Gabriel: 'Full Genesis reunion is still possible'

Well..I was lucky enough to be at Milton keynes in 1982 and it was magical (I also remember Talk Talk being first on the bill and thinking they were really good while people at the front were throwing bottles at them!). After Pink Floyd at G8, I'll never say never, but It'll have to happen within the next five years ...I would walk over broken glass to be there...

Jim Garten wrote: 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? )

You know how many Wakeman eqiupmpent breadownds there were, Wow  if  you just read Grumpy Old Rock Star by Rick Wakeman and you'll prbablyy only get about  a third of them.

Go for reunion? Ahh, it's so prospectus. Makes me breathe in wide air. I need them to make it soon.
Well, soon as possible.

riversyd wrote: Well..I was lucky enough to be at Milton keynes in 1982 and it was magical

Not to mention wet



Will we ever see the like again?