Posts by Phil Morris

Quote from Thelawnmower

He is excellent. I started reading him after staying in Cromarty where, as you’ll know, Rankin does his writing. I’m now collecting his first editions, although I recently had to pass on a signed first of the first Rebus novel at £1200!

You’ve remembered the detail exactly and Rebus’ tastes are varied. He went from Genesis straight onto Family. I can imagine Rankin being a King Crimson buff.

I've just started reading the new Rebus, Midnight & Blue. I always admired Rankin for when he said he played a lot of Mogwai while writing. He also ran a competition years ago with the question of where the name for the Exit Music novel originated. I must have been the only person to know it was the title of an album by one of my favourite artists, Steven Lindsay. Sadly, I only found out about the competition after it had closed.

Quote from Schrottrocker

If anything, the release is going to be the first time ever Genesis put out a deluxe version of any album. Other bands have been flooding the market for 20 years with countless superduper special extra deluxe versions of all their albums. Usually the first deluxe release is followed a few months later by a deluxe deluxe release that includes one or two more bonus tracks. So let's see if Genesis finally go down that route too.

I presume you are discounting the deluxe FGTR box set. 😉

Quote from willow

well, well ...

This is good news. Kate Bush thinks about doing a new album. I am getting excited!

https://www.loudersound.com/news/kate-bush…-make-new-album

Well, I hope you can control your excitement. For about 12 years.

In other Bush/G-related news, I see it is Stephen W Tayler who has mixed the new edit of Snowflake.

Quote from Henry Hamilton-Smythe

From everything I've ever heard/read, Tony has never said a word on stage at a Genesis concert.

You mean apart from that time he swore upon screwing up the Firth of Fifth intro - and never attempted it again?

Quote from Christian

This is WRONG: A Curious Feeling was released on 1 October. The single For A While first came out on 5th October...

I know it's a typo: you just need to add a 2 to your first date.

Quote from Trick of the Wuthering

Another one from me. The Knife and Back in NYC from the Duke Tour 1980

The Knife *has* had an official release: on the BBC box, from the Lyceum.

Quote from The Hogweed

11. I actually like the way he sings. Brings something special to the music. Can't imagine Carrack singing that ...

Oh, I can.

Quote from Ben

A very bad version...

Out of interest, what's "bad" about it? And how do you feel it compares to the Mindblender mix? Or maybe you don't care for that one (either).

Quote from The Hogweed

The Remasters 2007 are the standard now, means every time they put back the catalogue on the market, the albums are those mixes.

Some special editions, like the Acoustic Sounds SACD / Vinyl reissues clearly state NOT to be the 2007 mixes, but from the original master tapes.

Noting that the recent Atlantic 75th reissues are the original mixes.

Quote from Zaar

I guess it's not unwise not to collect all those colored versions, from a financial point of view. Nevertheless, I am happy for all those collectors out there!

"...it's not unwise not to..."? Nice employment of a triple negative. Still not sure whether you're saying this is a good thing or not, though.

Mike Rutherford on AVS in 1985: "I liked the material. It was an example of a whole lot of songs and musical sections which weren't done as well as they should have been. The writing I'm very happy with, but the sound of the record I'm not so sure about. The backing tracks were recorded very easily - great fun; I really enjoyed that. The singing was hard work... The best song of all was Hideaway. That seemed to work."

Quote from LC40

I confess that I don't care much about cover bands (I've seen one or two), but I'm not against it, now I want to hear the full Wembley Arena 1975 show(oficial recording).

I want the Original band Genesis, not a cover band with a pathetic vocalist with a horrible voice.

LC

I'm pretty sure that given no more than an hour of the Empire Pool show have appeared that the full tapes have long since been wiped.

Quote from Zoda

Kate Bush, Before The Dawn

Ten years ago I attended one of the best shows I ever heard. I am celebrating this anniversary by listening to this album.

Coincidentally, the first Before The Dawn show I saw was 10 years ago today. And I similarly played one of the 3 discs from the release earlier.

Quote from Backdrifter

Well done.

Was it the original he played, not JB's rather overpraised cover? Either way, did they bleep out the 'shit'?

Not the first time he's played a Lamb track. A few years back he did a concept album theme show and played Anyway.

TR is of course a former PG collaborator.

Original. And no, no bleep. It was Buckley's cover which first got me into him. Not quite sure how Grace passed me by at the time.

Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6 Music has just played Back In NYC as part of his two-hour Jeff Buckley special. (His weekly themed "Now Playing" show.)

Now, I wonder who could possibly have prompted him to do so...

Quote from Duke of Earl of Mar

...Another set of cryptic lyrics is Abacab. The band itself explained that at the time they tended to write lyrics that sounded good rather than having any sense, but these ones are particularly obscure.

Mike Rutherford in 1982: "Some melody has got to come from key phrases in the song and the lyrics tend to come from that. The Abacab sessions were different only in that the band stuck with the melodies in the instrumental tracks and didn't try to write a great lyric and a great melody, which often screws it up because there isn't room for a great instrumental and another great melody on top. Take the title track on Abacab. I did the melody and lyrics for that and the backing track was so damned good that our main objective was not to get in the way of it."

Rutherford again in 2007: "I wrote the lyrics. They're ok but not great, but the title is quite fun."

Quote from Backdrifter

...On a tangent, I've also heard it suggested that Banks and Hackett each wrote the lyrics to songs for which the music is attributed to them, Lamia and Supernatural Anaesthetist respectively but I've never seen any solid attribution for that. It feels possible with Anaesthetist but Lamia seems unlikely to be solely Banks if only on the basis I can't imagine him coming up with the 'chocolate fingers' line.

According to Banks (in 2011) The Lamia lyrics were most certainly Gabriel's. Indeed, the Giammetti source where this is quoted asserts that The Light Dies Down was the only lyric on the album which wasn't by Gabriel.

Quote from Touchstone64

Addendum: thanks to a very kind fan, I've now heard the audience recording from Glasgow, 9th April 1976. As sure as eggs is eggs, it is the source of the performance included on Seconds Out. Having wondered about this for years, I'm so happy — not a bad result in only a couple of days! Thank you everyone that got in touch 🤗

PS by inference this means that the "Cinema Show - Part 2" footage on the "Genesis - In Concert 1976" film is from the Stafford gig. So ultimately we were right not to rule out Glasgow based on the film content 🙌

Just for clarification, it's fairly easy to establish the different recordings of the film. Collins wears a different shirt across the two nights. Combined with the considerable height of the Glasgow stage makes it a straightforward affair.

Quote from Rigsby

Hmmm. I’ve got photos from Twickenham and I walked there from some distance away. Maybe the weather was up and down and maybe the memory cheats a little. Either way I enjoyed it a great deal.

I was at Wembley 87 but I was young and miles away from the stage. Great atmosphere though

Just listen to the recording of the show and Collins's reference to the "effing rain". Not for the only time of that tour, of course. (Hence the "Come Rain Or Shine" titling of the accompanying documentary.)

Quote from Steffen

Atmosphere CDs by/with Ant? These are (almost) all there! Did you use the link in our library special? The only difference is that they use f.e. ATMOS080 instead of ATMOS CD-80.

I wonder if these library CDs even had a specific release date back in the day. When I look at the posted promo sheet of English/World Film & Drama, there is no release date mentioned.

I looked for several of the Ant ones I have, Steffen. I'd previously followed links from your Compendium but this was the first time I'd seen this search facility. But like you suggest, I have always strongly doubted there are specific "release dates" for these things. That said, I have adopted the date you previously quoted for Eccentrics as its anniversary. I cannot recall why I did so.