Steve Hackett - 'Horizons' - Live At Nottingham, 1990

[SeagullS6CW]

This is blissful

[Silverspring777]

masterpiece .. I'll pray for you Mr. hackett, simply marvelous

[moco635]

beautiful thx, Mark

[peaceheretic37]

After all these years I still expect this to be followed by Supers Ready. Thumbs up here, if you, too, expect to hear Gabriel singing "Walking across the sitting room.... " after hearing Horizons. In fact we all thought it was the introduction before we looked at the LP notes. .... Or was it just me? Oh well.

[jorgemei]

Does anybody what guitar is he playing?

[Android92110]

Wow. I had no idea Hackett could play acoustic guitar so beautifully. In my view, he's much more musical than Howe. Howe is so ham-fisted. I'm impressed. (and yes, I do see the Bach derivative here. Still, it's amazingly well played with feeling).

[mikelmart]

Three dislikes? Must have pressed the wrong tab by mistake. How do you go to this video and not expect something besides what it delivers. Beautiful and timeless music.

[KingKoboldMcMarco]

reminds of : das wohltemperierte klavier by bach

[igalflint]

THIS IS THE REAL THING!

[vaibach]

hey!!..at firts is Bach! :O

[camelulen]

super's ready is ready

[kikiphallin]

@coherentmonkey

He looks a lot like the guy from prision break too

[assdss666]

My graduation final project on English is about Genesis I LOVE YOU

[gisella3]

emozionante.... cos'altro dire di questo dolcissimo pezzo ispirato dalla grande musica di Bach?

[Alex23Gallo]

It s not a question of how many notes or how dificult . Back in 72 it was an incredible piece before the fantastic Suppers Ready music .

There was something magic about the music

I was only 12 and it blew my mind to a dream land

Genesis Galaxy

[skintrade]

I wish steve would do another pop album, maybe could be called 'Cured Again?' I think with the modern technology and his voice now being a lot stronger it could be a great release.. also he should bring back Nick Magnus

[conradleviston]

When that finished did anybody else start singing "Walking across the sitting-room, I turn the television off."?

[nicolaisgoro]

Loll not Clint Eastwood.... He is Mahone from Prison Break!!!!!!!!! LOL

[papalazerus22]

This man ! wrote some of the greatest guitar riffs of all time !!! Steve ! is a Genius !!

[RollTheFemers]

Beautiful!

[Bureyeanne]

My two year old girl just said, "He is cute".

[WELLBRAN]

When this guy was born He already had it all inside him. Superb musician be it acoustic or electric

[crossroadss]

don`t U think Steve is much better than Michael ?

[7mix7is]

Aaaaa Cest Ma Toune Preferer !

En + mon Frere La Jouee ! ! Taht Biouthiful Miuzz

[paddeification]

lovely song

[signorechanta]

Steve Hackett has nothing but tons of beauty in his hands. This piece is just masterful, tender and pure awsome.

[angusyoung98]

this piece was inspired by the prelude in G major for Cello by Bach,

but obviously Hackett just got inspired by that, it doesnt mean that he's actually playing THAT song, this is unique, and very emotional, awesome...

[MoonPaddy81]

The first two bars sound the exact same.. I never noticed that. Weird..

[hitman2070]

Sounds great...wish it was a little longer though.

[Dylan90125]

Nah, it's not that hard to play, but to play it with such emotion is the difficult. Steve Hackett is amazing!

[JoaquimOCaracol]

Is mazing how he makes it look so easy. This is a very hard song play (i know because If now the entire music) and he plays it like hes playing a basic song that any baby can play. Very good.

[Armandreu]

Steve Hackett GOD

[vieiracelina]

isso é bach

[cicciodinonnapapera5]

wonderful!!!

[IntuitionDigression]

Horizons has been inspired by J. S. Bach: Suite for cello n. 1 in G BWV 1007 (Prelude). It is actually almost equal. Listen to it!

[Hogweed11]

The intros are pretty similar. I won't really call it equal though.

[IntuitionDigression]

You are right. They are not equal. But the inspiration has been aknowledged by Steve Hackett himself (he was practising on this Suite when Horizons sprang to his mind)

[jazzpsalti]

@IntuitionDigression don't get so excited... he lifted the 1st 2 bars, and that's all

[IntuitionDigression]

jazzplati. I do not get excited at all. I'd prefer to hear something that is pure Hackett rather than Hackett-strongly-inspired-by-B­ach. Hackett himself has acknolweged the derivation

[dermotoblong]

@IntuitionDigression i thought it was based on rachminov?

[ombrax5]

Просто чудове і неперевершене виконання! Стів Геккетт завжди був Великим Майстром гри на гітарі. СУПЕР!

[kaioxygen]

Turn the reverb up Steve

[mirzamarco]

So I've just interviewed this gentleman here, only to discover that my very sophisticated KORG Tone Works PXR4 hasn't recorded a single word of what Mr Hackett said, graciously leaving me with nothing else than my memory to remember the ton...s of names and titles the man has mentioned.

Selling a PXR4 by the pound, in case you're interested.

[MatlockJack]

I saw him doing this at University College of Swansea (as was) in 1983; (he performed it twice in fact that evening). When I see some of the talentless wannabees on X Factor, I want to show them this video and say; 'that's a musician AND Rockstar, so go back to your video game guitars'.

[Mynameisfukingtaken]

0.55 ( 0.53 ) how epic doesn't that look ! With the lights !

[JassieBear459]

so like very great llike

[garrethdavis]

amazing

[kuren444]

It's too cruel. I'm "supper's ready" hungry now.

[makissoflife]

This song helped me to fall in love with Genesis back in the day!  It's as beautiful today as it was back then! You are a class act Steve Hackett!

[KittenKiller]

He looks like Kevin Bacon.

[skintrade]

more like ricardo

[Franzko787]

Younger Clint Eastwood a bit. Great guitarist and he seems like a nice bloke too.

[neonbreon]

this is just such a wonderful piece

[firulai88]

elegance

[poncehbb]

im sorry, buy i pee myself, this song it's absolutely wonderfull

[carlonaples]

wonderful

[melodieacoeur]

Aie Aie Aie!!!! a tomber par terre <3 ( quand je serais la jouer comme ca^^)

[passionpicking]

MAgnifique!!!!!!!!!!

CHris

[PexPBS]

One of the best guitarists!

A real gentleman.

[mfjcarlos]

this man together steve how, ¡incredible!

two monsters of guitars. it`s a pleasure to me to litsening all their music,from genesis hacket,and yes howe. thank you for make us a goodness men.

[JRBwithME]

Perfect and beautiful. As is Steve THE MAN.

[klodg]

The GREAT Steve Hackett !

[vikingilvikingo]

Steve WE love you .

Return you and Peter to GENESIS PLEASE

[JUANDAMILLAN]

esta cancion tiene mucho de johan sebastian bach suite N1 preludio para cello

[littleamore]

It's an arrangement

[felsner1]

Brilliant...

[emphyrio57]

A wonderful combination of grace and dexterity. Though it is slightly rushed (especially at the end); this is my favorite version. I wish more of his nylon guitar work was availabe on DVD.

[freaky666freak]

so simple yet beautiful in its own special way

[godstuber]

the dead notes at 1:06 make me shiver :)

[bassidol]

godstuber, are they dead notes or are they harmonics that don't get captured well on audio?

[godstuber]

Well, you could very well be right, but even in the actual album version (off Foxtrot) they sound identical. The album was recorded in '73 so I could understand an audio quality and I can understand this being a live performance.

I think it is hard to tell without seeing that left hand. Harmonics or dead note, I absolutly love them :)

[godstuber]

'72 rather, really should check over my posts :)

I looked at a few other versions and I think there is a good chance you are right- there is another version of it, though the camera is quite far away unlike this video which focuses on his hands, and it looked like it was not a dead note- but as said, the camera was far away and the differences of a few inches can easily be distorted by the distance and poor quality.

[ITARoss]

I've recorded a version too with a webcam and a microphone..nothing compared to steve hackett!!

but I'll be glad if you watch and comment my version...thank you!!

and...this song is really magical (:

[AlexPenzance]

!!!!

[coherentmonkey]

I never realised that Clint Eastwood was so talented.

[dudefrombarrie]

you feelin' lucky punk?!

[tuscarett]

¡ Es verdad que se parece!

[astrowisk]

The interesting thing is that Clint Eastwood also writes musical stuff for his own motion pictures...

lol

[ShiningRedMoon]

@astrowisk Steve is Clints alter Ego :D

[crossroadss]

@coherentmonkey hehehe :-)

[LetzBeaFranque]

@coherentmonkey But that made his day.

[crossroadss]

@coherentmonkey

hehe; right

[alessio6678]

@coherentmonkey ahahahahah

[JMRBAQ]

É vero amigo agnosticum61. Desde España: "mi fa venire la pelle di cappone" se dice "me pone la carne de gallina". Stecci cosa.

[agnosticum61]

Ogni volta che la ascolto, mi fa venire la pelle di cappone. Fantastica!! e geniale Steve Hackett

[spewgilist]

I've heard this a million times and seeing this man play it still knocks me out. The shot fom backstage is awesome.

[dimebagincarnate]

it sounds very potrait of tracy inspired lol...well the harmonics intro anyways :P

[WouterJ]

It could well be the other way round, "Horizons' is from the 1972 Genesis album "Foxtrot" and Jaco's album appeared in 1974. But a more realistic guess is that both pieces are based on Bach's first cello suite.

[dimebagincarnate]

aaggh, i was never really a fan of the barouqe period. Still amazing though, cheers for the info :D

[Razzledazles]

my dad played this for me and i recognized it as the cello suite. i played it on the viola one year :)

[chelini69]

EXCELENTE!!

[tammycreed1]

That is absolutely beautiful!!!