How did The Fountain Of Salmacis come about?
“We were rehearsing one night about six months after i joined. Tony started playing something on his own, which he said was part of a previous number that they’d done. He incorporated the mellotron into the song and I started putting a harp-like effect on to it, which was a very subtle way of playing guitar, but it gave it spark. The whole thing developed into The Fountain Of Salmacis. The guitar solo at the end was, i think, a breakthrough at the time. Previously we’d had both chords that sounded very orchestral, which i loved; but suddenly there was a solo over the top of that.” – steve hackett.
