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Even Steve Howe leaves the decals on!!!

#61
5StringBlues said:
Nonetheless, YES played two songs at the Hall of Fame.




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When I go play at Stinky's Bar and Grill out on the Pike next month, I'll be sure to post the tour date for you.
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I have been toying with the idea of getting "tour" T-shirts made for my band. We are all busy as crap. We are able to do a couple of shows a month. We are currently finishing up booking our TWO venues we play, as well as a few private parties, to finish out the rest of the year.

I would LOVE to get 2022 "tour" T-shirts made up just for kix. It would intentionally be a joke. But I think quite a few of our friends and local followers would "get it" and like to have one. We would either sell them at cost or donate any proceeds to a local charity. It would just be for grins and giggles.

I would probably include a faux "tour date" for Stinky's Bar and Bait Shop on July 32nd, or something like that.
 
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#63
I was just thinking about these Made in the USA stickers found on all new Rickenbackers and it led me to wondering if any other guitar companies that ONLY manufacture their instruments in the US use similar stickers?

My Gibson Les Paul came with a sticker on the pick guard providing instructions for how to peel off the sticker and the plastic that protected the pick guard. I don't recall my CLF G&L L1000 having any stickers on it at all. They both had markings on the back of the headstock that said made in the US but no stickers.

Anyone else know of a company that only manufactures in the US putting Made in the USA stickers prominently placed on the their instruments?
 
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#65
Spupilup said:
I kinda lost interest after Close to the Edge to be honest. I think I saw them on Tales but wasn't crazy about that indulgent piece. I got a Ric in 1973 because of my two heros, PM and CS. I just thought it was funny that Steve Howe was photographed playing a relatively new Ric that still had the Made in US decal on it.
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Going for the One is a pretty good LP, especially with the classic "Awaken," but JMO, of course. I also saw them on the Tales tour as young 17 yo kid. I had just started in a band at the time and we were into the usuals ala Zep, Sabbath, Montrose, Stones, etc. So yeah, it wasn't easy listening to the Tales material, it got better when they went to their classics. I think I've come to appreciate more of the Tales proggy material over time, but back in 1974, it wasn't easy.
 
#67
prowla said:
My guess it was a loaner/demo bass.
It was a gentlemanly thing to do Steve Howe playing bass on that as a tribute to Chris Squire.
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Yes, the photo is from that one performance and you're right he was playing bass as a nod and tribute to his one time band mate, no longer with us, on just one song! You can bet the bass isn't his and it was passed back to whoever owns it after the show. I doubt he bothered about the sticker, he probably had more important things to think about.

Sometimes you guys....:rolleyes:
 
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el murdoque said:
Mr. Howe is a guitarist.
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I'd have to pull my The Steve Howe Guitar Collection book out of storage, but IIRC, there is at least one bass in there that he's had for a very long time, now.
two fingers said:
It strikes me as an older rock legend surrounded by a pretty good dad band and 7 or 8 local middle school chorus teachers singing backups. But if it brings you joy, I'm all for it.
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They were all having a ton of fun on stage, and going by the few videos I've seen of the Yes members variations tours, no contest. :thumbsup:
 
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#73
I don’t put stickers on my basses, not my thing. But, in the many TB “stickers vs. no stickers” threads, I’ve said that whatever anyone wants to do with their basses is their business and their’s alone - and that applies equally to someone the likes of Steve Howe or even to Pete Wentz.

Do what you want.
 
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Jeff Scott said:
I'd have to pull my The Steve Howe Guitar Collection book out of storage, but IIRC, there is at least one bass in there that he's had for a very long time, now.
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He plays the bass parts himself on his albums.

The basses featured in his book and mentioned in his albums booklets are a 1964 Gibson EB6 six-string, a 1960 Gibson EB0, a 1966 Fender Precision Bass, a 1985 Yamaha BB400SF fretless, a 1962 Vox Bassmaster, and a 1974 Rickenbacker 4001. ;)
 
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For the 'he's a guitarist not a bassist' bashers, even though it does turn out that he is a bassist afterall, even if he wasn't a bassist the majority of bassists play better with their fingers and probably couldn't get that Squire hard edged trebly sound like a guitarist could with a pick.
 
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