Greg Howe
Encyclopedia
Gregory "Greg" Howe is an American
guitarist
and composer
. As an active musician for nearly thirty years, he has released nine studio album
s in addition to collaborating with a wide variety of artists.
circuit around the New Jersey
, New York
and Pennsylvania
areas with his singer brother Albert Howe 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 Guitar World
article in 2009 ranked it tenth in the all-time top ten list of shred albums.
The following year, he joined up 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 signature
s.
A trio of albums spanning the middle part of the decade—Uncertain Terms
(1994), Parallax (1995) and Five
(1996)—were all a consistent evolution of the sound he had adopted on Introspection. During this time he collaborated twice with guitarist Richie Kotzen
for the albums Tilt
and Project
in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He briefly dabbled with a heavier
, neo-classical metal
approach for his 1999 release, Ascend
, which featured keyboardist
Vitalij Kuprij
. However, he has since spoken of his dissatisfaction for that project, as well as an earlier collaboration on Kuprij's album, High Definition (1997).
After switching labels to Shrapnel's jazz-oriented counterpart, Tone Center Records
, he returned to his familiar style with Hyperacuity
(2000), which still stands as some of his most prominent experimentation with jazz fusion. After a highly troubled recording process for Extraction
, which featured bassist
Victor Wooten
and drummer
Dennis Chambers
(2003), he took an extended hiatus from recording solo material until the release of his ninth studio album, Sound Proof
, in June 2008.
Currently residing in Long Beach, California
(having previously lived in Easton, Pennsylvania
until around 2006), Howe continues to work as a session musician
and producer
, as well as providing online guitar lessons through his official website. From 2010 onwards he has toured Europe
for the first time, having long stated a desire to tour the continent as a solo artist. According to a 2011 interview, he is working on a new studio album which will feature vocals
for the first time since the days of Howe II.
. In 1996, he replaced Jennifer Batten
as primary guitarist during the Asian and European legs of singer Michael Jackson
's HIStory World Tour
. He would later provide guitar duties for singer Enrique Iglesias
in 2000, which culminated in a series of high-profile televised performances and a European tour.
The following two years saw Howe recruited as lead guitarist for boy band
*NSYNC
during two tours of the United States. After singer Justin Timberlake
left *NSYNC, Howe continued to tour with him in 2003. Eight years later, in February 2009, Howe teamed up again with Timberlake, as well as rapper
T.I.
, for a performance at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards
. In the same year, Howe played as part of keyboardist/violin
ist Eddie Jobson
's Ultimate Zero Project, in a line-up which included bassists Tony Levin
and John Wetton
, and drummers Marco Minnemann
and Simon Phillips
. In 2011, Howe put together a Super Fusion Group with drummer Dennis Chambers
and Stu Hamm to tour throughout the world.
Howe has also performed and played with many other artists, such as Christina Aguilera
, Rihanna
, Lady Antebellum
, P Diddy, T-Pain
and Salt-N-Pepa
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
. As an active musician for nearly thirty years, he has released nine studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
s in addition to collaborating with a wide variety of artists.
Recording career
After leaving high school and playing the clubNightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
circuit around the New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
areas with his singer brother Albert Howe for most of the 1980s, Greg Howe officially began his solo career after sending a demo tape
Demo (music)
A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...
to Shrapnel Records
Shrapnel Records
Shrapnel Records is a guitar-oriented record label started in 1980 by record producer Mike Varney. Guitarist Marty Friedman , one of the label's most successful artists, first appeared on the album Unsung Guitar Heroes II in 1980 with the band Vixen. Vixen would later change their name to Hawaii...
in 1987, upon which he was immediately signed by founder Mike Varney
Mike Varney
Mike Varney is an American musician, record producer, music publisher and impresario. He is the founder of the Shrapnel Label Group, which includes Shrapnel Records, Tone Center Records and Blues Bureau International. He also has a 50% stake in Magna Carta Records, a New York-based label...
. His self-titled debut album
Greg Howe (album)
Greg Howe is the self-titled first studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1988 through Shrapnel Records. An article in Guitar World magazine ranked the album as tenth in the all-time top ten list of shred albums.-Track listing:-Personnel:...
was released in 1988, during the popular shred
Shred guitar
Shred guitar or shredding is lead electric guitar playing that relies heavily on fast guitar solos. While some critics argue that shred guitar is associated with "... sweep-picked arpeggios, diminished and harmonic minor scales, finger-tapping and ... whammy-bar abuse", several guitar...
era, and went on to become his highest-selling album; a Guitar World
Guitar World
Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists. It contains original interviews, album and gear reviews and guitar and bass tablature of approximately five songs each month. The magazine is published 13 times per year...
article in 2009 ranked it tenth in the all-time top ten list of shred albums.
The following year, he joined up with Albert to form a Van Halen
Van Halen
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...
-inspired hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
group named Howe II. Through Shrapnel, they released two studio albums: High Gear (1989) and Now Hear This
Now Hear This (Howe II album)
Now Hear This is the second and final studio album by Howe II, released in 1991 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Albert Howe – vocals*Greg Howe – electric guitar, background vocals, production*Mike Mani – keyboard...
(1991). His second solo album, Introspection
Introspection (Greg Howe album)
Introspection is the second studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1993 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, keyboard, engineering, production*Kevin Soffera – drums...
, was released in 1993. At this point his style had changed radically from the straightforward instrumental rock
Instrumental rock
Instrumental rock is a type of rock music which emphasizes musical instruments, and which features very little or no singing.Examples of instrumental rock can be found in practically every subgenre of rock, often from musicians who specialize in the style, most notably Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Link...
of both his debut and the Howe II albums, to a more jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
-laden approach which remains unique and identifiable to this day; some of his signature traits being fast left-hand legato
Legato
In musical notation the Italian word legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no intervening silence...
passages (having been influenced greatly by jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth is an English guitarist and composer. He has released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played many different styles of music over a period of four decades, but first drew attention for his work in jazz fusion...
), and the frequent use of tapping
Tapping
Tapping is a guitar playing technique, where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being fretted with one hand and picked with the other...
and odd time signature
Time signature
The time signature is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each measure and which note value constitutes one beat....
s.
A trio of albums spanning the middle part of the decade—Uncertain Terms
Uncertain Terms
Uncertain Terms is the third studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1994 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, drums, bass guitar, engineering, mixing, production*Lee Wertman – guitar synthesizer...
(1994), Parallax (1995) and Five
Five (Greg Howe album)
Five is the fifth studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1996 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, keyboard, drums, engineering, mixing, production*Kevin Vecchione – bass guitar...
(1996)—were all a consistent evolution of the sound he had adopted on Introspection. During this time he collaborated twice with guitarist Richie Kotzen
Richie Kotzen
Richie Kotzen is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.At a young age, Richie Kotzen was taken by music and first began playing piano at the age of five. At the age of seven he was inspired by the band KISS to learn the electric guitar...
for the albums Tilt
Tilt (Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen album)
Tilt is a collaborative studio album by guitarists Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen, released in 1995 through Shrapnel Records. According to Howe, Shrapnel founder Mike Varney organised the collaboration due to his enthusiasm for both guitarists' stylistic similarities...
and Project
Project (album)
Project is the second collaborative studio album by guitarists Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen, released in 1997 through Shrapnel Records. According to Howe, his previous collaboration with Kotzen, Tilt , had sold well and thus resulted in a second album.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric...
in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He briefly dabbled with a heavier
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
, neo-classical metal
Neo-classical metal
Neo-classical metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that is heavily influenced by classical music. It refers to a very technical performanceExact quote from the french text: "L'arrivée du néoclassique remet au goût du jour la virtuosité et le travail de l'instrument", « Les secrets du metal-...
approach for his 1999 release, Ascend
Ascend (album)
Ascend is the sixth studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1999 through Shrapnel Records. According to Howe, this is his least favourite album due in part to creative differences which arose with keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij during the making of the latter's 1997 album, High...
, which featured keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
Vitalij Kuprij
Vitalij Kuprij
Vitalij Kuprij is a Ukrainian pianist, composer, music teacher, and keyboardist of the defunct neo-classical progressive metal band Artension. He resides in Reading, Pennsylvania when he is not touring.-Music career:...
. However, he has since spoken of his dissatisfaction for that project, as well as an earlier collaboration on Kuprij's album, High Definition (1997).
After switching labels to Shrapnel's jazz-oriented counterpart, Tone Center Records
Tone Center Records
Tone Center Records is an independent record label owned by music industry veteran Mike Varney, dedicated to recording high level jazz, jazz/rock, and fusion guitar. It is a member of The Shrapnel Label Group, along with Shrapnel Records and Blues Bureau International...
, he returned to his familiar style with Hyperacuity
Hyperacuity (album)
-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, engineering, production*Prashant Aswani – acoustic guitar *Kevin Soffera – drums, udu*Dale Fischer – bass guitar...
(2000), which still stands as some of his most prominent experimentation with jazz fusion. After a highly troubled recording process for Extraction
Extraction (album)
-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, keyboard, production*David Cook – keyboard solos*Dennis Chambers – drums*Victor Wooten – bass guitar*John Grant – engineering*Mark Gifford – engineering, mixing*Tony Gross – mixing...
, which featured bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
Victor Wooten
Victor Wooten
Victor Lemonte Wooten is an American bass player, composer, author, and producer, and has been the recipient of five Grammy Awards....
and drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers is an American drummer who has recorded and performed with John Scofield, George Duke, Brecker Brothers, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin, Niacin, Mike Stern, Greg Howe, and many others. Despite a lack of formal training, Chambers has become well known among...
(2003), he took an extended hiatus from recording solo material until the release of his ninth studio album, Sound Proof
Sound Proof (album)
-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, spoken vocals , production*David Cook – keyboard*Dennis Hamm – keyboard solo *Gianluca Palmieri – drums*Jon Reshard – bass guitar*Elvio Fernandez – spoken vocals...
, in June 2008.
Currently residing in Long Beach, California
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...
(having previously lived in Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Northampton County....
until around 2006), Howe continues to work as a session musician
Session musician
Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...
and producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, as well as providing online guitar lessons through his official website. From 2010 onwards he has toured Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
for the first time, having long stated a desire to tour the continent as a solo artist. According to a 2011 interview, he is working on a new studio album which will feature vocals
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
for the first time since the days of Howe II.
Session and Touring career
Amidst his solo career, Howe has continuously made himself available as a session musician for many of the world's biggest pop starsPop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
. In 1996, he replaced Jennifer Batten
Jennifer Batten
Jennifer Batten is an American guitarist, who has worked as both a session musician and solo artist. She has released three studio albums: her 1992 debut, Above Below and Beyond, was produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello. In 1997, she released the worldbeat-influenced Jennifer...
as primary guitarist during the Asian and European legs of singer Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
's HIStory World Tour
HIStory World Tour
The HIStory World Tour was the third and final worldwide solo concert tour by American megasuperstar Michael Jackson, covering Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America. The tour included a total of 82 concerts and was attended by approximately 4.5 million fans, beating his previous Bad Tour...
. He would later provide guitar duties for singer Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop music singer, a son of singer Julio Iglesias.Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa...
in 2000, which culminated in a series of high-profile televised performances and a European tour.
The following two years saw Howe recruited as lead guitarist for boy band
Boy band
A boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...
*NSYNC
'N Sync
N Sync was an American boy band formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich, *NSYNC consisted of JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick...
during two tours of the United States. After singer Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez...
left *NSYNC, Howe continued to tour with him in 2003. Eight years later, in February 2009, Howe teamed up again with Timberlake, as well as rapper
Rapping
Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
T.I.
T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. , better known by his stage name T.I., is an American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author. He is also the founder and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....
, for a performance at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards
51st Grammy Awards
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA on February 8, 2009. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were the biggest winners of the night, jointly winning five awards including Album of the Year and Record of the Year...
. In the same year, Howe played as part of keyboardist/violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist Eddie Jobson
Eddie Jobson
Edwin "Eddie" Jobson is an English keyboardist and violinist noted for his use of synthesizers. He has been a member of several progressive rock bands, including Curved Air, Roxy Music, U.K., and Jethro Tull. He was also part of Frank Zappa's band in 1976-77...
's Ultimate Zero Project, in a line-up which included bassists Tony Levin
Tony Levin
Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....
and John Wetton
John Wetton
John Kenneth Wetton is an English bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, singer and songwriter. He was born in Willington, Derbyshire, and grew up in Bournemouth. He has been a professional musician since the late 1960s...
, and drummers Marco Minnemann
Marco Minnemann
Marco Minnemann is a German-born drummer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He lives in Lake Elsinore, California.-Biography:...
and Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.-Career:Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar...
. In 2011, Howe put together a Super Fusion Group with drummer Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers is an American drummer who has recorded and performed with John Scofield, George Duke, Brecker Brothers, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin, Niacin, Mike Stern, Greg Howe, and many others. Despite a lack of formal training, Chambers has become well known among...
and Stu Hamm to tour throughout the world.
Howe has also performed and played with many other artists, such as Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...
, Rihanna
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...
, Lady Antebellum
Lady Antebellum
Lady Antebellum is an American country pop music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. The trio is composed of Charles Kelley , Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott .The group made its debut in 2007 as guest vocalists on Jim Brickman's single "Never Alone", before signing to Capitol...
, P Diddy, T-Pain
T-Pain
Faheem Rasheed Najm , better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor, currently signed to Young Money Entertainment. His debut album, Rappa Ternt Sanga, was released in 2005. In 2007, T-Pain released his second studio album Epiphany,...
and Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....
.
Studio albums
- 1988: Greg HoweGreg Howe (album)Greg Howe is the self-titled first studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1988 through Shrapnel Records. An article in Guitar World magazine ranked the album as tenth in the all-time top ten list of shred albums.-Track listing:-Personnel:...
- 1993: IntrospectionIntrospection (Greg Howe album)Introspection is the second studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1993 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, keyboard, engineering, production*Kevin Soffera – drums...
- 1994: Uncertain TermsUncertain TermsUncertain Terms is the third studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1994 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, drums, bass guitar, engineering, mixing, production*Lee Wertman – guitar synthesizer...
- 1995: Parallax
- 1996: FiveFive (Greg Howe album)Five is the fifth studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1996 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, keyboard, drums, engineering, mixing, production*Kevin Vecchione – bass guitar...
- 1999: AscendAscend (album)Ascend is the sixth studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1999 through Shrapnel Records. According to Howe, this is his least favourite album due in part to creative differences which arose with keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij during the making of the latter's 1997 album, High...
- 2000: HyperacuityHyperacuity (album)-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, engineering, production*Prashant Aswani – acoustic guitar *Kevin Soffera – drums, udu*Dale Fischer – bass guitar...
- 2003: ExtractionExtraction (album)-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, keyboard, production*David Cook – keyboard solos*Dennis Chambers – drums*Victor Wooten – bass guitar*John Grant – engineering*Mark Gifford – engineering, mixing*Tony Gross – mixing...
- 2006: Collection: The Shrapnel YearsCollection: The Shrapnel Years (Greg Howe album)Collection: The Shrapnel Years is a compilation album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 2006 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:...
(compilation) - 2008: Sound ProofSound Proof (album)-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric guitar, spoken vocals , production*David Cook – keyboard*Dennis Hamm – keyboard solo *Gianluca Palmieri – drums*Jon Reshard – bass guitar*Elvio Fernandez – spoken vocals...
Collaboration albums
- 1989: High Gear – with Howe II
- 1991: Now Hear ThisNow Hear This (Howe II album)Now Hear This is the second and final studio album by Howe II, released in 1991 through Shrapnel Records.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Albert Howe – vocals*Greg Howe – electric guitar, background vocals, production*Mike Mani – keyboard...
– with Howe II - 1995: TiltTilt (Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen album)Tilt is a collaborative studio album by guitarists Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen, released in 1995 through Shrapnel Records. According to Howe, Shrapnel founder Mike Varney organised the collaboration due to his enthusiasm for both guitarists' stylistic similarities...
– with Richie KotzenRichie KotzenRichie Kotzen is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.At a young age, Richie Kotzen was taken by music and first began playing piano at the age of five. At the age of seven he was inspired by the band KISS to learn the electric guitar... - 1997: ProjectProject (album)Project is the second collaborative studio album by guitarists Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen, released in 1997 through Shrapnel Records. According to Howe, his previous collaboration with Kotzen, Tilt , had sold well and thus resulted in a second album.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Greg Howe – electric...
– with Richie Kotzen
Other album appearances
- 1996: Convergence – James Murphy
- 1997: High Definition – Vitalij KuprijVitalij KuprijVitalij Kuprij is a Ukrainian pianist, composer, music teacher, and keyboardist of the defunct neo-classical progressive metal band Artension. He resides in Reading, Pennsylvania when he is not touring.-Music career:...
- 2001: Gentle Hearts – Tetsuo SakuraiTetsuo Sakuraiis a Japanese bassist. To date, he has released a total of 37 albums as a member of Casiopea and Jimsaku and solo artist, and has also made 3 bass instructional videos.-History:Tetsuo Sakurai started playing bass when he was 13 years old....
- 2004: Rhythm of TimeRhythm of TimeRhythm of Time is an album by Jordan Rudess recorded and released in 2004.In order to create the album before he went on tour with Dream Theater in 2004, Rudess lived in complete seclusion from the rest of the world for 14 days...
– Jordan RudessJordan RudessJordan Rudess is an American keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive rock supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment.-Biography:... - 2004: A Guitar Supreme – various guitarists compilation
- 2004: The Spirit Lives On – Jimi HendrixJimi HendrixJames Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
tribute - 2004: Gentle Hearts Tour 2004 – Tetsuo Sakurai
- 2005: Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute – various guitarists compilation
- 2006: Io Canto – Laura PausiniLaura PausiniLaura Pausini, is a Grammy Award-winning Italian soul singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian...
- 2008: Collection – Jason BeckerJason BeckerJason Eli Becker is an American virtuoso neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and Go Off! in 1988...
- 2010: Vital World – Tetsuo Sakurai
- 2011: ImmortalImmortal (Michael Jackson album)Immortal is a remix compilation album of music originally recorded by American recording artist Michael Jackson, and featuring The Jackson 5/The Jacksons, released from November 18, 2011 - November 25, 2011...
– Michael JacksonMichael JacksonMichael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...