GTR

Artist: GTR
Label: One Way Records Inc
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 046633517522
EAN: 0046633517522
ASIN: B00005JXSR

Release Date: 2001-05-22

GTR

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Tracks:

When The Heart Rules The Mind
The Hunter
Here I Wait
Sketches In The Sun
Jekyll And Hyde
You Can Still Get Through
Reach Out (Never Say No)
Toe The Line
Hackett To Bits
Imagining

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Album Description

GTR is the supergroup that features Steve Howe (Asia & Yes), Steve Hackett (Genesis), Max Bacon, Phil Spalding and Jonathan Mover. This CD was produced by Geoffrey Downes (Buggles, Asia). GTR went gold in 1986 and featured the hit When The Heart Rules The Mind. Remastered. 10 tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Very 80's and Very Bad!.......2007-05-01

I remember well when this record came out. It was hyped big time by MTV way back when, when they played videos. Of course I ran out an bought it because it was supposed to be the greatest guitar record ever made. Turns out it was not even close. There are a couple of decent songs on this thing but for the most part it is synth heavy with very weak, thin sounding guitar work. Nothing but bland corporate rock then and very dated sounding now. Lesson learned - just because some record company throws together some veteran rockers and records them does not mean that their product is going to be good. In the case of GTR they were pretty far from good.

A Guitar/Prog dream come true, while it lasted.......2007-02-03

This short lived prog supergroup was a dream come true. It contains some of the 2 Steve's best work.

The Hunter - should have been a hit written by producer Geoff Downes of ASIA
Sketches In The Sun - Steve Howes beautiful 12 string piece
Toe The Line - Steve Howe is back on the pedal steel after not using it since Going for the One 1977
Hackett To Bits - A better improved version of Steve's 1977 Please Don't Touch
Imagining - Hackett writing is incredible here, highly recommended

Fantastic guitar work.......2006-03-06

Steve Howe (from Yes and Asia) and Steve Hackett (Genesis fame) team up with 3 relatively unknown musicians to form the short-lived GTR supergroup. Sounds like a mesh of hard rock (with guitar work metal fans should find enticing) and arena rock. The results here are not wanting.

Fans should remember "When The Heart Rules The Mind" from 1986. It's style is silimar to Europe's "The Final Countdown" without all the keyboards. It was the biggest song on here, and took "arena rock" to a new level. It meshes acoustic and electric guitars in an upbeat performance that does include an interlude of big drums after a blistering guitar solo in the middle. One of my favorite songs.

"The Hunter" was written by Steve Howe's Yes and Asia buddy Geoff Downes. Very haunting keyboards and acoustic guitars in a tempo just above that of a ballad. Very enjoyable track. (Incidentally, the John Payne version of ASIA also recorded this same song on their Anthology CD. That version is pretty good too.)

"Hackett To Bits" (an instrumental) and "Imagining" are two tracks that blend into each other and make up the same song. This is an amazing piece of music. There is some excellent drumming and guitar work. Don't let acquaintanceship with Yes and Genesis fool you - these guys can rock out with the best of everyone short of Van Halen heaviness.

"Toe The Line" is the only ballad on here, although the instrumental "Sketches In The Sun" comes close. The rest of these songs are quality recordings. Hackett and Howe had quite a formidable musical outfit with this group, although it lasted only very briefly. I like all the CD, although my personal faves are the first two and Imagining. And with producer Geoff Downes at the controls, it's hard to not hammer out a winner in the studio.

This release may be very hard to find - you may have to suffice your search for it with "When The Heart Rules The Mind" and "The Hunter" downloads, but those are best tracks here if that's all your search for this music can produce. Good Luck.

Dung! (Or, what's brown and sounds like a bell?).......2006-02-18

I figured that since both Steve Howe and Steve Hackett were on the album, there would be something good, somewhere. This is a disappointingly cheesy 80s album, with not an original song to be found. With tiresome lyrics, stale synth-heavy music, and silly 80s rock-star posing, they certainly were knee deep in the hoopla. The things that make Steve Howe and Steve Hackett such innovative players are just not highlighted here - the guitars are BURIED in the mix or else playing generic, beer-commercial lines. Listen to "South Side Of the Sky" or "Dance On A Volcano" and tell me this isn't a sellout.

But I admit, this music isn't as bad as late 80s big-hair bands with names like <Color><Animal>, eg White Snake, White Lion, etc. That's why it does deserve one star.

Good music - embarrassingly bad lyrics.......2006-01-25

This CD is a guilty pleasure for me. I'm a big Steve Hackett fan who also likes some of Steve Howe's guitar work. And while others have commented sufficiently on the musical merits of this CD, I've not read one on how simply awful the lyrics are. Most of them are just strung-together cliches. Unlike Jon Anderson's Yes lyrics, which are strung-together nonsense, these words have familiar meanings to them but they smack of hastily thrown-together phrases. "We've got these great musical tracks, now what are we going to sing over them?"

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