OFF: Genesis

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In article <VICa8FAJ6X$6EwaB at hermit0.demon.co.uk>, Nick Medford
<nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK> writes
>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.

At least on that album although Gabriel had gone, they still sounded
like Genesis. After Hackett left, they became Phil Collins backing band.

>>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,

IMO 'a cradle of swans' is fantastic, 'overnight sleeper' is good. Says
something about the rest of it that I those are the only 2 I ever play
off that one.

>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,

GTR, with Steve Howe

> and he's done an album of dodgy Genesis remakes...
>so perhaps I don't really need to know any more than that...

I think some of his later albums are excellent, especially Darktown and
Guitar Noir - and the almost solo classical live one, 'there are many
sides to the night'. I can't think of a better word to describe his
playing on them than beautiful.

>>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.

Add to that the part of the Top 10 of prog rock that covered Genesis not
only didn't feature him, he didn't even get mentioned at all.

--
David Blair