Greg Howe
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Howe in 2013
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Gregory Howe |
| Born |
December 8, 1963 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Instrumental rock, jazz fusion, hard rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, producer |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Labels | Shrapnel, Tone Center |
| Associated acts | Michael Jackson, Enrique Iglesias, 'N Sync, Justin Timberlake, Richie Kotzen, Vitalij Kuprij, Tetsuo Sakurai, Maragold |
| Website |
greghowe maragoldband |
Gregory "Greg" Howe (born December 8, 1963) is an American guitarist and composer. As an active musician for nearly thirty years, he has released eight studio albums in addition to collaborating with a wide variety of artists.
After leaving high school and playing the club circuit around the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania areas with his brother Albert (a singer) for most of the 1980s, Greg Howe officially began his solo career after sending a demo tape to Shrapnel Records in 1987, upon which he was immediately signed by founder Mike Varney. His self-titled debut album was released in 1988, during the popular shred era, and went on to become his highest-selling album; a 2009 article in Guitar World magazine ranked it tenth in the all-time top ten list of shred albums.
The following year, he joined with Albert to form a Van Halen-inspired hard rock group named Howe II. Through Shrapnel, they released two studio albums: High Gear (1989) and Now Hear This (1991). His second solo album, Introspection, was released in 1993. At this point his style had changed radically from the straightforward instrumental rock of both his debut and the Howe II albums, to a more jazz fusion-laden approach which remains unique and identifiable to this day; some of his signature traits being fast left-hand legato passages (having been influenced greatly by jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth), and the frequent use of tapping and odd time signatures. One particularly noteworthy aspect of Howe's legato technique is the "hammer-on from nowhere", in which a note is hammered-on to a different string without first being picked.
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