Steve Hackett An Open Window Live, Tallinn, Estonia, 1988 Finnish TV
An Open Window: an unusually rare 1987 nylon string guitar performance from Steve Hackett, from YLE/Teema Finland, in an odd tuning, never heard much at all in his live repertoire -- a piece that didn't appear on one of his albums until he reissued it as a bonus track in the '2000s on 'Momentum' (arguably his best solo classical guitar album). Sadly, someone chose to cut-in overlapping useless banter from announcer Erki Perends over some of the piece... Television people are often unsettled by instrumental music and frequently feel the need to pollute it with mouth sounds they can recognize. Still, it's a beautiful one.
An Open Window: an unusually rare 1987 nylon string guitar performance from Steve Hackett, from YLE/Teema Finland, in an odd tuning, never heard much at all in his live repertoire -- a piece that didn't appear on one of his albums until he reissued it as a bonus track in the '2000s on 'Momentum' (arguably his best solo classical guitar album). Sadly, someone chose to cut-in overlapping useless banter from announcer Erki Perends over some of the piece... Television people are often unsettled by instrumental music and frequently feel the need to pollute it with mouth sounds they can recognize. Still, it's a beautiful one.