[url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/242657147?page=0&sort=0&showBanned=0&path=0]BHMGSL#1[/url], if you missed it. Good evenin', Bnet. It is day two of BHMGSL. Today, the spotlight is on none other than jazz fusion virtuoso, Greg Howe. Born December 8th, 1963 in New York City, New York, Gregory Howe is an American instrumental rock, jazz fusion and hard rock guitarist (I think he dabbles in a bit of funk too IIrc) and composer. After leaving high school and playing the clubcircuit 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 albumwas released in 1988, during the popular shred era, and went on to become his highest-selling album; a 2009 article in Guitar Worldmagazine 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 legatopassages (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. 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 then briefly dabbled with a heavier, neo-classical metal style for his 1999 release, Ascend, which featured keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij. Howe has since spoken of his dissatisfaction for that project, as well as an earlier collaboration on Kuprij's own 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 (2003) — a collaboration with drummer Dennis Chambers and bassist Victor Wooten — he took an extended hiatus from recording solo material until the release of his eighth studio album, Sound Proof, in 2008. It would be another nine years until Howe's next solo release, Wheelhouse, in 2017, which has been described as his "most personal work to date" and marks his return to solo instrumental work. In a 2015 article by Guitar World, Howe was ranked tenth in the "Top 10 Pick Squealers of All Time". Howe has had numerous experiences as a session and touring musician. Playing for several big name artists including but not limited to; • Christina Aguilera • Rihanna  • Lady Antebellum  • P Diddy  • T-Pain and  • Salt-n-Pepa  • Michael Jackson • Enrique Iglesias Howe was also a member of the band, Maragold, which included drummer, Gianluca Palmieri, bassist, Kevin Vecchione and singer, Meghan Krauss. He's played many different boutique guitar brands, but in 2014 was endorsed by Kiesel guitars. A signature model, the GH24 was released the following year as well as a follow up to it, the GH3 in 2017. He is also endorsed by DiMarzio, D'Addario and Floyd Rose. Howe has released nine studio albums (technically ten, but it's a compilation) as a solo artist, two with the his band Howe II, and a number of different collabs and guest appearances. Well, I don't know what else to type and / or Ctrl + v, so... This concludes today's BHMGSL.