GTR - (YES & GENESIS & ASIA) - BEACON THEATRE - JUNE 25, 1986

Description: GTR - (YES & GENESIS & ASIA) - BEACON THEATRE - JUNE 25, 1986 - VIP PASS. Cuckoo Cocoon Black Light Time Lapse at Milton Keynes Andante in C Horizons Surface Tension Mood for a Day Ram Second Initial Country Mix Clap From a Place Where Time Runs Slow Jekyll and Hyde Here I Wait Prizefighters Imagining Hackett to Bits Spectral Mornings / After The Ordeal ...In That Quiet Earth I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) Toe the Line Sketches in the Sun Pennants Roundabout The Hunter Reach Out (Never Say No) You Can Still Get Through When the Heart Rules the Mind Jekyll and Hyde (Reprise) GTR were a British supergroup rock band founded in 1985 by former Yes and Asia guitarist Steve Howe and former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. Though the band's leaders were known as progressive rock musicians, GTR appealed to album-oriented rock radio stations. The band lasted for two years and one album. Past members Max Bacon Steve Hackett Steve Howe Jonathan Mover Phil Spalding Robert Berry Nigel Glockler The band's name came from an abbreviation of "guitar" used by recording studios for labelling guitar tracks. After Steve Howe left Asia in 1984, he and former Yes manager Brian Lane discussed forming a new group, and Lane approached former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, though his last few solo albums had sold disappointingly. Still, he hoped GTR would sustain his prominence as a guitarist and finance future solo work. They recruited American drummer Jonathan Mover (ex-Marillion), bass guitarist Phil Spalding, and singer Max Bacon. GTR sought to create a contemporary band sound without using keyboard synthesizers (following Howe's disgruntlement with the predominance of keyboards in his former group Asia). Instead, Hackett and Howe's guitars were outfitted with Roland guitar synthesizer pickups, which operated rack synthesizers. While Brian Lane pursued record deals (initially, without much success), the band set about recording songs with Howe’s former Asia and Yes colleague Geoff Downes as producer. Howe and Hackett disagreed on method: whereas Howe favored investment in high-quality studio time, Hackett preferred a relatively low-budget recording approach but greater investment in instruments and technology. Howe's approach prevailed and proved expensive, leaving the group uncomfortably in debt. Hackett would later criticise Lane's work as manager, accusing him of following a "divide and conquer" approach to ensure that the band would be in dissension and agree to the final deal secured by Lane to recoup the time and money invested. AlbumEdit GTR's self-titled debut album was released by Arista Records in May 1986. The album went gold, hit No. 11 on the album charts, and spawned a hit single, "When the Heart Rules the Mind" (No. 14), which stayed in the charts for 16 weeks. Another single, "The Hunter", received some video coverage and modest airplay, peaking at No. 85. While the album was a chart success, it was (and has remained) a work with a mixed and highly debated reputation among rock fans, especially supporters of Genesis and Yes. Some[who?] said the album contained substandard filler material beyond the two singles, and there was some criticism directed at Max Bacon's strident tenor. J. D. Considine's infamous review of the album (in Musician magazine) consisted of only one word: "SHT". (Considine later said it was the most famous thing he'd ever written in his three decades as a critic, while Hackett stated the review actually helped sales of the album.)

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