My first Steve Hackett concert was 11-13-1981, in Pennsylvania. It was only the beggining- I first saw Steve in Genesis 1976-1977. I have seen Steve to date as of 1-3-2024 40 times. More in 2024!
Damn you! 😊. I just missed that tour. Never saw Steve w Genesis. First: AND THEN THERE WERE THREE. Luckily seen him many many times since. I don't even know how he can tour ALL the time. And stay married!
Easy to see why he HAD to leave Genesis and go solo. Great performance and a very original sound. Been a Steve Hackett fan for years. Thanks for posting.
Oh gosh. I'm such a Steve Hackett fan. I remember when my local radio station played the second half of the Spectral Mornings album. I recorded it on cassette and bought the album as soon as I could find it. I then got Defector, Please Dont Touch and Voyage of the Acolyte (plus everything since). I still love them all. I remember being madly in love with a girl (unreciprocated) and I would listen to Hammer in the Sand (off Defector) in the bathtub on autoplay until the water would go cold, night after night. Probably my favorite artist ever. I finally saw him play live in Genesis Revisited in LA circa 2014. Every major guitarist in LA attended that show. Respect! And seemingly ageless. What a talent!
Bloody hell, what a player! And what a band too, every one of them playing at 110% capacity. Steve's choice of notes is amazing too. I mentioned in another post that I met Steve in the early 80's when he played at a local very small theatre. I was shaking like a leaf as I approached him but I needn't have worried. He was very shy and just as awkward as I was hehe. He was a lovely chap and was genuinely interested in my guitar and effects pedal collection (tiny compared to his, like my talent) His Gibson Les Paul was a 1956/57 model, the discrepancy being that the guitar was routed inside for P90s but it had 1957 dated PAF humbuckers fitted. He said except for regular maintenance like string changes and fretboard degunking, it had hardly ever needed any work and had never let him down. I'm sure I remember him saying that tuning was a bit of a balancing act, but then he did use .008"s!!! I need to listen to these old shows a lot more to help to cure my depression with the current state of "music" Thanks a lot @Metro Cubo
Unique and lovely style, that’s Steve’s brand. In 2023 I saw him playing with Genetics, a fantastic Argentinian Genesis tribute band, then later in Seattle with his band, just amazing.
I think the keyboard below the Roland VP 330 is a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano. I don't think the string synth below the Minimoog is a Solina string ensemble but rather a Vox Sting Thing. The synth above the Clavinet is a Roland SH-2000
Great to hear this, just wish they (Genesis) could have let some of this in. Got to question the camera work though, all the juicy bits not focused on like that luck in Every Day (outro)….why?
I always wondered why Steve didn't necessarily trust his own singing in the early days. I guess after playing alonside Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins he didn't see it as his strength. No matter, his guitar work makes up for everything, but I actually like his singing when he does it, doubled or overdubbed.
Steve is pretty good at tapping as much as everything else, it's funny that Van Halen got known for that and not him. It just goes to show that the general public always favours the most commercial stuff. I am also a fan of Van Halen but Hackett's compositions are much more profound, diverse, creative and transcendent.
The earliest example of tapping that I've found was done by Les Paul in a 1950's TV appearance. It was at least somewhat popular in jazz in the 1960's, with the first Chapman Stick prototype created in 1968, I believe. That instrument is mainly played by tapping. Tony Levin is a master of the Chapman Stick. So who really invented tapping? I have no idea. I wouldn't be surprised to find that tapping is a classical or baroque violin technique.
No!!!. It's now or never was too bad. They did it in Italy too.... ;-) After a dew night it was achived. Luckily. They restored I know what I like... ;-)
Chewing gum cheats the brain into feeling comfort. When you eat you enjoy and relax your body, when you chew gum you salivate and your brain believes you're eating, so people chew gum to avoid being nervous in certain situations, like performing.
My first Steve Hackett concert was 11-13-1981, in Pennsylvania.
It was only the beggining- I first saw Steve in Genesis 1976-1977.
I have seen Steve to date as of 1-3-2024 40 times. More in 2024!
Damn you! 😊. I just missed that tour. Never saw Steve w Genesis. First: AND THEN THERE WERE THREE. Luckily seen him many many times since. I don't even know how he can tour ALL the time. And stay married!
Easy to see why he HAD to leave Genesis and go solo. Great performance and a very original sound. Been a Steve Hackett fan for years. Thanks for posting.
Over forty years after leaving Genesis - and he's playing better than ever! Spectral Mornings was my favourite of that era.
Yes, he does!!
Oh gosh. I'm such a Steve Hackett fan. I remember when my local radio station played the second half of the Spectral Mornings album. I recorded it on cassette and bought the album as soon as I could find it. I then got Defector, Please Dont Touch and Voyage of the Acolyte (plus everything since). I still love them all. I remember being madly in love with a girl (unreciprocated) and I would listen to Hammer in the Sand (off Defector) in the bathtub on autoplay until the water would go cold, night after night. Probably my favorite artist ever. I finally saw him play live in Genesis Revisited in LA circa 2014. Every major guitarist in LA attended that show. Respect! And seemingly ageless. What a talent!
Bloody hell, what a player!
And what a band too, every one of them playing at 110% capacity.
Steve's choice of notes is amazing too.
I mentioned in another post that I met Steve in the early 80's when he played at a local very small theatre.
I was shaking like a leaf as I approached him but I needn't have worried. He was very shy and just as awkward as I was hehe.
He was a lovely chap and was genuinely interested in my guitar and effects pedal collection (tiny compared to his, like my talent)
His Gibson Les Paul was a 1956/57 model, the discrepancy being that the guitar was routed inside for P90s but it had 1957 dated PAF humbuckers fitted.
He said except for regular maintenance like string changes and fretboard degunking, it had hardly ever needed any work and had never let him down.
I'm sure I remember him saying that tuning was a bit of a balancing act, but then he did use .008"s!!!
I need to listen to these old shows a lot more to help to cure my depression with the current state of "music"
Thanks a lot @Metro Cubo
Unique and lovely style, that’s Steve’s brand. In 2023 I saw him playing with Genetics, a fantastic Argentinian Genesis tribute band, then later in Seattle with his band, just amazing.
1980 bis heute 2024 gehört Steve zu den besten Musiker auf dieser Welt 🙏🙏🫶🫶🥁🥁
Spectral Mornings really shines here ! Bought the album in 1979 !
I can see a Roland VP 330, a Prophet 5, a Mellotron, a Minimoog, a Solina string ensemble, a RMI Electric Piano, but not sure of the other synths
I think the keyboard below the Roland VP 330 is a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano. I don't think the string synth below the Minimoog is a Solina string ensemble but rather a Vox Sting Thing. The synth above the Clavinet is a Roland SH-2000
Marvellous!!
Great to hear this, just wish they (Genesis) could have let some of this in. Got to question the camera work though, all the juicy bits not focused on like that luck in Every Day (outro)….why?
Was there and have now the Chance to reexplore the Music.
Amazing again - thanks for sharing
Excelente
Seen this tour in Toronto at the Okeefe Center 1979
Génie
Hélène Briand forever one again and again ❤
'The Show' - His first single? Possibly his most commercial song ever!
I always wondered why Steve didn't necessarily trust his own singing in the early days. I guess after playing alonside Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins he didn't see it as his strength. No matter, his guitar work makes up for everything, but I actually like his singing when he does it, doubled or overdubbed.
Steve is pretty good at tapping as much as everything else, it's funny that Van Halen got known for that and not him. It just goes to show that the general public always favours the most commercial stuff. I am also a fan of Van Halen but Hackett's compositions are much more profound, diverse, creative and transcendent.
The earliest example of tapping that I've found was done by Les Paul in a 1950's TV appearance. It was at least somewhat popular in jazz in the 1960's, with the first Chapman Stick prototype created in 1968, I believe. That instrument is mainly played by tapping. Tony Levin is a master of the Chapman Stick.
So who really invented tapping? I have no idea. I wouldn't be surprised to find that tapping is a classical or baroque violin technique.
Has anyone out there have a video of 'The Voyage of the Acolyte' Tour with Steve in his white clothing?
No!!!. It's now or never was too bad. They did it in Italy too.... ;-) After a dew night it was achived. Luckily. They restored I know what
I like... ;-)
If only... if only... Mr. Hackett were not chewing gum... Greg Lake and John Lennon did this too. Horrible! Otherwise this is brilliant.
Chewing gum cheats the brain into feeling comfort. When you eat you enjoy and relax your body, when you chew gum you salivate and your brain believes you're eating, so people chew gum to avoid being nervous in certain situations, like performing.
helps keep mouth and throat from drying up. I also do this while performing.. (sorry)!
Great performance... HORRENDOUS direction and editing.
BEWARE THE MIGHTY MAGNATRON!