Steve Hackett - Please Don´t Touch/The Voice of Necam

[Melkor89]

I think that both Wot Gorilla and Plase Don't Touch are useless tracks. Genesis made a lot of better songs.

[nemnoton]

This must be from the remastered cd. It sounds quite different from the previous version. I need to get those remasters!

[TJSlipperman]

This could have been a great Genesis track. They could have at least made it into a b-side or put it on Spot The Pigeon, if it wasn't able to fit into W&W...

[trickers69]

My dad used to play this on new years eve at midnight as it should be played with as much bass and treble as your system can muster ,neighbours didnt go for it much though .I still love it now

[oktaviartigianato]

che pezzo!

[10squonk]

Please don' t touch is a cool track but not among Hackett's best, I can understand that Collins could not get into it, not very groovy...It's main strength is the cool arrangement and the athmosphere. Voice of necam is a great conclusion of that instrumental trilogy on Please don't touch.

[ladislas59]

voice of Necam is splendid

[Xanaseb]

love that acoustic bit. perfect

[Xanaseb]

@tjrtherocksponge Apparently, it wasnt much to do with the band systm but that he was already planning to quit before ToT (around late 1975 early 76) after he had done voyage of the acolyte, but Kim Poor who was an immense Genesis fan persuaded him to stay until W&W

[btom22259]

hackett was 50% of genesis

[TheSeptemberRose]

Yeah, this is obviously the inspiration for Hackett To Bits!

[thisisverytrue]

...I read this when you first put it on. I agree and have just cited the idea on a comment for someones posting of the '...slumbers... in that quiet earth' segement of 'Wind and Wuthering' (the album in question here); the 'Voice of Necam' segment is a beautifully poignant moment. Tonight, 2 December 2010, I should have seen Hackett at the Junction, Cambridge but the weather stopped us. Have to catch the next tour though still have great memories of his June 79 concert at the Brighton Dome!

[Xanaseb]

@thisisverytrue unlucky, I saw him in southampton before all the snow. Feel for u man.

[julyvalls]

GTR Hackett to bits , it´s the same!!!!!!!!!

[rizz7604]

@tjrtherocksponge I agree on TB, but punk didn't kill prog. 70's prog rock killed itself, due largely to the egos of those involved, who didn't really know what they had at the time.

[bajko1000]

steve hackett is one of the most inovative and creative guitar players from eraly 70tis to now....i just love his unique style...beacouse i will never be able to play like this.....anybody can shreed, but just a few can play like hackett himself...the problem of the most players of today is that they just working on speed and they are forgeting how to be creative and unique

[skintrade]

I wonder what this would have sounded like it it was on Wind and Wuthering.. maybe tony didnt like it because the keyboards aren't as prominant as the guitar?

[anonymusum]

When you listen to this solo album you know how much Genesis was missing after the split.

[codematrix]

I've been hearing this song well over 20 years now and I still love it.

[FoxtronInk]

Whatta beautiful piece of contemporary real art.

Steve Amazes me every time.

[lhawes92]

The start of the Voice of Necam reminds me of the track Hackett opened the show at Shepherd's Bush '09 with, something to do with a mechanical bride. Anyone know the track's name?

[BassFranky]

Yes, the title is "MECHANICAL BRIDE" :o)

[lhawes92]

@BassFranky Now I look stupid :o)

[slavemale2]

Don't how many of you have got the GTR album (a band that Steve appears in alongside Steve Howe of Yes & others) but "Please Don't Touch" makes an appearence on that album under the title "Hackett To Bits". And a damn fine rocking version iy is too!

[stormy11x1]

Gotta love the "Warning Label" about this song on the album jacket. It's True !!!

[rustedtractor]

In 1981 Steve came to the college in my town, alas i wasnt able to go. I heard tho that he was very gracious to the people who came to see him. Kudos to that.

[Bongofury361]

I saw Steve live at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, 1980.

The Commodore is a fairly small, intimate venue that serves alcohol, and it is the kind of place you would want to see all your favourite bands and musicians!

Steve opened the show with "Horizons", which blew everyone away!

Just an incredible show, and one of my most memorable! Ahh, to be 19 again, when I didn't know all the nasty stuff about the world I know now, and I was generally just concerned with getting laid! LOL!

[jsilence418]

banks is a marginally talented guy with a big head certainly not of Hacketts caliber.

[TheMightyBlighty]

Incredible.

[pinoa7x]

WHat a song !!!!!

[sunking66]

I really love wot gorilla, maybe as much as I love this song. Better they left out things like "Your own special way". The Voice of Necam is just pure magic.

[awcindy]

Totally don't blame him for leaving Genesis after they wouldn't include this on Wind and Wuthering. Great song.

[morgoth195]

There seems to be a fair amount of animosity about the way Hackett left on both sides. I've heard Phil, Tony, and Mike say things that make it look like Steve's role in the band was just as a "hired-gun", and I've heard Steve say some not too nice things about Genesis, specifically Tony Banks.

[blackrover50]

Steve Hackett is just a superb guitarist. As much as I love Genesis I believe that Steve would have never 'shone' as his music does, if he'd stayed. I and my sons had the pleasure of meeting him on one of his (too rare) visits to the USA. A true artist and gentleman!

[timechannel]

If you have stood in front of Steve playing "Spectral Mornings" you have seen Heaven on Earth

[musicomments]

Thank you Boonfield and morgoth. I'm interested in musicians like Steve Hackett, whose solo career has been a bit overlooked in the U.S. , yet is highly respected on the music industry side. I have also made some other YouTube comments on certain Hackett songs....Other musicians I'm planning to cover: Uli Jon Roth, Graham Bonnet, and Gregg Rolie...

[musicomments]

I read that this tune was very close to appearing on a Genesis album at the time-circa 1976- and Hackett, Banks, Collins, and Rutherford were rehearsing it, but was "voted down", to the dismay of Hackett. So, he made it the title track to this second solo album of his, from 1978--for those of you who love trivia like me....

[Boonfield]

Didn´t know about that. Love that kind of "trivia", thanks.

[morgoth195]

From what I've heard, "Please Don't Touch" was rehearsed by Genesis during the "Wind & Wuthering" sessions, but supposedly Phil Collins didn't like it very much, as he apparently couldn't "get behind" it. So it was decided that they would drop it, which really pissed Steve Hackett off to no end. He thought that it was one of the best things he'd ever written (I agree with him there). This incident is always mentioned when Steve talks about why he decided to quit Genesis and go solo.

[genesisrock43]

yeah they chose 'wot gorilla?' over the masterpiece that is 'please don't touch'.

poor decision

[morgoth195]

Yep. At that point Tony Banks was pretty much in control of the band.

[timechannel]

Somewhat fascinating both pieces are pure WInd & Wuthereing.. and we all surely agree "Dance on.." is the heaviest Genesis track of all time

[drkam6]

@genesisrock43 Absolutely agreed. They should have put Your Own Special Way as a single only, and W&W should have been like this: Side 1 Eleventh Earl Of Mar One For The Vine Inside And Out Please Don't Touch Side 2 All In A Mouse's Night Blood On The Rooftops Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers In That Quiet Earth Afterglow If the album would have been this way, Steve Hackett might have stayed with Genesis much longer.

[TheJman2600]

Yep, I read that in the Genesis Archive #2 booklet. Phil said "Sorry, can't get behind that."

[nofintuna]

At least Steve has not made a a few bob out of it now!! Good for him.

[8imagemaker]

@musicomments Yes, it was brought in to the Wind & Wuthering sessions. But it was voted down in favor of "Wot Gorilla?" This would help Steve decide to leave Genesis in 1977

[sandro28grizz]

@8imagemaker I don't remember hearing that it was voted down in favor of "Wot Gorilla?", I read that they were rehearsing "Please Don't Touch" during the early W&W sessions and decided to drop it because it was too difficult for the rest of the band. "Please Don't Touch" was never recorded with Genesis. But you are right about one thing, Hackett has never had anything good to say about "Wot Gorilla?".

[8imagemaker]

@musicomments Yes, it was brought in to the Wind & Wuthering sessions. But it was voted down in favor of "Wot Gorilla?" This would help Steve decide to leave Genesis in 1977

[Talaramama]

@musicomments correct....these things happen though, steve is gr8

[skintrade]

@musicomments thats true, and it was two fingers to the band

[SlowNews]

@musicomments You're right. I believe it helped cement his decision to leave the band after 'Wind & Wuthering'.

[mikew4001]

@musicomments Yes true, Collins didn't get into the beat of this track during the recordings of Wind & Wuthering in 1976, and Banks and Rutherford didn't like it either, so they dropped it from the song list to Hackett's disappointment.

[honeybozo]

@musicomments and apparently that's why he left....

[Gary19702]

could anyone post narnia from this album? the live vrsion on youtube just isn't the same, the album version is far superior.