Memory doesn't half play tricks on you, you know. I don’t think there was ever a time when the live album was an important part of the progression of an artist but I seem to remember from my own youth that the arrival of a live record was considered to be AN EVENT. An event you could have endless arguments about, for example, whether the live version of Iron Maiden’s ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’ on Live After Death (EMI) is superior to the studio version on Number of the Beast (it is, by the way). Today, the live album appears to be the perfunctory release of the couldn't-be-bothered brigade, the contractual cash in, the how-can-we-milk-them-some-more cynicism. Continue reading
The post Steve Hackett – Genesis Revisited: Live at the Royal Albert Hall appeared first on Ghost Cult Magazine.