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STEVE HACKETT
(UNITED KINGDOM)
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GENESIS REVISITED LIVE: SECONDS OUT & MORE
(2022)
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GENRE:
PROGRESSIVE ROCK
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TAGS:
Live
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"Steve Hackett's "Seconds Out & More" is a very good live album with a setlist that is a good introduction for those who don't know the world of early Genesis, but which also sounds modern."
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4/5
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A live album that comes almost 50 years after another live album, "Seconds Out". A cover that also looks very much like the original with just a little more colour. And yet it sounds modern!
The original 1976 live is the last album Steve Hackett recorded with the band Genesis. Hackett and his band manage, and even very well, to cover the first albums to which he contributed with a number of obligatory passages, sometimes played note for note, but also with often new material (beyond the first sequence of the LP, gathering songs from his solo career, quickly dispatched).
Nad Sylvan's voice is strikingly similar to those of Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins and he seems to make a point of differing as little as possible from the original. On the other hand, the instrumentation differs, and so does the configuration of the band, with Rob Townsend, a flautist who sometimes plays the keyboard, backing up Roger King, the main keyboardist, whose presence is less assertive than that of Tony Banks. The rhythm section is made up of two technical killers, drummer Craig Blundell and Jonas Reingold, the Flower Kings' usual bass player. And of course Steve Hackett brings his precision and the emotion of a guy who has simply contributed to songs that have become monuments of music and plays his guitar like a palette, in small strokes, and sometimes knows how to step back too.
All in all, the band is a collection of instrumentalists who each shine in their own way and bring a modern interpretation to certain tracks while others are almost identical to the original. Having attended Steve Hackett's almost identical setlist concert at Salle Pleyel in 2021, and then the "current" Genesis concert at the U Arena in 2022, the break is clear and the modernity is not where you thought it would be.
"Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More" is a very good live album, a very good quality sound recording and a good introduction for young people or others who don't know the universe of Genesis first period. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Apollo Intro
02. Clocks - The Angel Of Mons
03. Held In The Shadows
04. Every Day
05. The Devil's Cathedral
06. Shadow Of The Hierophant
07. Squonk
08. The Carpet Crawlers
09. Robbery, Assault And Battery
10. Afterglow
11. Firth Of Fifth
12. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
13. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
14. Musical Box (Closing Section)
15. Supper's Ready
16. The Cinema Show
17. Aisle Of Plenty
18. Dance On A Volcano
19. Los Endos
LINEUP:
Craig Blundell: Batterie
Jonas Reingold: Basse
Nad Sylvan: Chant
Rob Townsend: Saxophone, Clarinette
Roger King: Claviers
Steve Hackett: Chant / Guitares / Charango, Oud
Amanda Lehmann: Chant / Invité
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(1) COMMENT(S)
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Steve Hackett est un guitariste humble pour lequel j'ai un profond respect, tant par son jeu si novateur que par la richesse de ses créations. Il y a bien longtemps, j'écoutais "Seconds Out" en boucle lors de sa sortie. Donc quand le sieur Steve s'est proposé de reprendre ce live mythique avec son line-up, je me suis commandé le Blu-Ray. Un superbe concert je dois dire, avec quelques réinterprétations des classique de Genesis, notamment la fin jazzy de "I know what I like".
Steve est impérial avec un chant tout à fait honorable sur "Held in the Shadows". Jonas Reingold est monstrueux. Roger King vaut Tony Banks et a une mine plus souriante. Rob Townsend, à l'instar d'un John Anthony Helliwell, distille de jolis solis de clarinette, flûte et saxo. Amanda Lehman, en début de concert, offre de jolies interventions harmonisées avec la guitare de Steve et sa voix cristalline sur "Shadow of the Hierophant". Je suis par contre plus réservé sur Craig Blundell. Son jeu est moins subtil de Gary O'Toole. Certains de ses breaks de batterie sur certains morceaux sont à la limite du lapin Duracell. 
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READERS
4.2/5 (5 view(s))
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STAFF:
4/5 (1 view(s))
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