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Steve Hackett: Feedback '86

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Label: Camino Records
Released: 2000
Time:
 37:20
52Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.hackettsongs.com
Appears with: Genesis, GTR, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Chris Squire, Steve Howe
Purchase date: 2000.11.18
Price in €: 14,99





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[1] Cassandra (S.Hackett) - 4:07
[2] Prizefighters (S.Hackett) - 5:13
[3] Slot Machine (S.Hackett/B.May) - 4:23
[4] Stadiums Of The Damned (S.Hackett) - 4:41
[5] Don’t Fall (S.Hackett) - 4:25
[6] Oh How I Love You (S.Hackett) - 3:58
[7] Notre Dame Des Fleurs (S.Hackett) - 3:11
[8] The Gulf (S.Hackett) - 7:21


The multimedia track containing the following MP3's:
A Joyful Noise - Chester Thompson (A Joyful Noise)
Cavalcanti - Steve Hackett
Cool Groove - Chester Thompson (A Joyful Noise)
The Court Of The Crimson King - Steve Hackett
Darktown - Steve Hackett
DAys Of Long Ago - Steve Hackett
Footloose - Steve Hackett
Pièces Froides no. 2 Danse De Travers II - Steve Hackett
Gnossienne no. 2 - Steve Hackett
Heat Of The Moment - Steve Hackett
Horizons - Steve Hackett
In That Quiet Earth - Steve Hackett
Kim - Steve Hackett
Let There Be Light - Ian McDonald (Drivers Eyes)
The Rio Connection - Steve Hackett
Theatre Of Sleep - Steve Hackett
Vampyre With A Healthy Appetite - Steve Hackett
Watcher Of The Skies - Steve Hackett
When You Wish Upon A Star - Steve Hackett
You Are A Part Of Me - Ian McDonald (Drivers Eyes)   

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Steve Hackett - Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica on [1]-[8], Producer

Ian Mosely (Marillion) - Drums on [1]
Pete Trewavas (Marillion) - Bass on [1]
Brian May (Queen) - Guitar, Vocals on [1], [3], Producer on [3]
Bonnie Tyler - Vocals on [2]
Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann's Earth Band) - Vocals on [1]-[3], [5], [6]
Nick Magnus - Keyboards, Piano, Virtual drums on [1]-[6], [8]
Terry Pack - Bass on [2]
The Phil Henderson Orchestra (Arr. Phil Henderson) on [2]

Kim Poor - Cover Painting ("Blood on the rooftops", 1987)
 

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FEEDBACK 86 is Steve's "lost" 1986 album, presented here just as it was then - resisting the temptation to remix, over dub and 'improve'...! The album was originally recorded while GTR were disintegrating and is packed with the sort of pounding rock tunes that should have graced their abortive second album but enlivened with the trademark Hackett quirks.

Participants include Brian May, Marillion's Ian Mosley and Pete Trewavas, Manfred Mann's Earthband vocalist Chris Thompson, Bonnie Tyler and Nick Magnus and the Hackett and May collaboration "Slot Machine" is surely an undiscovered classic.

We've also added an Enhanced CD section featuring 20 bonus MP3s from the Camino catalogue and 3 songs on video from The Tokyo Tapes... Top value!

SteveHackett.com



Nach dem durchschlagenden Erfolg des GTR-Albums machte sich der ehemalige Genesis-Gitarrist Steve Hackett daran, möglichst schnell einen Nachfolger zusammenzustellen. Als Gastmusiker holte er sich u.a. Queen-Gitarrist Brian May, Power-Röhre Bonnie Tyler sowie die Marillion-Mitglieder Ian Mosley und Pete Trewavas ins Studio und spielte mit ihnen acht teilweise sehr GTR-lastige, teils aber auch sphärische, 70er-mäßige Songs ein, die von Hacketts einzigartiger, gefühlvoller Gitarrenarbeit dominiert werden.

Veröffentlicht wurde das Album damals allerdings nicht; Hackett-Fans kommen erst jetzt in den Genuss von Feedback 86. Das deutsche Progressive-Label InsideOut hat sich die Masterbänder gesichert und präsentiert dem Szenepublikum ein gutes, wenn auch nicht sonderlich spektakuläres Stück Musikgeschichte, angesiedelt in der Schnittmenge aus eingängigem Edel-Rock und dezenten Prog-Sounds.

Michael Rensen - Amazon.de



Previously unreleased studio album is a 'lost' recording from 1986 while Hackett and Steve Howe were still running the guitar 'supergroup' GTR. Featuring the sort of pounding rock tunes that should have been featured on GTR's abortive second album. Guests include Brian May (Queen), Ian Mosley and Pete Trewavas (Marillion), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann's Earthband) and Bonnie Tyler. 2000 release. Standard jewel case housed in a slipcase.

Amazon.com



This previously unreleased studio album is a 'lost' recording from 1986 while Steve Hackett & Steve Howe were still running the guitar supergroup GTR & is a fascinating snapshot of that time. Full of the sort of pounding rock tunes that should have featured on GTR's abortive second album. Includes unreleased material plus a CD-Rom video track. Features Ian Mosely & Pete Trewavas (Marillion), Brain May (Queen), Bonnie Tyler & Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann's Earth Band).

CDNow.com



You don't need to be an expert to know that it was never the intention to make the GTR album a one-off release. Looking at the success of Asia, it was certainly the idea to keep the GTR candle burning for many years. Sadly it never happened due to contractual reasons. These problems seem to be out of the way now as Steve Hackett just released Feedback 86 an album recorded in, you guessed it, 1986, containing eight rocking compositions and featuring a wealth of guest musicians.

With Pete Trewavas and Ian Mosley helping out, the intro for "Cassandra" resembles "Kayleigh" quite a lot! However, thanks to the superb extra guitar of Brian May this song evolves into Hackett's very own "Layla" with also some outstanding hoarse vocals courtesy of ex-Manfred Mann's Earthband vocalist Chris Thompson. [See note below -ed.] These hoarse vocals seem to be a favourite of Steve as none other than Bonnie Tyler joins Thompson in "Prizefighters." We also note some great fretless bass here by Terry Pack. Queen guitarist Brian May gets one more chance to show his many talents during the rousing "Slot Machine" with "virtual drums" performed by Nick Magnus who used to be a permanent member of Hackett's band, the Enid, and China Crisis. Nick and Steve have known each other for years and they both understand each other very well where sounds and atmospheres are concerned. "Stadiums Of The Damned" is a collaboration between the two of them. The vocal range of Hackett doesn't really deserve a Grammy nomination and makes this tune one of the weaker ones on this album.

The introduction of harmonica almost automatically adds a bluesy feel to "Don't Fall." However the guitar kind of brings this song into the domain of Rumours era Fleetwood Mac. Hackett is at his very best during the acoustic intro for "Oh How I Love You" augmented with a soulful Chris Thompson and classical piano by Nick Magnus. That same classical approach is taken over solely by Steve for his solo spot "Notre Dame Des Fleurs." Southern flavoured guitar opens "The Gulf" whilst the rhythmic backing holds an Arabian atmosphere, not long before Nick Magnus introduces powerful drums and Steve switches to loud, slightly distorted guitars.

Compared to Darktown this is a cheap and easy album although it has its moments. Throw in a real drummer on some of the "virtual" tracks and you might have had a good album ... in 1986! Now, almost fifteen years later Feedback 86 is just a piece of musical heritage, nothing more. The inclusion of Brian May certainly will boost sales, the profits of which can be put to good use if Steve is thinking of recording Darktown - The Sequel!

Whilst the battles with MP3 and Napster become daily news on CNN, Steve Hackett and his Camino label have added no fewer than 20 MP3 files onto this disc. You'll find two songs each out of Chester Thompson's A Joyful Noise, out of Ian McDonald's Drivers Eyes and out of Steve Hackett's very own Sketches of Satie, Darktown, The Tokyo Tapes, Guitar Noir, Till We Have Faces and one track out of Steve's Genesis Revisited, There Are Many Sides To The Night, Time Lapse, Blues With A Feeling, Momentum and Bay of Kings albums. To top it all there is a video section featuring "Watcher Of The Skies", "Heat Of The Moment" and "Los Endos" filmed in Tokyo in '96 with John Wetton, Chester Thompson, Julian Colbeck and Ian McDonald helping out. So this package not only holds the unreleased Feedback 86 album but also twenty full MP3 tracks from the superb Camino catalogue. Value for money after all!

["Cassandra" also appeared as a bonus track on the Guitar Noir album of 1993; no info on it is included in the booklet, so whether this is the same exact version, I don't know, but the GN version certainly included Brian May. It seems it was on the version released in the US and Israel only. You can read a review of the whole album by The Christopher Currie at the Tentative Reviews site-.ed]

John "Bo Bo" Bollenberg
www.progressiveworld.net - Your Ultimate Guide To Progressive Music



One of the 1980's great "lost" albums, Steve Hackett's Feedback 86 is a vintage album in the truest sense of the world.

Featuring Steve and a distinguished line-up that includes Queen guitarist Brian May, Manfred Mann vocalist Chris Thompson, Bonnie Tyler and Marillion's Pete Trewavas (bass) and Ian Mosley (drums), Feedback 86 was recorded in 1986 but proved impossible to release at the time because of labyrinthine contractual problems. Thus it was consigned to the vaults where it has lain unheard and undisturbed until now.

With this new release, the eighties' loss is definitely our gain and, far enough away from that decade to enjoy it once again, we can hear Feedback 86 for the terrific slice of melodic rock that it is.

Pounding rock tunes such as "Cassandra", "Prizefighters", "Slot Machine" and the more expansive "The Gulf" point the way to what would have been on the second GTR album (GTR was the US chart-topping rock band co-founded by Steve and Steve Howe in the mid-80s) whilst "Stadiums of the Damned" and "Don't Fall" are more reminiscent of The Police and Eurythmics. The quieter "Oh How I Love You" and "Notre Dame Des Fleurs" on the other hand are timeless, introspective Hackett of the first order and could equally have been recorded yesterday or by Hackett-era mid-70s Genesis.

As a considerable bonus the CD also contains 20 additional "Greatest Hits" tracks and video footage encoded as high quality mp3 computer sound files (the same kind of sound file currently in the news because of the furore surrounding Napster and other "Internet Jukeboxes"). These illustrate an interactive computer guide to the catalogue of Steve's "Camino" record label but can also be played independently by a computer or loaded into one of the new generation of mp3 Walkmans.

Two albums in one, looking backwards and forwards at the same time, Feedback 86 is a typically innovative release from one of the UK's most adventurous musicians.

SteveHackett.com
 

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