1982 - Highly Strung is the sixth solo album from former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. Hackett's last release for Charisma Records in Britain is one of his strongest efforts.
Recorded in London at Berry Street Studios, Marcus Music & Redan Recorders.
Mastered at Utopia Studios, London.
Cell 151 recorded February 1982. Walking Through Walls, Camino Royale & Always Somewhere Else recorded May 1982. Group Therapy recorded August 1982. Give It Away, Weightless, India Rubber Man & Hackett To Pieces recorded October & November 1982.
Think Eddie Van Halen invented finger tapping on the guitar? Think again. Seven years before Eruption created a new school of shredders, Steve Hackett, then guitarist for prop-rock godfathers Genesis, set aside his pick and applied his index finger to the fretboard of his Les Paul - and he's not afraid to lay claim to conceiving of the technique.
"I'm the inventor of tapping on record," he says. "We haven't found anyone who tapped earlier than me, unless somebody did it in the 1930s, but I doubt it."
SIDE A
"Camino Royale" (Hackett, Magnus) – 5:28
"Cell 151" (Hackett) – 6:26
"Always Somewhere Else" (Hackett) – 4:02
"Walking Through Walls" (Hackett) – 3:48
SIDE B
"Give It Away" (Hackett) – 4:08
"Weightless" (Hackett) – 3:31
"Group Therapy" (Hackett) – 5:47
"India Rubber Man" (Hackett) – 2:31
"Hackett to Pieces" (Hackett, Magnus) – 2:40
Steve Hackett faz show hoje dia 8 no Citibank Hall da Barra da Tijuca, no Rio de Janeiro e na terça dia 10 no Citibank Hall de Sampa.