Posts by Schrottrocker

  • ANTHONY PHILLIPS - Dragonfly Dreams (PP&P IX) - 25th anniversary

    I have this album playing every morning before I get to work. It is perfect to relax a little before work starts. Since I made this a habit I am hardly ever listening to it at other times as it always reminds me on my work! :P

    The good thing of having the same music playing every morning is I know exactly when I have to leave the house. With Melancholy Flower I have to get ready, with Night Song I should get going and with Chinese Walls I really need to get going or I'll be late.

  • Anthony Phillips Archive Collection 5CD Box Set (review online!)

    As much as I would love to get to hear the additional tracks on this edition, I am not going to re-buy the same CDs I already own. I have both Archive outputs and I love them but I am not going to buy them again just to get even more tracks. Just like I am not inclined to buy all the PP&P albums again I already own just for the sake of even more tracks, even though I'm sure they will be worth purchasing.

  • Have a laugh with Genesis

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  • Genesis in the media

    I cannot believe Jimmy Page seriously blames Phil, even more so after this long time. The videos of the gig and the following interview is on youtube. Mr Jimmy Page must have been on more drugs than just drinks. Robert Plant did one of his worst performances. Phil and the other drummer did their very best to save the day.


    This is the gig:

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    If you haven't seen it, brace yourself. Embarassing is a euphemism.

  • Last 4 UK shows postponed due to positive covid tests within band

    Quote from Backdrifter

    Oh yes I saw that - "Visibly shocked fans gasped as the normally reserved veteran rockers tussled in an undignified manner, at one point ending up on the floor in an unseemly melee of flailing limbs. Witnesses reported shouts of 'You b*st*rd' and 'Get your f*****g hands off me' in a display of violence and profanity contrary to the normally urbane duo's customary gentlemanly demeanour.


    The band's management were unavailable for comment."

    Yes and all this because Genesis singer Peter Gabriel refuses to take up his band leading duties! You know who you are, you don't give a damn...

    8o

  • The Misheard Lyrics Thread

    If this thread already exists, feel free to merge or close.


    We used to have this thread on the old forum, for some reason it went back and forth between the 'Other Bands' sections and the 'Genesis' section, which caused some amount of confusion - let's use this one for any music. :thumbup:


    So I'll start:


    "Annie are you walking with your turtles, are you walking Annie?"
    (Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal)


    "Hey Andy did you hear about the swan?"
    (R.E.M. - Man in the Moon)


    "Relax! Come to West!"
    (Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax)

    I have to add a note to this one, there's a story behind I mentioned years ago on the old forum:

    I had this song on a cassette when I was a little kid and as soon as I got my first English lessons at school (being a non-native speaker) I swear I heard them sing "Relax, come to West, don't you wanna *mumble mumble* come to West?" I really believed this was some Cold War themed phrase, "the Western world is so much more awesome", something like that. So I was really surprised when I first read in a rock encyclopedia about the real content of that song. Homosexuality? I listened again and I heard it as "Relax, come to wet". Until much later in the internet days I saw it's actually "Relax, don't do it". 8o


    Also, as a non-native English speaker, "The Battle of Epping Forest" had a surprising number of German sounding bits. Right before the Reverend part begins, Phil and Peter sing something that appears to be just "lalala" - I heard it as "Oh Liebling!" ("oh darling!"). The first two words of "Georgie moves in on the outside left" made my brain understand something which translates as "idioty mousse".


    And of course, always remember

    "The seat bunny!"

    (Phil talking to the audience on Seconds Out, first few seconds of The Lamb)

    ;)

  • 20, 21, 22 September | Genesis live in BIRMINGHAM | reports **SPOILERS**

    Thanks for your efforts! A few notes though:

    Isn't That's All in E minor originally so this would be 1,5 notes lower in C#?

    And I think I remember Follow You Follow Me was in G originally so it would be 1 note lower in F.

    Same with Carpet Crawlers, the intro is in E but from the verses onwards it was in D, so they probably took it down one whole note?


    By the way, I am one of those people that do not have perfect pitch but I have very good relative pitch: give me a reference note (this is a C or whatever) and I can tell you all intervals and chords and everything, without a reference note I am lost though.

    Going from C minor to E minor is quite a distance in the circle of fifths, if you add a semitone (C->F or B->E) it would actually be smoother, at least in theory...