Following
his triumphant gig at Sage Gateshead last month, the former Genesis guitarist
has announced dates for next year, including - surprise surprise - Newcastle.
This
time he's playing Seconds Out; his
final album with the band, though he'd left by the time of its release. It's a
double (vinyl) album which should be considered one of the greatest live rock
albums ever, despite some seriously dodgy singing from Phil on seven tracks
from the Gabriel era (including three from Selling
England and the twenty three minute Supper's
Ready) plus five from the two studio albums since he'd left, including one
instrumental.
Seconds Out featured Bill Bruford on drums (Yes,
King Crimson, UK, Bruford, Earthworks) so Hackett's drummer is going to have
his work cut out on the mammoth drum duels between two of rocks finest jazz
influenced drummers, on the instrumental section of Cinema Show and Los Endos.
Anybody
planning on going - and I strongly recommend you should - there are no decent
seats left and soon there won't be any.
Steve T.
4 comments :
I used to like this blog when it was all about jazz and the only Hackett mentioned was Bobby Hackett!
Well said, Bill. I understand Steve has an appointment with his GP to discuss his 'prog rock' affliction. As for 'Phil', I'd no more refer to Collins as 'Phil' than I would refer to effing Johnson as 'Boris'.
This is about jazz. Jazzwise never goes a month without talking about progrock and often reviews prog albums, and not just the jazzier end. Don't recall seeing any reviews of Michael albums. In the early seventies jazz-rock - the premier jazz style of the time - and progrock weren't so much cousins as twins. The progrock revival is very much in line with the resurgence of interest in jazz and many of the young jazz musicians admit to major influences from progrock. A focus on musicianship and composition rather than verse chorus haircut should be welcome to jazzers. Part of the problem is that the nostalgia media attempted to present progrock as what happened between the Beatles and punkrock, but that was glamrock and prog was more in line with jazz, soul, funk, blues, reggae etc and only really hit the pop charts in the late seventies when it had - allegedly - imploded.
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Is a blog that nobody should fear
You may at first get a shock
With reviews of Buble and Prog Rock
But the sites good intentions are clear
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