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STEVE HOWE

The moment it all started…

“I was about 10 and I had a lot of records with the great Les Paul on them. On my parents record collection I kept hearing these guitars and spectacular guitar parts. Then there was the big beat boom, instrumental jazz and The Ventures, everybody like that. I was caught up in the whole drive for guitar and I was whisked away on it.”

I couldn’t live without my…

“In 1964, when

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