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Steve Hackett

Eclectic Prog

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A short time

I well remember buying this 12" single in the mistaken belief that I had come across a full Steve Hackett album consisting of just 3 tracks. The idea of a 20 minute epic from Hackett filling the entire side of an LP led to ever mounting excitement as the platter was placed on the record deck. It was only as I was preparing to lower the stylus onto the record that I noticed the large notation "45 RPM"!

That said, this was still a worthwhile, if more costly than planned, purchase. The A side is occupied by a new recording of "Clocks, the Angel of Mons", a track which originally appeared on Hackett's third album, "Spectral Mornings". Although this is the "12 inch" version, it is actually somewhat shorter than the album track, the editing arguably making it more commercially appealing.

Side two has two live tracks. The first of theses is an "Acoustic set" comprising of extracts from "Lost time in Colorado", a "Traditional guitar exercise", "Blood on the rooftops", "Horizons" and "Kim". Some of these are in blink and you'll miss it format, but we do get pretty much all of the wonderful "Horizons" (indeed the applause for that piece occupies the middle part of the track!).

The final track is a live rendition of "Tigermoth", also originally on "Spectral mornings". Once again, the version here is substantially shorter than the original album track. This version though is otherwise not substantially different to the album version.

In all, a great single release by Hackett, which can now be obtained quite easily as all the songs now feature as bonus tracks on the remastered version of "Spectral Mornings".

Easy Livin | 3/5 | 2008-9-8

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