Steve Howe talks about Drama and the upcoming USA tour in new interview

**Dan Roth** · 06-28-2016

Except for the really annoying way that the interviewer pronounces "Drama", I thought this was as interesting listen. And very very cool that Trevor Horn will be singing with Yes at select USA dates:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/talkin...steve-howe-yes

Quotes from the interview:

The Album Series Tour (time 2.09): "It's a lot more inventive than just playing Roundabout or Heart Of The Sunrise because we are actually playing the whole album. It's a kind of opportunity... A demonstration of what we do instead of saying, 'Here's the song you know best from the album'. We play the whole album and it gives you a chance to experience things that sometimes have never been onstage like Run Through The Night."

Discussing Chris Squire starts at 4.59

"We knew that Chris had contributed a great deal to the band and we'd never done a show without him so we just kind of 'got on'... After a few nights I did start to look over at Billy and get a nice friendly tingle that Billy was the only person that could stand in for Chris..."

Why was Trevor Horn not the vocalist on multiple YES albums (time 8.53): "The opposition we saw in Europe (well Britain mainly)... People we quite rude to Trevor and we were quite upset about it..."

Working on QUEEN's INNUENDO album starts at 13.36

**calyx** · 06-28-2016

Nice to hear Steve's enthusiasm in this discussion. Having interviewed him once, I was surprised at how passionate he was in interview, rather than grumpy or unpleasant as some of the stories you hear would make you expect. Anyway, interesting listen, thanks !

**yamishogun** · 06-28-2016

10:00 to 10:00 sounds interesting. "We can't tell you what that is..."

**Garden Dreamer** · 06-28-2016

It's good that he's positive about Billy. Maybe it's different now because Billy isn't "competing" with him like when he was a second guitarist on stage back in the 90's. Steve always looked kinda ticked off at having to share the stage with another guitarist.

**Scott Bails** · 06-28-2016

Originally Posted by Dan Roth

Quotes from the interview:

The Album Series Tour (time 2.09): "It's a lot more inventive than just playing Roundabout or Heart Of The Sunrise because we are actually playing the whole album. It's a kind of opportunity... A demonstration of what we do instead of saying, 'Here's the song you know best from the album'. We play the whole album and it gives you a chance to experience things that sometimes have never been onstage like Run Through The Night."

Not sure that "inventive" is the word I would use here, since every band that's been around for over 20 years has been doing it for a long time now.

**BravadoNJ** · 06-28-2016

regarding H&E, Steve said he doesn't listen to it and is not pleased with it. ok.

**Adrian** · 06-28-2016

Originally Posted by Dan Roth

Except for the really annoying way that the interviewer pronounces "Drama", I thought this was as interesting listen.

I'll bet you a coffee at Tim Horton's the interviewer is Canadian.

**Progatron** · 06-29-2016

Originally Posted by Adrian

I'll bet you a coffee at Tim Horton's the interviewer is Canadian.

Is "Canadian" an accent? I know I can never distinguish between people from Nova Scotia, people from Toronto, people from Quebec, etc...

**Supersonic Scientist** · 06-29-2016

Nice interview....didn't really reveal anything too news-worthy but always nice to hear SH ruminate on stuff.

Yeah, the interviewer's pronunciation of Drama was a bit weird but Howe's pronunciation of Fragile (as: British fraj-ahyl as opposed to my/American pronunciation as: fraj-uhl) also sounds odd.

Thanks for posting...

**Steve983** · 06-29-2016

Thanks for this.

**Splicer** · 06-29-2016

If Mitch Lafon didn't put "Rock Journalist" under his name, would it matter? It's not like anyone listening cares or is thinking, "I wonder if he's a Rock journalist. He might be a bus driver or accountant."

**Adrian** · 06-29-2016

Originally Posted by Progatron

Is "Canadian" an accent? I know I can never distinguish between people from Nova Scotia, people from Toronto, people from Quebec, etc...

There was a Canadian announcer who always pronounced the hockey player Johan Franzen's name as (phonetic approximation here) "Yo-hann Frann-zen," with the "ann" sounding just like the proper name Ann -- while American announcers would use an "ah" sound, so "Yo-hahn Frahn-zen." I just thought it was some weird quirk of the announcer, until I realized it was common for Canadians to change the "a" sound in words like "drama" and "pasta." Pretty interesting, really:

http://ic-migration.webhost.uits.ari...on3.html#pasta

**mozo-pg** · 06-29-2016

Originally Posted by Adrian

I'll bet you a coffee at Tim Horton's the interviewer is Canadian.

In the famous words of South Park - Blame Canadians!!

**mozo-pg** · 06-29-2016

A joke Adrian.

**ThomasKDye** · 06-29-2016

Originally Posted by Progatron

Is "Canadian" an accent? I know I can never distinguish between people from Nova Scotia, people from Toronto, people from Quebec, etc...

"I'll be the Round a Boat ... the words will make you oat an oat..."

**flowerking** · 06-30-2016

Originally Posted by ThomasKDye

"I'll be the Round a Boat ... the words will make you oat an oat..."

I think that would be "round a boot" not "round a boat". I didn't listen to this interview yet but I'm nervous in hearing that Steve Howe got a "tingle" in looking at Billy Sherwood.