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jamesbaldwin wrote:

M27Barney wrote:

Like I said. Go one beyond the genesis show and extend the hell out of Watcher. I once was drinking pre-gig in Manchester with Pallas..Crowd of about six...asking them to extend the tracks and give us pomposity and mellotron to die for...Thus .March on atlantis..extended out to 40 mins at least...best gig I ever saw...

There is inspired pomposity and forced pomposity.

In my opinion, the instrumental beginning of Watching is beautiful but the following does not maintain expectations. Sometimes it happens that you find an excellent instrumental passage, but then this makes, with its repetition, the song too ... caged. Another excellent example of pomposity is the solo to the organ (I guess) by Wakeman in the middle of Close to the Edge. There the effect is very pompous, it seems the sound of an organ concert in a cathedral but in my opinion it is well suited to the piece, it reaches a great pathos.

Reading some of the comments about Watcher of the Skies, I am mildly reassured that some people are as underwhelmed by it as I have been for years, or at least relatively underwhelmed. I thought it was blasphemy to say so!

I agree with you, the intro is one of those sublime Genesis moments, but what it gives way to is an anti climax. I can cope with the lyrics, although the phrasing seems bit contrived; trying to squeeze too many syllables into one line, to fit the rhythm, which becomes a little monotonous in itself.

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!

I tallied the results, and here's what's been voted on thus far:

The Musical Box	12
Firth of Fifth	11
The Knife	11
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight	10
Return of the Giant Hogweed	9
Cinema Show (Aisle of Plenty)	8
The Fountain of Salmacis	8
Watcher of the Skies	8
In the Cage	7
Can Utility and the Coastliners	5
Carpet Crawlers	5
Stagnation	5
the entire 1973 Live album	5
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (title track)	5
Time Table	5
I Know What I Like…	4
Seven Stones	4
Suppers Ready	3
The Lamia	3
After the Ordeal	2
Fly on a Windshield	2
Get'em Out By Friday	2
Looking for Someone	2
Ripples	2
The Battle of Epping Forest	2
White Mountain	2
Back In N.Y.C.	1
Blood on the Rooftops	1
Counting Out Time	1
Dance on a Volcano	1
end part of Suppers Ready---start with quiet part right before "with the gods of ...."	1
Follow You Follow Me	1
for absent friends	1
Harold the Barrel	1
Horizons	1
In the Beginning	1
looking for someone	1
More Fool Me	1
One for the Vine	1
Riding the Scree	1
Selling England by the Pound in its entirety	1
The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging	1
The Serpent	1
Twilight Alehouse	1

I think if you could learn and play Selling England by the Pound in its entirety you'd be onto a winner Big smile

...though I'd also consider "In the Cage" from The Lamb too.

J:)

Barbu wrote:

When I'm going to a Genesis tribute show, I wan't to hear The Knife.

I'd vote for The Knife as well. It's just prog enough and just catchy enough that everyone will love it. Plus Trespass is one of my favorite albums by Genesis so it's good to keep the pre-Collins / Hackett lineup alive :)

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Lamneth wrote:

Thanks for the replies, so far. I think the tentative plan is to do the In the Cage medley like they did it on the Mama tour... (In the Cage/Cinema Show/In That Quiet Earth/The Colony of Slippermen/Afterglow).

That's always been the highlight of the post-70s Genesis concert. I'm sure it will be a highlight in yours too. Best of luck! Clap

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Lamneth wrote:

Thanks for the replies, so far. I think the tentative plan is to do the In the Cage medley like they did it on the Mama tour... (In the Cage/Cinema Show/In That Quiet Earth/The Colony of Slippermen/Afterglow).

well its your band + you live on another continent so why should I care.

I think that an extended version of Seven Stones would have been better on Selling England than the awful Collins dirge. Mind you if a tribute band played only eighties Genesis in my back garden...I would close the curtains...

M27Barney wrote:

^ Nail on head. Of course its all about subjective opinion, but anybody who sits outside a FK concert while they are performing GOD, which I think is a bit too short for my liking, aint having an opinion which I link with a symphonic prog fan..

Well said, snobby.

^^

What would probably make Watcher of the Skies better is if they inserted some part of Sussudio into the middle of it. That way you can sit there staring at a wall holding your bucket of drool and then all of sudden go into a dancing frenzy. All of this while trying to hold in a fart that you really think might be some squirts.

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