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Points: 1607 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2014 at 13:46
Good news for the Hackett fans who have not yet taken notice of:
  
Bay of Kings was re-released in January 28 2014, Momentum re-released in February 24 2014, Sketches of Satie and Metamorpheus about to be too soonly. More information on hackettsongs.com webstore or @HackettOfficial official twitter.


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^Steve Hackett has become the first signing of a new record label, Edifying Records. Interesting remarks in the interview at the 2013 Gramophone Awards:
 


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Points: 1607 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2014 at 17:22
A brand new interview for Morow.com in the Cruise To The Edge. Quite interesting to check out, Hackett also talks about the world music and its aspects as an influence...
 
 


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Originally posted by HackettFan HackettFan wrote:

Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:


Originally posted by HackettFan HackettFan wrote:

Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:





I was wondering about what PA forum members would have to suggest from Steve Hackett solo career, from which i still have quite a few to check out, if already there was a thread about it i apologize.  Anyway, i made a little selection of 20 from my favourites of Hackett's compositions:  Between The Cold Moon And The Earth (A Midsummer Night's Dream)Celebration (A Midsummer Night's Dream)Lyra (Metamorpheus)Hammer In The Sand (Defector)Mountains Turned Into Clouds (A Midsummer Night's Dream)She Moves In Memories (Wild Orchids)Starlight (A Midsummer Night's Dream)The Dancing Ground (Metamorpheus)The Red Flowers of Tachai Blooms Everywhere (Spectral Mornings)Cerberus At Peace (Metamorpheus)Concert For Munich Part 1 (Momentum)Concert For Munich Part 2 (Momentum)Wind Sand And Stars (To Watch The Storms)That Vast Life (Metamorpheus)Under The World Orpheus Looks Back (Metamorpheus)Elegy (Metamorpheus)Kim (Please Don't Touch)Second Chance (Bay Of Kings)Variation On A Theme By Chopin (Momentum) As you can see, i selected a little list of his Classical style songs that i actually love and for me of timeless spirit, besides it'is my favourite Hackett style. But i enjoy as well his other styles, Steve Hackett is an eclectic artist. I would like to know the others diverse perceptions you surely have about his compositions. 



I listed a few of my favorites from albums weren't contained in your list

Sierra Quemada (Guitar Noir)
Take These Pearls (Guitar Noir)
Like an Arrow (Guitar Noir)
Dark as the Grave (Guitar Noir)
Tubehead (Out of the Tunnel's Mouth)
Last Train to Istanbul (Out of the Tunnel's Mouth)
Ace of Wands (Voyage of the Acolyte)

I have to really recommend Beyond the Shrouded Horizon (Disc 2 is especially exquisite. He even does a cover of a portion of Focus' Eruption that's as least as fabulous as the original)
Blues with a Feeling is a must have. It's Louisiana style blues from start to finish.
Sketches of Satie is really nice. This has really grown on me over the years.

Some of the albums you have are among my favorites - To Watch the Storms, Spectral Mornings, and Momentum in particular
Sketches of Satie has also grown on me over the years.

I enjoy his vocals too, such as India Rubber Man (Highly Strung). I think he really hits his stride on vocals with Guitar Noir.

Don't overlook his live videos either.

 
Nice to know about his other sources of inspiration you mentioned here, and it seems everywhere he goes he
translates its spirit into music, as we can see also in the beautiful Last Train to Istanbul's arabian
atmosphere, and i think the flutes in the final part of Sierra Quemada have resembles of that from the andean
folk music.   Also enjoyed especially Disc 2 of Beyond the Shrouded Horizon, which opens with that brief but brilliant guitar
music solo (Four Winds North), followed by a beautiful "duo" of piano-accoustic guitar (Four Winds South.) But
now i reminded that Disc 1 have one of my favourites - A Place Called Freedom, and The Phoenix Flown has an
interesting exotic atmosphere.  You just reminded me of another classical influenced album: Sketches of Satie - Erik Satie's Gymnopèdies and
Gnossiennes are so well performed here with flutes an acoustic guitar ! But beautiful the whole album indeed!  Right on, his vocals are also good, we can also feel his good performance in the nice Serpentine Song (To Watch
The Storms), indeed interesting points you remarked here HackettFan, thanks !

Thank you too. Agree agree agree with everything. The Serpentine Song - sweet.
Here are the Live DVDs I have of him:
a. Spectral Mornings (Distributed and marketed by Gonzo Media Group. I found mine on Amazon)
b. Live Legends
c. The Tokyo Tapes, Live in Japan
d. Somewhere in South America...Live at Teatro Coliseo, Buenos Aires
e. Once Above a Time (Live in Budapest)
f.   Fire and Ice
g. Genesis Revisited: Live at Hammersmith
 
Listening to Steve Hackett's so beautiful album Beyond The Shrouded Horizon (Limited Edition), I fully realize that there is nothing better to follow A Place Called Freedom than such a nice and especially spirituous piece of music that is Between The Sunset And The Coconut Palms, which I could have never forgotten to mention here. Well I must admit that this music style is one of my Hackett's favourites.


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Favorite Hackett songs? Let's shoot for ten. Oh boy, here goes nothing. In no particular order -

1. In Memoriam (Darktown)
2. The Virgin and the Gypsy (Spectral Mornings)
3. Clocks -The Angel of Mons (Spectral Mornings)
4. The Hermit (Voyage of the Acolyte)
5. The Steppes (Defector)
6. Wind, Sand and Stars (To Watch the Storms)
7. Turn This Island Earth (Beyond the Shrouded Horizon)
8. Ace Of Winds (Voyage of the Acolyte)
9. Icarus Ascending (Please Don't Touch)
10. Twice Around the Sun (Darktown)


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^Thumbs Up
An eclectic list (as usual when it comes to Steve Hackett music).


Edited by Rick Robson - August 05 2014 at 07:27


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Loch Lomond.
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Narnia
Racing in A
Icarus Ascending
The Virgin And The Gypsy
The Red Flower Of Tachai Blooms Everywhere
Tiger Moth
Spectral Mornings
The Steppes
Hammer In The Sand
Tristesse
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Originally posted by HackettFan HackettFan wrote:

Thank you too. Agree agree agree with everything. The Serpentine Song - sweet.
Here are the Live DVDs I have of him:
a. Spectral Mornings (Distributed and marketed by Gonzo Media Group. I found mine on Amazon)
b. Live Legends
c. The Tokyo Tapes, Live in Japan
d. Somewhere in South America...Live at Teatro Coliseo, Buenos Aires
e. Once Above a Time (Live in Budapest)
f.   Fire and Ice
g. Genesis Revisited: Live at Hammersmith


Now there is also Genesis Revisited: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

There are so many song titles to praise. I already gave a partial list. If I may add a couple that come to mind, I'm thinking of The Serpentine Song, which Rick Robson already mentioned. The arrangement of it, the maturity of it, and the soprano sax at the end are all so magnificent.

Often overlooked is the Ballad of the Decomposing Man. A short little song, but it's an absolute hoot! Who else brings ragtime to a rock context. I crack up just thinking about it.

Hackett plays some nice harmonica too. I'd like to hear him get back to that.
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Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:

^Thumbs Up
An eclectic list (as usual when it comes to Steve Hackett music).

Absolutely. He's a man of well...eclectic tastes. Smile
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 Too many great Hackett tunes to mention that I love, but my all time fav is Spectral Mornings, that piece to me is pure magic and says what Hackett is all about on the electric guitar.
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Originally posted by Genital Giant Genital Giant wrote:

 Too many great Hackett tunes to mention that I love, but my all time fav is Spectral Mornings, that piece to me is pure magic and says what Hackett is all about on the electric guitar.
And the pure magic is of course what it does to the ladies under dim candle light.
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Originally posted by HackettFan HackettFan wrote:

Originally posted by Genital Giant Genital Giant wrote:

 Too many great Hackett tunes to mention that I love, but my all time fav is Spectral Mornings, that piece to me is pure magic and says what Hackett is all about on the electric guitar.
And the pure magic is of course what it does to the ladies under dim candle light.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKpENtYybg0&feature=player_detailpage
 
My goodness!! What a wonderful piece of music! It's hard to believe there will be another prog artist composing songs that make me love them in such an intense way like Steve Hackett - Lyra, I would be the happiest man if that happens one day...


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If you love to listen to genuine music compositions please take these pearls, just two 'teeny-weeny little' examples of Hackett's music that nevertheless you won't find in any Genesis album:
 
 
 


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Points: 1607 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2014 at 20:19
Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:

 
 
Kind of interesting that in 'Two Faces Of Cairo' (album Beyond The Shrouded Horizon), from the min. 2:00 to min. 2:10 Steve Hackett guitar plays the same "refrain" played by the synthesizers in 'Riding The Scree' (album The Lamb) from the min. 1:17 to min. 1:24, two great songs with a little refrain in common. Wink


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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I've only heard a handful of Hackett albums, mostly the early ones. My favorite track, hands down, is "How Can I" from the Please Don't Touch album. Richie Havens rules on that one.

I'll be checking the thread for subsequent responses, as my Hackett solo knowledge is one I wouldn't mind expanding.

Then, please Holy Moly, do not deprive yourself of Hackett's solo albums (especially late 70's to mid 80's) as they rank as some of the best prog (if not the best music) I have ever listened to...
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Points: 1607 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2014 at 15:23
Thank you so much Steve Hackett for your such a languid, delicate and so heartfelt classical guitar melodies, they make me feel in heaven...


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In Memoriam (Darktown)

Circus Of Becoming (To Watch Storms)

Little America (Guitar Noir)

Time to get Out (Defector)

Blue Child (Wild Orchids)
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The first two albums hold my top 10.
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