Album: Pulling Strings
Artist: Steve Howe
1999(?) Resurgence (VoicePrint)
CD: RES132CD

Band Members, live:
Steve Howe: guitars (1-6, 8-12, 14, 16, 17), steel guitar (7, 13, 15), vocals (3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15b-17)

Backing tracks:
Steve Howe: acoustic guitars (1, 7, 13, 15, 16), electric guitars (13, 16), string pad (7), hi hat (7), lute (9), keyboards (9, 13, 15), bass (9, 13, 16), tambourine (9), drum machine (13)
Phil Spalding: bass (1)
Stuart Elliott: drums (1)

Produced by Steve Howe
Mixed by Steve Howe, engineered by Dave Wilkerson, Christophe Suchet

Tracks:
1.  Sweet Thunder (Howe) (3:21)
2.  Diary of a Man Who Vanished (Howe) (2:27)
3.  Excerpts from 'Close to the Edge' (Anderson/Howe) (4:23)
4.  Excerpts from 'Beginnings' (Howe) (3:18)
5.  Pleasure Stole the Night (S. Howe/J. Howe) (2:45)
6.  Sketches in the Sun (Howe) (3:11)
7.  Rare Birds (Howe) (3:11)
8.  Windy and Warm (Loudermilk) (1:39)
9.  Classical Gas (Williams) (4:28)
10.  Excerpts from 'Turn of the Century' (Anderson/Howe/White) (4:47)
11.  Misty (Garner) (1:26)
12.  Excerpts from 'All's a Chord' (Howe) (1:37)
13.  Running the Human Race (Howe) (4:02)
14.  Every Time You Look Over Your Shoulder (Howe) (3:39)
15.  Theme from 'The Gates of Delirium'/Soon (Anderson) (6:42)
16.  Blinded by Science (Howe) (3:46)
17.  My White Bicycle (Hopkins/Burgess) (3:18)

Album design & photography: Gottleib Bros.

Comments:
Recorded live in Chicago and Minneapolis USA in Nov 1994, on this tour Howe played to backing tracks (1, 7, 9, 13, 15, 16). "Rare Birds" is a version of the ABWH b-side "Vultures". "Windy and Warm" has no lyrics, but a few wordless vocals. "Classical Gas" was a live staple for Howe back in his earliest years with Yes.

After the end of "Classical Gas", track 9 includes Howe's introduction to track 10, "Turn of the Century", in which he plays brief extracts from the other tracks on Going for the One in the order: "Going for the One", "Parallels" (with vocals), "Awaken", "Wonderous Stories" (with wordless vocals). HP (19 Mar 01)

Reviews:
(***) There are no repeats from Not Necessarily Acoustic but the material here sounds odd in places with the additional instruments. MP