"From Genesis To Revelation" - new version with new mixes, Anthony Phillips hints

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I think a certain level of excitement can be justified. Looks like it’s more a band thing rather than a record company thing. CherrryRed own the rights, by the way.

Well well

I won’t hold my breath … yet

But this sounds like a completely different thing compared to all previous rereleases. Curious - is Peter also involved? That would be great.

Exciting, those early days have a magical feeling to me; even though the music is very embryonic I do enjoy hearing it and it would be good to have different mixes or additional material if there is any.

Would love to know what input the main players have. If Peter is involved it might take some time! Although I think Cherry Red have had the rights for a while now? So maybe things are nearing completion.

Wrong thread I know but has anyone heard any more about Tony's involvement with The Rocking Horse Music Club? I'm guessing he's going to guest on one track but would be good if it was more than that.

Please tell me Jonathan King isn't involved.

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Please tell me Jonathan King isn't involved.

why should he? He doesn't own the rights anymore. CherryRed / Esoteric own the rights.

/ Anthony Phillips: New version of first Genesis album afoot

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Curious - is Peter also involved? That would be great.

I heard he's insisted on patching some of the weaker vocal performances, reckons he can do a much better job now.

(...just kidding... probably...)

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I heard he's insisted on patching some of the weaker vocal performances, reckons he can do a much better job now.

(...just kidding... probably...)

😂 And Hackett's redoing a couple of solos... even though he wasn't even on the album.

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why should he? He doesn't own the rights anymore. CherryRed / Esoteric own the rights.

https://www.genesis-news.com/n…sis-album-afoot-n959.html

As part of the deal signing the rights over to Cherry Red/Esoteric, he could theoretically have reserved the right to exert some element of control over future releases of FGTR.

I'm not saying that's the case, just that it's a possibility.

Anyway, if he's nowhere to be seen, that works for me!

Listen...if part of the outcome of this project were to be Tony, Peter, Ant, and Mike getting together and recording new versions of Charterhouse-era Genesis songs? I'd be way into that.

This is really exciting news to me. Even if it is just a new mix of the album that the band likes more than King's (perhaps in line with some of the "50 Years Later" versions that came out briefly a few years ago), that would be worthwhile. But I have some (likely unrealistic) dreams that it could be even more.

I've been working on an "alternate history" Genesis Early 1970 Album playlist that includes some of the Charterhouse demos, the BBC sessions Trespass-adjacent tracks, and a few songs from later Anthony Phillips' releases that were written in '68/'69. So I've been wasting a bunch of time reading up on the songs they had then.

So my lofty hope is that the band would be able, and willing cost-wise, to use some of the recent AI tools that helped Peter Jackson make Get Back and the surviving Beatles extract Lennon's vocal and piano for Now & Then, and get demos of the unreleased songs from '67-'69 out into the world. There are a number of songs that have been named but not heard, as well as songs that have come out as Ant solo recordings later in the 70s, but the recordings from that era haven't been. If there were any sound quality issues, they could theoretically be cleaned up with new technology.

If the issues are performance or composition based...well, I hope time and age have made them less precious about sharing their nascent offerings with the world. C'mon, boys...we already love you, and we promise to still love you even if Little Leaf or Barnaby's Adventure are terrible songs.

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Listen...if part of the outcome of this project were to be Tony, Peter, Ant, and Mike getting together and recording new versions of Charterhouse-era Genesis songs?

You say this is likely unrealistic but it's beyond that and won't happen.

Cherry Records can remix but only a miracle improves the poor recording by Regent Sound Studios.

I've a new appreciation for this era of Genesis after listening through the BBC broadcast set a few months back. I actually really like it and am excited to hear what this endeavor is.

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Cherry Records can remix but only a miracle improves the poor recording by Regent Sound Studios.

I am really curious to learn what they did exactly and what the new package will look like!

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You say this is likely unrealistic but it's beyond that and won't happen.

You're right, of course -- but I took a moment to follow the advice of your signature when I thought about it.

This can really become interesting - should Peter Gabriel be involved! I hope he is.

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This can really become interesting - should Peter Gabriel be involved! I hope he is.

To me, it doesn't matter if any of the Genesis members are involved. I'm just hoping that the end result will allow us to hear the album the way the band intended. And, that we can actually hear the individual instruments.

Just not sure how the band's involvement would ultimately make any difference.

Genesis members involved may simply mean some of them submitted a few old tapes.

Most of that period's recordings are in the hands of Anthony Phillips, already digitized long time ago, but some other things are in the hands of Tony Banks and probably Mike Rutherford as well.

Their involvement could stop here, and it would be best if it does indeed stop here.

We know that FGTR was recorded on 4 tracks.

With Protools you could to listen optimally, like All I’ve Got to Do by The Beatles?

I've avoided previous releases, simply due to the more or less poor sound quality of the songs.

However, I have enjoyed the much-improved 'stereo enhanced' remixes of the Beatles albums that were done by Giles Martin in recent years. It really breathed new life into those albums, and gave them the wider frequency range and soundscape they deserve. If FGTR does something like this, I would be very interested-especially when knowing the band themselves are likely involved in this release!