A two-fer, as it were. A guy I work with went to see Genesis in Chicago on Wednesday. It turns out I probably should have shelled out the bucks for a ticket, as his report was the show was quite good, despite the fact that they all are looking a tad long in the tooth. Among the songs they played, a nice surprise, was "Ripples" from A Trick of the Tail:
We got to talking about other, um, older rockers, and we got to talking about Steve Howe. On the last Yes tour he looked, in my friends words, "Halloween Scary". Indeed. I also noted, for the record, that Howe could be abrupt, rude, dismissive of other musicians (famously Trevor Rabin), and disdainful of fans. Yet, he is an awesome guitar player. The following is from his attempt at a group, in the mid-1980's, with former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, GTR, called "Sketches in the Sun" (also available on Howe's Not Necessarily Acoustic live solo CD):
