DO YOURSELF A HUGE FAVOR GENESIS FANS...

Thanks for that. I'll go to the Wolverhampton gig - but they'll have to be EXTREMELY good to beat Regenesis!

Thanks for the heads up. I've been meaning to see one of these Genesis tribute bands, and they're also playing in Toronto in April.

I'm just astonished at the number of tribute bands there are out there. Check out www.genesis-music.com/tribute.htm.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Mike

checked out your link.

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Genesis on Two Grand Pianos from Norway

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?? The mind boggles!

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

My question is whether a true "tribute" band is allowed to interpret these classics in this manner, or whether it should be viewed as heresy.

BTW, the sample MP3s are really quite nice. I'm still reeling, though, at Brad Mehldau's phenomenal solo piano rendition of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android".

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Hey Mike, I show them at the Danforth theatre..it was great.
Now for you other naysayers...
The first time I saw the show they had seven members...to reproduce the original albums live(SEBTP) and not use any tapes, you needed an extra keyboardist ans guitarist. The show now uses five members and reproduce the concerts the way the original band did. You can hear some subtle differences on a few passages(Dance of the Moonlit Knight, etc.)
These musicians use vintage instuments, even the ever unreliable melotron (I think he is a collector and expert on the instument). I believe Armando Gallo (official photographer/ biographer) of genesis is also on board.
I have seen other bands try and do this and they don't even come close nor are they worthy of roady status. These are actual re-creation of the concerts, not some dumb tribute band doing there interpretation. Every last detail is exact, even each and every word spoken between songs, EXACTLY LIKE THE ORIGINAL! They even have the original slide show from TLLDOB. Even a mild Gabriel?Genesis will be blown away... BTW...Banks always had two sets of keyboards on stage, mellotron, organ, electric piano...

The Watcher of the Skies picture seems to be missing the white pyramid spaceship I recall Peter Gabriel descending to the stage in at the start of the number when I saw them top of the bill at Reading Festival one year in the 1970s. Sorry, can't be the real thing without the spaceship and a smell of cloves ;-)

Cheers

John

[QUOTE]Originally posted by John Boon:
The Watcher of the Skies picture seems to be missing the white pyramid spaceship I recall Peter Gabriel descending to the stage in at the start of the number when I saw them top of the bill at Reading Festival one year in the 1970s. Sorry, can't be the real thing without the spaceship and a smell of cloves ;-)

Are you sure this isn't some sort of 'chemical' memory? I don't recall any such device!

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You may be right about the white spaceship...I know at one of the Montreal shows they used wires to lift Gabriel at the end(I think) and a wire broke or something like that...it wasn't used at other shows after that...but I also remember at TLLDOB show there was a large white, circular cylinder that was lowered down on Gabriel during one of the songs (Colony of Slipperman??)...check out some of the links on the first postings' website http://www.themusicalbox.net/ because I spoken to some of the staff before and these guys are hardcore...they'll know.

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Are you sure this isn't some sort of 'chemical' memory? I don't recall any such device!

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. Close, very close.

No, thank goodness, I went over to the Genesis web-site at http://cgi.www.genesis-music.com/cgi-bin/www.genesis-music.com/yabb/YaBB.cgi (nice people)and checked it out on the forum and it was real all-right.

What was really, really scary was that someone asked me if I'd recently raised the subject on the Naim forum.

Cheers

John

That was me. It's not THAT scary surely

I saw the show last night, and it was one of the best "rock concerts" that I've ever attended. (It's kind of ironic that it's a cover band.) I actually enjoyed it more than seeing the real Genesis back in the mid-80's in Winnipeg, and the mid-90's in Toronto.

They were manned in a similar fashion to the original band, with each member handling the same duties. The sonics (in terms of matching the original sounds of the instruments) was amazing, and the arrangements and performances were almost perfect (AFAICR). The fidelity wasn't as good as my home system, but I know that's an impossibility in a live setting.

The lead singer sounded, looked and moved astonishingly like Peter Gabriel. It was really quite eerie. The background singing was done mostly by the drummer, with a bit extra here and there by the bassist and keyboardist.

The lighting, sets, costumes, slideshow, etc. also added much to the experimence.

If you like early Genesis and you get a chance to see these guys, then you must go. Trust me... you'll really enjoy it.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Was it up in Greektown (on Danforth)?? Not bad, eh??

Yes, it was in the Musical Hall on the Danforth. Although that place has seen better days, I still think it's one of my favourite venues for live music. It's small enough to seem intimate, yet with enough people to feel like a "big concert". Roy Thompson Hall is also good in this manner.

I went with a friend who had seen them before, and he really enjoyed it as well. He was also with me at that awful Tony Levin concert a month ago. You know us Prog Rock lovers have to stick together.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

BTW, I took the plunge and ordered this back when I first learned of it, and it arrived a couple of weeks back. It's very well done, with a tangible sense of nobless. The interpretations are insightful and moving. I find it astonishing that they've distilled the works down to the important aspects, yet they still sound as if they were intended to be piano works from the beginning.

The recording's sound quality is not half bad either.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Albert Hall, SEBTP by The Musical Box. Not as brilliant as I had hoped for, I'm not a HUGE Genesis fan though (and have never seen them live), a friend who we went with is and enjoyed it immensly. I thought they were doing a pretty good job of sounding like the albums until, as an encore, Steve Hackett joined them on stage for the Firth of Fifth, totally transformed the sound and made me realise that the original shows must have been pretty impressive.

Simon

"Well you know all the words and you sing all the notes, but you've never quite got the song."