Squackett Releases A Life Within A Day
Chris Squire, bassist and founding member of Yes, and Steve Hackett, guitarist for Genesis and GTR, have collaborated together on a project known as Squackett.
The duo just released a long-awaited new album last month (June 2012) entitled
“A Life Within A Day.”
Steve Hackett said, “Chris is a phenomenal bass player, but he’s also a great singer and songwriter. So I had a great time working with him. We selected the best of what we thought each other was capable of. And we managed to work face-to-face writing. Some things were brought in that were separate, originally, but stuff that was intended to be solo stuff or even Yes stuff or Hackett stuff, was kind of rewritten to make sense for this combined thing, Chris and myself and one other main writer on it, Roger King, who engineered and is the producer. It’s that studio construction that he put together. It was very relaxed. We did a lot of it in my living room at home.”
Chris Squire added…”A very, very good drummer, Jeremy Stacey, who played with Sheryl Crow and Noel Gallagher from Oasis, added the big drum sound that’s on the album. Jeremy is such a great drummer and his playing on the album is phenomenal. You just don’t get Chris Squire and Steve Hackett, you get Jeremy Stacey. And Roger King, as well, who is responsible for all of the keyboards and arrangements of keyboards.”
Preview some of the album tracks on Esoteric Antenna Music!
“A Life Within A Day” on Esoteric Antenna Music at Amazon.com
Artist Interview @ Pollstar.com
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Written by: Mike Withrow
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