Steve Hackett - Please Don’t Touch
	Released: 1978 Label: Camino Records/ Charisma Records/Chrysalis Cat. No.: CDSCD 4012 (Charisma) Total Time: 37:15
	Reviewed by: Davide Guidone, March 2003 If you have never listened to any Steve Hackett album, this could represent a good chance to start. I've always thought his works were so good that they could not be considered guitar records, like Satriani’s for example, because of the great arrangement and high quality composing standard. I’m sure the first three solo Hackett records (Voyage Of The Acolyte, Please Don’t Touch and Spectral Mornings) ought to be owned by all progressive rock fans. Please Don’t Touch is, perhaps, the best example in his career. In fact, this disc is the first without Genesis influences, in contrast to Voyage Of Acolyte for example, and has his personal mark. I believe this Please Don’t Touch will make you understand that Steve is a little genius. This composing freedom is remarked upon also because the guitarist presents a wide variety of pieces that represents a lot of different genres. Hackett himself said: “I wanted to get the most diverse and eclectic tracks that I could together on one album; a style mix between a European structured approach to rock and a Spartan black American sound." Surely, a black American song is the wonderful "Hoping Love Will Last," a soulful ballad sung by Randy Crawford. Other guest stars are Kansas’ vocalist Steve Walsh, and Richie Havens, who both appear on two songs. I have to make this consideration: the only piece that Steve will play over the years in his gigs is the title track, which the same musician suggests that it not be played to people with heart conditions… More about Please Don’t Touch: Track Listing: Narnia (4:06) / Carry On Up The Vicarage (3:11) / Racing In A (5:07) / Kim (2:14) / How Can I? (4:40) / Hoping Love Will Last (4:09) / Land Of Thousand Autumns (1:57) / Please Don’t Touch (3:39) / The Voice Of Necam (3:11) / Icarus Ascending (6:21) Musicians: Steve Hackett – guitars, keyboards, percussion, voice Dave Lebolt – keyboards John Acock – keyboards John Hackett – flutes, keyboards, bass pedals Chester Thompson – drums Phil Ehart – drums, percussion Tom Fowler – bass Graham Smith – violin Hugh Malloy – cello Richie Havens – vocals Steve Walsh – vocals Randy Crawford – vocals Contact: Website: www.stevehackett.com Note: will open new browser window Discography Voyage Of The Acolyte (1975) Please Don't Touch (1978) Spectral Mornings (1979) Defector (1980) Cured (1981) Highly Strung (1983) Bay Of Kings (1983) Til We Have Faces (1983) Momentum (1988) Time Lapse (1992) The Unauthorised Biography (1992) Guitar Noir (1994) Blues With A Feeling (1994) There Are Many Sides To The Night (1994) A Midsummer's Night Dream (1997) Watcher Of The SKies: Genesis Revisited (1997) The Tokyo Tapes (1997) Darktown (1999) Sketches Of Satie (2000) w/John Hackett Feedback '96 (2000) Live Archive 70s 80s 90s (2001) To Watch The Storms (2003) Live Archive NEARfest (2003) Metamorpheus (2005) (w/The Underworld Orchestra) Hungarian Horizons - Live In Budapest (2003) (DVD) Somewhere In South America - Live In Buenos Aires (2003) (DVD) Live Review (September 2003) Live Review (March 2005) Live Review (October 2005) Interview (June 2005) With Genesis: Nursery Crime (1971) Foxtrot (1972) Live (1973) Selling England By The Pound (1973) Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974) Wind and Wuthering (1976) Trick of the Tail (1976) Seconds Out (1977) Three Sides Live (1982) With GTR: GTR (1986)
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