Posts by Schrottrocker

Quote from thefarmer

The verse was cut. Ray was supposed to sing it (don't know why he didn't ) so they cut it.

I wonder if this just a rumour. The song was reportedly recorded in 1995, at a time Ray was probably not yet cast.

Phil never sang Watcher live, it became a shortened instrumental... And Phil never sang the intro of Carpet Crawlers live. Is it that?

A Nectarine Superphone Plus 8.3? Seriously? Come on dude, you really want to stay behind the moon? My Hyperphone 17.6 has transwarp facetime, it works through wormholes and allows you to finish holocalls before you started them. I'm serious, I couldn't live without it any more.

Quote from foxfeeder

But I think the recording with Phil was on Voyage of the Acolyte, while they were still both in the band.

D'uh! You have a point!

Well the one former member who recorded with four (not five) other members would have to be Steve. He recorded with Mike, Phil, Ant and Ray.

Quote from Thelawnmower

Which former Genesis member has recorded, following his departure, studio tracks or demos with four other band members?

Good luck!

I know the answer, I would love to give it but I'm not good making up new questions...

He also keeps dismissing Dancing With The Moonlit Knight. I guess it's because it was mainly written by Peter and Steve and Tony had no (or hardly any) input in it, and on top the instrumental parts are probably the kind of "show-off" stuff he didn't want Genesis turn to. Or maybe just because Steve made him play dissonant chords and whole-step scales on the hammond. It's a shame, it's one of their finest tracks ever.

Thank you guys! Wow, those shirts look pretty cool too. And the Jethro Tull themed mugs aren't bad either...

This has been mentioned quite a few years ago in the then-existing fan forums: There's some really nice mugs with Genesis album cover prints on them. Can anyone help me where to get them and where they're the best deal? I live in Germany, not all vendors ship to us.

I would love the Selling England and Trick of the Tail mugs that look like this:

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A G**gle search also shows me these (Wind and Foxtrot):

https://www.worthpoint.com/wor…-wind-wuthering-489726295

I wouldn't exactly mind these either, they look adorable, I can't find these on any other site than this one though.

It would be nice to find some site that sells all of these for a reasonable price, however this far I couldn't find any vendor who has them all. Can anyone help?

Me and Virgil has a little 12-string solo but it's electric. Also if I recall correctly an electric 12-string seems to appear in Naminanu but I'm not entirely sure.

Acoustic 12-string must be last on Duke if we count studio recordings only; if I'm not wrong Mike used it live still for the unplugged songs on the CAS tour.

Visions of Angels is actually quite obvious, Tony plays the opening piano riff on the synth. Recalling from memory, I think it is right after the Stagnation quote.

I can agree with pretty much all of what you said. Mike has already done his share to colour the picture in a similar way: Steve wasn't content with being a guitar player, he had to be a song writer as well, even though his songs were not up to our standards; why does Steve keep performing Genesis material, maybe he should create some original music; etc.. Actually the way Mike always puts it it seemed to me Tony would be on his side every time, having read Steve's book I was surprised about the apparent signs of friendship between Tony and Steve (Tony visiting for lunch etc.). But oh well, at the end of the day, who cares, it's their private business. Other bands had a lot more "tensions" in their histories.

There's some tracks missing. What about Pacidy, Let Us Now Make Love, Shepherd, Sea Bee, Hair On The Arms And Legs,....... there's a lot on Archive I Disc 4.
And my top favourite remains The Light, a live-only track as can be heard on some bootlegs. Another obscure early live-only tracks would be The One-Armed Drummer. And among the Ray Wilson non-album tracks you missed Nowhere Else To Turn.

Wow, I am really enjoying this book. Steve paints such a vivid picture of living in post-war London. A lot of details resemble a lot what my parents told me about their childhoods: bombed out house ruins inviting kids to explore them despite the danger, the smog and the careless belief in technical progress with utter ignorance of any toxic side effects of factory fumes, the dire need of that time for an escape in a sound movie world to forget the horrors of the war, cruel teachers at school who would get violent for no apparent reason (for a kid's mind that is) and the scary kids who had to see too many things they could not cope with in their young age so they developed strange habits, etc. This is living history.

Mine arrived too yesterday, started reading and judging from the first few pages it's going to be a little harder to read for me as a non-native speaker since Steve's language seems more elaborate than other autobiographies I read this far. But I'll make my way through it.

I have nearly audiophile speakers my brother made for me, I listen mostly to CDs and cassettes (no joke). I have a couple vinyls but no record player. I also have this bluetooth thingie to listen to streamed music from my smartphone but I hardly ever use it. When I listen to music from the internet I use headphones.

About physical formats etc., there was a time I used to download lots of music from rapidshare and megaupload and all these sites but I completely went back to buying CDs. I usually get them at the CD store or I order second hand CDs online.

Pre-ordered too.

I've heard about that many times, even Mike says something like that in his book, still it makes me wonder what exactly is so hard about these words. None of them is a tongue twister. Maybe the mere fact those are rather unusual words in a regular pop song makes them "hard".

Queen fan here, and dude, you have guts. Cosmos Rocks is the worst ever Queen album, far below anything Queen did with Fredddie Mercury. It is an average rock album at best, for bearing the name "Queen" it is almost an insult. On top, its sound quality is shitty: maximum dynamic compression, the bass kick doesn't even have a punch any more, and the EQing is heavy on the lower mid frequencies. Unbalanced sound as if somebody messed up every setting in the mastering.

A Night At The Opera is one of the, if not the best Queen album ever. Anyone who cannot recognize musical quality in this record should not bother with Queen at all. Queen in the classic quartet lineup were always a band who went for these extra quirky bits noone else would do and they succeeded triumphantly so.

Maybe you're interested to learn that there's a 3-minute single version of Bohemian Rhapsody that omits the intro and the opera and rock interludes. It was cut on demands of the record company but the band insisted the album version was put out. That stripped version might work for you.

Anyone who does not vote for Supper's Ready?...

I picked Time Table and Can-Utility along with it. Wanted to pick Watcher too but I went for Time Table since I love this song and it seems to be one of those universally unloved songs. I would have picked Horizons too but I could only pick three, and who am I to ignore Supper's Ready...