Guided By Voices solo a nod to Steve Hackett?

This one's been bothering me for fifteen years. I figure if nobody here can work it out, I'm imagining it.

Ever since I first heard 'Christian Animation torch Carriers' from Guided By Voices 'Universal Truths and Cycles' album, the start of the guitar solo instantly put me in mind of some early Genesis solo by Steve Hackett.  Except when I went and listened to the songs I thought it might have been giving the nod to, I couldn't find the passage I was thinking of. Then I started wondering whether it might have been a Steve Howe solo I was thinking of, but that got nowhere, and besides, to me this whole songs sounds like it has early Genesis seeping in at the pores (if you can imagine Genesis as a guitar band); for instance the chorus, when it eventually gets around to it.

The part of the solo I'm thinking of is in the first few bars, just before the time change.

Sorry the sound isn't much. I couldn't get 'insert hyperlink' to work for some reason, so this is cut and paste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw273CvvG5o

(I know Guided By Voices aren't in the database; I'm not trying to nominate them. I think they have been already)

H'm sounds more like a Rush wannabe band (except for the singer) - the sound quality and mix is poor -the guitarist is closer to Howe - but not that close! - Nothing in the Hackett Canon I can compare it with and I think I have everything he has recorded! (quite a lot of stuff)