Genesis & Marillian Guitarists Fly Together - Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery: The Echoes Interview
There have been a lot of electric guitar duets over the years, John McLaughlin recorded duet albums at different times with Larry Coryell and Carlos Santana, John Scofield and Pat Metheny got together and Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp. Okay, I’m stretching on that last one. But none been as musical and expansive as The Roaring Waves by Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery. You know them from Genesis and Marillion respectively. It’s an instrumental album, but has all the progressive rock drama you’d expect from that lineage without the bombast, and complementary guitar playing to go with it.
Steve Hackett: Yeah, we avoided the shred particle, as it were. The idea was not to compete but to have a kind of musical conversation and there’s this kind of question and answer approach, the kind of antiphonal thing. You play something, I play something, I answer to your call
That’s Steve Hackett. We talk to him and Steve Rothery about their album, The Roaring Waves today on Echoes from PRX.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Aug 24, 2026 – Program 2634A | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery | Sandsend | The Roaring Waves |
| 0:06:00 | Hammock | The Second Coming Was a Moonrise | The Second Coming was a Moonrise |
| 0:11:43 | Tina Malia | Serendipity | The Lost Frontier |
| 0:16:38 | Michael Stearns and Robert Rich | Your Own Path | Reunion of Breath and Waves |
| 0:20:00 | Morcheeba | Escape the Chaos | Escape the Chaos |
| 0:24:46 | Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai | Stating Intention | Migration |
| 0:29:30 | Michael Hewett | Gold (Live on Echoes) (excerpt) | Victoria Place: Echoes Live 23 (v/a) |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Interview: Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery | ||
| 0:46:05 | Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery | The Roaring Waves | The Roaring Waves |
| 0:53:10 | Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery | Red Dragon | The Roaring Waves |
| 0:59:00 | Adrian Sherwood | The Collapse of Everything (excerpt) | The Collapse of Everything |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | William Orbit | The Diver (Featuring Natalie Walker) | The Painter |
| 1:06:00 | Ulrich Schnauss | The Weight Of Darkening Skies | A Long Way To Fall |
| 1:10:58 | Thunder Bae | mercybeggingboys | A Woman |
| 1:14:02 | Jim Ottaway | A Promised Reality | Treasures of Light |
| 1:21:21 | Lowly | Fighter | Softly |
| 1:24:52 | STS9 | Glass | Human Dream |
| 1:29:30 | Lisa Belladonna | Future Moves (excerpt) | Counterpoints |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Gandalf | Dreamweaver | Dreamweaver |
| 1:36:12 | BALTHVS | Rare Psalms | Manifest |
| 1:40:11 | Still Corners | Today is the Day | |
| 1:44:30 | break | ||
| 1:45:15 | David Norland | A Closure | La Source |
| 1:46:47 | Michael Stearns and Robert Rich | Inclusions | Reunion of Breath and Waves |
| 1:54:22 | Chrome Sparks | Sleeper (Feat. Khalid and Jonsi) | Ball of Light |