=-> Quoting LORNE MURPHY to MARTIN RIDGLEY:
 =-> re: _Voyage of the Acolyte_....
 LM> It's Hackett's first solo album, (1975).
   Okay.  I may have heard it back around that time, but I've never
 actually owned a copy or listened to it properly.
 LM> It features Collins and Rutherford, as well as Percy Jones on
 LM> "A Tower Struck Down".  This is easily my favorite Hackett album.
 LM> Anyway, it's basically the '75 - '77 Genesis minus Banks.
   Hmmm... who plays keyboards on it, then?  It'd be hard to sound like
 Genesis without keyboards.  And I wonder what Banks was doing, if all
 the others were there.  Hmmmm....  ;-)
 LM> Therefore you can see how it is the lost Genesis album, similar to
 LM> Squire's _Fish out of Water_. In fact, _FooW_ and _VotA_ are among
 LM> my favorite albums of all time.  Both of them are miles ahead of
 LM> several of the respective bands' albums!
   That's lofty praise indeed!
 LM> I'll take _VotA_ over any Genesis album that is not in the _Nursery
 LM> Cryme_ through _Wind and Wuthering_ phase,
   Hmmm.... that arguably spans two phases, but... 
 LM> ....and _FooW_ over any Yes album that is not in the _The Yes
 LM> Album_ through _Going for the One_ phase(s). :)
   Okay, so in both cases you've covered an era that most people would
 consider to be the strongest creative period of each band.  That's cool.
 If you had tried to tell me that _VotA_ was better than _The Lamb Lies
 Down_ or _A Trick of the Tail_, I'd have started to wonder....  
 =-> re: Anthony Phillips _The Geese and the Ghost_.....
 LM> _The Geese and the Ghost_ is nice, but probably not his best.
 LM> _Spectral Mornings_ is a good Hackett album. I don't have all of
 LM> their solo albums, but I do have:
 LM> Steve Hackett
   
 LM> Anthony Phillips
   
   Cool!  I didn't even know either of them had that many albums out!
 LM> I picked up Moraz Bruford _Music for Piano and Drums_ a couple of
 LM> days ago, on mint vinyl. It cost me 7 bucks, but I figured what the
 LM> hell, I had never even heard it.  Quite nice, actually, I like it.
 
   I like it a lot!  Even though they get into some pretty complicated
 music, I still find it very refreshing to listen to.
 LM> It was you who I was discussing this with, right?
   Yes.   :-)
    Cheers,
             Martin
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