Friday Night/Saturday Morning Album Rock - GTR - Hackett/Howe - 1986

[cayugafalls]

GTR is the 1986 debut album and sole official studio release from the short-lived super-group GTR. The album peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart, and the single "When the Heart Rules the Mind" reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Another single, "The Hunter", peaked at No. 85. The instrumental piece by Steve Howe, "Sketches in the Sun", resurfaced on his solo album Motif Volume 1 and again on his Anthology album. Steve Hackett's "Hackett to Bits" was a simplified version of the title track from his Please Don't Touch album. (It had no connection with the similarly titled "Hackett to Pieces" from Highly Strung.) Asia later recorded their own version of the Downes-penned "The Hunter" for their 1997 compilation album Anthology.

The group, founded by ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett and then ex-Yes and ex-Asia guitarist Steve Howe, disbanded in 1987. Geoff Downes, another ex-Yes and ex-Asia member at the time, produced the album.

The band's name, anecdotally, comes from the marking on the studio mixing console that indicates the 'guitar' volume control.

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[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. Last Hackett show I saw he did When the Heart Rules the Mind

As far as 80s pop prog goes, I prefer Asia, but I did see GTR and I do like some of this stuff.

And even though I'm a fan of them, I still appreciate the 3 letter review from Spin, I think: "SHT"

[FreepFryer]

2. A case study in why you shouldn't use different reverb on each instrument :)

There’s lush and then there’s saturated beyond recovery