From Genesis To Revelation and Beyond

In the Beginning there were five members of Charterhouse School who One Day decided to form a band. That band was GENESIS. They were Looking for Someone to promote and produce their first album when a Window of opportunity came along in the shape of Jonathan King, a Duke of record producers working Behind the Lines at the time. The album "From Genesis to Revelation" entered a Land of Confusion and Misunderstanding though when many record stores placed the album in their religious music sections due to the religious-sounding title. The album and first single "Silent Sun" both flopped, and barely caused any Ripples in the music press either, despite Jonathan King Calling All Stations to try and promote the album and single on the radio. GENESIS' second single "A Winter's Tale" was also met with about as much indifference as A Fly on a Windshield by radio stations and barely No Reply at All from the music press. Their record company Decca became Entangled in a dispute when it was discovered there was another band in America called GENESIS, but by A Trick of the Tail, the band managed to keep their name Anyway by changing their name to "Revelation" in the United States.

The music business has always been as fickle as a Harlequin, where The Dividing Line between success and failure depends on a combination of good luck and hard work. Every new band is sailing through Uncertain Weather where they can easily be dragged down by the Undertow and Shipwrecked by having The Knife stuck into them by their record company or by the music press. That's All it takes to finish a band's career. There's Never a Time when it's been easy to make it in the tough music business, but Like It or Not, that's just the Way of the World. No astrological Watcher of the Skies can predict who's going to make it in today's cynical music industry, where the chances of success are about as hard as climbing a White Mountain of snow before the Fading Lights of Dusk close in.

After the Ordeal of seeing the commercial failure of their first album, GENESIS were In Limbo and left out In the Wilderness during a short period of Stagnation when the band members returned to their studies at Charterhouse. They weren't Down and Out or Taking It All Too Hard though, because making great music was far more than Just a Job to Do for the five talented band members. Contrary to being In Hiding, GENESIS were just Counting Out Time in The Waiting Room of The Cinema Show of life before returning to the recording studio. The band members were confident of The Musical Box of talent they had between them and their Horizons were positively bright with the general feeling that It's Gonna Get Better soon. GENESIS were working to a Time Table and they didn't plan on Living Forever on borrowed time, or waiting around each day until Supper's Ready. They were In Too Deep to consider Throwing It All Away at this late stage. The band were more than ready to Turn It On Again with an Invisible Touch of magic with the release of their next album, "Trespass". It would be several albums later though before GENESIS were basking in the warm Afterglow of a successful album release, followed by the Domino effect of success breeding further success in the proverbial Aisle of Plenty.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 29 2024 at 05:57

Manuel wrote: Very clever. I like your writing abilities. Keep them coming.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 11 2019 at 20:41

Machinemessiah wrote: Yeah and informative as well... (read the first half in the morning ) ...it flows very smoothly!

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 11 2019 at 20:51

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Hey, that was cool. Now do one for Yes.

Phil Collins - A Life Less Ordinary (documentary)

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 20 2020 at 14:43

Cristi wrote: I still don't know if this is a Genesis (in general) thread or about their debut?  What's the real question here? What am i asked to do here?

chopper wrote: Cristi wrote: I still don't know if this is a Genesis (in general) thread or about their debut?  What's the real question here? What am i asked to do here? Just read and enjoy.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 21 2020 at 03:45

I like the early proto prog Brit music ..I listen to Genesis To Revelation from time to time...apparently Genesis came from two earlier bands 'Anon'(Rutherford and Philips) and 'Garden Wall'(Gabriel, Banks)....both did mostly r&b and cover tunes ...found this on you tube...couldn't find any Garden Wall.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ At one time, From Genesis to Revelation was my favourite Genesis album, but that was before I joined ProgArchives.

Haha controversial as ever. My personal favourite Gabriel era album is Trespass

I've heard it a bunch of times but it's never really stuck with me; it just feels so forgettable and unassertive. It's somewhat similar to the band's final album in that it kind of feels like they tried to jump on a musical style that was popular at the time (in this case probably in part because of encouragement from their label) but which they couldn't quite tackle convincingly. The main difference with Calling All Stations however is that the musical style in question on this album isn't one that makes me retch. I kind of like the opening track and "In Hiding".