OFF: Genesis

[Captain Bl@ck]

Agree with your comments Nick. I would guess that he would play if he was
asked - he's spent a lot of time cashing in on the 'ex-Genesis guitarist'
tag.

And he did re-do some of his solos for the Archive 1 set - most alarmingly,
on The Lamia, where the sound jars a little with the vintage acoustics on
the rest of the track. Apparently, he says he only found out about the
project by chance while speaking to Peter Gabriel - I guess Banks and co
didn't really want him involved, if they do regard him as a troublemaker.

One would imagine the Genesis Revisited project didn't go down to well in
the home camp.

Captain Bl at ck.


----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Medford <nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: Genesis


> In message <001701c0db07$50248ac0$430c28d5 at starfield>, Captain Bl at ck
> <starfield at SUPANET.COM> writes
> >To me, Genesis will only ever be with Steve Hackett on guitar. His
writing
> >and playing is totally inspired unlike some of the more cod prog-rock
> >compositions of Tony Banks.  Its no co-incidence the only track on Wind &
> >Wuthering worth listening to is Blood on the Rooftops.
>
> >
> >Its interesting to listen to the early albums and pick out the bits
Hackett
> >obviously wrote - Dance of the Moonlit Knight has some of his trademark
> >chord progressions for one.
>
> He's often been quoted as saying that "Selling England" was his favourite
> Genesis album. The track "After The Ordeal" has some of his most haunting
> guitar work.
> >
> >Hackett's first four solo albums also deserve a good listen
>
> I'll always have a soft spot for Steve Hackett- first gig I ever attended
was
> Hackett and backing band (including Ian Moseley, who was mentioned in
> the drummers thread), Southend circa 1983. His earlier solo albums are
> intriguing - some majestic playing and some truly remarkable eccentricity:
>
> >  -  after all,
> >has anybody ever done anything quite like Tiger Moth Chances before or
> >since?
>
> or "Carry On Up The Vicarage" and "Sentimental Institution" for that
> matter...
>
> Fifth album "Cured" was mostly dreadful, but there's some excellent stuff
on
> the later "Till We Have Faces". Completely lost touch with whatever he was
> up to after that- I know he was in some bloody awful AOR/prog-hasbeen
> supergroup for a while, and he's done an album of dodgy Genesis remakes...
> so perhaps I don't really need to know any more than that...
>
> >
> >How could they possibly consider reforming, albeit as a one off, without
> >him?
>
> Well in the recent Mojo retrospective on the band, he says he would only
> participate if they let him black up and play harmonica! Which would seem
> to be a roundabout way of saying he's not interested.
> --
> Nick Medford