Been a fan of Hackett since his Genesis years, and having bought all of his solo outputs, I've just started to realize that I'm not enjoying his guitar solos as much as in the past. In my opinion, in his Genesis years his guitar playing was much more melodic. Nowadays his solos are great, no doubt, but less and less melodic and more agressive in style. Maybe I'm getting old and many of you like the way he is playing today, specially in his last four or five records where there is an assured solo in almost every song, but I wonder if having Roger King as his keyboard player and let him do some of his stuff, instead of having a guitar solo in every song, would change the somewhat similar structure of his music and give a new perspective to his compositions. This is not a criticism of his music (by the way I think Wolflight is his best to date), but just how i'm feeling after many of years of enoying one of the greats in Prog Rock history.
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