Steve Hackett/CA,USA 1981 Mike Millard Master Tapes

In 1981, Steve Hackett expanded new possibilities with his masterpiece “CURED” while building his own unique worldview. A new excavation live album is now available that will give you the best experience of this precious scene. What is inscribed in this work is “November 27, 1981 West Hollywood performance”. Yes, it is a super-excellent audience recording by the legendary Mike Millard that will not be released outside the gate. Hackett currently goes on a large-scale world tour almost every year, but his solo career has had its ups and downs. 1981 was the first peak that had steadily built up since leaving GENESIS, and it was also a turning point that stopped abruptly the following year. First of all, let’s look back at the schedule at that time and check the show’s position. [“CURED” released in August]・August 22-28: UK #1 (6 performances)・August 31-September 27: Europe (18 performances) ← *Official “LIVE ARCHIVE”・September 29th – October 12th: UK #2 (13 performances) ・October 26th – December 8th: North America (32 performances) ←★This work★ & “TIME LAPSE” This is Steve Hackett in 1981. This tour was included in the traditional edition “TIME LAPSE (part of)” and the Rome performance was also included in “LIVE ARCHIVE.” The West Hollywood performance of this work was the 24th concert at the end of such a tour. This work recorded at such a show is truly the best audience recording. After all, it is a work by the absolute master Millard, and it was created from the original cassette, so it may seem natural to call it “excellent” or “official grade,” but when you actually listen to it, it is truly beautiful and melts your heart. The delicate cutting of the guitar, the fluttering synths, and the extremely thick new sound give you no sense of distance without feeling any reverberation or reverberation. Even the deep bass of the synth that makes the floors and walls shake feels ultra-realistic, as if it were the latest recording of 2021. It’s even tighter than usual. Perhaps the reason lies in the venue. The venue, “THE ROXY”, is a mirrored garden along with THE FORUM and PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER, but unlike the others, it is a club that can accommodate about 500 people. Therefore, it is physically close to the stage and PA, and the sound reaches you directly before it spreads out. Of course, the master Millard knows how to make the most of these characteristics, and his results are widely known for GENESIS’s masterpiece “THE ROXY 1980”. This work is also a live album that can be called the sequel/Hackett edition of that masterpiece. The transcendental sound depicts a show that sums up Hackett’s early solo career. Unfortunately, it seems that the first three songs “The Air Conditioned Nightmare”, “Jacuzzi” and “Funny Feeling” could not be recorded, but after that there is a lot of valuable and delicious repertoire. The most famous one from this period is the traditional version “TIME LAPSE”, but that is a compilation work with other tours. Here, let’s organize the set while comparing it with the Rome performance of “LIVE ARCHIVE” where you can listen to the 1981 stage for a longer time. Solo Acolyte’s Journey: Ace Of Wands/A Tower Struck Down ・Please Don’t Touch: Kim (★)/Please Don’t Touch (★) ・Rainbow Morning: Every Day/The Red Flower Of Tachai Blooms Everywhere/Tigermoth (★)/Spectral Mornings/Clocks? The Angel of Mons・Defector: The Steppes/Slogans/The Show・Cured: Picture Postcard/Overnight Sleeper/Hope I Don’t Wake GENESIS・Foxtrot: Horizons (★ )・Blood On The Rooftops (★) *Note: Songs marked with a “★” cannot be heard even at the official 1981 Rome performance. …and it looks like this. The set, which includes several songs evenly selected from five solo works, is truly a culmination. It is a style that solidifies key points with GENESIS’s “Horizons” and “Blood On The Rooftops”. “★” indicates that the songs are rare, but “Kim” is a particularly delicious song that you can’t hear even on “TIME LAPSE.” If only the first three songs had been recorded… Does this mean that Kobo was also a mistake? I regret that “Return, Return” is incompletely recorded, but that’s because I had prior knowledge of the tour. If you listen to this work alone, it is nothing but a super-excellent live album where you can enjoy the solo stage with completely official sound. Millard loved the GENESIS family so much that he recorded not only the original GENESIS but also Peter Gabriel many times. This is the masterpiece of the Steve Hackett edition that he left behind. Superb audience recording of “November 27, 1981 West Hollywood Performance”. This is a newly discovered recording by legendary master Mike Millard, and is a super masterpiece created from the original cassette. Because it was recorded in a club, you can enjoy a show that concentrates his first five solo works with an ultra-tight and super-excellent sound than usual. This is a completely official audience recording that can be enjoyed as a sequel/Hackett version of GENESIS’s masterpiece “THE ROXY 1980: Mike Millard Master Tapes (Amity 621)”. The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA, USA 27th November 1981 TRULY PERFECT SOUND★Super high quality Disc 1 (41:15) 1. Ace Of Wands 2. Picture Postcard 3. The Steppes 4. Every Day 5. The Red Flower Of Tachai Blooms Everywhere / Tigermoth 6. Blood On The Rooftops 7. Horizons 8. Kim 9. Overnight Sleeper Disc 2 (40:44) 1. I Hope I Don’t Wake 2. Slogans 3. A Tower Struck Down 4. Spectral Mornings 5 Please Don’t Tuch 6. Band Introductions 7. The Show 8. Clocks / The Angel of Mons Steve Hackett – Guitars, Vocals Nick Magnus – Keyboards Chas Cronk – Bass Ian Mosley – Drums John Hackett – Flute, Bass pedals