Lileighwhite.com
  • Home
  • Videos
    • Analysis: Chamber of 32 Doors Trilogy
    • Analysis: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway series
    • Analysis: Supper's Ready (Italian sub-titles)
    • Genesis Vintage Instrument Tours
    • Analysis: Cinema Show / Tony Banks Repair >
      • Cinema Show Repair: Nick Davis fixes Tony's Rainbow Show Bobble
    • Analysis: Supper's Ready series
    • Analysis: The Musical Box LLDOB Tour
    • Lil's Blog >
      • Analysis: Tony Levin >
        • About me
        • About me
      • Theatre of the Mind - Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Live Celebrity Re-enactment
    • Analysis: Rainbow Theatre Repairs / Genesis' Nick Davis
    • Analysis: Steve Hackett series
  • Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited Tour
  • Genesis/Hackett/Gabriel Forums
    • The Musical Box 40th Anniv. "SEBTP/Foxtrot" Live Tour 2013/2014
    • Peter Gabriel News
    • Steve Hackett News
    • Phil Collins News >
      • Peter Gabriel Tour Info
    • Genesis items
  • Steve Hackett Equipment List (Lamb-era vs. GR2 Tour-era)
  • Armando Gallo's IKWIL App
  • Lamb Pop Art: Patrick Zoller

A nervous, new lead singer named Phil Collins...

11/7/2013

0 Comments

 
Thanks for you contributions to keeping their music alive.

I too have been a Genesis fan since 15 (1972). 
Being the keyboard player for a fledgling prog rock band in Sarnia, Ontario called Theater of Life (great name don't you think) and having been a Rick Wakeman fan I began to tire of his movement to be more technically driven rather than melody driven. 

I purchased the Foxtrot LP and was hooked on Banks dedication to the song rather than the technique.
My foundest memory was attending the 1976 Trick of the Tail show in London, Ontario on March 26, 76, their first live appearance with Mr. Collins on lead vocals and my first time seeing Genesis. 
It started a bit slow, Mr. Collins visibly nervous but quickly became, as they always were, a tight melodic increadable sound. 

I have seen Genesis in all of their incarnations (except with Mr. Gabriel) 6 times in total, Mr. Gabriel solo 4 times but have the foundest memory of the London ,Ontario show. 
It was intimate, only a couple of hundred attending. and their interaction with us more seemed more genuine. 

They appeared to be moved with our reaction and thankful for it. Thanks again for keeping these memories alive.

Paul


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


What a superlative set of memories you have had with Genesis...and Peter Gabriel (solo)...as both a fellow musician and a genuine, appreciative fan, dear Paul!
Thank you so very much for sharing this unusual memory of Phil's first, tentative outing as their lead singer and frontman.
It serves us all well, I think, to go back in our minds to a time before he was Mr. Phil Collins, international start of stage and screen (and Motown Hit remakes).
I have always had great respect for Phil...not only in his pure vocals - but, his magnificently complex drumming.


I've read how he is a consummate musician - in that he play nearly every type of instrument he picks up...and his ability to sew different compositions together, through clever transitional arrangements, set him apart.


He was a workaholic who gave freely of his time and talents when his friends needed top-notch drumming to be recorded for their solo albums & asked for no pay  (just ask Peter)..and, if there had later been sour grapes or bad feeling on anyone's part - it usually would be Phil who played the mediator or mood-lightener.


So many folks these day forget how far-reaching his musical depth truly is...and merely assign him the more shallow Pop Star persona he later became.


In that, I am very sad to slowly learn that he became a very depressed individual, later in life...and, perhaps understandably bitter as to how everything panned out, for him.


But, at least he has his newly-published book on his years-long obsession "The Alamo" to find joy in !


All my best..and sincere thanks,


Xoxo, Lil
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    LileighWhiteLilith...she's gonna take you through the Tunnel of Night....

    [email protected]

    Archives

    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    August 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011

    RSS Feed


Analysis: Chamber of 32 Doors - Part 1
YouTube: http://youtu.be/wUYoeUeg-r8


Analysis:  Chamber of 32 Doors - Part 2
YouTube:  http://youtu.be/eJfgDEE8BQI



Analysis:  Chamber of 32 Doors -Part 3
YouTube:  http://youtu.be/piueJ_0N-Kk


Analysis: Tom Lord-Alge & the Chamber of 32 Doors  (alternate version of Part 1/Tom's intro)
YouTube:    http://youtu.be/CMOmxytrP5s


http://www.lileighwhite.com/ 
*FOR SERIOUS LAMB FANATICS ONLY !!!* 

A
n Analysis of the many allegorical layers, written by Peter Gabriel, within the pivotal song "The Chamber of 32 Doors" on the original Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album.

Jungian Archetype Theory, The Power of Myth's Hero's Journey and the Tibetan Book of the Dead provide the framework with which Gabriel wrote of his pending decision to leave Genesis.
Add onto that the visual work of "El Topo" director Alejandro Jodorowsky, as Peter's inspiration - and you have one, very serious surrealistic work of art.

WARNING/ADVISORY:   This trilogy of videos are DEEP (because these metaphysical/psychoanalytical works were what Peter Gabriel had been reading up until the uber-rushed writing of The Lamb)!
Although, he claims the lyrics are flawed - many still consider it a layered work of genius.
Part Surrealism, Part Metaphysical, Part Self Psychoanalytical. 

These videos are the result of 2 years of intense research and many contributions by many people (several, quite close to Peter Gabriel & Genesis).

As Tony Robinson wrote for the 1970-1975 Genesis Box Set: "It's a mistake to think of the narrative as only having one meaning because every listener must create their own personal story."
This trilogy's analysis is not set in concrete.  It is meant to elucidate upon the metaphysical texts by which Peter was reaching to obtain his own new pathway (out of the band and into his own solo career, away from "Genesis-the-Big")....as well as start new discussions as to what the album meant to YOU, the listener.
From all of us who collaborated on these videos....ENJOY!!
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Analysis series for the dedicated Genesis fan