Today I was reading up on (and preordered) the upcoming album by Israeli prog-metal band Orphaned Land, and read that Steve Hackett guests on the album. I then started thinking about all the albums Hackett has guested on, decided to look at his discography on Wikipedia. Look at this list of albums he's guested on!:
Two Sides of Peter Banks (1971) by Peter Banks (1 track : Knights (Reprise))[60]
Voo de Coracao by Ritchie (1984) (1 track : Voo de Coração)[61]
Wind in the Willows by Eddie Hardin (1985) (1 track : Wind in the Willows)[62]
Strangeland by Box of Frogs (1986) (2 tracks : Average and Trouble)[63]
Orchestral Maneuvres: The Music of Pink Floyd by David Palmer and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1991)
Gallery of Dreams by Gandalf (1992) (7 tracks and co-wrote End of the Rainbow)[64]
Arkangel by John Wetton (1997) (2 tracks : Nothing Happens for Nothing and All Grown up)[65]
Drivers Eyes by Ian McDonald (1999) (2 tracks : You Are a Part of Me and Straight Back to You)[66]
Sinister by John Wetton (2001) (1 track : Real World)[67]
Sheafs Are Dancing by Djabe (2003) (1 track : Reflections of Thiérache)[68]
Emergent by Gordian Knot (2003) (3 tracks : Muttersprache, Some Brighter Thing and Singing Deep Mountain)[69]
Hexameron by Nick Magnus (2004) (3 tracks : Singularity, Seven Hands of Time and The Power of Reason)[70]
Checking Out of London by John Hackett (2005) (5 tracks : Late Trains, The Hallway and the Pram, Ego & Id and Headlights)[71]
? by Neal Morse (2005)
Swiss Choir by Chris Squire (2007)
Sacred Scenes and Characters by Canterbury Glass (2007; recorded 1968) (1 track : Prologue)[72]
U-Catastrophe by Simon Collins (2008) (1 track : Fast Forward the Future)[73]
Sipi Benefit Concert by Djabe (2009)
Sitting on the Top of Time by Jim McCarty (2009) (1 track : Living from the Inside Out)[74]
JL by Algebra, (2009) (1 track : Il molo deserto)[75] www.dusk.it/algebra
The Book of Bilbo and Gandalf by Marco Lo Muscio (2010) (1 track Galadriel)
Children of Another God by Nick Magnus (2010) (1 track : The Colony Is King)[76]
Dirty nd Beautiful Volume 1 by Gary Husband (2010) (1 track)
In the Footsteps of Attila and Genghis by Djabe (2011)
Cavalli Cocchi, Lanzetti & Roversi by CCLR (2011) (1 track)
Dirty and Beautiful Volume 1 by Gary Husband (2010) (1 track)
Raised in Captivity by John Wetton (2011) (1 track)
Grace for Drowning by Steven Wilson (2011) (1 track)
Prog Exhibition 2 by Various Artists (2012) (2 tracks)
Talsete di Marsantino by L'Estate di San Martino (2012) (2 tracks)
Down and Up by Djabe (2012) (5 tracks)
The Rome Pro(g)ject by The Rome Pro(G)ject (2012) (2 tracks - "Down to the Domus Aurea" - "The Mouth of Truth" - both by Hackett/Ricca) www.vincenzoricca.it
Beneath the Waves by Kompendium (2012) (1 track "Lilly")
A Proggy Christmas by The Prog World Orchestra (2012) (1 track)
Captain Blue by Rob Cottingham (2012) (1 track)
Lifesigns by Lifesigns (2013) (1 track)
Playing the History by John Hackett, Marco Lo Muscio & Carlo Matteucci (2013) (4 track: "Hairless Heart", "After the Ordeal", "Hands of the Priestess", "Galadriel")
The Theory of Everything by Ayreon (2013) (1 track : The Parting)
Overnight Snow by Nick Fletcher & John Hackett (2013) (1 track : Three Mediterranean Sketches)
Cre by Duncan Parsons (2014) (1 track : J: Oi!, playing harmonica, joined by John Hackett, Gary Boyle, and Ton Scherpenzeel)
N'Monix by Nick Magnus (2014) (3 tracks : Eminent Victorians, Broken and Shadowland)
The Ghosts of Pripyat by Steve Rothery (2014) (2 tracks : Morpheus and Old Man of the Sea)
Torn Apart by Franck Carducci (2015) (1 track : Closer to Irreversible)[77]
Courting The Widow by Nad Sylvan (2015)
Another Life by John Hackett (2015)
Cabdury-Hicks by Cadbury-Hicks (2015) (1 track : Just Another Honky-Tonk)
Citizen by Billy Sherwood (2015) (1 track : Man and the Machine)
Of Fate And Glory by The Rome Pro(G)ject II (2016) (3 tracks : Of Fate And Glory - S.P.Q.R. - The Pantheon's Dome)
Some of these I've heard, and I've pretty much forgotten what the solo he contributed (that's USUALLY what it is) sounded like. Some I either forgot or didn't know that he guested on.
Can anyone name a song or album he guests on that's worth having a good listen to? I sort of think he saves his best solos for his own albums, which is fair enough - probably though I just haven't given most of these that I have a close enough listen. The Nick Magnus album N'Monix is the one I've probably paid most attention to, but it's actually been a while now so I can't remember. I guess this would be a good use for a Spotify playlist of whatever from here with Hackett is on Spotify.
He's a nice guy and is obviously willing to help out lots of bands and musicians.
Oh, I forgot he was on Steve Rothery's The Ghosts of Pripyat. It's funny that Rothery wasn't enough guitar greatness on there! I'll have to have another listen.
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