Echoes Podcast: Genesis & Marillion Guitarists Fly Together - Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery: The Echoes Interview<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="130713" data-permalink="https://echoes.org/2026/08/26/echoes-podcast-steve-hackett-steve-rothery-2/rothery_and_hackett_at_real_world_2026_by_anne-marie_forker-1_1200x642/" data-orig-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Rothery_and_Hackett_at_Real_World_2026_by_Anne-Marie_Forker-1_1200x642.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,642" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1775828388","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="Rothery_and_Hackett_at_Real_World_2026_by_Anne-Marie_Forker-1_1200x642" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Rothery_and_Hackett_at_Real_World_2026_by_Anne-Marie_Forker-1_1200x642.jpg" src="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Rothery_and_Hackett_at_Real_World_2026_by_Anne-Marie_Forker-1_1200x642.jpg" alt="" width="885" height="480" class="aligncenter wp-image-130713" />In the Echoes Podcast a meeting of two guitar virtuosos of sonic manipulation and melody. 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 were as musical and expansive as <a href="HTTPS://WWW.AMAZON.COM/EXEC/OBIDOS/ASIN/B0H6NRS1BP/ECHOES0A0-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Roaring Waves</a> 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 interwoven guitar playing to go with it.
<blockquote>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</blockquote>
We talk to Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery about their album, <a href="HTTPS://WWW.AMAZON.COM/EXEC/OBIDOS/ASIN/B0H6NRS1BP/ECHOES0A0-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Roaring Waves</a> in the Echoes Podcast from PRX. 
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Echoes Podcast: Genesis & Marillion Guitarists Fly Together - Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery: The Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast a meeting of two guitar virtuosos of sonic manipulation and melody. 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 were 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 interwoven 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 We talk to Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery about their album, The Roaring Waves in the Echoes Podcast from PRX. https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-roaring-waves-24-bit-hd-audio

Echoes Podcast: Genesis &amp; Marillion Guitarists Fly Together - Steve Hackett &amp; Steve Rothery: The Echoes InterviewIn the Echoes Podcast a meeting of two guitar virtuosos of sonic manipulation and melody. 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 were as musical and expansive as <a href="HTTPS://WWW.AMAZON.COM/EXEC/OBIDOS/ASIN/B0H6NRS1BP/ECHOES0A0-20" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Roaring Waves</a> 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 interwoven 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
We talk to Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery about their album, <a href="HTTPS://WWW.AMAZON.COM/EXEC/OBIDOS/ASIN/B0H6NRS1BP/ECHOES0A0-20" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Roaring Waves</a> in the Echoes Podcast from PRX. 
<a href="HTTPS://WWW.AMAZON.COM/EXEC/OBIDOS/ASIN/B0H6NRS1BP/ECHOES0A0-20" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>
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Echoes Podcast – Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery

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