Steve Hackett: New interview

In their online edition of 18/11/2010 the British newspaper The Northern Echo have released an interview with Steve Hackett about his tours, his legal battle for money and song rights and why Genesis cannot reunite.

Hackett describes his current permanent tour (some 150 gigs without a longer break) as a continuation of his “runaway train” life: “I haven’t
even had time to apply for my bus pass.” He is confident, though, that the court case about the rights to his songs will soon be solved.

His first shows with Genesis left him terrified, though he thinks that the music they played then was too intellectual and complicated. Only slowly had the music become more exciting and accessible. He ruled out the idea that the five-people line-up of Genesis will ever play together again: “[We] were talking about doing a live version
of The Lamb
Lies Down On Broadway and a stage musical. Basically a certain
faction […] figured it was
going to be too difficult to do the musical. My take on it was it
then killed stone dead the idea of the five-man piece coming together.”

Hackett looks forward though: “I’d rather be out there performing.”

Links:

Steve Hackett interview in The Northern Echo