STEVES OF PROG

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Who is the one Steve to rule them all?

Poll Results

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Steve Hillage 17
Steve Howe 14
Steve Hackett 5


i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:41 (twelve years ago)

You forgot Steve Wilson!

frogbs, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)

Voting Hillage, mainly for System 7. The other two are stevebores, quite frankly.

henry s, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)

Wilson is more of a Steven.

henry s, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:45 (twelve years ago)

I'm sorry frogs :(

Steve Davis also ruled, mostly out on sartorial grounds

i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:45 (twelve years ago)

at the moment i wd rather listen to just Steve Howe's parts from Relayer than any other prog musician so this is easy

ftraight from ye toppe of my Donne (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:46 (twelve years ago)

Am listening to Voyage of the Acolyte for the first time right now and enjoying it a lot more than I would have guessed.

i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:46 (twelve years ago)

Steve Davis also ruled, mostly out on sartorial grounds

haha, that makes no sense. i meant:

Steve Davis also ruled out, mostly on sartorial grounds

i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:47 (twelve years ago)

especially the last two or three mins of "Gates" = fuck everybody else

ftraight from ye toppe of my Donne (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:48 (twelve years ago)

Steve H's of Prog. Voted Hillage.

Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:57 (twelve years ago)

Hm, Hillage vs Howe is pretty tough. Close to the Edge vs Rainbow Dome Musick. I want to say that Hillage might have a little bit of an edge in terms of chops but I'm actually not even really sure about that.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 September 2013 17:02 (twelve years ago)

Thought Steve Rothery might have snuck in.

Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Thursday, 19 September 2013 17:54 (twelve years ago)

Am I the only one voting for Steve Howe? He's the Elrond of prog!

Moodles, Thursday, 19 September 2013 17:57 (twelve years ago)

Hackett by a mile. Some days I think '70s Genesis is the best '70s music there is. Not that Genesis were particularly a guitar band but his contributions were nevertheless fantastic. Blotting his copybook atm with his Genesis Revisited nonsense but still.

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 19 September 2013 17:58 (twelve years ago)

They never really "unleashed" him though, nothing even in the same area code as what Howe does on Relayer. I love 70's Genesis but I really wish there were more pointed jam sections like the ones in the first half of "Musical Box" or "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight"

frogbs, Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:07 (twelve years ago)

the only guitarists i'd consider taking over howe are the jims (hendrix and page)

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 20 September 2013 00:22 (twelve years ago)

t/s Steves of Prog vs. Lloyd's of London

djental ben (zero of the signified), Friday, 20 September 2013 00:31 (twelve years ago)

Seriously, tho: I'm the first one to remind everyone of this?

http://youtu.be/ARERFbiqCfk

djental ben (zero of the signified), Friday, 20 September 2013 01:23 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARERFbiqCfk&feature=youtu.be

djental ben (zero of the signified), Friday, 20 September 2013 01:25 (twelve years ago)

this is a great poll. voting hackett for sentimental reasons

combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 20 September 2013 01:27 (twelve years ago)

steve hillage for utterly shameless new age hippiedom

Spectrum, Friday, 20 September 2013 01:30 (twelve years ago)

As a solo artist, I would go Steve Hillage. Counting work in bands, I have to go with Steve Howe for those main Yes records as they are just flat out great. All three are unique guitarists, but Howe has some great range.

Considering how much Steve Howe loves Bob Dylan, I would really love to hear what it would sound like for Howe to play with Dylan.

earlnash, Friday, 20 September 2013 03:09 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Ended up voting Howe.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 00:28 (twelve years ago)

Voting for Hillage, purely for Rainbow Dome Musick and Fish Rising. Finally picked up L the other day after having been put off for the longest time by it's super-yucky cover. Had no idea that Don Chery played on it, but sadly his role seems to be restricted to creating these droney intros to a few of the tracks and then they lurch into full-on hippy rock territory, covers of Hurdy Gurdy Man and so on. Produced by Todd Rundgren and Utopia are Hillage's backing band. Wish I liked it a bit more than I do, but it's okay.

i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 18:59 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 26 September 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, Hillage and Howe were really close for me, while I really don't think that Hackett even belongs in the same class as a guitarist, as much I like Gabriel-led Genesis. In that sense, these results OTM.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 26 September 2013 00:07 (twelve years ago)

i'll take howe as a guitarist in this but hackett's voyage of the acolyte is a way better album than steve ho has ever released

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 26 September 2013 00:13 (twelve years ago)

Steve Ho got robbed

"Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 September 2013 00:16 (twelve years ago)

I don't know the solo work of either Howe or Hackett well at all. I heard a Steve Howe album once and don't remember much of anything about it so I have no trouble believing that Hackett may have made a better solo album.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 26 September 2013 00:20 (twelve years ago)

voyage of the acolyte is really really good. i listen to it way more than any genesis album

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 26 September 2013 00:39 (twelve years ago)

Wow, you're right about Voyage of the Acolyte.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 September 2013 17:23 (twelve years ago)

i prefer the instrumental songs but the whole thing is killer

reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 28 September 2013 19:17 (twelve years ago)

enjoyed voyage of the acolyte until the phil song and that put a bit of a dampener on it for me. note: i am not kneejerk anti-phil but that one number did not sound good. some great stuff before that though

i'll be your mraz (NickB), Saturday, 28 September 2013 22:19 (twelve years ago)

happy hillage won. i love a lot of his solo records but his work in gong sealed the deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VtlkhPjay8

stirmonster, Sunday, 29 September 2013 01:39 (twelve years ago)

you old hippy :P

pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 29 September 2013 01:40 (twelve years ago)


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