{"id":806914,"date":"2020-04-29T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=991607"},"modified":"2020-04-29T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:58:30","slug":"yes-guitarist-steve-howe-preps-first-solo-album-in-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/yes-guitarist-steve-howe-preps-first-solo-album-in-nine-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes Guitarist Steve Howe Preps First Solo Album in Nine Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/steve-howe-album-nine-years.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/yes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_yes\" data-tag=\"yes\">Yes<\/a> guitarist Steve Howe has teamed up with the band\u2019s current frontman, vocalist Jon Davison, for<em> Love Is<\/em>, his first solo album since 2011. It will arrive in stores on July 31st.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI called the album <em>Love Is<\/em> because it hints at the central idea that love is important but also love of the universe and the ecology of the world is very important,\u201d Howe said in a statement. \u201cAlexander Humboldt went around the world and recognized we are destroying the planet, but that was 200 years ago! We are still destroying the planet and, I suppose, my songs show the yearning I have for the love of nature and how beauty, art and music all stem from nature. There is a theme about those things, love, beauty, ecology, nature and wonderful people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Half of the songs are instrumental and Howe plays nearly all of the parts himself, although Davison plays bass on five tracks, and his son, Dylan Howe, handles the drums. \u201cI invited Jon Davison to sing harmonies with me and add bass on the songs,\u201d Howe said. \u201cIf he was singing on the songs I thought \u2018why doesn\u2019t he play bass\u2019 as well and it turned out nice. He\u2019s been with Yes for seven or eight years and he\u2019s a great guy, great performer and a great interpreter of Yes songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howe and Davidson originally planned on performing the 1974 Yes LP <em>Relayer<\/em> on tour all across Europe this year. The COVID-19 outbreak forced them to bump the shows to 2021 and cancel their appearance on the annual Cruise to the Edge prog-rock cruise, along with a handful of North American dates.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8_hAhzdk-h8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the exception of the band\u2019s 2017 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, original Yes frontman Jon Anderson hasn\u2019t performed with the group since 2004. But in recent years, he has played alongside fellow Yes alumni Rick Wakeman and Trevor Rabin in the offshoot band Yes Featuring ARW. That group was originally plotting a farewell tour for 2020, but there has been no information on those plans in many months.<\/p>\n<p>Fans continue to hope the two feuding Yes camps will unite into one for a big tour, but that remains unlikely. \u201cI would give the first rehearsal half an hour before somebody walked out,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/rick-wakeman-interview-yes-david-bowie-896090\/\">Wakeman told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2019.<\/a> \u201cIt would happen before we even decided what to play or how to play\u2026If you were going to write something, how on earth would you do it with so many people? It would be really, really difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/yes-guitarist-steve-howe-love-is-991607\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes guitarist Steve Howe has teamed up with the band\u2019s current frontman, vocalist Jon Davison, for Love Is, his first solo album since 2011. It will arrive in stores on July 31st. \u201cI called the album Love Is because it hints at the central idea that love is important but also love of the universe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 16:42:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}