| STEVE HACKETT LIVE ARCHIVE: 70, 80, 90s | |
4 Box Set with 40 page booklet
| Disc 1: 70’s - Hammersmith Odeon, London, 30/ 06/ 79 01. Intro (2:00) 02. Please Don’t Touch (5:46) 03. Tigermoth (3:37) 04. Every Day (7:29) 05. Narnia (4:36) 06. The Red Flower Of Tai Chi (4:03) 07. Ace Of Wands (7:23) 08. Carry On Up The Vicarage (3:33) 09. Etude In A Min (0:37) (Carrasci/ arr. S.Hackett) 10. Blood On The Rooftops (0:18) 11. Horizons (1:58) 12. Kim (2:36) 13. The Optigan (1:29) 14. A Tower Struck Down (3:30) 15. Spectral Mornings (6:57) Total playing time: 55:59 Disc 2: 70’s - Hammersmith Odeon, London, 30/ 06/ 79 01. Introductions (1:07) 02. Star Of Sirius (10:16) 03. Shadow Of The Hierophant (9:35) 04. Clocks (7:18) 05. I Know What I Like (8:50) 06. Wardrobe Boogie (5:02) 07. Racing In A (12:15) 08. Racing In A Coda (2:07) Total playing time: 56:33 Disc 3: 80’s Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome, 13/ 09/ 81 01. The Air Conditioned Nightmare (5:00) 02. Jacuzzi (5:04) 03. Funny Feeling (5:08) 04. Ace Of Wands (7:47) 05. Picture Postcard (5:18) 06. The Steppes (6:50) 07. Every Day (6:28) 08. Overnight Sleeper (4:28) 09. Hope I Don’t Wake (4:25) 10. Slogans (5:18) 11. A Tower Struck Down (3:26) (S.Hackett/ J.Hackett) 12. Spectral Mornings (5:40) 13. The Show (3:52) 14. Clocks (6:08) Total playing time: 74:58 Disc 4: 90’s The Grand Theatre, London, 08/ 06/ 93 01. Medley (4:56): Myopia/ Los Endos/ Imagining/ Ace Of Wands/ Hackett To Pieces 02. Vampyre With A Healthy Appetite (6:13) 03. Sierra Quemada (4:20) 04. Take These Pearls (4:56) 05. In The Heart Of The City (5:32) 06. Walking Away From Rainbows (3:38) 07. There Are Many Sides To The Night (5:20) 08. Kim (2:25) 09. Dark As The Grave (5:26) 10. Always Somewhere Else (6:17) 11. Lost In Your Eyes (5:02) 12. Spectral Mornings/ Firth Of Fifth/ Clocks (8:13) 13. Cinema Paradiso (3:16) 14. In That Quiet Earth (5:20) Total playing time: 71:00 (Extra) Disc 5: 70's - Newcastle City Hall, 26/10/79 01. Please Don’t Touch 02. Tigermoth 03. Every Day 04. The Steppes 05. Narnia 06. Red Flower Of Taichi Blooms Everywhere 07. Sentimental Institution 08. Star Of Sirius 09. Spectral Mornings 10. Clocks Bonus tracks (from Hammersmith Odeon - 30/10/78): 11. Ace Of Wands 12. Hands Of The Priestess 13. Racing In A Discs 1,2:
Nick Magnus: Keyboards John Hackett: Flute, Guitar, Bass Pedals Dik Cadbury: Bass & Vocals John Shearer: Drums Pete Hicks: Vocals Mix (thought to be) by Mick McKenna Concert mix by Roger Lindsay Produced by Steve Hackett Mastered by Benedict Fenner
Nick Magnus: Keyboards John Hackett: Flute, Guitar, Bass Pedals Chas Cronk: Bass & Vocals Ian Mosley: Drums Concert mix by Billy Budis Produced by Steve Hackett Mastered by Benedict Fenner
Once Hugo had the bit between his teeth we all kept up this frightening pace. Not so much a trip as a rock down memory lane. Vampyre With A Healthy Appetite A track I’ll never get tired of playing live - sympathy for the undead I suppose! Sierra Quemada A favourite guitar instrumental with the Andes faintly in mind. Take These Pearls Longer than the album & to my mind a better feel than the Noir version. Percussion department is largely responsible. In The Heart Of The City Rap meets rep in this wordy cityscape - dying to chill out into the spacey solo at the end. I felt the guitar synth said at least as much as the lyric but in a slightly more paramedically inclined way. Walking Away From Rainbows A melody that I sometimes get to trade with sax players these days but here it is again in full guitar form. There Are Many Sides To The Night A lady of the night painted against the backdrop of city life - down but not completely out... Kim Great to be joined once again here by brother John on magic flute. Dark As The Grave A posthumous book by Malcolm Lowry was the inspiration for this world weary tune, largely built on atmospherics. There were complaints about the lack of recognisable milestones from the band during rehearsals for this one which made it almost totally different every night in concert. We hope you like surrealist jazz. ..! Always Somewhere Else This live version of the Highly Strung tune is preceded by a fearsome improvisational blitzkrieg from Doug & Hugo. Lost In Your Eyes A basic rocker with blues harp just to let you know that I haven’t forgotten Mr. Paul Butterfield, the acknowledged master of the ‘poor man’s trumpet’. Spectral Mornings/Firth of Firth/Clocks medley Some old favourites from before the war! Clapham will never see the like again... Cinema Paradiso An adaptation of one of Ennio Morricone's most beautiful guitar tunes. If you haven't seen the film yet then delay ye not, missus! In That Quiet Earth Nothing quiet about this old fave - it’s always been a bugger to play but still has certain je ne sais quoi... (pretentious - moi? Ah, la nostalgie ... Je t’aime absolument les gauloise)... Steve Hackett: Guitar & Vocals Julian Colbeck: Keyboards Doug Sinclair: Bass & Vocals Hugo Degenhardt: Drums & Vocals John Hackett: Flute on 'Kim' Concert mix by Andrew Murdock Produced by Steve Hackett Mastered by Benedict Fenner Disc 5: Note: this disc is also sold separately as 'Live Newcastle'
The roar of the greasepaint ... the smell of the crowd ... the stage covered in smoke ... the cough of the Mellotron ... 'Lets deafen ‘em lads' ... 'What did you say Cap’n ...?' & 'You’re on!' Tigermoth Sounds like the soundtrack to an imaginary ballet or the Sugar Plum Fairy’s nightmare. A brief, limited offensive but takes no prisoners. Every Day The only drug song this lineup ever sang. Life in the raw. 'Can you light a fire in winter’s face?' Enough of this modern talk. Beware lest thou fallest upon the poisoned needle ... (and a plethora of Iambic Pentameters). The Steppes In those days many tunes were test driven live at first. This one, even in rough form, seemed to work on extreme dynamics alone. The element of surprise was everything. Narnia If not for the 'The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe' there would have been no song. Bless you Mr C S Lewis for your supreme penmanship. Red Flower of Taichi Blooms Everywhere Propaganda & poetry cunningly linked in the title of this impressionistic piece. If you compare this live mix to the studio version you’ll find a rock band at it’s most versatile, if I may say so. Sentimental Institution A merciless send up of the Big Band & Crooner era, made possible courtesy of a well-tempered Optigan & Pete Hicks’ golden tonsils. Don’t throw away that mirror ball, it’s all coming back Star Of Sirius You cannot be Sirius you may say, & who would disagree with you? But if you are as much a fan of vocal harmonies we were, this one could be for you Spectral Mornings This tune started out as yet another vocal number, but when I originally played the melody to the band on guitar, they convinced me to keep it that way. Clocks Unashamedly designed as live bait but something that quickly found its way onto the band’s first studio album. This version finds John Shearer beating hell out of his colossal gleaming kit - a passionate solo often likened to a one man impression of a herd of rampaging elephants. Bonus Tracks from Hammersmith Odeon, 30/10/78: Ace Of Wands A relentless pace, but the flute falters not - the fastest in the world (certainly in Pimlico at the time). Hands Of The Priestess Sir John The Flute ... lock up your daughters. Now a father of three & a pillar of the community. Racing In A Racing In A what? (In the key of A Major is the answer). Surprisingly steady pace on this one (clock the live three-part harmony guitars.) No mere strummers these boys ... Steve Hackett: Guitar & Vocals Nick Magnus: Keyboards John Hackett: Flute, Guitar, Bass Pedals Dik Cadbury: Bass & Vocals John Shearer: Drums Pete Hicks : Vocals Concert mix by Billy Budis (Newcastle) & Roger Lindsay (Hammersmith) Produced by Steve Hackett Mastered by Benedict Fenner 
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