Genesis When In Rome 2007!!!

Stampy · #1 10-30-2008, 09:46 AM

This has got to be my favorite Genesis show. What do you all think. Mike Rutherford with the Shergolds and Daryl with the American series Femders!!!

JackCrockett · #2 10-30-2008, 07:19 PM

I think Genesis had a few decent songs in the early Collins years. I think, during the Gabriel years, that they were a pretentious, unlistenable bunch of tools of England. Toward the mid-late 80s, they became a not-so-pretentious, nauseating to listen to trio of tools from England making repulsive pop songs that people like my dad used to listen to.

My dad, who knows nothing of music... I can remember him, in the 80s riding around in his Camaro jamming to "Invisible Touch" and "Land Of Confusion". Worse than that, he had Phil Collins live album. The only thing worse than Genesis... Collins solo.

I do have to give them credit... Ababcab, and some of the early Collins era albums are marginally acceptable to me.

danomite64 · #3 10-30-2008, 08:54 PM

I have the DVD and CD, and love them both. I hear they're trying to team up with Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett to do another tour, covering their earlier stuff, no doubt; that also would be very, very cool to have a DVD of. Though I have to admit Daryl did an awesome job with the Hackett solos.....

Muckaluck · #4 10-30-2008, 09:06 PM

I watched it last night at a buddy's house. I don't really get the hype. It all sounded the same and the synth sounded like my old casio keyboard when I was a kid.

Maybe it needs a few listens....

JackCrockett · #5 10-30-2008, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Muckaluck

I watched it last night at a buddy's house. I don't really get the hype. It all sounded the same and the synth sounded like my old casio keyboard when I was a kid.

Maybe it needs a few listens....

I have a 70.00 casio at my house, and I can get the exact tone Tony Banks uses on many of Genesis' 80s material.

As far as Hackett and Gabriel, I Hackett contributed nothing to the original band, IMO. He was background.... Tony Banks was the show, as far as sound goes.

I can stomach a few of the songs on "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" and "Foxtrot"... but Gabriel was much better solo in the 80s.