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
Steve Howe (musician) suspending their ongoing Yestival tour i.e. cancelling the seven remaining dates. Howe was voted "Best Overall Guitarist" in "Guitar Player" magazine five years in a row (1977–1981) and in 1981 was the first rock guitar player inducted into the "Guitar Player" Hall of Fame. The only other two guitarists to win the "Best Overall Guitarist" category for the "Gallery of Greats" are Steve Morse and Eric Johnson. Gibson Guitar Corporation, the maker of Howe's second electric guitar (which he was still playing forty years later), said that Howe "elevated rock guitar into an art form" and "helped define a new