Grateful Dead

Wow, another good thread. I love all these bands/artists, and enjoyed them live.
Saw Genesis 7 times, but only started in 1980.
Saw Peter Gabriel 6 times, beginning in ‘82, and every tour after that until early ‘90’s.
Only saw Brand X once, no Phil, but he played a couple of Brand X tunes on his first 2 solo tours.
I would recommend Masques & Product as top notch Brand X albums, although about 9 years ago, Charisma put out a fantastic 4 disc set of their first 6 albums and a few BBC tracks. Top notch!!
I always preferred mushrooms to LSD, although I had access to good quality LSD a couple of times, that was sweet. I could eat mushrooms and really enjoy live music(Rush!!). I could also shroom and go out socially. Quite enjoyable.

Top 5 Genesis albums(IMHO):

Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Selling England By The Pound
Live-the 1st one
Duke
Wind & Wuthering

It’s gonna be a music filled weekend!!
The Best kind.

....my son passed his driving test today.
Now go pick me up some Chinese take out slave!
Second time was the charm.
Took me two times too.
Guess it a Genesis night. Funny how this site will steer my auditory compass.
Btw. I have good taste.
Umphreys McGee is good.

Brand X! Good sheet Mon!

Since y’all brought it up.
Gotta friend who serendipitously obtained some veggies a few moths ago but hasn’t enjoyed yet.
Anyone know how long they last/are good for? I think she said they’ve been in her cool garage?

I always liked them better than vitamin A, was quite the ahem researcher BITD. Been many decades since, but after that How to Change Your Mind book/Doc, thinking my neural pathways could use a little micro rerouting lol. 😁

Excellent review! I cannot believe I didn't know that "Philip Collins" (with lots of hair in photo) was in Brand X. You're so right about his drumming then. The band is tight. Absolutely love the two I have from my fusion days, Moroccan Roll and Unorthodox Behaviour. Need to spin those again as I've been on a fusion sidetrack lately. Any other recommendations for them?
Cheers
And DR the adult fairy tale is a good description of their style and Gentle Giant, even Tull at times.

I only saw Genesis once, in early 1973 at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. It was about the 4th concert I went to, and I can still remember it quite clearly. A very dramatic opening with "Watcher of the Skies" and great versions of "Suppers Ready", "The Musical Box" and "The Return of The Giant Hogweed". "The Knife" was the encore. It felt like quite a surreal evening - a sort of adult fairy tale feel to it. Part of this show was released on the "Genesis Live" album that came out later in the year. A long forgotten band called String Driven Thing were the support band, who were also pretty good.

Funny how that deadnet serendipity strikes again, as just last night I was thinking of something to watch, and went for music documentary search on Amazon, up popped Peter Gabriel Secret World Live, a couple of concerts from back to back nights in Italy in November 1993. Love Gabriel, and like Genesis, mainly the Gabriel era, though I like some of the Phil Collins-era as well. Not big on Collins solo, or Hackett, or Rutherford, for that matter. Love Collins's underrated jazz fusion-funk band Brand X. That is some incredible stuff, and the tightest and best drumming I've ever heard from Collins. But I put Peter Gabriel up there with the genius musicians, and that concert film exemplified it. I had seen another of his concert films from another tour, and he really puts on a spectacle. I wish I could have caught him, or that he does another tour. He has innovative stages, uses the stage in innovative ways that was way ahead of its time. The first one I saw he had a very small circular stage with the audience surrounding, and no visible amps, all musicians playing wirelessly, and he rode a bike while singing at one point, plenty of choreographed dancing that would make the Temptations proud, and a killer band headlined by Tony Levin on basses and Chapman Stick.

Secret World featured two circular stages, again sans amps, but now with a long, narrow pier connecting them. They did a song called Across the River with Shankar on double-bodied electric violin by himself, and Gabriel and his bandmates on the other side of the river, and in a little ambient jam, Gabriel was playing rain stick while he and the band took a conveyor belt across the "river" and joined Shankar, and segued smoothly into Shaking the Tree, a great song he co-wrote with Youssou N'Dour, who sang memorably on In Your Eyes. He opened the show with a telephone booth prop and duet with Paula Cole that really set the stage for the theatricality and brilliant music to come. Whatever he charges for a concert would be worth it. Even being the same show each night. Conversely, Genesis was here in Boston for 2 nights in December 2021, playing their last ever US shows, had no interest. But I can listen and enjoy their music.

And I wasn't on mushrooms, but I can imagine that would be a good use of about 2 hours of that time.

....my knowledge is limited.
Grew up on Duke, Abacab and Invisible Touch. I do know that.
Oh. And that Leave It video on MTV.
What can I say? Gen X here checking in.
My wife doesn't like Dark Star, TOO, Fluffhead or You Enjoy Myself.
She likes Sugaree, Ramble-On Rose, Cavern and Divided Sky though.
Give and take.

I was just going to post about this. I don’t think I recall Genesis ever get mentioned on these boards, ever. I personally never saw them, but I did see Gabriel one time - fantastic showman, and Steve Hackett is a terrific guitarist. The band really bit after these two guys left, but this release looks really promising.

Dennis?

Rhino coming out with Genesis - BBC Broadcasts, 1970-1998. Lots of shows from places that Daverock and our other brothers from over the pond mention. Any feedback? Anyone see them in that long career? Available in a 50+ tracks 5-CD version and a 24 tracks 3-vinyl version. Always liked their prog-rock almost folksy style. Closest thing I currently have is a Mike & The Mechanics record. Love Paul Carrack on vocals on that one. (Has the song In The Living Years which I can personally relate to.) My wife cannot suffer Phil Collins though, not sure why. She can't countenance Jimmy Buffett either.
Cheers
Some of the featured shows: 1975 Wembley Empire Pool, 1980 Lyceum, 1978 and 1992 Knebworth, 1987 Wembley

....my mind wasn't set for it.
Tonight however.
When it comes to psychedelics, ones frame of mind prior to ingesting is rule #1. And mine wasn't lined up at the time.
The conservations on this board for the past couple of days has been awesome btw.
Shipping notice received.