by theknife » 30 Jan 2009, 20:49
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Chris Squire about his collaboration with Steve Hackett
Work is ongoing on a rock album with Steve Hackett (ex-Genesis, ex-GTR) on guitar and Chris Squire on bass. Following Hackett's appearence on Chris Squire's Swiss Choir, Squire did some work on a planned solo project by Hackett, but this has developed into a collaboration.
In an early Nov interview, Squire explained, "Following on from [Swiss Choir], I went round to his studio and played on some things for him that he had been working on I think from a view to making a solo album. [...] he had been working on a new project and asked me to join in on it. Once I became involved in it, we started writing new material together and now it's developing into another project, which I think, is collaboration and I think it's going to be called Squackett." A release is due early 2009.
In the Nov interview Squire went on:
It’s about 70% done on my part. Before I left England for the States, I tried to do as much work on it as possible and left Steve with it to add guitar parts, etc. Fortunately in this modern day of the Internet I get the tracks sent to me and I can hear what he’s doing back there. That project is going to be finished by next spring anyway.
In a 9 Oct article, Squire had said:
We're nearly 75 percent done. [...] Hackett is [...] actually a very good singer. We're doing a lot of harmonizing, and some of it is almost in the Crosby, Stills & Nash vein.
An announcement from Steve Hackett's website about a joint Dec 2007 radio appearance read, "If we're lucky and there's time, there may be an exclusive advance playing of a new Hackett rock track featuring Chris on bass - this can't be guaranteed though!" In the end, the piece wasn't played. In a Sep post on Yesfans.com, Squire said that some of the songs he had been working on for his next solo album (see above) "have been diverted to the project [...] with Hackett." This includes "Aliens are Only Us from the Future", which in another form is also being played live on the current tour by Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White of Yes (see main page).
In an early 2008 interview in German magazine Eclipsed, Hackett describes the line-up as being with Squire and his brother John and that he would like to get Simon Phillips (Toto, ex-Mike Oldfield, ex-Mike Rutherford) on drums. Asked about the possibility of touring, Hackett replied that he hoped Squire and Phillips would have the time.
Phillips was subsequently confirmed for the album and one Jan 2008 interview with him suggested he had already laid down tracks, while a Jun rumour suggested that a line-up including Hackett, Squire and Phillips were seeking to arrange live dates for 2008.
Those plans have shifted, with the 9 Oct article saying Spring 2009 European dates are planned.
In a Sep 2008 interview for Bass Player (US; Jan 2009 issue), Squire says: "we're planning to go out and do a tour together, probably in the spring [...] we might do some Fish Out of Water songs."
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