GENESIS 1970 -75

Hmmm, well...what to say? first of all perhaps I should fess-up, I'm not unbiased when it comes to Genesis...Gabriel Genesis that is...it took me 10 years to even listen to Trick of the Tail f'rinstance, my mistake! As a young chap I wandered into a gig in Sunny manchester England, oh way back in 1971..... It cost me 30p or 6 Shillings entrance fee, it was posted as a Charisma tour special, I walked inside with my good mate Bob, it wasn't full, even at that low price. I saw Audience...Genesis...and Van Der Graaf Generator all in the same night, one after the other and all for 30p........... I totally loved Genesis I saw them many times, even at Friars in Aylesbury. I watched them for very last time in Manchester at the Palace for the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour.... Although I never saw them play a 'Bad' gig, some were better than others ...but none ever poor. I also have to admit that although I was very quick, speedy even, to enfold the CD revolution ...way back in the 80's....I always prefered vinyl, there was something more tactile, more involving to me. I still love vinyl, and still have most of my vinyl, I most definately have ALL of my 1st press Genesis. So, after that lengthy preamble, as you might imagine, I bought the Vinyl 6LP box-set Re-Mixes. The vinyl is good and flat and thick and the covers are nicely made replicas of the original, you don't get any DVDs..MP3s...SACDs...books, pamphlets, memoirs or facile opinions of B-Celebs all you get are 6 Lp's.... They are FANTASTIC, they are superb, they are well worth the money...they just are... I have listened to all the records apart from Trespass, I can' t even give you an acceptable reason why I haven't heard it..it just hasn't happened yet... I played Lamb first...I played it all the way through..all four sides, it is so superior to the first that a comparison is like a broken pencil...pointless.... I auditioned Nursery next and quite honestly heard parts which had been lost on the original mix, I heard nothing at all that I didn't like..nothing at all. Fountain of Salmacis is/was mesmerising, I thought I would never hear music that bewitched me like the first time I heard Genesis...I have though ...admittedly it's still Genesis, but that matters not one jot.. Foxtrot...Supper's Ready..There finest 25minutes..probably..well guess what? It just got better. I could go on...but there is valuable Vinyl time being wasted here, Buy a decent Vinyl kit, it's not even expensive anymore, and listen to that Mellotron wail in the manner that it was meant to. I am quite taken aback as to how good this set sounds, it really is a bit of a masterpiece!