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paulo · 12-02-2007, 12:54 AM

I would have loved to see Genesis in Brazil. I bet it was a sight to see![/quote]

They did fantastic shows in Brazil.

There were about 30,000 - 60,000 fans each show and people were very happy to see them! At that time very few supergroups came here, and so the press end everybody was very happy and enthusiastic. They were covered by many newspapers, magazines, many interviews on TV and even the radio stations tried to play their songs - the songs were very long and so they tried Carpet Crawl!
They had been here some months before just for interviews promoting ATOTT- I remember the TV interviewer asking Steve Hackett if he had a message to Brazilians - and he said..."hummmm...Yes: buy our records, see our shows, buy Voyage of Acolyte" - very humorous!
And Genesis were happy too - all songs had huge ovations and the crowd went crazy in songs like INWIL and Musical Box. They came to an encore dressed with the Brazilian football(soccer) team uniform, it was hylarious, and the crowd went crazy about that.

Phill did coments about all songs in Portuguese! It was very nice of him, for few people here could understand English at that time...
People at the Hollywood Bowl shows had a mild and behaved reaction compared to the wild(but nice) reaction people had here...I suppose that IF people here heard a farwell speech like Phil did in the last show, there would be a 10 minute ovation - in the Bowl there was a nice and mild 1 minute ovation...considering that it was their last show(let´s hope it will not!!!)
I am not comparing audiences

, this is just an example about how crazy people became about them, here in Brazil!

I was 15 and I could never forget that show - I was very lucky to see them!
"My" Genesis

playing in São Paulo - unforgetable!

I wish you were here in 1977, Tina.

12-02-2007, 12:54 AM	#101 (permalink)
paulo GNC Forum User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: São Paulo, Brazil Posts: 61	It was fantastic, Tina! I would have loved to see Genesis in Brazil. I bet it was a sight to see![/quote] They did fantastic shows in Brazil. There were about 30,000 - 60,000 fans each show and people were very happy to see them! At that time very few supergroups came here, and so the press end everybody was very happy and enthusiastic. They were covered by many newspapers, magazines, many interviews on TV and even the radio stations tried to play their songs - the songs were very long and so they tried Carpet Crawl! They had been here some months before just for interviews promoting ATOTT- I remember the TV interviewer asking Steve Hackett if he had a message to Brazilians - and he said..."hummmm...Yes: buy our records, see our shows, buy Voyage of Acolyte" - very humorous! And Genesis were happy too - all songs had huge ovations and the crowd went crazy in songs like INWIL and Musical Box. They came to an encore dressed with the Brazilian football(soccer) team uniform, it was hylarious, and the crowd went crazy about that. Phill did coments about all songs in Portuguese! It was very nice of him, for few people here could understand English at that time... People at the Hollywood Bowl shows had a mild and behaved reaction compared to the wild(but nice) reaction people had here...I suppose that IF people here heard a farwell speech like Phil did in the last show, there would be a 10 minute ovation - in the Bowl there was a nice and mild 1 minute ovation...considering that it was their last show(let´s hope it will not!!!) I am not comparing audiences , this is just an example about how crazy people became about them, here in Brazil! I was 15 and I could never forget that show - I was very lucky to see them! "My" Genesis playing in São Paulo - unforgetable! I wish you were here in 1977, Tina.