GTR (band) and Nigel Glockler returned to Saxon. Max Bacon's 1996 solo album "The Higher You Climb" included GTR material, and he later sang lead on "Going, Going, Gone" on Howe's 1999 release, "Portraits of Bob Dylan". GTR (band) GTR were a British rock band founded in 1985 by former Yes and Asia guitarist Steve Howe and former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. Though the band's leaders were known as progressive rock musicians, GTR appealed to album-oriented rock radio stations. The band lasted for two years and one album. Hackett subsequently criticized the project, though not necessarily the other musicians involved in it.
Steve Howe (musician) successful Yes works, a milestone album which raised their stature as one of the most prominent progressive rock groups of the time. In the spring of 1971, both Wakeman and Howe had contributed to the recording of Lou Reed's first solo album as session musicians, working together for the first time on this occasion. To his already-formidable assortment of electric and acoustic guitar sounds, Howe added a unique approach to pedal steel guitar in the next album, "Close to the Edge", released in 1972. His penchant for ongoing experimentation helped produce a playing style unique among rock musicians, while the