah - it's on Scribd which I subscribe to. Really useful site.

victorludorum

There's some nasty face pulling going on there.

Gizmo

The official transcriptions were done by Eric Wirsing here's his version of JS 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4k-xd1yuB8   

The book is very cool and has all the correct fingerings hammers/pulls/taps/hammers OFNW ect

id say any of the tunes on that album are a great way to lvl up pretty much and aspect of your playing

Gizmo

The official transcriptions were done by Eric Wirsing here's his version of JS 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4k-xd1yuB8   

The book is very cool and has all the correct fingerings hammers/pulls/taps/hammers OFNW ect

id say any of the tunes on that album are a great way to lvl up pretty much and aspect of your playing

newi123

The 'maragold' band he did - pop rock with an awesome female vocalist - is really good!

MoJoKe

viz said:

jdgm said:

Howe is bloody good and on the latest Simon Phillips CD Protocol 4 he plays great!

Did you see him at Ronnie Scott’s?

We did, so lucky, a treat for my other half's birthday...  OMG, epic.  We thought we were going to be in trouble ending up sitting rather too close to Simon's floor toms, but the PA in there is so good, made it all really well balanced!  In the house it sounded great, but if anything from where we were, Greg's stage volume could have been nudged up a tiny bit...

viz

MoJoKe said:

viz said:

jdgm said:

Howe is bloody good and on the latest Simon Phillips CD Protocol 4 he plays great!

Did you see him at Ronnie Scott’s?

We did, so lucky, a treat for my other half's birthday...  OMG, epic.  We thought we were going to be in trouble ending up sitting rather too close to Simon's floor toms, but the PA in there is so good, made it all really well balanced!  In the house it sounded great, but if anything from where we were, Greg's stage volume could have been nudged up a tiny bit...

Yes it was great wasn’t it! Catalyst was just so brilliant. Did you hang around at the end?