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.

I remember when the original version of this came out wondering why a full live album wasn’t done.

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.

Lately I’ve been breaking our old rule at Music Street Journal.

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

This is an excellent book in many ways. First, it’s a quick read – partly because it’s not all that long and partly because it’s written in such a way that it flows really well.

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.

This Christmas disc from Yes bassist Chris Squire came out last year, but I’ve just now gotten my hands on it.

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.

Yes seldom do anything in a small way when it can be done in an epic manner. 

This is a review of the special edition audiophile release of Close to the Edge. This is a great limited edition, numbered CD release.

I’m a huge fan of all things Yes and Yes related, so I anticipated liking this, and I was right.

Our old rule at Music Street Journal was, if it’s out of print, we don’t review it.

This is quite a cool set. The main man behind this is Billy Sherwood, and I always like the stuff he does.

Only the second album in the history of Yes to be recorded without Jon Anderson, this one, particularly since it’s the only other Yes disc with Geoff Downes on keyboards, is obviously compared to Drama.

Foxtrot might not get the attention that is afforded to Genesis works like The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, but it is really an incredible piece of work that should be in the collection of any Genesis fan or progressive rock fan in general.

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

This box set is a class act. The whole thing comes in something that resembles a book. 

While any Yes album is better than the music of a lot of other bands, this is probably the group’s weakest live album.

Lately we’ve been moving away from our long-held rule that in order to reviewed an item had to be in print.

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

Although this is out of print, I’ve decided to review it at Music Street Journal.

This new live album from Yes is quite good.

Yes recently did a couple of tours where they performed some of their studio albums in their entirety. This live recording comes from one of those shows.

There was something ominous about the date of this concert -11.11.11 so it was very much a case of going for the one on the night.

This is my first time seeing Yes with the Benoit David and Oliver Wakeman line-up.

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

This disc is one of my favorites from Genesis.

This is a reissue of the Yes album Open Your Eyes on 180 gram vinyl.

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

It used to be that at Music Street Journal we didn’t cover things that were out of print.

Going back and catching up on some vinyl releases, this one should be pretty easy to find online.

I've been looking to do a retro review of this box set for a while. I finally had the opportunity this time around.

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

The old rule at Music Street Journal was that we didn’t cover items that weren’t in print.

This DVD is one of the best from Yes.

I am a big fan of pretty much anything Billy Sherwood is involved with and I love Supertramp, so when I heard Sherwood was in charge of assembling an all star tribute to Supertramp, I was excited.

I guess how you feel about this documentary will have a lot to do with which period of Genesis’ career you like the best.

Since we’ve already reviewed the DVD version of this set, this review will focus on the difference between this new BluRay release and that original one.

This is a new reissue of The Syn's Syndestructible album on vinyl. I have to say that to me, this is probably the medium on which you should be listening to this set.

Here is another compilation of Yes music. It is the first two CDs from The Ultimate Yes, repackaged.

For hardcore Yes fans, this is a real treasure.

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

This 35th Anniversary collection of Yes shares a lot of material with other compilations of theirs.

The third album from Yes, The Yes Album was a transitional disc. 

There have been a few books written about the band, Yes but this one really includes the involvement of many of the members of the group through extensive interviews. 

An album that is rather maligned in fan circles, Tormato is a bit pop oriented, but really has some wonderous moments.

Like last year, there is a new Yes picture disc released for Record Store Day. Last year it was 90125. This year they turned their attention to Tormato.

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

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

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 is a new reissue of the original Yes concert film. While the main film remains unchanged from older editions, there is quite a bit of added material here.

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