Songoftheday 11/15/14 - Mother protect me protect me from myself, lately I can't tell who really are my friends...

GTR - "When The Heart Rules The Mind"
from the album GTR (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day comes from a progressive-rock "supergroup" featuring two of the genres' most respected guitarists straying from their normal sound. Steve Howe, who had been a member of Yes before starting up the superprog group Asia, teamed up with former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, to become GTR (for 'guitar', duh). Using technology that would feed their guitar playing into a synth program, the group had its gimmick of not having a keyboard player but still sounding like they did. The first single from their first (and what would be their only) album, "When The Heart Rules The Mind", was written by the Steves, sung by Max Bacon, and produced by Howe's Asia bandmate Geoff Downes, hence sounding like an out-take from that act...

"When The Heart..." became GTR's sole top-40 pop hit in July of 1986, while climbing all the way to #3 on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock radio chart. After a second minor pop hit with "The Hunter" and a tour, they would split, with Howe rejoining Yes (then as Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe) and Hackett resuming a solo career.

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..and here's the band in concert, with an actual keyboard player to cover the studio tricks...


Up tomorrow: A controlling woman gets filthy.