Released in 1993. HTD Records\/Wildcat WLD-9205 [UK]
\nReissued in 1999. Transatlantic TRACD 309 [UK]. Castle Music America 517 [USA].<\/p>\n
TRACKS
\n1. No Place Like Home
\n2. All Points South
\n3. Fogbound
\n4. Sticky Wicket
\n5. Shortcomings
\n6. Code Blue
\n7. Angels
\n8. Anima Mundi
\n9. Swamp Report
\n10. Instinctive Behavior
\n11. Dominating Factor
\n12. Never The Same<\/p>\n
All tracks written by Peter Banks except tracks 2, 6, 9, 12 \u2013 Banks\/Goff and track 11 \u2013 Banks\/Forth.
\nPublished by Momentum Music Ltd. except track 11 \u2013 Momentum Music Ltd\/Copyright Control.<\/p>\n
Recorded at Basically Portable: Los Angeles; London Final Mix at Zero One, Surrey, England<\/p>\n
by Mott The Dog<\/em> Two wonderful albums followed \u201cYes\u201d& \u201cTime and a Word\u201d, and at this point Peter Banks was booted out, due to his ambitions of entertaining an audience rather than trying to educate them (it was at this point that Mott became a fan, always wanting to have fun & cowering from education). To this day, Yes guitarist Steve Howe, and Trevor Rabin have made a career out of copying Bank\u2019s trademark guitar licks.<\/p>\n Peter Banks went on to form \u201cFlash\u201d who released 3 respectable albums, once described as \u201cYes music played by Thunder & Lightning\u201d, before being swamped by bad management & punk rock. After spending the eighties mainly in session work & looking for suitable musicians to work with, Peter Banks went solo in the nineties with this enchanting album \u201cInstinct\u201d.<\/p>\n From the opening rippling guitar chords of opening cut \u201cNo Place Home\u201d to the final bell which closes the album your ears are held in thrall by this maestro of the six string.<\/p>\n An instrumental album, it always holds your attention by its diversity and humour (you will have to listen to the music to get that). Satriani, Vai, and Co would give their eye teeth to put out such a fine collection of fretwork & tunes.<\/p>\n The two central passages are track 4, \u201cSticky Wickets\u201d played on a midi guitar synthesizer, which starts out funky, and then turns itself inside out to reach a shattering climax.<\/p>\n Before you have time to push the repeat button Banks is off again with track 5, \u201cShort Comings\u201d totally tasteless and not at all Jazzy with a relentless four in the bar bass drum, the night of a thousand guitars with Peter Banks, the fastest guitar slinger in town.<\/p>\n The final track is \u201cNever The Same\u201d a moving tribute to Peter Banks\u2019s late mother. Never has such a beautiful piece of music been played on the electric guitar.<\/p>\n If you hear this music, like me I\u2019m sure you will be mystified why Peter Banks is not an international star. The album cover & the inside sleeve notes are worth the price of the CD alone so you cannot lose. Dogs have superb instinct, trust this dogs instinct, and add this \u201cInstinct\u201d to you collection, you won\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n Source: http:\/\/www.pattayamail.com\/401\/columns.htm<\/p>\n by Saley David William<\/em> Source: http:\/\/www.wilmington.net\/yes\/back-issues\/0112<\/p>\n by All Music, Paul Collins<\/em> Source: http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifexqehld6e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nThis superb, but alarmingly underrated guitarist has a fine pedigree, first coming to notice in the mid sixties in a wonderful flower power band called \u201cSyn\u201d with a certain Chris Squires on bass, then joined by vocalist Jon Anderson they became the marvellously monickered \u201cMabel Greer\u2019s Toy Shop\u201d. Finding this a bit of a mouthful, and with the addition of Toy Kaye on keyboards & Bill Bruford on drums, they found instant international acclaim as \u201cYes\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\nExcellent instrumental rack guitar album. He must have been working on this ever since Flash broke up you can tell a lot of time and effort was put into each piece. There is a bit of experiment in this project and I think it turned out well. One funny thing in a lot of the tracks there are noises and voices in in the background and in track 5 \u201cShortcomings\u201d you you can barely hear this woman say a reunion but where is Peter Banks? I guess that is his shot at Yes. A good album for people who like Steve Howe, Hackett Vai (he admits to being inspired by Vai on one tune- easy to tell which one also) etc. A guitar enthusiast must.<\/p>\n
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\nEmerging from a two-decade exile from recording, Banks released this album of rock instrumentals. It\u2019s clearly a personal production for him; the liner notes give the biographical context of each song, which lends them a resonance that they might otherwise lack. The songs themselves, though not always especially compelling given the apparent lack of live drums, show Banks\u2019s chops still in fine form. Often they\u2019re shot through with odd little voice and broadcast samples. The pointedly titled \u201cShortcomings,\u201d for example, combines Oliver North testifying that Iran-Contra was \u201ca neat idea\u201d with a caller to a Yes radio interview asking why Banks hadn\u2019t been invited to a reunion concert. (Ouch.) The series of over-the-top hammer-ons that run through the song musically beg that question: \u201cSurely I\u2019m as good as Trevor Rabin?\u201d Ah well. At least Banks has kept his sense of humor, for as his liner notes muse, \u201cIf you enjoy listening to it half as much as the enjoyment had recording it, then I have had twice as much fun as you!\u201d<\/p>\n