The Tokyo Tapes The Tokyo Tapes The Tokyo Tapes is ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett's live album featuring a progressive rock supergroup line-up of John Wetton (from King Crimson, UK, Asia), Chester Thompson (from Weather Report, Frank Zappa, Genesis live), Ian McDonald (from King Crimson, Foreigner) and rounded out by keyboardist Julian Colbeck (worked with Hackett and with Yes spin-off Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe). The album was compiled from two concerts at Koseinenkin Hall in Tokyo, Japan on 16 & 17 December 1996. The album also contains two Steve Hackett studio tracks. In 2001, a live DVD also called The Tokyo Tapes and culled
GTR (band) group. Howe expressed interest in working with Hackett, whom Lane then approached. The former Genesis guitarist proved amenable, despite some doubts as to the project setup: his last few solo albums (including the atypical all-classical-guitar project "Bay of Kings") had sold disappointingly. Still, he hoped GTR would sustain his prominence as a guitarist and finance future solo work. Once the two guitarists were in place, the group recruited American drummer Jonathan Mover (ex-Marillion, and later to work with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Alice Cooper), bass guitarist Phil Spalding (ex-Bernie Tormé, Toyah, Mike Oldfield and Original Mirrors) and singer Max