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    Posted: June 12 2011 at 18:47
Not many people know (except all you hard-core Genesis fans) that there was another band named Genesis in the late 60's.  This other Genesis was actually considered to have more potential than Gabriel and the gang. Their debut released a year earlier (In the Beginning) forced the prog Genesis to remove their name from the cover of From Genesis to Revelation.  Needless to say, we know which band experienced success, but in all honesty, In the Beginning is much better than From Genesis to Revelation...  The album is a great psychedelic fuzz gem, even featuring a 16 minute track with some major psychedelic instrumentation. 

http:// krishnasgoldendopeshop.blogspot.com/2009/03/genesis-in-beginning-1969.html





Pictured above: Genesis looking less attractive than they later would:

  


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It might have been better than To Revelation, but, to be sure, they never would have been capable of Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot....need I continue?
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

It might have been better than To Revelation, but, to be sure, they never would have been capable of Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot....need I continue?
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It's pointless to say that this band couldn't have gone on to be greater than 'our' Genesis, as we'll never know what they might have come up with had they been able to stay together (really, if Genesis had to quit after Revelation, would anyone have said that they could have gone on to make great prog albums? If Van der Graaf had stopped after Aerosol, could anyone have said they'd go onto be one of the most original bands ever? If Yes had stopped after the first Yes... ahhh, you get the point!)
 
I did know the guitar player in the American Genesis, his name was Kent Henry. He passed away a few years ago, but I knew him around the early 2000's for a few years. A wonderful person and a monstrously good guitarist. He went on to be in Blues Image (that's his solo you hear in Ride Captain Ride) and then went onto mega-stardom as a member of Steppenwolf (he's on their last album, For Ladies Only ['71], and toured with it before they broke up).
 
I interviewed him once, and he let me tape it. He talked quite a bit about the Genesis, Blues Image, Steppenwolf days. He also talked about being on an album by Screaming Lord Sutch where he ended up jamming with Jimmy Page and John Bonham.
 
Kent was a really cool guy. RIP
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Points: 28029 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2011 at 17:06
Sounds a bit like a proto version of Curved Air until the guitar really kicks in. Quite like it.
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2011 at 04:39
Interresting.....but the guitar realy sounds dirty, a bit to much for me, LOL What became of them later?
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