After going to a concert in Barcelona last week, I read through hundreds of comments about the musician Steven Wilson and this is my conclusion. Whether you are 15 or 95, think Billie Eilish or Billie Holliday are the nutz, get the best headphones or speaker system you can lay your hands on, crank it up and listen to Regret #9. If you don't get goosepimples or dont feel a million bucks by the end, invigorated at the quality of human endeavour crammed into this 10 minutes... This song is where Pink Floyd meet Led Zep and Steven Wilson comes along and eats them for breakfast. It is not only live and off the scale intense and exciting, but the finale is not even featuring the guitarist who played on the original version of this track - Guthrie Govan, who a lot of musicians say is among the most accomplished guitarists playing today. And almost nobody in comments about this track even mentions the insane keyboards that precede the guitar finale. The intensity and passion make the greats sound like dull organ grinders. Everyone has their guitar great or best keyboard player, but consider the context of their wizardry. ie who of the guitar greats ever had a backing band and a soundtrack to match this track? I'd say none. Not Pink Floyd, not Led Zep, nor Gary Moore, not Eddie van Halen, whoever. And the guitar great band players who might have been able to match the intensity and skill of the finale, would have handed their music over to record producers, engineers and technicians to make sense of their craft. This track is the work of Steven Wilson, one musician who surrounded himself on stage with some of the most accomplished musicians working today, gave them a vision and from the front directed and guided them to outshine the track he originally composed, mixed and engineered. Moby was great for doing it all himself, Prince... I'm sure you can add to the list, but to me this is the best 10 minutes of music I have ever heard released by and performed by a "single" artist. Hopefully I can get back to painting soon, because that concert opened a space in my head that wasn't open before. All part of the journey, I guess! I feel better already for getting this off my chest :)