Chords for STEVE HACKETT-GENESIS REVISITED 2-BBC BREAKFAST-24.10.2012

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We're back with the latest at 1.30.
Until then, have a very good morning.
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_ _ _ Welcome [C#m] back.
If you were looking for a band to fill a stadium
30 [E] more years ago, you needn't have looked further than Genesis.
In the 70s and 80s, they came out with some big songs
and there were some big names in the band.
One of them was guitarist Steve Hackett.
We'll speak to him in a moment.
And here's Guitar [F#] Morning, Steve.
Good morning.
First, [A] here's The Way You Were. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench,
I can always hear them talk.
Babe, [F#m] I'm just a loud mower.
You can tell [E] me by the way I [F#m] walk.
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[F] My dream girl music is playing. _
_ Voices can't make me be whole. _
_ Please leave this nation [C#m] from the start.
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Steve Hackett joins us now.
[F#] Very good morning to you.
[E] Good morning, Susanna.
It's nice to see you.
And I'm glad you brought your [C] guitar in.
You've just been playing a little bit to us.
It's a very different sound to that [E] sound that we're listening to there, of course.
Acoustic guitar, nylon strings, Spanish influence.
Yeah.
Just one small part of the Genesis sort of repertoire spread, if you like,
because Genesis was so many different types of music.
Yes, it was.
Yeah, lots of different things.
Anything from social comment to [C] pantomime to many, many things.
A couple of very extrovert singers with the band,
Peter Gabriel, Phil [E] Collins.
It covered a lot of bases.
Yeah, and you could do things then.
You could experiment.
You could do very different things.
As you say, pantomime.
Yes, well, there was aspects of that, you know,
with Pete wearing a flower mask and dressing up.
And that kind of made all the difference.
So sometimes the music was complex and labyrinthine.
But with that sort of visual presentation,
you could do a lot of [F#m] different things.
So you're not [E] getting Genesis back together.
No.
You are revisiting.
I am revisiting, yes.
_ I am revisiting the period from [C] [F] 71 to 77 [E] when I was with the band.
On your new album.
That's right.
So why would you do that?
You go back, you take the songs.
Yeah.
And what do you change about it?
Well, in places I've added an orchestra,
there are lots of different singers interpreting the songs,
about 35 different people on the album.
So and also from my point of view,
you get the chance to redo those guitar parts
[C] and get them in tune and in time [F#] simultaneously.
Were you not happy with the way you recorded them?
[E] Well, you know, they were really happy with the ideas,
loved them, loved the songs, but they were rushed,
you know, [A] between tours and gigs.
[F#] So just the brush with the studio in those days.
This is the perfectionist in you coming out, isn't it?
Oh, I can't help that.
Yeah.
So what are you [E] going to_
Because as you say, there's a kind of Spanish guitar.
_ It's a feeling about some of your playing.
[F] And are you going to [F#] play a little bit of that?
I can play a bit, yes.
[E] OK, well, a couple of little bits that were from from the early days.
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_ _ _ [F#] Genesis always have a sort of slightly fractious personnel history,
because you're all so creative, I suppose it's hard to keep you all together.
And you left the band, if I remember correctly, fairly suddenly.
And yet Genesis fans always say,
oh, if only the original line up would get back together again.
It's like the Beatles, really, isn't it?
It is, yes.
And it probably takes more than one [E] Beatle to tango, doesn't it? _ _
It has been [F] discussed.
I've always said I'm up for it.
So, you know.
You did [E] get Peter Gabriel to sing one Genesis song with you once on stage,
didn't you, when he would normally say he'd never do it?
Yes.
Well, actually, yeah, there was, I think 1982 was probably
the last time we all played together live.
It's a long time.
And that was when Pete was doing WOMAD and it lost a lot of money.
And Genesis reformed.
_ I flew back 3000 miles to get on stage for a couple of encores.
I mean, seriously, to do that, to bail out WOMAD at the time.
But that was_
So maybe he [F] does he owe you?
He owes you?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't [Em] think so.
No, he was the guy who got me the gig in Genesis.
He was the guy who phoned me up.
So I think I owe everything to him, actually.
So [E] when you say it has been discussed,
has it been discussed with each individual member?
Well, it has, but then there's the odd retiree.
So I think it's probably not necessarily going to happen.
As I say, it's always possible, but improbable.
I'm up for it.
You know, if they call me, I'm there.
In the meantime, you're going to go on tour next May.
Is that your Steve Hackett material or is it just the Genesis revisited?
It's the Genesis stuff, yeah, with a band,
six-piece band and Nadd Sylv and Swedish singer.
So if we want to hear Supper's Ready live again_
Yeah, that's_
OK.
All right.
It's lovely to see and lovely to hear the guitar as well.
Thanks so much, Steve Hackett's new album Genesis Revisited 2
is [F#] out now.
You can catch him as Bill C.
When I saw Genesis back in 1972, the whole band cost £90 to hire.
Those were the days.
It's a bit more than that now, isn't it?
Well, I don't know.
You have to ask them.
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[Em] Thanks very much.
That's all we have [D] time for this morning.
Gerry Marsden from Gerry and the Pacemakers will be here tomorrow,
along with the American crime author_ _
Patricia Cornwell.
Patricia Cornwell.
That's who she is.
Join Charlie and Louise from SIX tomorrow.
Have a good day.
Bye-bye.
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