Taking Sides: Genesis 1970-1977 Vs. Genesis 1978-91

I feel like when you see musicians in their 60s and especially in their 70s and up it can be a gamble on how well they’re able to play in relation to their younger peak ability…I saw Steve Hackett last night, though, and would say he’s still operating fully at 100% (maybe 110%) even at 74 years of age. He’s playing Foxtrot all the way through (he has been for a while now, it just hadn’t made it here) and it sounds immaculate. The guy that’s singing, Nad Sylvan, does a way better Peter Gabriel than I expected, and the musicianship is outstanding…the climax/last few minutes of Supper’s Ready actually brought a tear to my eye. This is all my roundabout way of saying that if you’re a fan of Foxtrot or Hackett-era Genesis he’s still well worth seeing, as I had my doubts on whether to go.

I have the same story, didn't really want to go either but a friend had a spare ticket so I figured what the hell. It was really great. I should've figured it would be since a guy like Hackett probably has his pick of whatever musicians he wants to work with so it's no surprise all of them were excellent. I had no idea that the bass player was going to be Jonas Reingold, or that the drummer was the guy from Frost*. But yeah Sylvan doing a near perfect Gabriel impression was what really drove it home. It was so good I was wondering if this was better than the actual Genesis shows of that era. I've heard Supper's Ready a thousand times, probably could go never hearing it again, but yeah seeing it live was really something. I mean I never thought I'd get a chance to see something like that. Sound was excellent too - one of the few shows I've been to where you could clearly hear everyone, though hilariously the one guy who did sometimes get drowned out was Steve himself, just like he was in Genesis :)

Friends of mine went and gave it rave reviews. Sorry I missed it, but budget outweighed my middling Genesis fandom.

Happy birthday to passive-aggressive fucker Tony Banks!

He really is the most amusing asshole if you're not actually in Genesis

Everything pinched and sour about UK upper-upper-middle-classes in one fairly talented pianist

seems like Mike R is underrated af as a bass player btw

He really is!

No Reply At All is such a sick bass part that for years people theorized it wasn't him, it was the iirc Earth Wind and Fire guy.

which is funny cuz verdine didn't always play in ew&f studio tracks.

mike/tony/phil never used studio dudes. they are a totally in-house operation. there's tons of footage of them working on albums and it's pretty amazing stuff to watch. mike is really a min blowing player.

Well, Stuermer has played live with Gen; he's definitely all over Phi's records. Do we know fo sho that he hasn't appeared recorded Genesis?

p sure yah!

they always had cams documenting the recordings and theres tons of vids like this on yt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgN325HVzQU

i've seen Hackett a few times and that is a great show, band is phenomenal and if you like his guitar you will get a whole shitload of it, and it will sound great.