Posts by Sir Ralph Bernascone

Looking for:

- Phil Collins Big Band, Antibes 1996: Wot Gorilla?

- Anthony Phillips: Masquerade

- Olivier Messiaen: Improvisations inédits

A classic:

Those chords made of fourths just haunt me. And with every "When I'm sleep at night ..." a warm sun rises (paradoxically).

Thought it might be that the singer's first name is featured in the song. But that's only clearly true for The Dividing Line ("a little ray of light"). But in It you have "peter" only as an anagram in "pretentious", and in Throwing It All Away you'll just find the odd drum "fill" as in almost any song with drums ...

Another thought was: Maybe the song's title is quoted in another song by Genesis (or related to Genesis). That's certainly true for It, but which songs' lyrics contain "throwing it all away" or "the dividing line" ...?

Why not ask him, how much of a challenge it was to play Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice for Alan Parsons?

And wouldn't Parsons excellently fit Steve's rock-orchestral predilections, as a producer? That wouldn't mean chucking Roger out - Roger might focus on arranging and co-composing, two of his real strengths!

Phew - I had hoped for Rich's Book of Genesis (which I haven't read yet) to reveal something, but, alas, quickly scanning the pages, couldn't spot a hint ...

Quote from Henry Hamilton-Smythe

But, not sure that Design would be a "well-known band". Certainly not here in the U.S.

At least they were graced with a Wikipedia article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_(UK_band)

(But I hadn't heard of them either until a few hours ago ...)

Quote from Henry Hamilton-Smythe

Can anybody give more information on these recordings?

It's in German, I'm afraid:

https://www.genesis-fanclub.de…7-vor-50-jahren/&pageNo=7

Hm, Tony Hill-Smith and Barry Johnston recorded with them. Johnston was with the band Design, it seems, but which band Hill-Smith may have been with eludes me at the moment ...

Quote from thefarmer

Lindisfarne a saw several times in the early 80s, a great live band . Saw them again at a festival a couple of years back . Still really really good.

Blood On The Rooftops lyrics quote a chorus line from Lindisfarne's Fog On The Tyne: "The fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine", with fog replaced by grime.

Quote from Backdrifter

With Rutherford on the soundtrack for The Shout - that's the only one that springs to mind.

Tony is also credited on Ant Phillips' Wise After The Event (for loan of gear) and Mike + The Mechanics' first two albums (concerning the Genesis session leftovers A Call To Arms and the Black And Blue riff).

But of course these cannot be considered collaborations as on The Shout

Every song on IT was played as a threesome, so was Appcalypse in 9/8. But was MMM?!

They're the only songs on their respective albums to contain the word "dam", SR as quoted by Schrottrocker, MMM: "... or was it just another dam?"

Next in the reissue line: the highly anticipated missing links albums, coming with a 27 track bonus disc :

http://anthonyphillips.co.uk

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/pr…v-5cd-remastered-box-set/

I've been thrilled recently by this Lebanese-French composer's YT channel:

Quite sure that none of the Archive Collection tracks (neither vol 1 incl. bonus disc nor vol 2) was reused for the Esoteric (or any previous) reissues!

The Living Room Concert is the next in line in Ant's reissues series. According to http://www.anthonyphillips.co.uk it comes with three bonus tracks .

It first appeared as part of the Lyric Book which will presumably never see a reprint (though I think only the She'll Be Waiting lyric would have to be added) .

Still looking (or rather harking) for a recording if Wot Gorilla? by the Phil Collins Big Band (was played in Antibes 1996, I think). And for Masquerade demoes by Ant Phillips ...

My first PG concert was in Mannheim (Germany) 1993 (Secret World Tour), my first visit to that city. Six years later I moved to Mannheim and have been living there ever since.

In the nineties it wasn't that easy to see Steve live. I live in Germany, and I remember that after Guitar Noir a concert in Hamburg (Fabrik) was announced, but it seems it didn't come about. In the mid 90ies there was I think an acoustic gig in Cologne (Tanzbrunnen) which I couldn't attend. Then in 1997 when I had a ten week stay in England, Steve was announced special guest of a John Wetton concert that took place in Wilbarston hall. Wilbarston is a little nook near Market Harborough near Leicester, nit too easy to get to by public transport ... This was the first time I saw Steve. Afterwards all the musicians could be met and talked to in the lobby, and I asked Steve a question about the Genesis Revisited version of FOF and had him sign the recently published GTR live album.

In years to come I attended quite a few Hackett gigs, particularly before that GR II hype. On one occasion in Luxemburg I went to see the acoustic trio, but hadn't ordered a ticket in advance. I was surprised it was sold out (which was not so usual then), but Billy Budis, his then manager, left his seat to me which was very kind.

So we learn that Ant's official discography as a session musician (http://anthonyphillips.co.uk/discography/sessions.htm) is incomplete and the following early session (1963) should be added (Ant on handclaps, together with Rivers Jobe - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_Jobe):

Hippy Hippy Shake by The Swinging Blue Jeans (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippy_Hippy_Shake)