Got into him via the BBC broadcast of his Reading festival performance, which I taped, and still have. Strong stuff from Voyage through to Beyond, and Squackett, but, like you, his recent stuff is a disappointment, He seems trapped by the commercial success of Wolflight and GR2, I understand it, but it's a shame.
Same experience for me: hearing the August '81 Reading Festival performance which I think was maybe on the Radio 1 Friday Rock Show with Tommy Vance?
Just hearing Every Day ("a cross between Mantovani and Weather Report, bit of a mixture....") for the first time got me hooked.
I'm a huge fan of everything (rock, acoustic, classical) Steve has done up until the point that Roger King went berserk on the overproduction i.e. Wolflight onwards, in my view.
Would love for Steve to get back to a simpler and more melodic style.