stage equipment

[willem]

:rightG: :1loudspkr :radiotape .
If you like me are a guitar player or if you playing another instrument than you are probably just as curious as me what kind of gear the super musicians are using on stage.
In our case what kind of gear yes members use, on stage or in the studio.
I have a home studio and sometimes I have gigs that I'am recording for myself or if people want to buy them.
It's an income for me that is worthwhile.
So, I was at the concert of steve Howe in Weert ( holland ) and there I saw a korg dtr 2000 and a compressor but there was something that he use quite often by pushing buttons on it between songs.
It was all standing beside him in a 19 inch rack with more gear and I did not see what that was.
Has anybody an idea what steve use on stage as he play accoustic ??
On his home page he has a list with gear but that's a list with things he used when he play's electric guitar.
I hope somebody out there can help me so reply oké ?
see you later, willem van de Broek
the Netherlands.

[wolfhound]

Hi Willem and welcome to Yesfans ! ! !

I don't know much about Steve's equipment, but I am curious about it too.

Hopefully, someone here will know.

[PO]

Any stage pictures anywhere? I'm curious.

[YesScots]

Check out our website: www.yesscot.co.uk - I think that the photos from Lowell may give you some close up's of the guitars etc.

Enjoy!

Alison (& Brian).

[brotherofmine]

Wow! Brian and Alison great pictures! I was in Liverpool 2003 as was Be A Good Day, pity we didn't know each other then. There were a lot of YF there which we didn't know about. L'pool was a fantastic concert great sound....shame we were right at the back, when we booked there were only 6 tickets left!!!

[YesScots]

Liverpool was a great concert. Enjoyed it very much, and of course the Liverpudlian hospitality!

We were there with Lee (Yesman of 'Yesmuseum') and Terri who came over from the US for the gig.

All the best!

Alison (& Brian)

[PO]

Nice pics. I think Willem was asking about Steve's equipment when playing acoustic shows.

I thought there was a website for that group of fans in Holland.

[willem]

Nice pics. I think Willem was asking about Steve's equipment when playing acoustic shows.

I thought there was a website for that group of fans in Holland.
yeah there is yes focus in holland and they organised the gig from steve howe so I send them a mail and they send me a list with things he want for the mixer and gear and the stage monitors.
But that 19 inch rack, that he brought that himself so there was no list of that.

[PO]

I saw the pics from Yesfocus, but his rack was in the dark.

[willem]

I just saw the pictures from yesscot, they are very nice man !.
I have some some as well from different kind of gigs such as Antwerp and Rotterdam ect. ect.and off course the latest one in weert Holland.
But I think it is to difficult to find out the stage equipment list, so it's better that if the homepage reopens again of steve so that people can ask questions, that I ask him my self.

[Stevehoweworshipu!]

This is all i got,

Steve's Equipment List

Yes 35th Anniversary Tour - Europe 2004

Guitars

Fender Stratocaster
Fender Telecaster
Gibson ES175D
Gibson ES175D/SH
Gibson ES345
Gibson Les Paul / VG 88
Gibson Les Paul Junior
Gibson Chet Atkins
Martin 0018 SH
Martin MC 28
Martin Style C
Martin J12-65M
Kohno Model 10
Fender Dual Pro' Steel
Steinberger 12 String
Portuguese 12 string
Line 6 Variax

Amps

2 Fender Twin Reverbs (’65 reissues)

Effects

Boss mixer (six channels, four of them stereo)
Roland GP100 effects processor
Lexicon Reverb
Applied Acoustics preamp
Korg Toneworks tuner
Lexicon Jam Man
Korg A3 processor (with Steve Howe card)
Roland VG-88

Pedal board

3 Ernie Ball Volume pedals
Korg Multi-pedal
Electro Harmonix Big Muff
Danelectro Oh Daddy unit

Monitors

Sound Projects Master Blasters (acoustic and special guitar sounds)

[PO]

It's probably safe to say that he had these rack units for his acoustic set:

Roland GP100 effects processor
Lexicon Reverb
Applied Acoustics preamp
Korg Toneworks tuner

Perhaps a small mixer, too.

[willem]

yeah, That list was on his homepage and and it answears a lot of my questions and I saw the korg tuner and some other things from the list like the jam-man but there was something he used quite often by pushing on two buttons between songs as he started to speak or tune.
And I think it was a pre amp but I am not shure, and guitarist nowdays a lot of them sertainly do make great 19 inch rack's with great gear for them selfs.
And it make's me so curious what steve use.
I do not rest before I know, ha, ha, realy.
Oh, and that applied accoustic pre-amp that is a kind of pick-up that you can build in an accoustic guitar, so that's not an 19 inch rack piece.

[Jm Sin]

Well this issue it's very importante for anyone who plays a instrument. I think to myself that it's not so important the tecnologie you have, but other "set parameters", who defines the sound, live or in studio. Every YES works we have to listen many and many times, and every time it sounds a little diferent. Recently I have hearing The Ladder, a several times, and the Steve's sound still remains a "basket of surprises". The digital tecnologie mistify the sound, a wallpaper sound, so like another layer you felt, there's a little more, always there, the music in the true sense, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always a journey beyound the music.
Of course that we can't really be delighted with the early 70's sounds of Steve Howe. After all, what more can we wish, a good valve amplifier and a acoustic guitar.
And you always have to think about "set dimensional parameters", just to wonder how Steve did the Magic Guitar of Relayer album. That's a real amazing sound.

[willem]

For everyone there is a different in how we work-up music offcourse.
The one who playes the drums himself will listen more to a drummer then someone else, and a bassplayer listen more to the base in a music piece.
And the overall sound will be different at any other concert, that's a fact.
But the one who has to play that music grows with it, I mean the things you have to do in a song ( as a guitar player for example ) differents, you have to make it your thing and you grow with it, and technic change...! the gear one use today is a whole lot different than what we used to play with.
So for those who has an interest, you just want to know what kind of gear the super players use.
You just want to know...! so if you can afford it you can use it your self.
For those who just don't play an instrument it's maybe difficult to understand.
:rightG:

[Stevehoweworshipu!]

I wish i knew steve howe. infact when i turn 18 im going to go to London and sleep on his front porch with a sleeping bag and stay there until he teachs me, and lets me look at his guitar collection....oh boy. *drools*

HOORAY FOR LUTES

[Nes]

Doubt it. Does he even live in London? I don't think he does.

And even if you went there, how'd you find him? He's probably not listed in any phone books or anything for obvious reasons.
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Anywho, if you were wondering, back in the day he used 2 Fender Dual Showmans I believe for amps.. He switched to the 2 twins because of the trebly sound that you can get out of the twins as opposed to on the Showmans.

And incase you didn't know, the reason he uses the 2 amps, it's obviously for his stereo 345 (ala CTTE/AU+I/SK and 1/4 of tales (RSoG))

[scootwhoman]

Steve Howe has reached the stratified levels of musicianship that allows one to have custom built equipment made to one's own specifications. I was fortunate enough to see Jon Anderson touring with Kitaro at the Paramount Theater in Seattle back about 1992, and he had a custom built synthesizer that had no mechanical controls. Everything was touch, even the sliders, which made it look like he had borrowed it from 'Star Trek'.

Often times, equipment like that does not get included in equipment lists, in part because sometimes no one knows what to call the black box. But all the black boxes in the world will not make a virtuoeso player out of someone who doesn't bother to practice. In the end, it still comes down to the musician and his instrument(s).

Strange as it may seem, the rack gear that is in question may be nothing more than a digital recorder, which Steve is inputing breaks into. Or, it could be a magical device which has properties beyond the ken of mere mortals. Many of the commom stage effects boxes started life as a breadboard hookup which was modified nightly, until it would work the way the artist wanted it to, and then someone else wanted one, and shazzam, a Korg, or Eventide, or Flying Pig was created.