Gabriel: 'Full Genesis reunion is still possible'

NaturalScience wrote: I'm not the biggest Genesis fan, by a long shot, but get Hackett on board as well and I am definitely going to a show.

Agreed-would have to include Hackett.  But, would he really get on stage with Banks ever again?

Well Jimmy boy I think that you hit the proverbial nail on the head there. They certainly didn`t pull out the stops. The Rome show is a very good "Exhibit A ". If you watch the whole thing you get the impression that they were only playing the older stuff because they had to satisfy grumpy old fans of the older material that were going to show up. I think theonly pre-1978 material that worked were Ripples ( and Phil even pops this one up at especially at the end)) and Los Endos because they had previously been played in large stadiums. The pre LLDOB material was mostly presented in more intimate venues and just won`t work in front of 80,000 people with the full theatrics. As I said on another thread when I saw them at the Olympic Stadium in Montréal in summer of `07 they looked like ants and the video on the big screen wasn`t in sync with the music from most parts of the stadium. Can you imagine what Gabriel would look like. He`d look like a gnat. The whole point of the theatrics would be lost. I`ve seen The Musical Box a couple of times at The Bell Centre ( where the Montréal Canadiens play ) and they always put them in the smaller theatre. Besides, I can`t see  Peter Gabriel as a 59 year old man dressing up as Fruit of The Loom or a cross-dressing Fox.
Finally, this just an observation from the Montréal show I attended. And I think the set list was very similar to the When In Rome DVD show. Whenever they played the older stuff I noticed that the younger people in the audience ( ie in their twenties ) were confused and sort of didn`t really know what was going on. But when they played a newer track from the eighties such as Home By The Sea they would go beserk. Just a first hand observation.
I still say it no going to happen.
 The musical Box is doing Trick of The Tail. I MIGHT go and see that depending on how my arm is twisted.

I take your point on venue sizes for older material; however, in 1978 when they were still performing large chunks of the older albums, they were playing huge venues - they just changed the presentation - the songs themselves do work in large venues, it's just the intimate stage shows they used to play in the glory days would be completely lost in an enormodrome (which is where, face it, they'd have to play). The Milton Keynes reunion in 1983 was before an audience of (this is a guess btw) about 50/60,000; nothing post 1975 was played, yet they pulled it off because they adapted the show itself.

No - in my humble opinion & on the evidence of 'Seconds Out' & a recording I have of the 1978 Knebworth show (in front of over 100,000 people) the songs could work if (and unfortunately, this is a big if) they were played well, which on the evidence of the Rome film...

Of course - the absolute ideal would be to see the re-unified Genesis in a small 2/3,000 seat theatre, but that's never going to happen so for a recreation of the glory days, I'll just wait for The Musical Box to come round again - great band, great musicians, perfect recreation of pre-1975 Genesis (even the Mellotron broke down briefly when I saw them - how authentic is that? )

Edited by Jim Garten - January 08 2009 at 11:33

Vibrationbaby wrote: The musical Box is doing Trick of The Tail. I MIGHT go and see that depending on how my arm is twisted.

Really? Nice. That oughtta be interesting.
When is this supposed to happen?
I never got to see them before... kind of wish they would do another tour of Nursery Cryme or Selling England...

This has to be one of the most tedious recurring threads ever!

Being an average Genesis fan, I must ask why Hackett couldn't stand playing with Banks again ?
Was Banks the hatchet man ?

mrcozdude wrote: debrewguy wrote: Being an average Genesis fan, I must ask why Hackett couldn't stand playing with Banks again ? Was Banks the hatchet man ?   I'd be intrested to hear why as well,for some reason i always thought as Banks as the quiet one.

Me too, did they not get along or what? I haven't heard anything about that.

pickupstyx91 wrote: Hi, im new here! This is a pretty cool prog forum.  I saw the musical box do the trick of tail tour last week in philly and it was awesome! Go if they come to your area. I got chills during suppers ready with all the fog and lasers and stuff. It was awesome.  Check out themusicalbox.net to see a preview of the show and tour dates. Good stuff...

Aw! I'm right near philly too! I'm gonna check out that site.

mpomy wrote: Wait, let me check to see if monkeys are flying out of my butt...  Nope, not yet.  Actually, Steve just mentioned that was still a possibility in a recent interview on his new website.

Possible as long as everyone is still alive.  Desirable is another matter.  Hackett and Gabriel are still making good new music on their own.  While the other three...