You guys should check out the "supergroup" The Mute Gods, founded by Nick Beggs who also plays bass on that album. Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth is an incredible album, Window Onto The Sun is my favorite track from it.
@@alexandremarchand8815 the heaviness of the last few minutes, is meant to represent the "Holy Drinker's" descent into hell. A rather fantastic piece of storytelling..
Adam Holzman played keys for Miles Davis. Enough said. I would not be surprised if the keyboard solo was improvised, just as Guthrie improvised the guitar solo. I couldn't even write something half as good as he just comes up with. Steven Wilson mixes all his own work. He has an incredible musical ear as a composer and an engineer. He also makes 5.1 surround sound mixes.
Adam is almost criminally unknown outside of the jazz world and Wilson's fans. Brilliant player, and a funny guy. Listen carefully to his playing on the title track of Wilson's "The Raven That Refused To Sing." Superficially, it's just a series of chords... but there's magic in the way he plays them on piano; he imparts a pensiveness that beautifully underscores Wilson's plaintive vocals.
So underrated in light of Govan's solo immediately following it. It soars all on its own. One of my favorites. I love listening to Tom Sawyer into Regret #9. Same key, similar tempo, I think. Though Home Invasion is damn good too.
@@edwnorris i actually prefer home invasion myself, which just goes to show how good i think it is, both halves are extraordinary and it's a testament to how good hand. cannot. erase. is that i still feel they are somewhat overshadowed by ancestral
The entire HCE and The Raven are probably the best modern music ever recorded. There, I said it. There are so many amazing albums in the last 60-70 years, but I feel this just takes stuff on whole different level.
A man of great taste. Guthrie Govan is nearly never mentioned by anyone in the reaction community. It's a shame because he is one of the most awesome guitarist of our generation but so underrated that it become criminal to me. Fortunately, music nerds are fully aware of him. Let's hope that this song will make more people discover Guthrie ! :D
I couldn't think of 3 better titles! Diverse, distinct songwriting and sound approaches yet similar in some ways as well ('chapters' of emotion within those songs). Go for them, Geebz!
This is just a fantastic piece of art. Had bought the album on bandcamp and listen to it while walking. While trying to listen to this piece, crying as this was so great !!... the two solo's was just both orgasmically incredible !!! was blasted away ..
Steven Wilson, for me one of the most influential musicians and producers of all time. I would highly recommend going on a musical journey trough his career, from the early drone stuff of porcupine tree,, onto porcupine at its peak. And then, my favourites, his solo albums, every single on of them very different from the others.
Nick Beggs, the bass player, uses a Chapman Stick in this song... holy crap... great bass player! And he also sings the high voice, soft in the background.
The emotional heights of Guthries solo can only be achieved by coming directly after another solo that was the equivalent of Mt Everest. The synth was just like the peak of earth, followed by a stairway to heaven in the form of guitar.
From my perspective Hand Cannot erase is Steven's best solo album so far and my favourite album of the last decade. If you like to continue with Steven Wilson please try the live version of Luminol :-)
The music video to Perfect Life goes from joyful to heartbreaking... Remember when Proggladyte were filling their diapers over this song, only to do so again with Permanating, and again with Personal Shopper. TFB did so well on the European Charts to be did horrible here in the States. All b/c of Proggladytes can't handle exploration of music, almost as if they don't know what progg is.
The album is the story of Joyce Carol Vincent who died and her body wasn't found until 3 years later when neighbours complained of the smell. The idea is that we are so connected in the modern world but so disconnected. Keyboard solo by Adam Holzman, his dad started Atlantic records
Every now and again you get to experience something that borders on transcendental; such was the case when I saw 'Home Invasion/Regret #9' performed live. Interestingly it was not the first time, but the second gig I went to (at the end of the tour). You know that moment when you're watching a concert film and wonder how it must have been to be there? Well this time I was there, and the whole world collapsed around me so that I was a pinpoint of light observing a crescendo of perfect melodic cacophony; I lost all sense of where I was and just lived for the moment. I was so elated when it finished - then suddenly so sad that it had ended. I didn't come down from that high for several hours. I've only felt like that a handful of times at gigs: that moment in a 1980 Pink Floyd concert when David Gilmour stood atop the newly constructed wall and launched into the solo from 'Comfortably Numb' (18 year old me transfixed by the whole experience); sitting mouth agape as Wright and Gilmour traded notes during 'Echoes' on the 2006 Gilmour solo tour; those epic lyrics from 'Starless' searing into me (King Crimson 2015); Piotr Grudziński's guitar playing reducing me to blubbery tears during The Curtain Falls on Riverside's 2015 tour; the climax of 'Victorian Brickwork' by Big Big Train at Kings Place in 2015 (actually - the whole song). What memories ... Oooops, I'm rambling ... but then music does that!
Lazarus is too poppy for this indepth analysis imho but a good song. I'd just like something more complex. Mellotron Scratch has got awesome vocal melodies in the end.
One of the best guitar solos, ever. What a treat to watch and listen to this with you, man. Wow. The live studio recording with Guthrie govan on guitar is spectacular. Also I would highly recommend you listen to Delving’s new album. I really hope you have a chance to experience that album. It’s addictive and so refreshing.
Absolutely love Steven Wilson’s work. Adding to your long list of suggestions with his track ‘Deform to Form a Star’ off of Grace For Drowning. Wouldn’t say it’s as technical, but it is one of the most beautiful mixes I’ve heard of his work- it brings me to tears every time! Fun fact: this album was nominated for best surround mix 🙌🏼 Thanks again for taking the time to make these videos. 😊
I loved your reaction, so genuine, spontaneous and educational... subscribed immediately. I love to see you reacting to “Detonation” by Steven Wilson, Live at Royal Albert Hall. Such an underrated song. Adam Holzman (the keyboard player) and Alex Hutchins (at the guitar) performs pure magic!
Great reaction, pretty much what I though when I first heard this song. This is my favorite song from the all amazing album Hand.cannot.erase. Looking forward your next Steven reaction, pick any song, It will be great. Cheers.
Fair to Midland! You’d have a field day with them and their beautiful mixing. Personal favorites would either be: the wife, the kids, and the white picket fence or the greener grass.
The Raven is just an incredible album through and through. I saw him live just after the release of this album (Hand.Cannot.Erase.) and he played The Raven that Refused to Sing, absolutely one of the most moving concert experiences I've ever had.
As far as layering and production is concerned, let me recommend _"Heartattack in a layby"_ by Porcupine Tree. It's just sheer beauty paired with utter sadness.
Year late response here, sorry 8) First week of high school (11th grade in Norway) in 2009 we had this get to know each other session in class where everyone played a song they loved on the stereo. I picked Heart attack in a Layby - half the class fell half asleep, the other half got teary eyed hahah. What a beautiful song that is.
The keyboard player is Adam Holtzman. He played with Miles Davis for four years and eventually became his touring musical director, so he has jazz in his DNA, too ;)
Trust me brother I completely understand the tearing up over this song... that whole Synth solo into Guthrie’s just leaves me breathless every time. I believe it was a first take.
Have to say, I've never seen your videos before but I enjoyed watching you enjoy this great music. Your reaction to each individual piece was pretty much the same as mine, including the "WOOOW!!!
Wilson is a master of taking relatively simple motifs and developing them into something extraordinarily moving. He's no slouch guitarist but he also surrounds himself with some of the best players around to do the bulk of interpreting his compositions (ie Adam Holzman, Marco Minneman, Guthrie Govan). The results are most often compelling and truly imaginative. He's got a great musical mind and great ears... Nice choice today and enjoy your analysis...
Wow, what a amazing piece! Thanks for sharing it with us. One of the most impressive bit of music I’ve ever experienced. I have vary eclectic and varied tastes and this song resonated within me so strongly. Fantastic stuff!! And your reaction video’s Geebz, as the very best I ever seen on TH-cam....period. From one older guy to another....
Please please please Geebz! React to Steven Wilson - Drive Home from his previous record Guthrie Govan also performing on that one, ALSO please do Steven Wilson - Ancestral from the same album as Regret #9, compositionally to me it's a much more complex song written almost like a theatrical piece.
Great!! I must confess that I was jumping up and down in front of the screen, screaming "Yes, yes, yes!!!!", while watching you listening to Adam Holzman's Moog Synth solo while you're saying "Wow". And Guthrie's guitar solo still had to come!! This combination of two songs is one big eargasm!!!
I had listened to this song SO many times, but then suddenly one time when my neighbors were listening too, I suddenly realized that (in this video 17:04 ->) it's magician Holzman and his background is THE thing that makes it for me. Shivers down my spine - every, single, time.
I really enjoy the mystique aspect of what you're talking about. Also, seeing "behind the curtain" invigorates me even more to transplant those techniques into my own productions. Your commentary is fantastic!
Nick Beggs , the bassist ( formally of Kajagoogoo, and has played on every SW album and tour) is actually playing the Chapman Stick... Steven is playing bass on this song , and does so live as well ( a Spector Coda bass ).
It is hard to believe, but I saw SW in a burlesque bar in Pensacola for this tour. It was right before covid hit us and was one of the greatest highlights of my life. There was a crowd of 200 people who thought that SW was there for them alone. It was magical.
Steven Wilson - Ancestral has a really unusual song structure. And the dynamics and the sound are perfect on this one. Definitely recommend listening to!
You could feel this through your whole body on the tour, I saw them at the 900 capacity Edinburgh Queen’s Hall and I was dead centre, it was so good, probably the best gig I’ve been to, although for different reasons it may tie with the Supersuckers at King Tuts and Rammstein at the SECC both Glasgow, oh and.....continued page 234...
I was going to suggest this and you've already done it. Kudos. I think the double solo in this is the most sublime music ever created. It can completely take me out of this world.
Ahw maaann this whole album is amazing, really worth a listen from start to finish. Since it’s a concept album it’s hard to just recommend one song because it will be an out of context listen. That being said, Routine and Ancestral are big ones, and I personally love the first and last tracks too, First Regret/3 Years Older and Happy Returns. Your reactions are great man, thanks for doing what you do and enjoy all the awesome music!
Wilson is a brilliant musical magpie. All the suggestions are good ones ,as he is consistently good. So I'll suggest 2 not requested as often, but definitely appreciated by SW fans... "Remainder the Black Dog" from his jazziest album Grace Before Drowning " The Watchmaker" ....a gothic , ghost story , from The Raven That Refused To Sing. Again , you can't go wrong. Like Bowie, Steven is a musical chameleon and magpie...and very consistent.
Thank you for what you're doing. I just discovered you and I am blown away by your takeaways by the best prog musicians in the world. Keep up the great work!!!
I'm finding so many awesome new groups following your channel, super thankful for that. I've never heard of this band before, I get some rush/steely dan/radiohead feels from these guys. I might just be projecting, but I love it.
I’m in Hilo and I play this solo on guitar. Sometimes I do not sound like I truly feel it, even though the notes may be right. Sometimes, I am not emotionally able to truly sound like I care. Ah, life..... Your video made me happy to see you as spiritually drawn in as I try to be. Al in Hilo
Like you said the bass arragements are beautiful. I think it's doubled with slapstick and Wilson on "bass guitar". But the first bend is something that takes my breath away! And that banjo at the end. He did it with PT in blackest eyes c-part. I actually rehearsed it and we were playing this acustic gig and I had it behind my back for just that one part of 10 songs :)
A great band VITALISM is an instrumental band 2 guitars an awesome bass player and a killer drummer. Their songs seem almost like they have lyrics or tells a story. I wonder how much is engineered or pure musicianship. Thanks for all the great reviews and explanations. Keep on keepin on. Aloha
Make sure to check this out live mate. There are some great SW live videos out there of this, Holy Drinker, Luminol, Ancestral, just to name a few. All solid tracks, with that same jazz metal fusion sound. Home Invasion is just a big set up for Adam and Guthrie's big solos. Keep the SW coming braj, great stuff. Thanks for posting!
Absolutely the best react channel out there - just the right ratio of listening to analysis, from a guy who knows what he’s talking about musically. Definitely looking forward to more Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree, & Opeth. 🎸 Hope you’re enjoying the crazy surf in Hawaii right now...Jaws is insane! 🏄♂️
The bass player, Nick Beggs one of my favs alongside Pete Trewevas of Marillion. Saw him live here in New Zealand with Steven Wilson and Steve Hackett.
These days we all feel the so so heavy of weight put upon us all . I truly look forward to your content . We all appreciate what you do . Giving us a second chance to experience the songs through new eyes . Thank you sir .
Btw: I think you would totally love a whole album reaction of this. It's a great prog rock record with an interesting background story (from wiki): According to Wilson, the album is written from a female perspective, and the concept and story are inspired by the case of Joyce Carol Vincent, where a woman living in a large city dies in her apartment and no one misses her for over two years, despite her having family and friends. Wilson explained: "The basic story, or concept of the record - it's about a woman growing up, who goes to live in the city, very isolated, and she disappears one day and no one notices. There's more to it than that. Now, what's really interesting about this story is that your initial reaction when you hear a story like that is, 'Ah, little old bag lady that no one notices, no one cares about.' [Vincent] wasn't [like that]. She was young, she was popular, she was attractive, she had many friends, she had family, but for whatever reason, nobody missed her for three years."
This albums is a masterpiece, and Govan's solo during Ancestral... and in fact, the entire musical section during the solo, is incredible. Its so moving and powerful.
Adam Holzman (keyboards used to play with Miles Davis and is the son of the founder of Elektra Records). I agree, the musicianship and arrangement are extraordinary and the bass moves so well, main section Nick Beggs on Chapman Stick. Great insight and reaction. Thanks.
Yes same reactions as mine :-) syncopated ride cymbal, Holzman's synth solo and - we're not worthy - Goodthrie Goodvan guitar WORK (goosebumps) :-) what a SMASH!
I'm new to Steven Wilson. I hear elements of Classic Yes, David Bowie (Iggy Star Dust), maybe ELP, and Peter Townsend. I enjoy the use of movements on this journey.
A 70s redux--but I'm not saying it's a bad thing. The Moog solo vibe will always be owned by Jan Hammer. I admire Wilson's creative intensity and prolific output. He clearly lives for music.
To be honest, this entire album is an absolute masterpiece.
And more than that!
Yes.
Hell yeah, one of the best albums of all times!
The live show was astounding too.
steven wilson's pinnacle
If you love this solo, your face will melt off after listening to Drive Home. 🤣🤣
The second best solo of all time.
Yes!
Let's not forget about Ancestral. That's kind of a different kinda solo but equally good.
@@aritrasom9536 +1 The live performance from the Home Invasion tour live at Royal albert hall is amazing although Guthrie is not playing it.
link for the live version from Steven's official channel
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I love how Guthrie’s solo at the end of Regret #9 was a one take performance in the studio!
Steve Wilson Routine is a great one to check out. The video is really heavy...I mean sad heavy😥
But a must watch video when reacting. At least the first time.
As "The raven that refused to sing" is.Live it nearly killed me...
For Geebz, I would say just the music for first reaction. Don't want anything to distract from that amazing composition.
It’s so heavy (yet beautiful) ... once was enough for me! 💔
@@ISOrider72 So true.
Opeth - Lotus Eater
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Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
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LOTUS EATER SECONDED
Edit your comment with some links to those songs, that what Geebz is looking out for!
For me the best version on TH-cam...
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@@sebulban 100% this version (saw that tour and the whole setlist was killer!).
@@sebulban yes, it is, however, if I remember correctly he reacts to studio records only.
The Holy Drinker - Steven Wilson.
One of SW's great tributes to 70's prog. 👍
Underrated track, after a few years it became my favorite from The Raven album ! The ending is so sick.
You guys should check out the "supergroup" The Mute Gods, founded by Nick Beggs who also plays bass on that album. Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth is an incredible album, Window Onto The Sun is my favorite track from it.
@@alexandremarchand8815 the heaviness of the last few minutes, is meant to represent the "Holy Drinker's" descent into hell. A rather fantastic piece of storytelling..
Such an incredible solo from Guthrie here, what a legend
Definitely. And Adam’s solo along with Nick’s work on the Chapman stick give so much to this song.
Adam Holzman played keys for Miles Davis. Enough said. I would not be surprised if the keyboard solo was improvised, just as Guthrie improvised the guitar solo. I couldn't even write something half as good as he just comes up with.
Steven Wilson mixes all his own work. He has an incredible musical ear as a composer and an engineer. He also makes 5.1 surround sound mixes.
Everyone's solos are different every time. Adam's especially, and more recently Dave's and Alex's. They're on another level of pro.
Adam is almost criminally unknown outside of the jazz world and Wilson's fans. Brilliant player, and a funny guy.
Listen carefully to his playing on the title track of Wilson's "The Raven That Refused To Sing." Superficially, it's just a series of chords... but there's magic in the way he plays them on piano; he imparts a pensiveness that beautifully underscores Wilson's plaintive vocals.
That ''wow'' during the moog solo about sums up this song for me. so tasteful
So underrated in light of Govan's solo immediately following it. It soars all on its own. One of my favorites.
I love listening to Tom Sawyer into Regret #9. Same key, similar tempo, I think. Though Home Invasion is damn good too.
@@edwnorris i actually prefer home invasion myself, which just goes to show how good i think it is, both halves are extraordinary and it's a testament to how good hand. cannot. erase. is that i still feel they are somewhat overshadowed by ancestral
I LOOOOOVE that solo.
The entire HCE and The Raven are probably the best modern music ever recorded. There, I said it. There are so many amazing albums in the last 60-70 years, but I feel this just takes stuff on whole different level.
the raven tour seen it live close to the front, best live show i have ever been to. much better than HCE
@@jasonjenkins6373 Same here!! but I think there were some HCE thrown into it. @ Montreal Jazz Fest 🥳
A man of great taste. Guthrie Govan is nearly never mentioned by anyone in the reaction community. It's a shame because he is one of the most awesome guitarist of our generation but so underrated that it become criminal to me.
Fortunately, music nerds are fully aware of him. Let's hope that this song will make more people discover Guthrie ! :D
The Ocean - Jurassic | Cretaceous
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Crumbling Castle
Opeth - The Lotus Eater
I couldn't think of 3 better titles! Diverse, distinct songwriting and sound approaches yet similar in some ways as well ('chapters' of emotion within those songs). Go for them, Geebz!
More Opeth please!
You have great taste..
Can’t believe he hasn’t done king gizzard yet
Up for The Ocean - Jurassic/Cretaceous - amazing track! one of the best of 2020
Loved this reaction! The fact that Guthrie did that solo in one take always blows my mind!
I vouch for that, im trying to learn it!
This is just a fantastic piece of art.
Had bought the album on bandcamp and listen to it while walking. While trying to listen to this piece, crying as this was so great !!... the two solo's was just both orgasmically incredible !!! was blasted away ..
He's faces on Guthrie's solo are priceless 😃 dude literally sweated and slowly melted
Guthrie's solo is so epic it is on par with Gilmore in Comfortably Numb. One for the ages.
Gilmore's first or second solo in CN? I do prefer the first.
And the fact that he has multiple amazing solos spread in just 2 albums with Steven Wilson
@@rockonileva I'd put Guthrie's work on those 2 Wilson's albums against anything ever done with the guitar.
Insane what they managed to create.
Steven Wilson, for me one of the most influential musicians and producers of all time. I would highly recommend going on a musical journey trough his career, from the early drone stuff of porcupine tree,, onto porcupine at its peak. And then, my favourites, his solo albums, every single on of them very different from the others.
If you don’t already know, Wilson does his own engineering most of the time. He’s one of the best engineers out there.
Lovely to see I’m not the only one getting frissons on the solos. It’s a fantastic song and a superb mix. The 5.1 mix is spectacular.
Nick Beggs, the bass player, uses a Chapman Stick in this song... holy crap... great bass player! And he also sings the high voice, soft in the background.
The emotional heights of Guthries solo can only be achieved by coming directly after another solo that was the equivalent of Mt Everest. The synth was just like the peak of earth, followed by a stairway to heaven in the form of guitar.
From my perspective Hand Cannot erase is Steven's best solo album so far and my favourite album of the last decade. If you like to continue with Steven Wilson please try the live version of Luminol :-)
A beautiful masterpiece. Steven Wilson deserves more recognition, preferably the right balance, where fame doesn't destroy his life.
My all time favorite from Steven Wilson is Perfect Life from this album.
The music video to Perfect Life goes from joyful to heartbreaking... Remember when Proggladyte were filling their diapers over this song, only to do so again with Permanating, and again with Personal Shopper. TFB did so well on the European Charts to be did horrible here in the States. All b/c of Proggladytes can't handle exploration of music, almost as if they don't know what progg is.
Perfect melody is 'perfect life '. I can hear it every day.
11:30 actually there's a bass as well, but that unique sound above that is the chapman stick, played by Nick Beggs
The album is the story of Joyce Carol Vincent who died and her body wasn't found until 3 years later when neighbours complained of the smell. The idea is that we are so connected in the modern world but so disconnected. Keyboard solo by Adam Holzman, his dad started Atlantic records
Elektra Records-not Atlantic.
People call out the guitar solo but the keyboard solo is even better in my opinion.
Every now and again you get to experience something that borders on transcendental; such was the case when I saw 'Home Invasion/Regret #9' performed live. Interestingly it was not the first time, but the second gig I went to (at the end of the tour). You know that moment when you're watching a concert film and wonder how it must have been to be there? Well this time I was there, and the whole world collapsed around me so that I was a pinpoint of light observing a crescendo of perfect melodic cacophony; I lost all sense of where I was and just lived for the moment. I was so elated when it finished - then suddenly so sad that it had ended. I didn't come down from that high for several hours.
I've only felt like that a handful of times at gigs: that moment in a 1980 Pink Floyd concert when David Gilmour stood atop the newly constructed wall and launched into the solo from 'Comfortably Numb' (18 year old me transfixed by the whole experience); sitting mouth agape as Wright and Gilmour traded notes during 'Echoes' on the 2006 Gilmour solo tour; those epic lyrics from 'Starless' searing into me (King Crimson 2015); Piotr Grudziński's guitar playing reducing me to blubbery tears during The Curtain Falls on Riverside's 2015 tour; the climax of 'Victorian Brickwork' by Big Big Train at Kings Place in 2015 (actually - the whole song). What memories ...
Oooops, I'm rambling ... but then music does that!
Anything by Steve Wilson and his projects will be amazing. But I'm suggesting either Lazarus or Mellotron Scratch off of Deadwing.
Phenomenal songs! I especially like the mixing of those tracks.
Lazarus is too poppy for this indepth analysis imho but a good song. I'd just like something more complex. Mellotron Scratch has got awesome vocal melodies in the end.
I’m agree with Lazarus but mellotron scratch bro is a very good track ✌️
One of the best guitar solos, ever. What a treat to watch and listen to this with you, man. Wow. The live studio recording with Guthrie govan on guitar is spectacular. Also I would highly recommend you listen to Delving’s new album. I really hope you have a chance to experience that album. It’s addictive and so refreshing.
When you love the bass playing it's pretty good to know that the player once was into Kajagoogoo... Nick Beggs is a true master of this instrument.
I'm pretty sure that Steven Wilson himself played bass on this one
@@olegariosantana6333 Beggs is credited for playing Chapman Stick on these tracks
@@SurfGreenTelecaster There are tracks where Wilson plays bass at the same time Beggs plays Chapman Stick, isn't there?
@@SurfGreenTelecaster yeah, and wilson played de Bass. It's credited on the track
@@edwnorrisYup, that's exactly the case on these songs, and live, Beggs covers both parts on stick.
Absolutely love Steven Wilson’s work. Adding to your long list of suggestions with his track ‘Deform to Form a Star’ off of Grace For Drowning. Wouldn’t say it’s as technical, but it is one of the most beautiful mixes I’ve heard of his work- it brings me to tears every time! Fun fact: this album was nominated for best surround mix 🙌🏼
Thanks again for taking the time to make these videos. 😊
I love Grace For Drowning. It’s such a dark sounding album.
Steve Wilson is an absolute legend
I loved your reaction, so genuine, spontaneous and educational... subscribed immediately. I love to see you reacting to “Detonation” by Steven Wilson, Live at Royal Albert Hall. Such an underrated song. Adam Holzman (the keyboard player) and Alex Hutchins (at the guitar) performs pure magic!
I agree 100%
Both the studio version and the live versions of Detonation are great. One of my favorites from To The Bone.
Great reaction, pretty much what I though when I first heard this song. This is my favorite song from the all amazing album Hand.cannot.erase. Looking forward your next Steven reaction, pick any song, It will be great. Cheers.
Fair to Midland! You’d have a field day with them and their beautiful mixing. Personal favorites would either be: the wife, the kids, and the white picket fence or the greener grass.
Thought you almost started tearing up during that keyboard solo! Me too. Meeee too.
My favourite Steven Wilson album. What a band!
If you want to dig further into Steven Wilson solo carreer. I recommand listening to The Watchmaker. :)
The Raven is just an incredible album through and through. I saw him live just after the release of this album (Hand.Cannot.Erase.) and he played The Raven that Refused to Sing, absolutely one of the most moving concert experiences I've ever had.
@@barrettKiwi i agree the whole album is great but I fracking love
everything about "The Watchmaker."
@@barrettKiwi exactly the same as you. In Montreal :)
The guitar solo sounds so much better in the context of the song. It's incredible and was improvised too..
As far as layering and production is concerned, let me recommend _"Heartattack in a layby"_ by Porcupine Tree. It's just sheer beauty paired with utter sadness.
Year late response here, sorry 8) First week of high school (11th grade in Norway) in 2009 we had this get to know each other session in class where everyone played a song they loved on the stereo. I picked Heart attack in a Layby - half the class fell half asleep, the other half got teary eyed hahah. What a beautiful song that is.
The keyboard player is Adam Holtzman. He played with Miles Davis for four years and eventually became his touring musical director, so he has jazz in his DNA, too ;)
Trust me brother I completely understand the tearing up over this song... that whole Synth solo into Guthrie’s just leaves me breathless every time. I believe it was a first take.
Have to say, I've never seen your videos before but I enjoyed watching you enjoy this great music. Your reaction to each individual piece was pretty much the same as mine, including the "WOOOW!!!
that album is just fantastic
Wilson is a master of taking relatively simple motifs and developing them into something extraordinarily moving. He's no slouch guitarist but he also surrounds himself with some of the best players around to do the bulk of interpreting his compositions (ie Adam Holzman, Marco Minneman, Guthrie Govan). The results are most often compelling and truly imaginative. He's got a great musical mind and great ears... Nice choice today and enjoy your analysis...
That was beautiful trip and great explanation in the building of the song..
LISTEN TO "DRIVE HOME" Steven Wilson. Also with Guthrie Govan.
guthrie govan and marco minneman are .. there arent even words to describe then and neither are there words to describe the genius of steven wilson.
Wow, what a amazing piece! Thanks for sharing it with us. One of the most impressive bit of music I’ve ever experienced. I have vary eclectic and varied tastes and this song resonated within me so strongly. Fantastic stuff!! And your reaction video’s Geebz, as the very best I ever seen on TH-cam....period. From one older guy to another....
Please please please Geebz!
React to Steven Wilson - Drive Home from his previous record Guthrie Govan also performing on that one,
ALSO please do Steven Wilson - Ancestral from the same album as Regret #9, compositionally to me it's a much more complex song written almost like a theatrical piece.
You must, MUST, look up Luminol, live from Mexico City!!
So refreshing to see reactions by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about. Love your energy dude keep them coming 🤟🏼
Saw this tour live .. not one... not two ... 3 times live!!!! Couldn't get enough.
Great!! I must confess that I was jumping up and down in front of the screen, screaming "Yes, yes, yes!!!!", while watching you listening to Adam Holzman's Moog Synth solo while you're saying "Wow". And Guthrie's guitar solo still had to come!! This combination of two songs is one big eargasm!!!
I had listened to this song SO many times, but then suddenly one time when my neighbors were listening too, I suddenly realized that (in this video 17:04 ->) it's magician Holzman and his background is THE thing that makes it for me. Shivers down my spine - every, single, time.
Opeth - Windowpane
Porcupine Tree - Arriving something but
PT also had a drummer that everyone said is their favorite xD
I just love look at your face expressions while listening. Priceless
I really enjoy the mystique aspect of what you're talking about. Also, seeing "behind the curtain" invigorates me even more to transplant those techniques into my own productions. Your commentary is fantastic!
Nick Beggs , the bassist ( formally of Kajagoogoo, and has played on every SW album and tour) is actually playing the Chapman Stick... Steven is playing bass on this song , and does so live as well ( a Spector Coda bass ).
They switch - Steven plays on the intro section, then Nick on Stick during the verses.
True magic!
What a treat you’re in for! You have to see them live ❤️
It is hard to believe, but I saw SW in a burlesque bar in Pensacola for this tour. It was right before covid hit us and was one of the greatest highlights of my life. There was a crowd of 200 people who thought that SW was there for them alone. It was magical.
Steven Wilson - Ancestral has a really unusual song structure. And the dynamics and the sound are perfect on this one. Definitely recommend listening to!
Please do My Book of Regrets by Steven Wilson, its one mind-blowing track constantly overlooked, there is no video reaction of this song atm
I got to see him open for Opeth in 2011. Best live sound I’ve ever experienced.
You could feel this through your whole body on the tour, I saw them at the 900 capacity Edinburgh Queen’s Hall and I was dead centre, it was so good, probably the best gig I’ve been to, although for different reasons it may tie with the Supersuckers at King Tuts and Rammstein at the SECC both Glasgow, oh and.....continued page 234...
I've said it before, that is one of the greatest solo's ever created. Unbelievable. Great vid
I would love it if you would try anything by the eclectic The Dear Hunter! A Night on the Town might be a good starting point.
I was going to suggest this and you've already done it. Kudos. I think the double solo in this is the most sublime music ever created. It can completely take me out of this world.
Ahw maaann this whole album is amazing, really worth a listen from start to finish. Since it’s a concept album it’s hard to just recommend one song because it will be an out of context listen. That being said, Routine and Ancestral are big ones, and I personally love the first and last tracks too, First Regret/3 Years Older and Happy Returns. Your reactions are great man, thanks for doing what you do and enjoy all the awesome music!
Totally agree, HCE is one of the 10 albums to take with you, when stranded on a deserted island.
Wilson is a brilliant musical magpie. All the suggestions are good ones ,as he is consistently good. So I'll suggest 2 not requested as often, but definitely appreciated by SW fans...
"Remainder the Black Dog" from his jazziest album Grace Before Drowning
" The Watchmaker" ....a gothic , ghost story , from The Raven That Refused To Sing.
Again , you can't go wrong. Like Bowie, Steven is a musical chameleon and magpie...and very consistent.
Thank you for what you're doing. I just discovered you and I am blown away by your takeaways by the best prog musicians in the world. Keep up the great work!!!
I'm finding so many awesome new groups following your channel, super thankful for that. I've never heard of this band before, I get some rush/steely dan/radiohead feels from these guys. I might just be projecting, but I love it.
I’m in Hilo and I play this solo on guitar. Sometimes I do not sound like I truly feel it, even though the notes may be right. Sometimes, I am not emotionally able to truly sound like I care. Ah, life.....
Your video made me happy to see you as spiritually drawn in as I try to be.
Al in Hilo
Wow. I saw you start with tool and now Steve Wilson? Are you reading my mind?
Excellent pick - It’s such a masterpiece!
im so relating to your reaction to this solo oh man
the solo sections are just pure bliss.
Like you said the bass arragements are beautiful. I think it's doubled with slapstick and Wilson on "bass guitar". But the first bend is something that takes my breath away! And that banjo at the end. He did it with PT in blackest eyes c-part. I actually rehearsed it and we were playing this acustic gig and I had it behind my back for just that one part of 10 songs :)
A magical musical journey
Wow this song is beyond epic.
You should check out Hessian Peel by Opeth. Amazing journey of a song. And also about 11 and a half mins long 🤘
Hessian Peel and also The Grand Conjuration.
A great band VITALISM is an instrumental band 2 guitars an awesome bass player and a killer drummer. Their songs seem almost like they have lyrics or tells a story. I wonder how much is engineered or pure musicianship. Thanks for all the great reviews and explanations. Keep on keepin on. Aloha
Make sure to check this out live mate. There are some great SW live videos out there of this, Holy Drinker, Luminol, Ancestral, just to name a few. All solid tracks, with that same jazz metal fusion sound. Home Invasion is just a big set up for Adam and Guthrie's big solos. Keep the SW coming braj, great stuff. Thanks for posting!
Dude this is the best day of my year, I waited so long for you to react to this songg!!!
Absolutely the best react channel out there - just the right ratio of listening to analysis, from a guy who knows what he’s talking about musically. Definitely looking forward to more Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree, & Opeth. 🎸 Hope you’re enjoying the crazy surf in Hawaii right now...Jaws is insane! 🏄♂️
The bass player, Nick Beggs one of my favs alongside Pete Trewevas of Marillion. Saw him live here in New Zealand with Steven Wilson and Steve Hackett.
Out of all of this album, this song was the one I didn’t click with the most. I’m glad to have this fresh new perspective!
The live home invasion gig is incredible too
These days we all feel the so so heavy of weight put upon us all . I truly look forward to your content . We all appreciate what you do . Giving us a second chance to experience the songs through new eyes . Thank you sir .
Btw: I think you would totally love a whole album reaction of this. It's a great prog rock record with an interesting background story (from wiki):
According to Wilson, the album is written from a female perspective, and the concept and story are inspired by the case of Joyce Carol Vincent, where a woman living in a large city dies in her apartment and no one misses her for over two years, despite her having family and friends. Wilson explained: "The basic story, or concept of the record - it's about a woman growing up, who goes to live in the city, very isolated, and she disappears one day and no one notices. There's more to it than that. Now, what's really interesting about this story is that your initial reaction when you hear a story like that is, 'Ah, little old bag lady that no one notices, no one cares about.' [Vincent] wasn't [like that]. She was young, she was popular, she was attractive, she had many friends, she had family, but for whatever reason, nobody missed her for three years."
This albums is a masterpiece, and Govan's solo during Ancestral... and in fact, the entire musical section during the solo, is incredible. Its so moving and powerful.
I'm still here!!! for a 2nd, or third time, can't count! Especially around Wilson, Tool and Opeth!🥰 I'll be back for more!! awright!!! 🤟
Steven Wilson "Routine" simply incredible
This is really relaxing to watch, you’re a really soothing dude with a soothing idea for content! (Plus I absolutely love SW and PT)
11:05 The "bass" you're talking about here is actually a chapman stick played by Nick Beggs. So good.
Had no idea - so cool - thank you Cameron!
@@KeyOfGeebz Anytime! :)
Adam Holzman (keyboards used to play with Miles Davis and is the son of the founder of Elektra Records). I agree, the musicianship and arrangement are extraordinary and the bass moves so well, main section Nick Beggs on Chapman Stick. Great insight and reaction. Thanks.
Yes same reactions as mine :-) syncopated ride cymbal, Holzman's synth solo and - we're not worthy - Goodthrie Goodvan guitar WORK (goosebumps) :-) what a SMASH!
I'm new to Steven Wilson. I hear elements of Classic Yes, David Bowie (Iggy Star Dust), maybe ELP, and Peter Townsend. I enjoy the use of movements on this journey.
The pary that starts at 13.58 really reminds me of Rush.
A 70s redux--but I'm not saying it's a bad thing. The Moog solo vibe will always be owned by Jan Hammer. I admire Wilson's creative intensity and prolific output. He clearly lives for music.
Best Steven Wilson song in my opinion. So stoked to see this reaction pop up! Keep em up!