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Tony Banks

Crossover Prog

3.58 | 93 ratings

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How do you rate an album where 9 tracks are good, or at least inoffensive but unexciting, and the last is an unsurpassed masterpiece?

Not wanting to add to the "five-star inflation" I've limited myself to four, but make no mistake: "An Island in the Darkness" is a song that NO collection of Prog should be without. Make it a Blues Brothers' Mission from God to get hold of a copy of the CD.

I dream of hearing it live one day by professional musicians (not to diss the admirable collective amatuer effort some years ago - I own the CD and like what they tried).

In fact, my very detailed dream is for Tony Banks to guest one of Steve Hackett's shows (it requires two keyboard players live, and Roger King is up to the task). Wouldn't it be poetic if Steve Hackett played Daryl Stuermer's beautiful solo after Stuermer has done admirable justice to Hackett's classic solos for so many years?

One can always dream...

TheBear | 4/5 | 2023-10-30

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