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Since it has all gone quiet, I shall do one that I have researched,
Which album by Genesis or member of Genesis has a keyboard sample from the Merry-go-round at Santa Monica funfair in Los Angeles?
I'm guessing it's Steve Hackett. Maybe 'Circus of Becoming' ?
I've been hearing these rumors for 2-3 years, but nothing recently. I'm guessing there is nothing happening on that front.
Similarly, there were rumors a year or two ago about a 3-disc set of From Genesis to Revelation. Nothing has come of that either. I think that one could have been quite interesting if they were able to include the songs without the strings added on.
I love allmusic.com, but accuracy is not always their strongest attribute. Before I sent in a correction many years ago, their review of Seconds Out mentioned Phil's fine keyboard solo in Robbery, Assault and Battery
And there's this from their Lamb review (which they gave 5 stars)
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. Even if the story is rather hard to piece together, the album is set up in a remarkable fashion, with the first LP being devoted to pop-oriented rock songs and the second being largely devoted to instrumentals.
Um, no. There are all of 3 instrumentals on the 2nd LP, two of them being very brief interludes.
What major film, related to a member of Genesis involved aids?
Name film and artist?
Philadelphia….Peter Gabriel
Easy one... Peter Gabriel wore this costume only ONCE and only during ONE song. What was the costume and what was the song? What was the venue? Yes, it was in the Genesis days....
Was it the Fox's head and red dress for the Musical Box?
I guess the first two notes are similar to the beginning of Sledgehammer.
why is this thread under “Board Discussion”?
95% is high. If it wasn't for the money. Tony would cancel the tour now. I do not know of any band that goes out and tours and is not 100%.
Did you talk to Tony to get that info? Seriously, I am so tired of people ripping on Tony for made-up reasons on this board and others.
I'm with you on that.
Same here. I've grown to really love sides 3 and 4
I have almost all the solo stuff by the "big six" (classic line-up plus Phillips), other than a few of the more recent Phil Collins and Mike + the Mechanics stuff.
Banks' solo stuff is a mixed bag....some really good stuff with some really mediocre stuff. His choice of vocalists wasn't always great. The classical albums are okay, but classical isn't my cup of tea....and Tony doesn't even really play on most of the cuts on the classical ones. Or if he does, you can't really hear him.
Collins' solo isn't my type of music overall. I love the first three albums when they first came out, but have a hard time listening to them now. Anything after No Jacket Required is painful for me to listen to.
Gabriel's stuff is very good across the board, but there's also nothing that I would consider essential. Every time I pull out one of his albums, I hear his melodies in my head for a month afterward.
Hackett has some truly brilliant stuff, but he's all over the place. Most of his albums have a combination of brilliant with mediocre to bad stuff as well. His last 4-5 rock albums haven't had any of those great tracks.
Phillips' rare rock stuff is actually pretty good. His primary area of semi-classical/new age/library music is pleasant, but ultimately forgettable.
Rutherford's solo stuff isn't my cup of tea at all. I liked Smallcreep's Day a lot when it first came out, but not so much these days, although I still enjoy it. The first Mechanic's album and Beggar on a Beach of Gold are good, but the rest of the Mechanic's stuff is pretty unlistenable to me
I hate to say it, but there’s not a single song on the album that would be on my I-Tunes playlist.
Thoughts after my most recent listen:
This is definitely one of Steve's 27 best studio albums!
Seriously, though... Steve has some great ideas as always, but he seems to lack a certain focus and discipline. Too many ideas are just stuck together with no real flow to them ("Shanghai to Samarkind" being the worst offender). And "flow" is often what separates an epic song from a merely long & complicated one.
That's why I mentioned that I hate Roger King's arrangements....they're all over the place. There are some good ideas in there, but no cohesiveness
AHH but have you been foolish enough to buy Backstage....... Lockdown just because Steve is on it. I haven't all his albums but most. This was a spur of the moment buy at his show. I played it today. I feel the need to take up smoking again sit back and say NIIIIICE. Really not an album for people to actually listen to. I want my money back.
I have not even heard of it. What is it?
Funny short description of the Lamb on loudersound.com :
"The mother, father, brother and second cousin of all album concepts is the simple tale of a New York kid who is turned into a fly on a car windscreen (novel beginning), then heads off on an epic journey during which his best day includes getting a topless massage from a trio of snake-babes (who he later eats).
His worst involves being castrated (without an anaesthetic) and being forced to join a colony of ‘slippermen’ who carry their balls around their necks in plastic tubes. Definitely not one for The Bumper Book Of Bedtime Stories. The music, by the way, is brilliant."
Obviously, the writer for Loudersound.com is unfamiliar with metaphor. At no time is Rael turned into a fly.
Finally got around to listening to this.
Boredom and almost annoyance was the primary listening experience.
Overarranged and overproduced. Roger King might be a good keyboard player, but I absolutely hate his arrangements.
Drumming sounds more mechanical than human.
The saxophone during the intro to one of the songs was far more annoying than amusing.
I’ve got every album Steve has recorded, and he’s released some amazing stuff over the years. But the last 4-5 albums have all been a total snooze fest….other than the acoustic one, that one was actually pretty good.
I’m sure I’ll still buy the next one.
Tony's just a very quiet person, very focused. In many interviews I've seen over the years, he's very friendly, but just a man of few words.
As mentioned above, Steve Hackett contributed the most albums by far.
I'm guessing that Anthony Phillips has almost as many studio releases as Hackett does, maybe even more. I've got at least 25-30 CDs by AP
I can never work out if this is my favourite or second favourite album. I alternate it with We Can't Dance. If you took the best tracks from this & combined it with the best of We Can't Dance you would have an unqualifed masterpiece
Different strokes for different folks.
For me, if you took the best tracks from Abacab and the best from We Can't Dance, you'd have..........the Abacab album. 
Well, that was OK. No more, no less.
Exactly. I'm not overwhelmed by any of the three tracks so far.
But, I know I'll still buy the CD. Probably listen to it once, place it on the shelf, and forget all about it.
Another song released on Youtube, called 'Natalia'
You can hear just a little bit of the opening track 'The Obliterati' in this video here
