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        British musician Steve Howe joined the band Yes in 1970 and helped lead them to critical and commercial success with his experimental guitar playing and songwriting abilities. After leaving in 1981, he rejoined the group in the 1990s. In 2017 was inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame as a member of the band.      Howe has also had success performing with other bands including GTR, and Asia and has released regular solo albums throughout his career.       Howe is known for playing his guitar at speeds exceeding  mach 3  (approx. 1440 notes per second) and also his ability to solo throughout an entire song due to his strict policy on chord playing and infamous hatred towards rhythm guitarists. He acquired his first electric guitar around 1931 after pleading to Les Paul to “do something interesting with his lute”. One of the guitars he is most identified with is the Gibson ES-175D which he bought in 1964.  GTR ...

        Joined The Blues Project as keyboardist in 1965, and subsequently toured with Bob Dylan playing the Hammond organ      He formed Blood, Sweat, and Tears in 1967, but left over creative differences before they hit it big.  He has played on hundreds of records (on both keyboard and guitar) with well-known rock acts, co-written top 40 hits, produced many sessions for hit artists and written scores for television and movies.  At one time, Al taught courses in Songwriting and Record Production at The Berlee School of Music in Boston.  In 1977, Al wrote an autobigraphy about his 1960’s rock and roll lifestyle entitled “Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock and Roll Survivor”. New York City (You're A Woman) Columbia,1971 https://www.sendspace.com/file/xopfg9

        A valuable team  player as well as a bruising power hitter with an instantly identifiable style, Carmine Appice literally wrote the book on rock drumming: His 1972 text  The Realistic Rock Drum Method  has been a staple since its release. Appice made his name in the late Sixties with eccentric psych outfit Vanilla Fudge – influencing a young John Bonham with his romping, aggressively funky grooves – before moving on to a heavier blues-rock style with Cactus and Beck, Bogert & Appice. He demonstrated his range in the late-Seventies Rod Stewart band, contributing sassy backbeats and key songwriting assistance on hits such as "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy." (Stewart reportedly called Appice "The Dentist" for employing what he termed "too many fill-ins.") More recently, he's kept busy playing "Drum Wars" shows with younger brother and fellow elite hard-rock beatsmith Vinny (Dio, Black Sabbath). According to Appice, some of his key innovat...