Steve Hackett - Tokyo Tapes (Live in Japan)

Starring:Steve Hackett, Julian Colbeck
Studio: Music Video Dist.
Product Type: DVD

Product Description

TOKYO TAPES: (HACKETT,STEVE)

Customer Reviews:

3 DVDs - all excellent - all different.......2004-08-13

There are three DVDs to date form Steve. They are all excellent and they are all different.

It goes like this:

Tokyo:
Progressive rock, less focus on Steve, more vocals, great classic gennesis tunes with vocals intact.

South America:
Progressive jazz/rock/classical, more focus on Steve, and as Steve says and I agree on of the most precise bands he has ever played with.

Hungary:
Classical trio, with just three musicians, it's hard not to focus on Steve who is just as talented classically, if not more, as he is talented with other styles. There is some mind numbing classical technique here.

The fact that these three DVDs are so different allowed me to buy all three without having to see the same concert with different musicians.

Disonancia.......2004-02-26

Si, disonancia, pero no musical, sino la existente entre la calidad de la interpretación y la calidad de sonido de este DVD. Si fuera por los músicos que intervienen, el concierto en si, el repertorio interpretado, etc., facilmente le daría 6 estrellas, si pudiera, pero la calidad de sonido es pésima. Ya no se trata de que no incluya la opción 5.1 (algo impensable ya en un DVD musical que se precie) sino que la grabación en simple stereo está realizada a un volumen bajísimo. Tengo que poner el equipo de música practicamente al máximo para poder escuchar algo. La calidad de imágen tampoco es que sea nada extraordinario pero, desde luego, es infinitamente superior a la de sonido. Lo dicho le doy tres estrellas que es la media entre las 6 que le otorgaría al concierto y las "cero" que le correspondería a la calidad de sonido.

Great performance / Disappointing DVD.......2003-02-09

The entire concert: song selection, musicians and camera work were all excellent. The less than sharp video quality and the lack of 5.1 audio were disappointing. Maybe I've been spoiled by the incredible audio and video quality of YesSymphonic DVD, but I was expecting more from this.

If you are a fan of "Classic" Genesis and Steve Hackett, it's a worthwhile purchase, but the DVD seems to have been simply transfered from video tape without taking advantage of the capabilities offered in the DVD format.

Great performance of the band,afterwards Wetton changed idea.......2002-10-12

Well I don't wanna get you wrong,that is Hackett, Colbert and Thompson are still producing great music, instead John Wetton, even remaining an excellent musician and one of my old master in prog music, has decide to change radically route about his own musical projects. In fact he's making tasteful -not always inspired- pop and aor albums, but it seems He's not interested to prog music anymore (see also the failure concerning the reunion with Carl Palmer in the ensemble created with John Young - "QANGO"). Anyway this concert, whose digital production in DVD is excellent, will be pass to the "hall of fame of the best rock concert" and it's a special occasion to remind us of the great prog music produced by the 70's english bands like King Crimson and early Genesis! Moreover you can see in action great musicians like J.Colbert,Ian McDonald and C. Thompson, whose collaboration with Zappa, Wheather Report and son on,are a fine presentation!! Well I think of every prog fan being always involved when a splendid supergroup like this can perform live on stage some of the best 70's material. Instead when you listen to some pop hit by Asia and Wetton, which gets the set lighter, you remain interested, because the latter material is quite pleasant anyway, but you should like to listen to some other complex tracks of progressive music.
This DVD is higly recommended!!

Excellent!.......2002-06-06

Extraordinary performance. Hacket and Wetton at the best. McDonald and Thompson with great performances. I didn't like Julian Colbeck because I think he is not at the level of the rest and the keyboards sound quite basic.

The selection of the songs is a golden sample of the best age of the progressive rock.

Customer Reviews:

Just Gorgeous!.......2004-12-24

Tokyo Live which I missed that night - Life time regret for a Tokyo resident!

In short, put essence of Genesis, Asia, King Crimson and GTR in a bowl and mix well - this is it.

Steve on a variety of guitars and vocal, John Wetton on Bass and Vocal, Ian MacDonald on guitar/keyboard/flute and Julian Colbeck on main keyboard.

Just for "Watcher of the Sky" performed by this member is worth buying. (I prefer this version over original Genesis version.)

"Heat of the moment" acoustic version is also one of the collector's items.

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