Steve Hackett - Roland GR-500 Showcase - Please Don't Touch - Vintage Analog Guitar Synthesizer
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- The is rare footage of Gensis guitarist Steve Hackett from November 8, 1978. Steve was on a solo tour, promoting his new album 'Please Don't Touch'. Steve opens the concert with a really great showcase of the amazing Roland GR-500 guitar synthesizer, using the GS-500 guitar synthesizer controller. The complete show can be found on the DVD: Steve Hackett 'Spectral Mornings'.
I would love to see Steve do an opening like this for his concerts. The gear and sound is just outstanding.
For sure!
I saw the same tour, and he used it for his first two or three tours. Dropped for a while but resurrected for one show I saw in mid 80’s. Great sound. Saw him last year & the music was used as entrance, but not played live. Lasting influence!
Takes me back to my first concert at Newcastle city hall in 1979,when Steve began the gig with this sound.....
I will bet that was a great show, I saw him in LA last October and it was totally killer. One of the best shows ever.
You’re right about that box set,I got Steve to sign the individual cd at a meet and greet 👍
@@michaeljones6948 Cool!!
Saw this tour Autumn '78 in Liverpool - Awesome concert 😎👌.
Followed Steve with great interest since then.
Still play the albums 'Please Don't Touch' and 'Spectral Mornings' to the uninitiated and they go down a storm and people cannot date them!
Awesome! I really hope to see Stave again this year if possible.
A nugget of the then modern music engineering! Leave it to Steve to pioneer its use!!
WOW! Mr. Hacket is awesome amazing guitar solo with Roland GS-500 and Fender Strat with original strat tremolo. Fuzz pedal is cool for blues and rock!
I think the Strat has a Kahler trem on it.
With Floyd Rose and Seymour Duncan Blackouts Metal for Metal Synth🎸
Edgar Froese used this on the album Cyclone from 1978.
Great info!
Thanks for sharing mr Joness! :)
I owned this once.
I didn't think that the GR-500 controller guitar had a whammy bar on it.
The stock GR-500 does not have a whammy, but having seen Steve Hackett in concert he loves to add a whammy to his guitars, including a Les Paul and Fernandes (Les Paul) copies.
@@WayneJoness, I guess he had Roland insert controller electronics into a CBS-era Strat. That isn't even a Roland-Ibanez guitar.
@@libertycabbagemusic He is playing a Roland GR-500 for the first two minutes of the track. At two minutes he switches to a Strat, you can see him switching guitars. But the first two minutes are a Roland GR-500.
@@WayneJoness, it seems the Strat is manipulating the Synth at times.
@@libertycabbagemusic Steve uses a gizmo called ebow at times in this show (Narnia/Spectral Mornings intro) to obtain an infinite sustain and a bottleneck for sliding effects. No synth controls on his black Stratocaster. The only synth effects are obtained with the GS500/GR500 Guitar Synthesizer system Steve uses in the very beginning of the show.