GENESIS LIVE

This is a very good album, showing GENESIS with GABRIEL on stage.The openning is amazing.It starts with Tony playing a mellotron intro with a powerful orchestra sound.Then, you can hear the cymbals, later, the bass and the guitar.The music gets louder and louder till it gets to high point and evrything stops, letting Tony play the organ for 2 seconds , and the whole band keeps on playing with Gabriel on the vocals.Get 'em out by Friday is very well played. It starts with Gabriel's flute and a very soft melody, and then, it suddenly brusts into pure rock!While Gabriel does the lead,you can hear Collins doing the backing vocal.I think the mixture between Gabriel's rough and rocker vocals with the high harmonies by Collins sounds amazing and really rocking!The return of the Giant Hogweed is one of my fauvorites. It starts with Collins' drums and then, Hackett doing a nice electric guitar work, toghether with Tony's keyboards. There's a middle instrumental section with Gabriel's flute.The ending really rocks!They play the entire Musical Box, featuring Hackett`s amazing guitar.The Knife is probably the best song.It's lyrics are different in some sections.Collins' drums soud a lot better than MAYHEW's(on the original 1970 version).Hackett's solo is different from Phillips'.The bass by Rutherford sounds much more powerful and rocking.The scream after"We are only wanting freedom.." is replaced by strange sounds. This album's got only 5 songs but it's a really good piece of work, and probably one of the best Gabriel-era albums.And I like this album because I like listening to LIVE albums, mostly.I think they are usually better than the studio ones ¿read my review on "Seconds Out").Well, anyway, I highly recomend this album to any Genesis fan. And I think EVERY Genesis Gabriel-era fan should have it! you cannot call yourself a Gabriel-Genesis fan if you haven't got it!This is a real MUST!!!!!!

"Stand up and fight for you know we are right, we will strike at the lies, it will spread like disease through our minds!!"-The Knife-Genesis.