ONCE ABOVE A TIME

Steve Hackett

Eclectic Prog

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This was a promotional tour of Hungary following the release of the 'To Watch The Storms' album. The first half of the concert really mixes it up, starting with the growling opening chords of Valley Of The Kings, progressing to the syncopated Mechanical Bride, waltzy organ music of Circus Of Becoming and the hammer thrusts of Slogans to the beautiful flute and piano piece, Frozen Statues, the pastoral Serpentine Song with its pan flute, a quiet atmospheric piano piece, Hammer In The Sand and the familiar acoustic guitar of Blood On The Rooftops.

Then the concert picks up a notch with the mellotron of Fly On A Windshield leading into Please Don't Touch and Steve's solo guitar playing of Firth Of Fifth. Just when you think it can't get any better than this Gary O'Toole gets going on the drum kit on Darktown. The real kick is in the next song, Brand New, when Steve ditches the acoustic guitar for electric lead at the beginning of the song, Gary moves in with a short scintillating burst of drums then bass, sax and electric guitar join in a jam. Roger King on keyboards quietens down the pace with some electronic percussion and then Steve closes out the song on electric guitar.

The pace doesn't let up there with Air-Conditioned Nightmare, the classic staple, Every Day and another glorious guitar solo on Spectral Mornings before the concert wraps up with Los Endos. If your interest lies in Peter Gabriel era Genesis and you wanted to keep following the band in the 80's and 90's you should have been following Steve Hackett and his band instead of the Phil Collins led Genesis because all you love about the early Genesis is here on this video. This is my favourite Steve Hackett concert. Just a shame there is no audio version of the concert. You live for these moments.

iluvmarillion | 5/5 | 2020-5-8

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