(I don’t know how I let this one slip by last month. For those of you to whom this is old news – sorry)
Poor old Steve Hackett. When he was in Genesis, he could never get enough of his ideas across to the other band members. One day, he threatened to quit, they mixed him out of the record, and went on to become multi-gazillionaires. Steve managed to maintain a lot of artistic integrity by keeping all his solo stuff in-house. in other words, no major labels were used to get his prodigious and extraordinary solo material to the streets.
And while said material is all pretty good (very good, in fact), old Steve has never gotten the kind of economic remuneration that has been showered on all four of his former bandmates Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Michael Rutherford and Phil Collins, although it should be noted that Collins has three ex-wives.
And now, as Hackett approaches his 60th birthday, he’s being sued for everything he has by his ex-wife. According to the TimesOnline, Kim Poor is making a play for EVERYTHING – including Hackett’s share of his royalties from old Genesis music. Ouch!
Apparently things are so bad that Hackett is working on his new album in the living room of his flat. Double ouch!!
But even with all this adversity, his new record will still be coming out on October 5, and I’ll bet it will be ten times more amazing than anything we’ve heard from Tony Banks in the past ten years!
Dear Steve Hackett ( or his manager ),
I’m Alessandro Russo, Gigio’s brother from Ancona, Italy.
Gigio is actually fighting with a breathing mask at Fano’s ( Italy ) hospital to survive after a big healt problem at his lungs and a big kidneys insufficiency 🙁
His wish now is to send a big greet to Steve and Phil Collins.
I’m joinable directly at +39 338 8126892 or by mail to alexrussoparis@gmail.com
Many thanks
LOVE <3
Alessandro Russo
-kimpoor.com
-kimpoorkimpoor.blogspot.com
-“How a long road travelled w/so much love +, ultimately, so much destruction.”(Kim Poor)
In order to find this and to have peace, I have to continue to tell my story. How a very long road was travelled, with so much love and, ultimately, so much destruction.
But I can at least set some of the record straight. It’s only fair. It was not because of Tony (Banks), as has been widely reported in the past, that Steve left. And I did keep him in the band for an extra two years when he would have left after Acolyte. This is all documented.
I was determined to convert Steve to her virtues.
-At the Starlight Bowl show in 1976, which is mentioned in Gallo’s book, Steve Hackett introduces Entangled as based on a painting by Kim Poor. For those of us unfamiliar with the world of opera, Steve says it features Tony Banks from the “Maria Callas school of synthesizer playing” — he is comparing the dulcet tones (oft quoted) of the famous opera singer Maria Callas (who has been called, by many, the greatest female opera singer of all time) to the ARP Pro Soloist synthesizer’s soprano sound combined w/the choir voice of the Mellotron, which was used to produce the Entangled ending.
-“How a long road travelled w/so much love +, ultimately, so much destruction.”(Kim Poor)
In order to find this and to have peace, I have to continue to tell my story. How a very long road was travelled, with so much love and, ultimately, so much destruction.
But I can at least set some of the record straight. It’s only fair. It was not because of Tony (Banks), as has been widely reported in the past, that Steve left. And I did keep him in the band for an extra two years when he would have left after Acolyte. This is all documented.
I was determined to convert Steve to her virtues.
-At the Starlight Bowl show in 1976, which is mentioned in Gallo’s book, Steve Hackett introduces Entangled as based on a painting by Kim Poor. For those of us unfamiliar with the world of opera, Steve says it features Tony Banks from the “Maria Callas school of synthesizer playing” — he is comparing the dulcet tones (oft quoted) of the famous opera singer Maria Callas (who has been called, by many, the greatest female opera singer of all time) to the ARP Pro Soloist synthesizer’s soprano sound combined w/the choir voice of the Mellotron, which was used to produce the Entangled ending.
-kimpoor.com
-kimpoorkimpoor.blogspot.com