“He told me how hard it is to live up to that innovation, year after year, tour after tour’: Former Live guitarist Chad Taylor has no regrets about meeting his hero Steve Howe

Steve Howe and Chad Taylor.

In 2015 Chad Taylor – co-founding guitarist of Live, who now fronts his own band Chad Taylor & Friends – told Prog about his admiration for Yes guitarist Steve Howe, and what happened when the pair met for dinner.

“In the progressive rock genre, to me, there‘s only one guitarist – and that’s Steve Howe. Yes were a part of my ethos – I was a 70s kid so I grew up with their music all around me.