Posts by Snowbound

Quote from The_Genesis_Archive

Whilst we could not comment on the Fukoka Show. There was a full show recorded in Singapore, this is sat in Phil's archive.

TGA

I recall someone from Phil Collins’s social media/management team publicly stating that there are no recordings from the Both Sides tour. I’m not arguing with u; I suspect you’re right. I just wonder why Phil and Genesis are letting so much archival material collect dust. Steve Hackett has commented that there’s live stuff he would like released but that it’s not up to him

Quote from Mild Mannered Superman

Am I the only one who thinks "Abacab" is a bizarre choice for a show closer?

I seem to be the only person that wouldn’t mind if Abacab was the show closer. Honestly my main concern is that the encore will be a low energy affair like it was in 2007. Ending with Carpet Crawlers was super moving on that tour but I don’t think it would be as emotionally effective this time. I also really don’t want them to close with Fading Lights. Fading Lights is a powerful song about accepting mortality but I personally would want the show to end on an energetic song like Abacab that leaves the audience wanting more... whereas Fading Lights would leave the audience depressed lol

Quote from MoonlitKnight

Sweet! I never really heard the “country” elements in this song in the Genesis version, despite Phil introducing it as a country & western song during the Mama tour. Now I get it!

I’ve always loved “That’s All” because it sounded, to me ,like a country song done as an 80s synth pop song. I also hear some Beatles and jazz influence in the track as well. That’s All almost reminds me of Aja era Steely Dan because like Aja, That’s All has many genre influences and they all seamlessly meet in the middle

One more prediction. I think there will be an intermission and “No Son of Mine” will open the 2nd set. Maybe an intermission would allow the show to be longer?

I’m going to make a couple predictions based off the track listing from the box set:

1. Based on the songs following Home By The Sea in the tracklisting of the box set I suspect that Home By The Sea is going to be the start of a medley. I think they may cut the song’s vocal reprise at the end and instead play a snippet of “Fading Lights”. Fading Lights could lead into the instrumental section of Cinema Show which then goes into Afterglow. This sounds like it might be too long for these guys now so they might do these songs but shortened and in a different order or just end HBTS with the Fading Lights snippet.

2. I am 99% positive that the acoustic set will be: That’s All, In Too Deep, Follow You Follow Me & Duchess. we can guess when the acoustic set starts in the set from the song locations in the boxset since we know they are doing an acoustic version of That’s All. However there’s additional reasons to suspect these songs. They wanted to do ITD on the 2007 tour but it was too difficult vocally. If they do the song in an acoustic arrangement augmented with backing vocalists I think Phil could pull it off. Phil and Mike did an acoustic version of FUFM in 2019 so that makes it a likely inclusion in the acoustic set. Given that we know they have been working on a new arrangement of Duchess it makes sense that it would be acoustic. I think The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Afterglow and I Can’t Dance are also possibilities.

3. The Encore will be Dancing with the moonlit knight’s intro, The Carpet Crawlers and Abacab

Welp I’ve posted multiple predictions on this thread so I figure one more couldn’t hurt:

1. Duke’s Intro/Turn It On Again
2. No Son of Mine
3. Land Of Confusion
4. Old Medley: In The Cage-Cinema Show(instrumental)-Apocalypse in 9/8-Carpet Crawlers OR Afterglow
5. Follow You Follow Me
6. Home By The Sea-Second Home By The Sea
7. (New) Duchess
8. Abacab
9. Mama
10. Throwing It All Away
11. Domino
12. Fading Lights (short version)
13. Invisible Touch

Encore:

1. I Can’t Dance
2. Firth of Fifth (solo) - I Know What I Like

Quote from Fabrizio

Abacab hasn't made the cut in ages. It's unlikely it will resurface now.

I thought Nic said they were rehearsing Abacab at one point? Even if I am recalling that correctly it dosen’t necessarily mean that Abacab made it into the final show. One thing to keep in mind tho is that while it’s been 35 years since they played abacab, that was only 2 tours ago for this lineup of Genesis (3 if you include CAS). And of all the “long dead” songs that Genesis could revive, Abacab is pretty likely because it was a hit (peaking at #9 in the UK & #26 in the US)

Quote from Christian

My Invisible Touch playlist is:

Do The Neurotic

Land Of Confusion

Tonight Tonight Tonight

Throwing It All Away

Feeding The Fire

Domino

Anything She Does

The Brazilian

problem is: I have lost the album title

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You have inspired me to make my own version of Invisible Touch. However mine is an extended CD version that also utilizes live recordings and covers to present these songs in what I consider to be the best possible light:

1. Land Of Confusion

2. In Too Deep (Martin Levac trio - A Visible Jazz Touch of Genesis vol 3)

3. Do The Neurotic (outtake)

4. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (single version)

5. Invisible Touch (The Way We Walk: the shorts)

6. Feeding the Fire (outtake)

7. Anything She Does

8. Domino (Wembly 1987)

9. I’d Rather Be You (outtake)

10. Throwing It All Away (Wembly 1987)

11. The Brazilian (Wembly 1987)

Mike Rutherford has mentioned that despite “Invisible Touch” being their poppiest album that their live show remained more evenly distributed between long and short songs. Thus I tried to make this CD resemble the flow of their live show. Think of this as Genesis’s take of Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” (a double album meant to use new compositions to capture the energy of his live performances). I open with the studio version of “Land Of Confusion” and follow it up with the Martin Levac Trio’s cover of “In Too Deep”. For a long time I hated “In Too Deep” which I viewed as overly corny. This changed a few years ago when I saw Daryl Stuermer perform a spellbinding rendition of the song with an orchestra. Unfortunately I don’t think he ever recorded it. Luckily, IMO Martin Levac’s low key Jazz arrangement of In Too Deep is the song’s definitive version AND Levac sounds just like Phil! No more covers going forward, I promise. I follow this up with “In Too Deep’s” B-side (in the UK that is) “Do The Neurotic” which reminds listeners that Genesis could still write a kickass prog instrumental. Now, I have a feeling this is a real unpopular opinion in these parts but I prefer the single version of “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”. The instrumental parts of TTT are too jammy and just don’t move me. Next is the live version of “Invisible Touch” from “The Way We Walk: the shorts”. Here’s something odd I can’t fully explain: I hate the original version of “Invisible Touch” but I love this live version of the track largely because it’s in a lower key. Usually when Genesis lowers a song’s key live it hurts the track but here I think it improves it. The original version just sounded too obnoxious and in-your-face to me (which is also due to the song’s production but I do think the higher key contributes.) I would be interested if anyone here who knows music better than me could weigh in on if changing a song’s key can radially change a song and/or justify why I feel this way about IT. For the rest of the tracks I just tried to create a good flow. Additionally any song that was performed at the 1987 Wembly gig uses that live version. Domino in particular was just spectacular that night!

Quote from Nanunami

No, this is not our Ant.

He would also promote such a release in his website and social media

Thanks

I thought it wasn’t Ant for the reason you mention but I just wanted someone else to confirm it just so I’d know I wasn’t crazy.

According to spotify Ant has some new songs, but the guy on the cover looks a good deal younger than OUR Ant. Is this a different artist with the same name? I listened to the song and they’re actually pretty good. The voice sounded different but I’m not familiar with Ant’s new stuff so his voice could’ve changed over 40 years.

I’ve made an expanded CD version of Abacab. I included all of the outtakes except Me and Virgil (cuz it sucks) and the two instrumentals because I feel they do not fit into the album’s sound.

1. Abacab

2. No Reply At All

3. Me and Sarah Jane

4. Keep It Dark

5. Who Dunnit

6. Dodo/Lurker

7. Man On The Corner

8. Like It Or Not

9. Paperlate

10. You Might Recall

11. Another Record

I found that putting Who Dunnit after Keep It Dark and before Dodo drastically improves both the song and the album’s flow. The drum part of Keep It Dark flows nicely into Who Dunnit. Who dunnit now ends up being a quirky introduction to Dodo.

Quote from absinthe_boy

There's another relatively recent interview with Nic. Not much new info but I will spoiler this just in case.

Based on this new info here’s my prediction for what the set will be:

1. Abacab
2. No Son of Mine
3. Land Of Confusion
4. Old Medley: In The Cage-Cinema Show(instrumental)-In That Quiet Earth(snippet)-Apocalypse in 9/8-Carpet Crawlers
5. Follow You Follow Me
6. Home By The Sea-Second Home By The Sea
7. (New) Duchess
8. Firth of Fifth(solo)/I Know What I Like
9. Mama
10. Throwing It All Away
11. Domino
12. I Can’t Dance
13. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (short version)
14. Invisible Touch

Encore:

15. Fading Lights (short version)

16. Duke’s Intro-Turn It On Again

Quote from The_Genesis_Archive

It was a soundcheck performance, NBC look to have taken it off youtube.

that’s unfortunate. I hope someone has archived it so it’s not lost to time

I’m looking for a clip from a news program about Genesis in 1976. It included video of a live performance of Robbery, Assault and Battery. It used to be on youtube but I can’t find. Anyone know if it’s still online?

Quote from absinthe_boy

Well....Nic Collins gave an interview in February where he specifically talks about rehearsing Mama, HBTS, Carpet Crawlers and......Apocalypse In 9/8.

Said they'd rehearsed 40 songs of which about 25 made it into the final set.

Based on this I’m going to revise my prediction. To clarify this isn’t my dream setlist this is my attempt to guess what will be played:

1. Duke’s Intro
2. Turn It On Again
3. Abacab
4. No Son Of Mine
5. Land Of Confusion
6. Old Medley: Dance On A Volcano-Cinema Show-In That Quiet Earth-Apocalypse in 9/8-Carpet Crawlers
7. Follow You Follow Me
8. Mama
9. Duchess
10. Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea
11. Throwing It All Away
12. Domino
13. I Can’t Dance.
    
14. Fading Lights (short version)
15. Invisible Touch

if u individually count each section of the old medley and both parts of Home By The Sea and Domino this makes for a total of 21 songs. When I saw Phil in 2019 he played 19 songs so I feel like this is prob an accurate amount of numbers. We also end up with at least one song (or snippet of a song) from each album from Foxtrot to We Can’t Dance.

Quote from absinthe_boy

What is interesting is how Chester was clearly never viewed as a member of Genesis by the other guys....which is part of the reason he wasn't asked to do studio work for CAS. In my view that's a big mistake artistically, the album would have been much better with a drummer involved in the writing process. But it also backs up Chester's feeling that he was always a bit of an outsider.

Poor guy drummed on tour for them for 15 years solid and came back for their big "comeback" tour, always put in excellent performances...and was perhaps never truly appreciated by the band members themselves.

First off I 100% agree that they made a mistake not including Chester in CAS. He could’ve injected new energy and live drumming to their writing process. I was thinking the other day about what lineup would have revived Genesis in the late 90s then it hit me: Mike, Tony, Chester, and John Wetton on bass and vocals. Wetton’s time in King Crimson shows he’s capable of improvising meaning he could probably have fit in with genesis’s writing process and also had pop sensibilities as demonstrated by his time in Asia. This is just a fantasy as I doubt Mike would’ve been willing to just stick to the guitar. Also I’m not trying to knock Ray Wilson, who’s a great vocalist.

Back to the Rolling Stone article, AB identifies something I’ve noticed from the article as well. Chester definitely feels unappreciated by the guys and this has resulted in him having a lot of mixed feelings of the band members. I’m sure some will say I’m wrong but my impression reading the article was that Chester thought these guys were his friends but he’s come to realize that’s not necessarily the case. Then again as other have pointed out Chester could have contributed to this divide as well

My intention wasn’t for this conversation to get off topic I simply wanted clarification on Genesis archive’s comment that Phil used “disgusting language”. To me the f word isn’t really repulsive language (then again if someone was saying that while throwing chairs at me it would probably be more threatening) so I assumed he used worse words. I also wasn’t calling Phil a racist since I had no knowledge of the situation. Tho I want to say that folks who know better could still use racial slurs in order to hurt someone else. Now it’s been confirmed that Phil didn’t use any racial slurs so everyone relax. Regardless, if the account of phil throwing chairs is true his behavior is still reprehensible. I understand he had issues with drink and drugs but it’s been 10 years. He’s overcome those issues and he owes Chester an apology. Apparently this period of Phil’s life has been blacked out for him. Given how obsessed Phil is with press coverage I bet he has been reinformed of his past behavior. To be fair tho if in the future Phil apologizes to Chester it would probably be in private and we wouldn’t know

Quote from The_Genesis_Archive

There's always more to a story, it is interesting that Chester has been as honest as possible. But lets just say that Phil is like most other humans on the earth, not perfect.

I'm not sure if it was just drinking that cause problems, Phil has been known to indulge. But the way he treated Chester was disgusting. There was indeed chairs thrown, a table turned over and some disgusting language from Phil. But as Phil once said in an anti drugs/drink commercial. Drink and Drugs can wreck lives.

TGA

How “disgusting” was his language? I hope he didn’t use the sort of words that destroy a reputation if you know what I mean... not that my concern in that scenario would be Phil’s reputation. Honestly the whole thing is so upsetting. From 1977-2007 Chester Thompson was 1/5th of the live Genesis experience. It unrealistic that all 5 members of the live band are perfect people and close friends but for Chester to just be thrown out like yesterday’s trash is wrong. To be clear I think Nic Collins drumming is great but double drumming has been a crucial part of live Genesis. I had hopped Nic and Chester would both participate in the reunion... oh well

Quote from CountingOutTime

I saw Steve perform at The Strand in Redondo Beach in the late 80s/early 90s, and Chester Thompson was at the gig. Both of them signed my copy of I Know What I Like, along with the author, Armando Gallo, who was also in attendance.

I found it very interesting that Chester said that “Steve and I always stayed pretty good friends” but when he mentions Daryl (the only other Genesis member he is still in touch with) he said “We aren’t, like, chums, but we stay in touch.“ Steve Hackett is an absolute class act. I saw him in Clearwater Fl a few years ago and his mother was at the show. Steve seems like the nicest of all of them.

Hi I made an account just because I wanted to share my set prediction. My username is a reference to a steely dan song. It was only after I made my account that I realized it’s not the best username rn so I apologize. Anyways here’s my prediction:

1. Duke’s Intro
2. Turn It On Again
3. Abacab
4. No Son Of Mine
5. Land Of Confusion
6. The Cinema Show (includes snippet of Dukes Travels)
7. Duchess
8. Follow You Follow Me
9. Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea
10. Throwing It All Away
11. Old Medley: Dance On A Volcano-Firth Of Fifth (solo)-Apocalypse in 9/8(instrumental)-Afterglow
12. That’s All
13. Domino
14. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (short version)
15. Invisible Touch
16. I Can’t Dance
17. Fading Lights (short version)