Anthology 2: Groups & Collaborations

Album: Anthology 2: Groups & Collaborations
Artist: Steve Howe
2017 Rhino
CD: R2-558336

Steve Howe: guitar (1-18, 20-56), acoustic guitar (19), steel (32, 39, 46, 48, 49, 53, 56), bass (40, 41, 45, 56), 6-string bass (19), fretless bass (38), keys (51-55), vocals (13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 25, 27, 28, 31, 34, 35, 37)
Tom Ladd: vocals (1)
Kevin Driscoll: bass (1, 2), harmonica (1)
Johnny Melton: drums (1)
John Lamb: vocals (2)
Jeff Williams: piano (2)
S Truelove: drums (2)
Keith West (a.k.a. Hopkins): vocals (3-9, 46-49), bass (46-50)
Junior Wood: bass (3-9)
Twink: drums (3, 4, 6-9)
Ken Lawrence: drums (5)
Dave Curtis (a.k.a. Curtiss): vocals (10), bass (10-12)
Bobby 'Clarke' Woodman: drums (10-12)
Clive Skinner: vocals (11, 12)
Jon Anderson: lead vocals (13, 22, 25, 27, 28), vocals (26), rhythm guitar (14)
Rick Wakeman: keys (13, 22-25)
Chris Squire: bass (13-15, 25, 27, 28, 35, 37), vocals (13, 15, 27, 28, 37)
Bill Bruford: drums (13, 22-24)
Alan White: drums (14, 15, 25, 27, 28, 35, 37), percussion (37)
Trevor Horn: lead vocals (15)
Geoff Downes: keys (15-19, 31-34, 36, 37)
John Wetton: vocals (16, 18, 31-34, 36), bass (16-19, 31-34, 36)
Carl Palmer: drums (16-19, 31-34, 36)
Max Bacon: lead vocals (20, 21, 51-55)
Steve Hackett: guitar (20, 21), vocals (20)
Phil Spalding: bass (20, 21, 51-54), vocals (20, 51-55)
Jonathan Mover: drums (20, 21)
Tony Levin: bass (22-24)
Matt Clifford: keys (22)
Milton McDonald: guitar (22)
Billy Sherwood: vocals (27)
Igor Khoroshev: keys (27)
Ross Stanley: organ (29, 30)
Dylan Howe: drums (29, 30, 40, 41)
Benoit David: vocals (35)
Oliver Wakeman: keys (35, 44)
Jon Davison: vocals (37), acoustic guitar (37)
Billy Currie: keys (38)
Toby Anderson: keys (38)
Fish: vocals (39)
Paul Sutin: keys (40, 41)
Annie Haslam: vocals (42, 43)
David Biglin: keys (42, 43)
Dean Dyson: vocals (45)
Virgil Howe: drums (45-50, 52-56)
Nigel Glockner: drums (51)
Ray Fenwick: guitar (56)

Produced by Joe Meek (1, 2), Roy Pitt (5), Mark Wirzt (6-9), West (11, 12), Yes/Eddie Offord (13), Yes (14, 15, 26), Mike Stone (16-18), Howe (19, 29, 30, 45-56), Downes (20, 21), Chris Kimsey/Anderson (22), Anderson/Jonathan Elias (23, 24), Yes/Billy Sherwood (25), Bruce Fairbairn (27), Yes/Tim Weidner (28), Asia/Steve Rispin (31, 32), Mike Paxman (33, 34, 36), Horn (35), Roy Thomas Baker (37), Currie (38), James Cassidy (39), Sutin/Howe (40, 41), Biglin (42, 43), O Wakeman (44)
Executive producer: Jordan Berliant (28)
Mixed by Fairbairn (27), Curtis Schwartz (31, 32), Will Worsley (45-56)
Remix by Paxman (33, 34?, 36?)

Compiled by Howe/Paul K Joyce
Mastered by Simon Heyworth
Art: Roger Dean
Package design: Douglas & Glenn Gottlieb
Photos from Steve Howe's personal collection

Tracks:
Disc 1:
1. The Syndicats: "Maybellene" [Chuck Berry] (2:10) [originally released as Columbia [UK] single DB 7238; included on Mothballs]
2. The Syndicats: "On the Horizon" [Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller] (2:47) [originally released as Columbia [UK] single DB 7686; included on Mothballs]
3. The In Crowd: "Finger Poppin'" [Ike Turner] (2:02) [included on Mothballs]
4. The In Crowd: "Blow Up" [West] (1:54) [on some versions of Blow-Up: The Original Soundtrack Album]
5. The In Crowd: "You're on Your Own" [Hopkins] (2:19) [originally released as Parlophone [UK] single R 5328; included on Mothballs]
6. Tomorrow: "My White Bicycle" [Hopkins/Ken Burgess] (3:17) [from Tomorrow; also released as a single]
7. Tomorrow: "Claramount Lake" [Hopkins/Burgess] (2:53) [originally released as Parlophone [UK] single R 5597; on Tomorrow]
8. Tomorrow: "Revolution" [Hopkins/Howe] (3:47) [from Tomorrow]
9. Tomorrow: "Why" [Roger McGuinn/David Crosby] (3:56) [from Tomorrow featuring Keith West (1999 reissue of Tomorrow)]
10. Canto: "The Spanish Song" [Curtiss/Howe/Woodman] (2:11) [from Bodast's Spectral Nether Street]
11. Bodast: "Beyond Winter" [Howe/Skinner] (2:47) [from The Bodast Tapes]
12. Bodast: "Nothing to Cry for" [Howe] (3:57) [from Spectral Nether Street]
13. Yes: "Roundabout" [Anderson/Howe] (8:32) [from Fragile]
14. Yes: "Montreux's Theme" [Anderson/Howe/Squire] (2:22) [from YesYears]
15. Yes: "Tempus Fugit" [Horn/Downes/Howe/Squire/White] (5:15) [from Drama]
16. Asia: "Heat of the Moment" [Wetton/Downes] (3:49) [from Asia]
17. Asia: "One Step Closer" [Wetton/Howe] (4:18) [from Asia]
18. Asia: "Lyin' to Yourself" [Wetton/Howe] (4:13) [originally released on Geffen single 7-29475]
19. Asia: "Masquerade" [Howe] (3:20) [previously unreleased]
20. GTR: "When the Heart Rules the Mind" [Hackett/Howe] (5:22) [from GTR]
21. GTR: "Toe the Line" [Hackett/Howe] (4:31) [from GTR]

Disc 2:
22. Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: "Brother of Mine (Rock Edit)" [Anderson/Bruford/Wakeman/Howe] (6:32) [originally released as Arista single 9852]
23. Yes: "Dangerous (Look in the Light of What You're Searching for) [Backing Track]" [Anderson/Elias] (3:29) [previously unreleased]
24. Yes: "Without Hope You Cannot Start the Day (Backing Track)" [Anderson/Elias] (3:42) [previously unreleased]
25. Yes: "Bring Me to the Power" [Anderson/Howe] (7:24) [from Keys to Ascension 2]
26. Yes: "From the Balcony" [Anderson/Howe/Sherwood/Squire/White] (2:45) [from Open Your Eyes]
27. Yes: "Nine Voices (Longwalker)" [Anderson/Howe/Sherwood/Squire/White/Khoroshev] (3:20) [from The Ladder]
28. Yes: "We Agree" [Anderson/Howe/Squire/White; orchestrations by Larry Groupe] (6:32) [from Magnification]
29. Steve Howe Trio: "Kenny's Sound" [Kenny Burrell] (4:36) [from The Haunted Melody]
30. Steve Howe Trio: "Sweet Thunder" [Howe] (3:55) [from The Haunted Melody]
31. Asia: "Wish I'd Known All Along" [Howe] (4:08) [from Phoenix]
32. Asia: "Over and Over" [Howe] (3:33) [from Phoenix]
33. Asia: "Through My Veins" [Howe/Wetton] (4:26) [from Omega]
34. Asia: "Light the Way" [Howe/Wetton] (4:31) [from Omega]
35. Yes: "Hour of Need (Long Version)" [Howe] (6:45) [from Fly from Here (Japanese version)]
36. Asia: "Reno (Silver and Gold)" [Howe/Wetton] (4:44) [from (some versions of) XXX]
37. Yes: "Believe Again" [Davison/Howe] (6:54) [from Heaven & Earth]

Disc 3:
38. Billy Currie: "Traveller" [Currie/Howe] (3:15) [from Transportation]
39. Fish: "Time and a Word" [Anderson/David Foster] (4:18) [from Outpatients '93]
40. Paul Sutin & Steve Howe: "Sweet Eternity" [Sutin/Howe] (4:46) [from Voyagers]
41. Paul Sutin & Steve Howe: "Voyager" [Sutin/Howe] (4:42) [from Voyagers]
42. Steve Howe & Annie Haslam: "Lily's in the Field" [Haslam/Howe] (4:26) [TCG single CD112195]
43. Steve Howe & Annie Haslam: "Turn of the Century" [Anderson/White/Howe] (6:29) [from Tales from Yesterday]
44. Oliver Wakeman feat. Steve Howe: "The Forgotten King" [O Wakeman] (3:01) [from The 3 Ages of Magick]
45. Dean Dyson & Steve Howe: "Most of a Man" [Howe] (2:47) [previously unreleased]
46. Keith West & Steve Howe: "Cross That Bridge" [West] (3:08) [previously unreleased]
47. Keith West & Steve Howe: "Heaven" [West] (2:58) [previously unreleased]
48. Keith West & Steve Howe: "Strange Girl" [West] (4:07) [previously unreleased]
49. Keith West & Steve Howe: "Luxury of Love" [West] (2:39) [previously unreleased]
50. Keith West & Steve Howe: "Curved Ball" [West/Howe] (3:10) [previously unreleased]
51. Max Bacon & Steve Howe: "Running in the Human Race" [Howe] (4:50) [previously unreleased]
52. Max Bacon & Steve Howe: "Hot Touch" [Bacon/Howe/Spalding] (3:44) [previously unreleased]
53. Max Bacon & Steve Howe: "Runway" [Bacon/Howe/Spalding] (4:09) [previously unreleased]
54. Max Bacon & Steve Howe: "Forever" [Bacon/Howe/Spalding] (4:23) [previously unreleased]
55. Max Bacon & Steve Howe: "Tell the Story" [Bacon/Howe/Spalding] (3:19) [previously unreleased]
56. Ray Fenwick & Steve Howe: "Slim Pickings" [Howe/Fenwick] (3:51) [previously unreleased]

Notes: (****) Howe writes of (13-15), that, "Due to the high number of re-releases, I choose to represent the '70s with just three examples". Note (14) is credited to White as well on YesYears. (19) is a band version of the piece on Yes's Union.

(22) was a b-side. (23) and (24) are not backing tracks of the versions on Union, which largely replaced Howe's guitar with Jimmy Haun's playing, but backing tracks with Howe featured prominently and, thus, significantly different. (33) is a new remix "without compression" by Paxman and Paxman is also described as having "helped" on (34) and (36), which also seem to be remixes. (35) was a bonus track in Japan and this is its first international release. (37) is an edit compared to the album version, removing Howe's middle section.

(45) is dated to 1985. (46-50) are dated to 1988. (51-55) are post-GTR recordings, from 1987. Spalding has praised Howe for giving him a co-credit on the songs and an advance. In Howe's autobiography, he describes doing new guitar and vocal recordings for these tracks with Bacon and Spalding, possibly around late 2004. (56) is from 2002. (HP, 28 Aug 17; updated 13 Jun 20)

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