Supper’s Ready

Squonkman wrote: StyLaZyn wrote: ^So then Gabriel must be pretty hard core religious. I mean witnessing the Apocalypse and all.     I don't know how personally religious Gabriel is (or was), or whether he just had a fascination with the Bible and religious themes, but anyone who writes these words:   Can't you feel our souls ignite Shedding ever changing colours, in the darkness of the fading night, Like the river joins the ocean, as the germ in a seed grows We have finally been freed to get back home. There's an angel standing in the sun, and he's crying with a loud voice, "This is the supper of the mighty One", The Lord of Lords, King of Kings, Has returned to lead His children home, To take them to the new Jerusalem.   you would think would be somewhat spiritual and a believer.

^So then Gabriel must be pretty hard core religious. I mean witnessing the Apocalypse and all.

keiser willhelm wrote: i always thought the 7 saintly shrouded men was a reference to the book of revelations.

I think the whole song somewhat is.

AbsentEnemy wrote: I'm almost positive that Jon Anderson's lyrics don't actually mean anything. He just writes gibberish and calls it artistic.

Slartibartfast wrote: DJPuffyLemon must have run across it while walking across the sitting room.

I swear he was just going to turn the television off...

Nice to see my 3 year old threads being resurrected.

AbsentEnemy wrote: I'm almost positive that Jon Anderson's lyrics don't actually mean anything. He just writes gibberish and calls it artistic.

close to the edge is based loosely on siddartha. but he admitted a lot of liberty was taken with the lyrics so they sound nice as opposed to meaningful....

I remember reading somewhere that Peter once in his life smoked pot but the effect was so terrible that after that always hated drugs.

I found it in the Genesis Forum:

The story goes that Gabriel attended some party, ate some hash cake and stumbled home in the dark, barely knowing where to go...   He remarked later that it was the most fearful and afraid he had ever been and never tried it again or any drug.     Collins smoked pot (by his own admittance + there are a couple of photos around of PC 'lighting up'). I'd also heard that Hackett admitted to 'some' drug usage in the early days. Banks and Rutherford I'm not sure of...

I also remember one interview by the Italian TV where Peter said that he hated when people was wasted in their concerts and that he wanted an audience trying to understand the music, Mike Rutherford made the translation to Italian, but he didn't seemed so sure about what he was saying

Iván

 

GoldenSpiral wrote: Dennis wrote: If you read any of the books of Armando Gallo's that he's written on Genesis, it states clearly that Gabriel NEVER used drugs. He's just naturally strange.    That's refreshing to hear that someone can create something so great without the use of drugs.  It seems like too rare a thing these days...

Remember Uncle Frank didn't use any neither. And when one listens to his music one must think that it has been done with a lot of chemical help!

If you read any of the books of Armando Gallo's that he's written on Genesis, it states clearly that Gabriel NEVER used drugs. He's just naturally strange. The other's though were all druggies, especially lots of pot. I have the first edition of Armando Gallo's book "Genesis-The Evolution of a Rock Band," and it contains many photos of the early band and its members not used in later editions. One clearly shows Phil Collins rolling a joint. There are several other photos where you can clearly tell that the band just smoked out. But Gabriel looks straight as an arrow in all of them. One shot in particular shows a group photo circa 74' or early 75' (with Gabriel in face make-up, still with the long hair parted wide in front) where the whole band is obviously wasted on weed. Just looking at the photo makes you high. Steve Hackett is so stoned that he looks Japanese. He's still a pot-head. A recent album of his contains a track called "Marijuana-Assasin of Youth." Isn't weed still a staple of writing prog and listening to prog? The far right and the religious are scared of prog, and their simplistic and limited minds cannot venture into such evil music experimentaion spurred by the devil! The pop Collins era Genesis is all they can handle with it's dumb syrupy-sweet and hugely boring pop ditties. Once again I must state that what real prog-fan could ever listen to the 3 man Collins era Genesis after the true greatness and musical capibilites of the Gabriel/Hackett era band? I know I'm pissing off some here, but you'll never change my mind. Anytime from "And then there were Three" forward is a yawn. And yes I know that Genesis-pop was better than other pop. But again, because of their brilliant writing and performing abilities only. Easy money for them. They (Genesis) say they are hugely proud of their early work. Sure, they were hungry then, and the group made a real effort to produce quality art. All of that ended with the departures of Peter and Steve. Can anyone really listen to songs like "Turn it on Again" after the epic brilliance of track such as "Supper's Ready?" PLEASE GIVE US A REUNION! If Van Der Graff can pull it off so well, why not the classic Genesis?       

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