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) "Keys to Ascension 2", the two double albums containing both live and studio tracks. Since "Keys to Ascension", Howe has appeared on all the albums recorded by Yes. Thereafter, over the following five years, the group released "Open Your Eyes" in 1997, "The Ladder" in 1999 and "Magnification" in 2001, before going on a four-year hiatus between 2004 and 2008. Following their hiatus, Yes released "Fly from Here" in 2011 and "Heaven & Earth" in 2014. On 24 May 1996, Howe received an honorary doctorate in Musical Arts (DMA) from Five Towns College in Dix Hills, New York. Also in