Steve Hackett

Sounds like you really enjoyed must say I think I would have as well some of my favourite Genesis tunes in the list. 

I've watched a few vids of this lately, sounds excellent. Was John Wetton singing?
 
Used to go to Colston Hall a lot when we lived near Cirencester, great little venue.

I'm not at all sure of the lineup, but there were 6 of them on stage, including a very tall blonde singer who sounded quite Gabriel-esque in his delivery.
 
It was definitely NOT John Wetton.

I checked Steve's web site--the only shows in the U.S. are in FLA and Atlanta.  All the rest of the tour is in Europe. 

I've just Googled him and you're absolutely spot on James.
 
Good shout!

jamesg1213
I've watched a few vids of this lately, sounds excellent. Was John Wetton singing?
 
Used to go to Colston Hall a lot when we lived near Cirencester, great little venue.

 I saw Peter Gabriel and Yes at the Colston hall way back when.

Bristol_Jonesey
He was left handed but, just like me, plays with the strings the "wrong" way round.

All through high school (grades 10-12 in my day) I played with a guy that played that way. Took me about 3 months to untrain my eye to a "normal player". 

Hi,
 
While I have always liked Steve's work, and "Voyage of the Acolyte" is an album I love dearly, seeing the Genesis stuff revisited is not for me. I can see where getting a new audience to catch it is nice and all in all very appreciative of work the band did that so many ignored for a long time, but in the end, I am starting to lose the appreciation for a lot of this stuff, and the 35 years I have spent telling people how good it was.
 
I did like the Steve Hackett DVD that DOES have John Wetton singing, but while he is good, in general I do not care for him that much. And it goes all the way back to his FAMILY days, a band I love dearly!

Hi,
 
I suppose that I would rather see Steve Hackett, than 95% of any classical bruhaha player that always shows up at the University that all professors think is the best there is. So, in this sense, I think that Steve is a lot better, and unlike many of these bruhaha players, he is playing original material, not rehashed crap that no one listens to anymore!

Bristol_Jonesey
Morning all you prog rockers.
 
We went to see Hackett last night at the Colston Hall in Bristol.
The tour is being billed as "Genesis Revisited" which is the title of his 1996 album and there's now a 2012 album of the same name.
We were treated to two and a half hours of classic Genesis songs, all performed superbly by his band
I think I've managed to remember most of the songs, they are, in chronological order:
 
Nursery Cryme:
The Musical Box
The Return of the Giant Hogweed
The Fountain of Salmacis
 
Foxtrot:
Watcher of the Skies
Horizons
Supper Ready
 
Selling England By The Pound:
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
Firth of Fifth
 
The Lamb Lies down on Broadway:
Fly on a Windshield
The Carpet Crawlers
 
A Trick of the Tail:
Dance on a Volcano
Los Endos
 
Wind & Wuthering:
Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers….
In That Quiet Earth
Afterglow
 
 
 
It was during Firth of Fifth that I noticed the Bass Guitar/12 string player was playing a right handed guitar upside down!
 
He was left handed but, just like me, plays with the strings the "wrong" way round.

Bristol_Jonesey . . . you guys in the UK are so lucky to be able to have concerts like this to go to, I had no idea that Steve Hackett and Genesis songs were still making the concert circuit scene ! They certainly haven't been around here in Canada much, at least that I've heard for many years. This concert you're talking about here would have been an absolute classic for us Canadian prog rockers to see.  Think I'll have to do some research and plan my next British vacation around something like this.
 
Anyways, I'm off to the basement now to dust off my "Wind and Wuthering" album jacket, and see if the turntable still works.
Cheers

jamesg1213 ...
Of the remaining 5%, which classical bruhaha player would you go and see?

I'd skip all the Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky.
 
I can handle Stravinsky well, but have not seen a good version of anything since Previn did a crazy one in LA in the 70's. Otherwise Bernstein is it for Firebird Suite, other than Tomita's versions of music. I wanna see a Carmina Burana redone for modern times and I would stage it so it is against the socio-political mode of Capitol Hill (so to speak) and other ideas ... or do a film/stage opera which Peter Mark from the Virginia Opera liked, but did not have the courage to consider it, but he did do his wife's work, however unoriginal it is! I want that Carmina Burana to tear into the top ten ... which is the same thing as the folks in there tearing up their leaders and fathers! AND I would stage it like Marat/Sade, so that the minute you leave, you're gonna go ... wow ... what was that ... far out, weird, strange, but something else, and you will remember it!
 
Mussorgsky, and I would like to see the Portland Band of Orchestral Idiots try to add some Frank Zappa, Mike Oldfield, Ryuichi Sakamoto, or Vangelis to their catalogue, but that director and the newspaper gaffer (or kisser) don't think that's music!
 
I want to see BAAAAADDDDDLLLLYYYY, an Evening of Music by Edgar Froese, which had an orchestra, and no electronics! But America is so stuck up on top ten and too many of these orchestras across the country have the talent of high school musicians, and they are afraid of doing something different. Portland thinks that having Pink Martini once a year is an accomplishment and a treat for the younger generation!
 
I'm ready to see Tony Banks get in front of an orchestra and conduct. Same for Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson. They put Yanni to an orchestra, but not Vangelis, and his music is far more orchestral than anything! How ****ed up is that?
 
I hate to see "classical music" die, but in the end, this is the cover of the Jethro Tull album ... the ballerina is dead and the show is over. The music has lost its soul because the majority of players behind it have none! And this is what rock music has brought to the plate, and "classical" music folks will not mix and learn.

Talking of which, I believe Fish has a new album out this month or next, can't remember.
 
I didn't quite realise how prolific he's been post Marillion, but the price of some of his back catalogue is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive!!
 
Some of them are in the £30/£40/£50 price bracket.