Interview with Anthony Phillips from 2017

Interview with Steve Hackett from 2017

When Life Is a Journey, the studio album released by Djabe and Steve Hackett came out recently, it made my best of the year list. So, I was anxious to hear this live set.

The first disc of this set was originally released in 1981, with a different mix. This is an instrumental album from former Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips.

I like this new Tony Banks solo album reissue. For one thing, it’s just a great album.

This book is such a classy product. In fact, it's so impressive in terms of the presentation that I felt compelled to do one of our YouTube bonus feature videos about it.

If ever there was a perfect dream team then it would have to be the bassist with one of the legendary bands joining forces with the guitarist from another of the bands in the prog pantheon, namely Yes and Genesis.

If you like rock and roll, this is a DVD to have. It’s a 1998 performance for Bill Wyman’s A.I.M.S. (Ambitions, Ideas, Motivation, Success) project.

I previously reviewed an album with these two artists. On that one Hackett got the first billing.

Anthony Phillips plays on one song and (John's brother) Steve Hackett is featured on several, bringing a Genesis reference to this.

This CD is one of the latest in a series of audiophile discs coming out.

Kompendium is a huge musical project masterminded by Rob Reed, main-man of the very classy British prog band Magenta.

With a career spanning some 40 years, Steve Hackett has continued to blaze a trail across the prog firmament of which most other musicians can only dream.

Those expecting a typical Steve Hackett album will certainly be shocked by this.

A contender for best of the year, this is arguably Sherwood’s best solo album ever.

This is an enjoyable read that saunters through the chronology and culture of progressive rock.

This new reissue from Anthony Phillips includes two CDs of instrumental music. It's almost exclusively just acoustic guitar.

Understanding the event is important when coming into this DVD.

I remember when I got this album originally, I was unimpressed with it. I think part of that was expectations.

When I recently interviewed Anthony Phillips he mentioned his quirky catalog (my words not his precisely) and that it was caused by record label pressure.

I like this album a lot. It seems to be more diverse than some of the rest of Brand X’s catalog.

This is an interesting double-CD set. The first is a studio album from John Hackett.

This is a new audiophile release of a classic Eric Clapton solo album.

Originally released as a Time Life Series installment, this album features a lot of songs most people will know.

Let’s get one thing out of the way right from the start, taken by itself, this would not be a progressive rock review.

This is a newly reissued live album from Brand X.

This live album is rather unusual.

This concert's cast  featured a special line up consisting of Genesis’ most notable guitarist, Steve Hackett, and both the bassist and the singer of Agents of Mercy (a side project featuring Jonas Reingold and Nad Sylvan, respectively).

What can be said about Steve Hackett that hasn't already been said?

This is a new edition of this Brand X album. Since I already reviewed an earlier release of this, and this in terms of the content, the same thing, I’m going to just use that review here for the sake of consistency. Let’s just say, thing sounds great and is well worth having.

Associated with the prog musical style both because of their imaginative and virtuosic fusion approach to music and the sometime presence of Genesis man Phil Collins, Brand X have always been a great largely unknown musical treasure. This CD is the first official release of material predating their debut disc. This lost disc of instrumental wonderment is definitely a treasured find for fans of the band. The musicians on this CD are Phil Collins, John Goodsall, Preston Heyman, Percy Jones and Robin Lumley.

Peter Gabriel could be accused of resting on his laurels by producing an album of reworkings of some of his greatest hits – and with an orchestra, to boot!

Even though his previous release Scratch My Back was excellent, Peter Gabriel has outdone himself once again with this follow up video that also comes in 3D as well as a 2 CD special edition package.

This is the two CD edition of Steve Hackett’s Out of the Tunnel’s Mouth.

With this disc Peter Gabriel continued to confound the record label by releasing it under just his name.

I like these Royal Philharmonica Orchestra sets. I

This new box set is classy. You get three previously released Anthony Phillips albums, Private Parts & Pieces IX-XI.

Anthony Phillips first came to prominence as the original guitarist for Genesis. Since leaving that group he has released a very extensive catalog.

Each album Anthony Phillips releases is quite different from the ones around it. This particular set is made up of atmospheric electronic music that calls to mind things like Tangerine Dream and Synergy.

I've heard and reviewed a large cross-section of Anthony Phillips' music. One thing you can count on with him is quality.

The latest solo release from John Wetton finds him with a lot of great guest appearances. 

This new reissue is quite an impressive set. While a two-CD version of this album has appeared before, this one has a third CD of previously unreleased music.

This a companion to the other Anthony Phillips box set I reviewed in this issue.

So was clearly the album that broke Peter Gabriel into the mainstream.

Many probably know Anthony Phillips' name as the original guitarist for Genesis. If that's all you know, though, you are really missing out.

This was Tony Banks’ second solo album. It’s a lot more pop oriented than the first one.

Given the title of this set, you might thing that it was just recorded in 2020 under pandemic lockdown. That's not the case, though.

Too often when you get a documentary like this, it will be unauthorized.

This is a recent CD reissue of a spectacularly ambitious full-colour book and double-album project from 1979.

The latest set from Franck Carducci should please progressive rock fans.

So, this solo album from Peter Banks was released on CD in 2009.

This new edition of this former Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips’ solo release is quite nice.

While I generally don't include live albums in my "best of the year" lists, I might make an exception for this. It's just such a powerful live set.

This new various artists collection, as you would imagine, pays tribute to the music of Yes. It's an intriguing set.