Steve Hackett: (Interview) Re-union with Gabriel | Brian Eno on 'The Lamb' | John Lennon & Genesis
Vložit
- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- In this interview Steve Hackett discusses all things Genesis, including Brian Eno's contribution to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway,' 'The Musical Box' and John Lennon calling Genesis one of the 'sons' of the Beatles
Buy bluray/CD Hackettsongs.com
Foxtrot @ 50 Tour Dates: www.hackettsongs.com/news/tou...
If you like my channel and appreciate the work that goes into my videos, please support my channel. You can -
Become a Patron! - Be part of a Classic Rock Community!
There is a fine body of work on there now. / classicrock
Make a one-time donation!
Help me to make more videos or buy stuff to annoy my wife with and unbox on my channel: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...
Gift me something to unbox from my Amazon Wish List: www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/...
Buy me a coffee.
All that talk is thirsty work: ko-fi.com/classicalbum
Like the Facebook page:
I add stuff on a daily basis: / 1968rock
All music used in my videos come from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org/
Time Stamps
00:00 - Intro
00:07 - Seconds Out - Which mix is better?
00:54 - Musical Box & Hogweed
03:00 - Progressive rock
07:44 - The Six Bob Tour
10:50 - Can Utility & the Coastliners
13:03 - Brian Eno on 'The Lamb'
15:20 - Selling England & The Kinks
17:40 - Please Don't Touch
22:14 - 'Tigermoth' & M R James
25:21 - Re-union with Peter Gabriel
27:40 - Scotty Moore
29:47 - John Lennon & Genesis
31:39 - Frank Zappa
34:43 - Chrysalis & Defector
36:58 - Fountain of Salamacis too sexy
#genesis #stevehackett #classicalbum - Hudba
Great interview! You are restoring my faith in rock journalism. Smart, articulate, and world class interviews to boot. 👏
Thanks, do share this video.
If one guy keeps the sound of Genesis alive it is Steve. And so humble and friendly.
@@ottmarsoulier7432 I was very cynical about recycling old material like this when you're not the original band, but I took a punt on the live in Liverpool box set and was an immediate convert. I saw the Spectral / Selling tour in Liverpool and it was wonderful. Also have the orchestral show. Had tickets for the Seconds Out tour covid delayed show in Liverpool but felt the covid risk was still too great, so disappointed at not seeing SR live one last time.
Steve Hackett is a generous and open interview. Love his solo career. He’s the preserver of the early Genesis legacy.
I met Steve in 1980 during his Defector tour. He played my classical guitar at the gig. Got to hang out with the band a bit. He was just as he is now. A stellar guitarist/ writer. Highly creative and intelligent and down to earth. Will always be one of my favorite players. And yes I still have that guitar..
Thanks for sharing - I remember seeing him in concert in 1980
Lucky you!!
Steve, in the unlikely chance that you read this, definitely keep doing 'Can Utility and the Coastliners'! It really is one of the most underrated Genesis songs in that era and maybe even of all time. It's very powerful and more people need to hear it. So keep planting the seed. The more you play it, the more people will get turned on to it. It's my personal favorite song on Foxtrot for sure. 🥂
to see Steve and Pete again would be like seeing the real Genesis
100% agree. Spirit-wise though Pete moved on in 1975 - but he did some awesome solo songs that echo his early Genesis stuff.
Steve is the only one keeping the classic Genesis spirit alive, it's a privilege to have him still touring and playing so brilliantly the classic music of Genesis before they became an MTV product in the 80s! Saw him live once and can't wait to see him again God willing.
Very true! While having a style of his own and keeping the sound fresh, one can easily hear the spirit of Genesis in his music. I also very much appreciate that he plays the classic Genesis stuff in concerts. Nad has gotten better and better over time. His singing in Genesis songs is quite admirable.
I saw him live a few months ago and trust me, his band sound absolutely brilliant. At one point there were two people playing bass pedals, it almost took the roof off!
I’ve always felt that Genesis suffered Musically more from Hackett’s departure than Gabriel’s leaving.
@@ricknorris1466 - It definitely presented more of a challenge, yes. However, I think ATTW3, Duke and Abacab are great albums. Heck, even "Shapes" is a great album. Invisible Touch and We Can't Dance have some great songs too.
@@ricknorris1466 yep got bigger and more popular musically when both left
The lamb is a masterpiece and Steve’s contribution was incredible. There are some beautiful guitar solos that really contain Steve’s influence.
Love the guitar in Supernatural Anesthetist. And Fly On A Windshield is great. Steve was distracted by his divorce and didn't contribute as much, plus his songs were going to his solo albums. They were usually rejected by the band, anyway.
@@scifiwriter98 Absolutely spot on ...The Sup. Ane. solo is a thing of wonder .
@@scifiwriter98 Yes I think so. Some of the stuff Steve did was awesome on the album and it's interesting you mention side 3, which also had that crazy Waiting Room!🤣👍 Then there's Fly on a Windshield, The Chamber of 32 Doors intro and It.
@@scifiwriter98 It's funny but Steve said that he didn't get much omfuitar onto The Lamb but if you took it away there's a lot missing. He said that's one of the reasons while his band don't perform much of The Lamb. I wish they would a bit more. Not all of it but some songs would be great with his band.
'Hoping Love Will Last' is a masterpiece sung by Randy Crawford who is so underrated. Big in UK & Europe and virtually unknown in the USA. Guitar sounds like sax on many parts of HLWL
Steve is always a good interview. He is so open and honest about his career--and his memory goes back a long way.
Steve Hackett is such a great interviewee. Intelligent, informative, enthusiastic for the prog sound. I love all the Genesis guys, and Steve is just a wonderful person for keeping the great Genesis prog era in the public eye. And of course his solo work has delighted me for decades.
Long may Steve Hackett continue to thrill and entertain with his musical skill !
Thanks for doing this interview.
Steve just gets better and better! His solos on Surrender of Silence are incredible!
@@DavidLazarus
SOS is one Steve Hackett album that I've not indulged in ... yet !
Of the albums he's released in the last decade, Wolflight is the one that stands out for me.
@@keithf_ - I've enjoyed every album from Dark Town to present. His classic stuff too, but this later period seems to have produced consistently great output.
Steve must have a painting in the attic ..........he never seems to age :)
Interesting, intelligent guy. The Moonlit Knight solo is one of a kind along with many fine moments throughout his career.
Steve's interviews are so much more approachable and relatable than other Genesis members. Interesting what he said about Lennon saying Genesis were true sons of the Beatles. If they had more and better press coverage they could have been just as popular.
Steve Hackett. Lovely Man. Great interview
Great stuff! Steve took the guitar to another level in the early and middle 70s, Genesis live performances like the one in Paris jan 73 tour are insane, those guys where at their best
I always learn so much from Steve. He is a great teacher if you are a diehard fan of the Original Genesis. Which I am ✌️🤟🙏🖖😊
11:28 Roine Stolt had the Variax guitar that some people don't seem to like but I love the sound on that Liverpool version of Coastliners. The bass pedals were HUGE! It was a key treat on the Foxtrot at 50 tour.
Steve, along with being incredibly talented, is one of the nicest people out there.
My wife and I saw Steve back in May in Seattle. It was definitely a bucket list moment. They were truly amazing.
Such a lovely and articulate guy. Been a huge fan since the early 80s and still waiting for him to get old.
Steve more relaxed than in the previous one. Enjoyable interview - three cheers for Steve. These days I often think about artists performing other people's work (either at the time or now) wouldn't the Hackett Band performing 'In The Court of The Crimson King' be just fantastic.
Steve actually did perform 'In the Court of the Crimson King' on the Toyko Tapes album with KC alumni John Wetton and Ian McDonald.
Wow, what an idea. but I would dearly miss Greg Lake
Yes he has done it, here it is.
m.czcams.com/video/L_MSK_zt-nM/video.html
All credit to the interviewer : asks a question and allows Steve to answer , and what's noticeable , is that Steve relaxes as the interview progresses . Mutual respect is such a rare thing in journalism .
Mate, WOW you are actually on Zoom with the legendary Steve Hackett, I would give a lot to just get a VIP Pass and take a pic with this great man. I admire him, I just saw him (Again) this time in Orlando. Fabulous, three hours of bliss , absolutely brilliant. Lucky you, say hello he he he he
This is my third interview with Steve, and my best
Looking forward to seeing Steve next month in York
I have been a stalwart Steve Hackett fan since he departed Genesis, and a Genesis fan before that.
So that's a span of almost 50 years for me at least since 1974.
I have read during that time, and listened to in the last 20 years to every article/ internet interview of Steve's and Genesis, too!
Amazingly, this interview brought out some new answers to classic, older music!
Great interview!
I could listen to him for hours.
Steve's not bad either.... :-)
I do in the car, although my wife likes him and went to his concert with me, she is 30 years younger than me and get's sometimes a bit Steve Hackett' out, he he he
@@classicalbum lol I knew someone would go there.
A reunion to perform the Lamb is incomprehensible. But, otoh, getting together with recreation artists, The Musical Box, to do it with Hackett and Gabriel, could be a logistical possibility. All hands on deck, the additional players would figure out the parts.
Fantastic interview! Steve never disappoints. Very humble and down to earth.
What a top bloke Steve is. Can't wait to see him again in December.
Brian Eno came in and did some "treatments" , great notion, that is what Eno does. I been a fan of him since Roxy. Of whom I am a big fan. Especially of course Bryan. Will see Roxy in three weeks in Austin, 50th Anniversary tour. Should be interesting.
Wow, I thought they'd retired. I saw them in LA in 2006 and they blew the audience away. I wish they'd release the DVD of that show in Blu Ray. Ferry wasn't in very good vocal form at their Hall of Fame introduction which led me to believe they were done. But if they come to the states I'm definitely getting tickets. Thanks for the heads up.
Steve Hackett's contributions and overall effects on the classic Genesis sound were and are immense! See his superb band live now and this helps you to realise just how important he is. Interesting interview. Thanks.
It pains me somewhat to say this but as I am a staunch fan of the "old' Genesis because I found that most of the later "new" Genesis was more Phil's band, (nothing wrong with that as I am a Phil fan but it was not MY Genesis I loved) Steve has not only revived the old fabulous Genesis but to a degree I would have never expected. I bought ALL LLLLL His double LP concert albums and have made it since to three of his concerts. Nad has a voice that matches and the rest of the band is extraordinary. To say the least. I have to apologize to Steve as I never say his full power during me listening to Genesis in the 70ties. But NOW I am a bigger fan of Steve than any other Genesis members including Peter.
I missed to say what "pains" me - Steve's band appeals more to me than the actually Genesis did, with the same songs.
@@SwisstedChef2018 Genesis was never 'Phil's band' or 'Peter's band'. Yes, as Peter admitted in the 2007 reissue interviews, it wasn't a perfect democracy and those who were more 'bloody minded' tended to get their way more often, but the contributions of Mike and Tony should never be overlooked. Attending Ant Phillips' musical "Alice" in the 1980s in Leeds, I got to chat with Genesis manager Tony Smith. By that time the band was a trio and he said that if Phil or Mike didn't want something, it might still get done. But if Tony didn't want something, it didn't get done.
Part of the reason he didn't get credit for the sound was that he was down in the mix compared to Banks. And he has also stated that it was hard to distinguish his guitar playing from the synthesizer. What listeners thought was Banks playing was actually Steve using his effects.
He is a very good person and a great guitarrist.Thank s for your music.
It's interesting that the printed line "Enossification by Brian Eno" has been removed from the vinyl album cover of The Lamb. This was present from 1974 until recently. It was great that you asked him what Eno contributed. Cheers.
The new stereo mix doesn't Brian Eno's stuff on it anymore, does it?
In the past he was only credited with altering the vocals on Grand Parade.
The mixes from 2007 contained the Eno parts- can’t imagine why they would remove them now.
@W M So Tony Banks finally got his way and had Eno's credit removed from the Lamb? The more I hear about Tony and how bitter and mean he is, the more I dislike him.
@@ExKingFelix He's hands down my favorite prog keyboard player/composer. And probably deserves most of the credit for creating Genesis' sound. But I'd have a lot more respect for him if he wasn't such a diva and had even a little of Rick Wakeman's humor and self depreciation. The immense sound he got on stage with a mellotron, electric, piano, organ and Pro Solist was astounding. I'm just now listening to In That Quiet Earth from the '77 Zurich concert and reminded that the only time he came close to smiling during the concert was during that song, but his playing was masterful the whole night. There wouldn't be a Genesis as we know them without Banks. The problem is that he's all too aware of it.
Thanks Barry. Steve is a real class act. I had the chance to chat to him back in the early 80's at the Manchester Apollo as he was putting his gear away after the gig, he's such an amiable guy who makes the time to chat about music with his fans.
Excellent interview with Hackett.
He's such a class act as I had always thought. This video is a real keeper.
I'll certainly watch that again.
Thanks for producing this interview ! No one better and more interesting than Steve Hackett who continues to provide astute musical knowledge combined with personal insight into the machinations of Genesis, one of the greatest and most talented bands of all time.
I'm SO GLAD I got to see Mr. Hackett and his band this past spring in NC. What a show, everyone was spot on, and what a treat to hear the entire Seconds Out LP....I still get chills when I think about hearing the Suppers Ready masterpiece. My God, just brilliant, very special indeed. Great interview..👍
Excellent interview. I've always hoped to see an interview where someone asks him about the song Cassandra and how he came to work with Brian May. Great stuff as always thank you.
Thanks for this ... Steve is so great to listen to ... always learn something new with each interview ... great insights re songs he has to really practice to perfect to present live ... enjoyed hearing his thoughts on Frank Zappa (another wonderful guitar player who also ensured that his band absolutely delivered both in the studio and live) ... looking forward (as always) to the new Seconds Out live release and Foxtrot at 50 tour ... also thought his last studio releases (both rock and classical) were great ... cool video, thanks ... CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland
Really good interview...I have a great deal of admiration for this man..
Great interview. Always learning new things about this amazing musician.
Excellent+ Interview. Great questions and equally great answers. Thank you both!
Top-notch interview! Great questions from Barry and, as always, thoughtful answers from Steve Hackett.
Brilliant interview, Steve looks great would have loved more!
Another wonderful interview with Steve, great questions Barry! I really enjoyed his discussion about his interest in transcendence, that was really cool.
Love the section on Zappa! He was an "impresario" as Steve calls him.
Can't wait to hear the new live recording as well as Foxtrot at Fifty. He puts on an amazing show. I've heard him live many times and never been disappointed.
Great interview! I love Steve….Cheers from Chile!!
What a fantastic interview. I learnt about 20 things I didn't know (Eno on Lamb for example) and, perhaps most importantly, this is making me listen to those early/mid 70s Genesis albums again with new ears.
Fantastic interview, thanks very much.
it was rather a bizarre coincidence that I was listening to Voyage of the Acolyte for the first time this morning.
So glad I got to see him after all these years here in Cincinnati, a couple of months ago at the Taft theater. I've seen him with Genesis, my senior year of high school, spring of 1977. We saw them in Nashville during the wind and wuthering tour.
i recently watched this video and Steve Hackett`s story about Brian Eno was interesting. Now Eno is again involved in the new Peter Gabriel-album - before this on "Love to be Loved" with Gabriel on his album "Us". Brian Eno is all around he also teamed up with Jean-Michel Jarre on at least one track of his latest album.
I'm always suprised (but not really) what a super nice guy Steve Hackett is!!
Thanks mate
The interviews with Steve keep getting better and better. It seems like a nice chat between friends about music. Really enjoy the interviews. I still am holding out hope for a Hackett and Howe duo interview to not only plug which band was better but maybe to shed some light on GTR. I might be one of the few folks who still love that album even if it was an 80s product
I've quite enjoyed your reviews. Your insights are regularly thoughtful, amusing, and literate, if not literary. Now you're adding interviews with the artists done in the same style. Yes, please!
Love the fuzz piano and interplay with guitar on Musical Box, that explanation is well put by Mr Hackett
Wow Barry that was great thankyou for sharing
Excellent interview… and Can Utility… is my favourite piece on Foxtrot.
Spectral morning is one phenomenal lp first note to last..my favorite lp by Steve..but love everyone of his works..great job..love this channel
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow thank you both. This is like literary history. The forces that came together on that island shaped my life. A history of mellotron magic.
This is stellar. For someone interested in this era. He mentions Jimi, KC, Kinks, Zombies, Richard Havens, Beatlex, Everly Brothers........everyone save Yes..This is the real deal. Go Great Britain. Steve has been around.
What an absolute legend. Nice to hear an artist speaking freely, candidly and honestly about music in general. The unanswered question for me will always be what would Genesis have been like if he had stayed with the band and ran his solo career alongside as Phil and Mike did very successfully. If he'd stayed for two more albums would more of his ideas have been used and therefore would have secured his future with the band? We will never know. Good luck with Foxtrot at 50, looking forward to the show in Bath and listening to Can Utility and of course Supper's Ready.
Cracking interview with one of the true gentlemen of Prog!
Fantastic interview! Steve is one of my favorite guitarist of all time!! PLAY his records LOUD!!!🎸
Please Don't Touch has that in the liner notes. Back then I followed instructions and drove my neighbors crazy.
brilliant interview
Forget a Genesis reunion, but Peter Gabriel and Steve H working together would be wonderful. I love M R James stories too, especially ''Whistle and I'll Come to You'' and ''The Mezzotint''
I agree
... and I love 'A Warning To The Curious', plus Dickens' 'The Signalman'
@@keithf_both wonderful, great taste sir!
@@slowmarchingband1
We seem to be in tune with MR James
Great interview! Steve is one of the artists who really wowed me when I first saw him live back in the 80s and I've enjoyed both electric and acoustic shows since, but I've never seen Genesis Revisited before so I'm really looking forward to the Foxtrot show next month!
You are in for a treat John
Great interview! Learned so much... thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Steve was a game changer in Genesis progrock years
Thanx for this
I always hear new things in interviews like this! On the topic of Pete Gabriel & Atlantic Records, I'm pretty sure it was in the book Genesis-- Chapter & Verse (attention, Fact Checkers!) that Ahmet Ertegun said he was out of town when Pete's contract was cancelled & it was another Atlantic exec who did the deadly deed. By the time Ahmet was back in the office, Mercury had already signed up to issue PG 3 in the US.
@Randy A Well, I dunno. That doesn't match with what I've heard Hugh say in interviews. Seems to me that "Nigel" uses phasing (aka flanging) on the drums. Yes I have the 3rd PG album on LP as well. I did have the SACD, but I didn't hear an improvement. I sold that SACD for about 4X what I paid for it... ka-ching!
Marvelous interview with Steve. Looking forward to his concert in Philly during December. Really like your new look - reminds me of Pantagruel: cover of the first Gentle Giant album
It's the 'I can't be arsed to shave' look
It makes me so happy that Steve clearly still loves all of the weird, quirky old Genesis material, even when the rest of them have seemed keen to leave it behind.
Thanks for sharing this was a great interview, SH is a unique guitarist/musician/composer and also a very articulate and intelligent human being.
Couldn't agree more!
Amazing how you get these people to interview, Steve is brilliant live, Brian Eno has been everywhere lol he was even on Captain Lockheed, ooo, do a vid on that, i know it's not well know but Genius by a genius
Great play-by-play with one of the most innovator guitar man of this century and beyond, the idea of Reacting the Lamb still in the air and our souls!
Well said!
Well done with this interview! Really enjoy your thoughtful channel.
No comment about Steve Hackett -other than (like all of us?) think he's a wonderful person.
A note to the interviewer - I do not know your name, though I really appreciate your inquiry into Brian Eno's involvement with 'The Lamb'. I have heard a few different accounts on this subject and always wondered why he was not credited on liner notes on the album. Your interview on this subject helped clarify some of this for me. Thank you.
Barry Robinson is it?
Yes
I know hundreds of fantastic guitarist, but Hackett is certainly in the top 10.
Love Steve Hackett...
‘Rock machine turns you on’ - was a great introduction to other bands! Would love to hear a PG and SH album!
The Everly Brothers served as my inventors of Rock and Roll. I was about 4 when my parents bought us a record player and one of the 45s they bought to play on it was Bird Dog. I played it over and over for days on end.
I was gutted when Steve left Genesis, then I went to his early tours (That white suited opener, iconic) - I sat in a Stoke-on-Trent venue, and I thought 'You know what, I'm a SH fan now!' even after all those Genesis concerts - Now I've been to more Steve concerts than Genesis - off next month
I would love a new proyect from hackett and gabriel. I love their solo records, and I would love a new modernization of The Lamb with new sounds
Steve Hackett is one of those musicians that the general public arent too aware of, but his influence within the music industry and amongst his peers is elite.
Hackett is certainly in my top 12 guitarists from the Uk - and there have been quite a few monsters to emerge from that this small region.
(McLaughlin, Beck, Iommi, Gilmour, Page, Moore, Knopfler, Clapton, May, Hackett, Holdsworth, Gallagher - no particular order)
All those names you mentioned are brilliant players. You get a big 👍🏻 from me!
@@jimmycampbell78
Cheers Vampyre.
I was lucky enough to see all but one of these 12 guitarists play live in Australia over the years.
Steve Hackett will always be among my top 5 favorite guitarists
5. David Gilmour
4. Robert Fripp
3. Steve Hackett
2. Frank Zappa
1. Anthony Phillips
Fripp and Phillips deserve to be on everyones lists, what legends!
Phillips No 1? And why no Steve Howe?
@@gerardotejada2531 Howe’s great but he’s not my personal favorite. Philips is INCREDIBLY underrated. Amazing classical guitar playing and I prefer that style.
I don't agree with Phillips and would replace him with Howe. Wise After the Event is a gorgeous showcase of his talent, in my opinion. Zappa was a much more interesting guitarist in the 70s and his solos on Burnt Weeny Sandwich, especially Holiday in Berlin, are my favorites. He wasn't bogged down by all the effects he used in the 70s and 80s.His solos were more organic and connected with me on a much more emotional level. M any fans preferred the technical expertise he was known for later in his career. But for me there was more feeling in the flubbed notes he played than the 1000 notes per minute solos he played in the 80s.
1. Steve Hackett
In all the interviews I've seen with Genesis members, current and previous, Tony Banks is the guy that strikes me as the stumbling block in a real reunion. He seems very bitter about the 5 piece days, not just with Hackett and Gabriel, but with the atmosphere in general. I can't picture him and Gabriel sharing a stage.
Just Steve and Peter would be fine
Thanks for your work/opinions and interviews. Scott AKA et2petty
Thanks for listening
Thanks for the Interview with Steve! Love him and just saw his show in St. Louis a few months ago! Great show!
Off the subject but I noticed your Grateful Dead shirt. Please check out Dark Star Orchestra in London on September 13th if you are in the area. 50th anniversary of Europe 72' tour.
Well said
Steve rocks! 🙂
I loved I Can’t Dance. Killer riff.
Collins is done. No way could a full Genesis re-union happen. I would like to see Steve and Peter with other musicians outside of Genesis.
No reason Banks and Rutherford couldn't join in. It's very strange the way they isolated their "nucleus" from the others.
@@scifiwriter98 Collins, Banks and Rutherford kept the reunions to themselves and didn't involve Hackett in my opinion because of greed. Remember when Hackett released released his genesis revisited, it was met by sly remarks from Rutherford and Banks. Collins is finished. There is a logical way forward but there are other band members that are just too greedy to make it happen other than perhaps Gabriel!
14:54 EG Records. Yeah. Eno and Roxy AND Crimson too!
Great interview. I wonder if Steve could be persuaded to release the Blu-ray for the Seconds Out concert as a stand-alone item without the CDs. I know he did this with at least one previous release and I'm mostly interested in the Blu-ray.
(And thank goodness there is a Blu-ray and not just the DVD. 😁)
As far as the roots of rock go Chuck Berry said a huge influence on him was Sister Rosetta Tharpe she is absolutely a truly amazing guitarist and singer Elvis was influenced as well as countless others great videos of her on CZcams the Queen of rock and roll . Rosetta was inducted in the rock hall of fame in 2017 she should have been one of the first entry watch her she is incredible
Barry, whilst watching, every time I glanced over to you on the right I kept thinking of the front cover of the Gentle Giant debut album. It's uncanny ! LOL
I need a bit of grooming. Off to the barbers this morning.
They did Icarus in Alanta on the tour with Roine Stolt and it was fantastic.
Steve Hackett or Jeff Beck... who's hair is blacker!
Steve Hackett is a genius...dam good musician and preformer/producer...
If you listen to F Sharp on the Ant Philips collection it shows you how much of The Musical Box was written.
what a super nice guy
I know, Steve's not bad either :-)
@@classicalbum LOL