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His best album very high quality recording
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The remaster is great quality
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First rate early recording by Steve Hackett. Well worth the purchase
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His first post-Genesis solo album, 'Please Don't Touch' is sometimes criticized by fans as being too commercial and diverse. I think these very qualities are what makes the album so distinctive and interesting. Hackett had been champing at the bit to have his own compositions performed; this was one of the primary reasons that he left Genesis in the first place. Here, his full creativity is allowed to burst forth. From the Satie influenced instrumental 'Kim' to the soulful 'Hoping Love Will Last'; from the folk stylings of 'How Can I' to the just plain daft 'Carry On Up the Vicarage', there's so much to enjoy on this album. As well as being a virtuoso guitarist, on both electric and acoustic instruments, the album shows what a fine songwriter Hackett was becoming. There's not a wasted track here. The remastered version of the album contains three bonus tracks, but these are just the icing on an already rich cake. If you have a liking for well-crafted, melodic progressive rock and an open mind, do yourself a favour and buy this CD, there's nothing else in Hackett's back catalogue quite like it.Read full review
What an interesting record! I have to admit to being a huge fan of Steve Hackett's, especially 70's and early 80's, so please accept a big slice of bias in my views. Here we have the second solo album and the first as a truly solo artist from the guitariat of the classic Genesis lineup. Instrumentation is stunning and guest vocalists are exceptional. The songwriting is impressive with echoes of Genesis and excusions beyond their territory and styles that would become familiar over the next two or three albums. My only quibble, and it is only slight, is that the collection of songs don't sit so well together, probably emphasised by the different vocal styles. This criticism gets dismissed at the end as tracks 7- 10 flow brilliantly. I like what SH and Genesis did after 1977 but it remains a tragedy that three and a half decades have passed without a creative reunion-maybe there's still time.Read full review
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