I never thought for a moment that Please Don't Touch was anything other than a masterpiece. I've listened to it so many times that I can only think of it as a cohesive collection of work.
All of these musicians from Steve's time period are just going to be recognized as all time unique and innovative artists ever and never to be seen again. As a 67 year old, I can say, "I was there"! Good luck to the future.
Please dont touch and Bay of Kings, are 2 albums I have been enjoying countless times for 40 years. I have seen Mr. Hackett 3 times Live. Thanks for such wonderful music.
Please don´t touch "Please Don´t Touch", or else! My absolute favourite among favourites, a that´s a lot to say. The musicians and singers are a team made in heaven and each song is like a whole album in depth. Steve´s absolute tour de force. Will resound in space for ever and ever.
Please don't touch and Spectral. Morning are still my mile stones..... can't even think of the thousand and thousand of times I've listened to these albums. As a guitarist their influence has been huge.
Was a genesis fan up till "then there were three"..then they went commercial and imo crap. This album by Steve is like every wonderful holiday rolled into one. Thank you Mr Hackett
My favourite Steve Hackett album. This to me was the high point of his work. I long ago decided that if my flat was on fire and I could only run out with one prog rock artist's work from my collection it would be Steve Hackett's. And if I could only save one album, it would be Please Don't Touch. The artistry is breath-taking. I just wish more people could appreciate it.
Please Don´t Touch was my first Hackett solo album and is my favorite album by Hacektt. I bought this album in May 1978 and I still has this very same copy will preserved. This album led me to the world of Genesis which Hackett once belonged to.
When that album first came out I was 16 years old I didn't know anything of Steve Hackett and very little of Genesis. I was in a record store and seen it and something just told me to buy it so I did and I had to keep listening to it over and over then I wanted to know and hear more of Steve Hackett. I can honestly say his music was an influence on my musicianship.
My first Hackett solo album, still my favourite. An amazing collection of musicians (I was already a fan of Genesis, Kansas, Zappa...) and songs. Steve speaks so graciously of all the people on his solo albums. I'd happily listen to him for much longer than this. :)
First heard this album in the Sierra Nevada. I was racing around in my first car while listening on a walkman and really digging Racing in A. I'll never forget the feeling and pulling over too listen closely to the Necam section with the Classic Guitar and Vocoder.
Also my first Steve solo album. I always felt that this is not as so many other of his albums not a guitar based album but a composers album with all accompanying instruments blended so perfectly making Steve my favorite single artist of all my music collection history. But the fact is that Steve is also a guitar legend and highly innovative. Watching him play is a wonderful thing and after 40 some years later during Genesis Revisited playing those songs as if it was just been released. Carry on carrying on.
Love this album - I saw it performed at the City Hall in Sheffield. My first time seeing Steve Hackett in concert. I had heard “Voyage” and was something of a Genesis fan. I had a couple of great seats a couple of rows back from the stage. I swear to you; it started to snow during the set (an effective special effect 😂). It was an incredible night. Still enjoy listening to the album and the deluxe version is awesome. I particularly enjoy How Can I?
I was at the same show, still got some of the "snow" in a match box, we were right at the front and the stuff landed on us, brilliant show, seen Steve many times since ❤
I can still remember finding this album in a record store in the mid-eighties. I knew Spectral Mornings probably since that album's release, but didn't until that moment know there were other Steve Hackett albums. I remember staring into the cover and reading the information on the back, seeing that Richie Havens sang on it, and a song inspired by The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe. It's funny how you can remember moments like that regarding some albums. It's sad that those experiences don't really exist anymore. :\
Those experiences are always there, in your mind to be experienced over and over again. I had quite similar experience when I bought this record in a megastore in London, back at the end of the 80´s. It was impossible to find it in my country, Spain. Love the three first albums by Hackett, and some others albums, by the first three are my favourite.
Steve Hackett, I was a teen of around 17yrs old listening to the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie and other great chart artists up to that point. One day a musician friend introduced me to 'Please Don't Touch' (PDT) and it expanded my musical taste so much. Shortly after we went to my first live concert at 'The Empire' in Liverpool for the 'PDT' album tour (1979?) and I discovered so much more. I was blown away by your electric soundscaping and acoustic virtuosity. From then on I found 'Spectral Mornings', early Genesis albums, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and so much more. Thank You for helping me listen beyond the charts and discover some amazing albums and artists. Still enjoying the music and forever in your debt. Thank You.
I attended a few of Steve’s and Genesis concerts at the empire back in the day, I’m from Liverpool so I didn’t have far to travel, a no10 bus ride lol. Saw Kate Bush very first tour there and I realise how lucky I was to witness that, I also remember going to see squeeze there for some reason, and stiff little fingers? Quite a variety lol
@@Eleventhearlofmars - Hey, small world. I saw Clapton on tour in Liverpool a little later promoting the album 'Money and Cigarettes' and at Deeside Ice Rink over on the Wirral I saw Rush, Ian Dury & the Blockheads and Dire Straights! Good times 😎
I bought PDT on vinyl the day it came out from my local (Punk ) record shop in Walthamstow London and remember sheepishly walking inside and asking for the album. This was met with a few giggles and odd looks from the Punks inside. However once I got home and played it I instantly knew the ordeal was worth it. It remains my all time fave Steve Hackett album ( And I have all of them being a life long fan) PDT has everything and as others have said the anniversary 5.1 re master on CD is simply incredible and shows this amazing body of work in new light.
I played this album over and over again during a radio show i did for many years. Did played late before midnight. "Narnia" with that fantastic big guitar sound, or the instrumental title cut, that creates a "fear mood"....or the beautiful song (How Can I), that the late Richie Havens sang....what an album ! Check out the video of Steve Hackett playing the song with Richie Havens, and there is another of him playing with Elkie Brooks.
I remember buying PDT in my college record shop, like it was yesterday...40 years..."Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" Randy Crawford's performance in unforgettable, and such a beautiful song.
I found it in the record bargain bin. The album sleeve was slightly larger than the standard size records so it got my attention. Lucky me. I wonder if anyone else notices the sleeve is larger.
I still think it's wonderful still in 2022. The eclectic Geese and the Ghost of Anthony Phillips still holds up beautifully also. If Peter Gabriel was the Dickens of classic Genesis, you and Anthony were the Shakespeare. Don't be hard on Tony because it all worked out in the end. Genesis had to traverse through the agony of punk and come through intact. You and Peter remained relevant because Genesis became a colossus. All in all everyone came out on top. A fairy tale come true.
Now I understand why it's such an eclectic album. Yes, its diversity gave it a lot of depth and substance, and made a most interesting album, but it took a little time and a few re-listenings to really get into it and absorb it. It didn't 'grab' me initially, but grew on me with each new listen.
I'd love to know if he came up with the technique by himself, or saw someone else do it. Anyway, Hackett was one of the first (or even *the* first) to use two-handed tapping in a rock context, way before Eddie Van Halen and others.
The album is really great! As a Genesis fan, I really do have to wonder possibly some of you do too, how Please Don’t Touch would’ve worked on W&W. Would’ve been interesting!
I was impressed by "Voyage of the alcolyte", some musics are really very beautiful and different. Then, when I saw the disk cover, so unusual, I ask my self, "Man, what a hell comes inside?" But, based on his previous disk, singing and playing Genesis songs and the performance of Steve, I believed in his talent (as I did with Peter(3) solo albuns, Mike's (2), Phill's(2) and even Bank(1)!). I was right, the disk is fantastic. I even, recently, made a poor version with figures, for nylon guitar, of the music "How can I?". I like so much "Racing in a", "Kim", "Hoping love will last", the guitar part in the end of "The voice of Necam" and the one I like more is the "Icarus ascending". I also made some tentatives for a poor version of the last one, without the 'solos' (obviously), but it didn't become well. I must work harder... lgs. It is very good, that I'm alive and have the internet to say: "Thank you so much Steve and Genesis for being part of my life ever! God bless you!"
"its diversity was its strength and its weakness.....identity vs style" I bought this at 15 y.o in 78. At that age, I wouldnt have known what most of the words in the above phrase meant, but hearing them now explains my love and hate relationship with this album at the time. I wanted Genesis, not Randy Crawford. I skipped "Hoping love will last" every time, but just listen to it now. Its such a beautiful track, but there is no turning the head of a 15 year old. I had a similar view of most of Gabriels stuff (still do really)....and as for "A curious Feeling", even at 56, it still gives me one (a curious feeling, that is!)...ageing didnt improve that one, I am afraid, Mr. Banks 😒
It kills me. "What the hell were you thinking?" He's fn Steve Hacket. He's thinking that it was what he wanted to do. Piss off and record your own music.
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I never thought for a moment that Please Don't Touch was anything other than a masterpiece. I've listened to it so many times that I can only think of it as a cohesive collection of work.
All of these musicians from Steve's time period are just going to be recognized as all time unique and innovative artists ever and never to be seen again. As a 67 year old, I can say, "I was there"! Good luck to the future.
Please dont touch and Bay of Kings, are 2 albums I have been enjoying countless times for 40 years. I have seen Mr. Hackett 3 times Live. Thanks for such wonderful music.
I'm listening to the 'please don;t.......' album, since my 18th year of age.I'm 59 now.
Me too 👍 Fantastic isn`t it !
First time I heard the Richie Havens track and the Randy Crawford track I was just blown away. Superb album absolutely love it.
Please don´t touch "Please Don´t Touch", or else! My absolute favourite among favourites, a that´s a lot to say. The musicians and singers are a team made in heaven and each song is like a whole album in depth. Steve´s absolute tour de force. Will resound in space for ever and ever.
Steve ,!Great Album..Thank You.GOD bless You
Please don't touch and Spectral. Morning are still my mile stones..... can't even think of the thousand and thousand of times I've listened to these albums. As a guitarist their influence has been huge.
Was a genesis fan up till "then there were three"..then they went commercial and imo crap. This album by Steve is like every wonderful holiday rolled into one. Thank you Mr Hackett
My favourite Steve Hackett album. This to me was the high point of his work. I long ago decided that if my flat was on fire and I could only run out with one prog rock artist's work from my collection it would be Steve Hackett's. And if I could only save one album, it would be Please Don't Touch. The artistry is breath-taking. I just wish more people could appreciate it.
An amazing blend of musicians. One of my top 5
A brilliant album which never felt disjointed to my ears.
“Hoping love will last” is just a beautiful song that moves me… still to this day. Incredible vocal.
Love your Fernades Mr. Hackett. It's impossible to purchase it. Love your music and your latest Seconds out tour
I adore this album. And him.
Kudos to John Hackett for his brilliant flute playing on this recording.
Great album - I was lucky enough to see the show at Sheffield City Hall. Excellent seats too in the stalls.
I forgot I had already posted on here - talk about Billy no Mates 🎉
My favourite Hackett's album!
A FOCKING MASTERPIECE!!!!!
Please Don´t Touch was my first Hackett solo album and is my favorite album by Hacektt.
I bought this album in May 1978 and I still has this very same copy will preserved.
This album led me to the world of Genesis which Hackett once belonged to.
When that album first came out I was 16 years old I didn't know anything of Steve Hackett and very little of Genesis. I was in a record store and seen it and something just told me to buy it so I did and I had to keep listening to it over and over then I wanted to know and hear more of Steve Hackett. I can honestly say his music was an influence on my musicianship.
My first Hackett solo album, still my favourite. An amazing collection of musicians (I was already a fan of Genesis, Kansas, Zappa...) and songs.
Steve speaks so graciously of all the people on his solo albums. I'd happily listen to him for much longer than this. :)
Steve Voyage and PLease my God
I think it's a classic. Love it!
First heard this album in the Sierra Nevada. I was racing around in my first car while listening on a walkman and really digging Racing in A. I'll never forget the feeling and pulling over too listen closely to the Necam section with the Classic Guitar and Vocoder.
Omg i remember buying it new damn im old
He is a great man....wonderful...
Also my first Steve solo album. I always felt that this is not as so many other of his albums not a guitar based album but a composers album with all accompanying instruments blended so perfectly making Steve my favorite single artist of all my music collection history. But the fact is that Steve is also a guitar legend and highly innovative. Watching him play is a wonderful thing and after 40 some years later during Genesis Revisited playing those songs as if it was just been released. Carry on carrying on.
brain of GENESIS , Merci Steve Hackett
Love this album - I saw it performed at the City Hall in Sheffield. My first time seeing Steve Hackett in concert. I had heard “Voyage” and was something of a Genesis fan. I had a couple of great seats a couple of rows back from the stage. I swear to you; it started to snow during the set (an effective special effect 😂).
It was an incredible night. Still enjoy listening to the album and the deluxe version is awesome. I particularly enjoy How Can I?
I was at the same show, still got some of the "snow" in a match box, we were right at the front and the stuff landed on us, brilliant show, seen Steve many times since ❤
Defenitely my favourite Steve Hackett album. I love it
Wonderful interview! I loved this album from the very first listen the week it came out & still do!
Very nice words about Chester. Thanks.
this guy when he was in Genesis (lead guitar), nobody could touch him, he was pure rock and roll power in the flesh.
Have loved this album since I heard it 40 years ago... beautiful warm sound and great songs. Richie Havens too - phenomenal from Steve.
Carry On Up The Vicarage is weirdly brilliant.
Still love this album and still a fan. Although I did fail the audition.
I can still remember finding this album in a record store in the mid-eighties. I knew Spectral Mornings probably since that album's release, but didn't until that moment know there were other Steve Hackett albums. I remember staring into the cover and reading the information on the back, seeing that Richie Havens sang on it, and a song inspired by The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe. It's funny how you can remember moments like that regarding some albums. It's sad that those experiences don't really exist anymore. :\
Those experiences are always there, in your mind to be experienced over and over again. I had quite similar experience when I bought this record in a megastore in London, back at the end of the 80´s. It was impossible to find it in my country, Spain. Love the three first albums by Hackett, and some others albums, by the first three are my favourite.
I've always loved that incredible record. Great!
Love this album
Deep and interesting reflections!!...thank you Steve!!...
One of my favourite albums that just gets better with age
Steve Hackett, I was a teen of around 17yrs old listening to the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie and other great chart artists up to that point. One day a musician friend introduced me to 'Please Don't Touch' (PDT) and it expanded my musical taste so much. Shortly after we went to my first live concert at 'The Empire' in Liverpool for the 'PDT' album tour (1979?) and I discovered so much more. I was blown away by your electric soundscaping and acoustic virtuosity. From then on I found 'Spectral Mornings', early Genesis albums, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and so much more.
Thank You for helping me listen beyond the charts and discover some amazing albums and artists.
Still enjoying the music and forever in your debt.
Thank You.
I attended a few of Steve’s and Genesis concerts at the empire back in the day, I’m from Liverpool so I didn’t have far to travel, a no10 bus ride lol. Saw Kate Bush very first tour there and I realise how lucky I was to witness that, I also remember going to see squeeze there for some reason, and stiff little fingers? Quite a variety lol
@@Eleventhearlofmars - Hey, small world. I saw Clapton on tour in Liverpool a little later promoting the album 'Money and Cigarettes' and at Deeside Ice Rink over on the Wirral I saw Rush, Ian Dury & the Blockheads and Dire Straights!
Good times 😎
I bought PDT on vinyl the day it came out from my local (Punk ) record shop in Walthamstow London and remember sheepishly walking inside and asking for the album. This was met with a few giggles and odd looks from the Punks inside. However once I got home and played it I instantly knew the ordeal was worth it. It remains my all time fave Steve Hackett album ( And I have all of them being a life long fan) PDT has everything and as others have said the anniversary 5.1 re master on CD is simply incredible and shows this amazing body of work in new light.
I played this album over and over again during a radio show i did for many years. Did played late before midnight. "Narnia" with that fantastic big guitar sound, or the instrumental title cut, that creates a "fear mood"....or the beautiful song (How Can I), that the late Richie Havens sang....what an album ! Check out the video of Steve Hackett playing the song with Richie Havens, and there is another of him playing with Elkie Brooks.
I remember buying PDT in my college record shop, like it was yesterday...40 years..."Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" Randy Crawford's performance in unforgettable, and such a beautiful song.
Me as well , 40 years ! jeez !
I found it in the record bargain bin. The album sleeve was slightly larger than the standard size records so it got my attention. Lucky me. I wonder if anyone else notices the sleeve is larger.
One of my favouritest albums of all time. To have Richie Havens and Randie Crawford on there was genious.
Excelente album Steve...¡Simplemente grandioso!
It’s a classic!!!
I still think it's wonderful still in 2022. The eclectic Geese and the Ghost of Anthony Phillips still holds up beautifully also. If Peter Gabriel was the Dickens of classic Genesis, you and Anthony were the Shakespeare. Don't be hard on Tony because it all worked out in the end. Genesis had to traverse through the agony of punk and come through intact. You and Peter remained relevant because Genesis became a colossus. All in all everyone came out on top. A fairy tale come true.
Steve is such a gentleman, i wish i could have a pint with him!
LOVE Please Don't Touch......
this enchanted music....
I coveted this album for ages before I could afford to buy it! So fresh - and I love it still.
Randy Crawford is from where I live, Cincinnati! I worked with her sister at the local Fox affiliate news program.
I LOVE STEVE HACKETT!!!! :-)
My favourite !!
My first Hackett album as well. I still play it regularly. ❤❤❤
Now I understand why it's such an eclectic album. Yes, its diversity gave it a lot of depth and substance, and made a most interesting album, but it took a little time and a few re-listenings to really get into it and absorb it. It didn't 'grab' me initially, but grew on me with each new listen.
This is Steve's most eclectic LP and it absolutely shines!
Fabulous album
and if you get the chance...pick up the 5.1 version...it breathes new life into an already fantastic album.
Such a nice bloke, (and he invented 'tapping')
No he didn't. People have been tapping since the '50s.
I'd love to know if he came up with the technique by himself, or saw someone else do it. Anyway, Hackett was one of the first (or even *the* first) to use two-handed tapping in a rock context, way before Eddie Van Halen and others.
he didnt invent it, but I understand why you think it was significant
I think the milestone was "first time tapping was recorded mainstream"
Richard Drew invented tape in 1920 ;)
Kieron Cubley Don’t be silly, Hackett didn’t “invent tapping”....players have been doing that since the guitar was first invented.
no genesis gave me the same emotion that,plese dont toych did' and now,a,whole world is brought to my mind
Found PDT in a used record bin a few years after it’s release. Probably paid two bucks for it. Hands down the best two dollars I ever spent.
Great Steve !!!
Crooked Hand Productions. Love it!
1979 good old days when I had JVC 501 receiver zero9 speakers QL turntable
I loved the re issue of Narnia with Steve Walsh and Phil Ehart of Kansas.
The voice of Necam
The album is really great! As a Genesis fan, I really do have to wonder possibly some of you do too, how Please Don’t Touch would’ve worked on W&W. Would’ve been interesting!
steve coming to the sage Sunday yet again, is there any chance you will be signing autographs in t-shirt area
I was impressed by "Voyage of the alcolyte", some musics are really very beautiful and different. Then, when I saw the disk cover, so unusual, I ask my self, "Man, what a hell comes inside?" But, based on his previous disk, singing and playing Genesis songs and the performance of Steve, I believed in his talent (as I did with Peter(3) solo albuns, Mike's (2), Phill's(2) and even Bank(1)!). I was right, the disk is fantastic. I even, recently, made a poor version with figures, for nylon guitar, of the music "How can I?". I like so much "Racing in a", "Kim", "Hoping love will last", the guitar part in the end of "The voice of Necam" and the one I like more is the "Icarus ascending". I also made some tentatives for a poor version of the last one, without the 'solos' (obviously), but it didn't become well. I must work harder... lgs. It is very good, that I'm alive and have the internet to say: "Thank you so much Steve and Genesis for being part of my life ever! God bless you!"
"Racing in A"
Quando ele aprender a usar o dedo mindinho(ou pelo menos o dedo médio da mão esquerda) e fizer um bend certo, vou escutar um album desse cara, ok?
www.soundcloud.com/omninmo steve and zappa (and fripp etc) are my main influences
with a few exceptions think its a great album--especially Richie H and Randy C artistic work---
Hackett better , Voyage and Please and Spectral and Defector and Metamorpheus and Midsummer ......... Hackett brain for me
Ciaconne of Bach just try to play this guys lololololol imposible jjust try Steve a genius
"its diversity was its strength and its weakness.....identity vs style"
I bought this at 15 y.o in 78.
At that age, I wouldnt have known what most of the words in the above phrase meant, but hearing them now explains my love and hate relationship with this album at the time.
I wanted Genesis, not Randy Crawford. I skipped "Hoping love will last" every time, but just listen to it now. Its such a beautiful track, but there is no turning the head of a 15 year old.
I had a similar view of most of Gabriels stuff (still do really)....and as for "A curious Feeling", even at 56, it still gives me one (a curious feeling, that is!)...ageing didnt improve that one, I am afraid, Mr. Banks 😒
icarus ascending
It kills me. "What the hell were you thinking?" He's fn Steve Hacket. He's thinking that it was what he wanted to do. Piss off and record your own music.