Lil,
You've made me cry tonight. Its that simple.   Incredible!

I first listened to The Lamia in an English public school chapel, on the first Sony walkman and, from then, I was an addict.

I'm an ex audio engineer that worked on some big albums in UK residential studios. 
SSL E series, Mitsubishi, a Shep Neve and triggering bass drums in an AMS.  The start of Avid. The Atari and the start of Steinberg Pro 16 on the Atari. 
Happy days. You know.

I worked on Seriously Live Hits and even did some synth sampling sampling sessions for the worlds largest synth manufacturer at Real World. I now work in the music software business but ...being honest.....thats all irrelevant. 
(however Nuendo is better than your ProTools! :P)

Kidding. 

Anyway, my point is that what you've done with your analysis simply hits every nerve in my body, spirit and soul. 
To the core. 
The hackles on my neck are alive. 
This audio is why I started engineering. I'm just tingling. 

Damn I wish people would release stems but hey.....!

Lil, thank you.  You inspired me to buy a second set of tickets to see Hackett at Hamburg next year.

Amazing job. Huge respect. 
You've re-inspired all my roots to music. 
The warmth and tones of those analogue sessions are incredible. 
They are simply no longer recognised in todays music distribution or transmission. 

I never write such mails from my personal account (NSA etc!) but, put simply, screw all that because music is more than that. You inspired me through music, analysis and your obsessive detail. 

I wish you and your loved ones a great weekend. I'm off to close my eyes and listen again to the full collection. 

Bloke in Hamburg, Germany loves what you've done! Brilliant :)

Thank you.

Pete

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Oh, Pete....

Now you made ME cry (especially with the frustrated, echoed cry  about "stems"!  LOL)!

Thank you, thank you, my dear friend.

Your lovely comment both humbles and gratifies me - especially coming from someone of your experience within the historic annals of our industry (and love of the same music & its organically-technical roots).

It is true that I seek to highlight the compositional and lyrical genius that was/is behind Gabriel, Hackett, Collins, Banks and Rutherford's work...but, it is also the attempt to illuminate the devoted fans to what an amazing set of feats it was for them to overcome, then harness, then lead on the technological innovations of the day.

Whenever I can speak personally to each of them (or the musicians/technicians who were working directly with them), as they..especially Gabriel..tried to push the envelope of what it was to create and innovate new forms of music/art. 

It is interesting to hear what Hackett, Marotta, Levin..and Belew (when speaking of his time with Robert Fripp) say to that.


I still have a great deal of raw footage which is waiting to be edited down and posted - but, "Life" keeps getting in the way to do so.

I promise to get more things posted as the months come...things which I know you, as a fellow audio engineer, will really get into.

All my best..and, again, with tremendous thanks for all your kind words and enthusiastic support for the website.

Xoxo, Lil (Leigh)

Hi Lil,

Just found your wonderful website...
Been a fan of Genesis since they started - yeah - guess I'm a "senior"! 
Had the great opportunity to see Steve Hackett on 10/11/13 at the Keswick in Pa. 
Was my birthday gift from my brother. 
The best part was that we got to meet Steve after the show. 
What a remarkable evening!

Anyway, love your videos.   Keep up the great work!!

All the Best

Rick
xo

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Hi, Rick ~
Oh, I am so elated that you got to meet Steve..and, see the absolutely brilliant Genesis:Revisited 2 Tour - when it came to the States.
He is as much a gentleman and brilliant technician as I (and we all) remember him to be, was he not?
Granted it took 25+ years to hear these beloved pieces performed live, in their entirety...but, damn - it was SO worth the wait !!


I really appreciate that you took time to write and lend your support for my fledgling Genesis-related website.
It's a labor of love for all of us...all dedicated to keeping The Music, alive!
And, since you've been entranced by it since the early 1970's (?) - I am most gratified that it hits an authentic chord deeply embedded in your early Genesis history.
Please keep in touch (especially if you have any pics or memories you'd like to share, from those days)!


Xoxo, Lil
 

Hi ~

I am so happy to have found your site here today, 
I grew up in Ny /Nj during the 70's and went to every Genesis show during those wonderful years. 
Seeing clips and footage from those shows on You Tube these days is such a great treat for me, it just brings everything right back , it's wonderful really.

And finding your analysis videos today, well , I just love them !

Very well done, I have been glued to them all day really.

It is great to find things like this, to find people who share my love of this music that has been such a huge part of my whole life ..this music is the soundtrack of my life . 

I moved from New York to Denver in 2009 and saw Peter last Sept at 
Red Rocks out here in Colorado..he sounds soooo great still. 
Well, I just wanted to say hello and let you know how much I enjoy about everything on your web site ! 
Thank for sharing these videos, Lileigh !
~ Patrick
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It is a pleasure to "meet" you , Patrick...and know that you were likely at many of the same early Genesis concerts I attended, in the NY area, as well.
WNEW-FM ruled, in those days, didn't it?   Alison Steele, Scott Muny and the rest.
If it wasn't for them bringing us all that mind-blowingly creative Prog (and AOR) Rock n Roll...I don't know where we would have ended up, I swear!  *humble guffaw*


Well, I am just glad you were able to see Peter's "So" Back-to-Front Tour when it hit the States, last year.
(After touring with the New Blood Orchestra, the year prior, I must say he was vocally READY for the 25th Anniversary of "So" live, in front of audiences! ;-)
You take care up there, in Denver...mighty cold, snowy weather hitting us all out here, in the West!  Brrr....


(Maybe it's time to crawl into our communal *cuckoo* Cocoon !)


Xoxo, Lil

P.S. - I hope you were able to take in Peter and Sting's recent combined tour, too.  It was great to see them together again! :-)

Hi Lileigh,

I first want to say thank you for your amazingly insightful work on the music of Genesis and in particular "The Lamb". I had the fortune of seeing the show early in the tour (in Waterbury, Connecticut). None of us had heard the album yet so it was all new and strange but it has literally been with me almost everyday since. The top of my head flew off with that whirling circular curtain during "The Lamia". Been looking for it ever since!

In one of your commentaries you mentioned what new territory it was for the band and in particular Peter Gabriel.   You observed how Peter tried to shed some of the more "effete" styles found in their earlier work. I was a jolt for me seeing such a macho Peter Gabriel strutting around like "The Fonz" and using four letter words. It is definitely a gritty, smelly and dark world they took us all to. When Peter left the band, that world pretty much vaporized. I was expecting more "Harold Demure, from Art Literature" but instead got a totally in-your-face performance which I loved.

The reason I am writing is to ask a you a question. 
In all your discussions with band members and other technicians and musicians who knew Genesis during that Lamb period, did you ever get a hint at how much material did not make the album.   In other words, which of the following statements do you feel is most true:

1. Genesis used up virtually every idea lying around during the writing of The Lamb.   It all went into the album.

2. There were several good ideas that didn't make it onto The Lamb album but they all pretty made their way into subsequent Genesis albums or solo efforts.

3. There were many musical "Lamb" ideas that were never developed/finished.   So many in fact, that they could have done a triple rather than a double album!

It has always intrigued me to think of a reunion where Genesis revisits that world again. Everyone hopes for a reunion tour. 
Not me! I hope for a new album - a truly progressive rock effort. 

And yet, all the band members gave so much up to give us all the wonderful gifts they did so I wouldn't begrudge them wanting to lead a somewhat normal life and not work so hard. But still . . .

Well, thank you again for your efforts in keeping this incredible story alive. I saw The Musical Box perform The Lamb and it was extremely close to my memories. Please write back if you get a chance.

Best wishes,
Tom 

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Hellay, dear Tom ~

What an excellent set of comments/questions you've sent in to me, my lucky friend - (to have seen the ORIGINAL Lamb Tour)!  
*envious look, grin*

I'm glad my video work (and the extensive research that went into it) has spot-lit the contributing factors of Genesis & Gabriel's singular work...

In my opinion, any beloved artistic work (such as The Lamb)- deserves to have its admirers be aware of what led to its creation especially when it was produced within the Crucible of the recording industry, in 1970's-era England.

Hardworking touring bands like Genesis had no choice but to produce innovative work- on an annual basis - under the highly-pressurized gun of commercial, contractual agreements.

But, because of the extreme, personal circumstances which surrounded all the members of Genesis, in 1974, The Lamb deserves special note.

It's outright wild, Vonnegut-like surrealism honestly drew me to read as much historical insight as I could ~  out of sheer personal curiosity.
But as a newsperson,  it was a fascinating to piece together the story behind the story, .

I'm just hoping my videos give a linear presentation of just how large a jigsaw puzzle it turned out to be!

As for your questions ~
Through my research and my personal discussions with Steve Hackett, I can tell you my take on what "rings true", as fact:

* None of the group liked the album, until much later in time (and this, only partially), due to the difficult circumstances surrounding its inception and final delivery.  It is infused with some very tough memories, for all of them ~ especially Peter 
and Steve.

Their opinion (to this day), is that despite some areas of musical brilliance -  it is a flawed work with which they have to constantly live - especially with the re-playing & exacting replication of those flaws, as when the Lamb is performed live, by such tribute bands as The Musical Box.
You will notice that Gabriel always gives a humble disclaimer on The Lamb.
He says that it really is an "unfinished work" which needed more time to polish up than could be afforded him, by the rigorous writing, recording schedule - put forth by Charisma. 

But, there is more to it than that... a back-story which we probably will never quite get the full telling of - thanks to Peter Gabriel's documented reticence of divulging any creative insights into his works.

Here's what I think (from reading & reviewing many of his and other member's of Genesis' interviews through the years) ~

*Back in 1974, Gabriel was desperate.  He wanted OUT of "Genesis-The-Big", in the worst way.  He wanted to create something of his own, a character which would offer the possibility of a way out of the democratic group and into his original, academic love:  Film.

Although this sub-conscious thought may well have come to him, later on, during the actual Tour - 
Rael's journey of self-discovery matched 24-yr-old Peter's own frustrations (to escape a world he helped to create)...a journey which would eventually end up being made into a feature-film.

In my video series ~ Analysis:Chamber of 32 Doors ~ I go through a lot of the layered details which follow this particular trail.

You see, Rael was based on much the same type of surreal character as that featured in a Alejandro Jodorowsky movie, which entranced Gabriel, entitled: El Topo.
Jodorosky's films was also rife with personal allegory and visual christian symbolism...and Peter loved this.

I don't think we will ever know when it was that Peter started to think of "Rael" as his possible way out of Genesis - but, he DID copyright the story of the Lamb, once the Tour was complete (making it his own intellectual property - outside the democratic grouping that was Genesis).
This p.o.'d the other band members, to no end.

Did they finally Rael-ize that Gabriel might have used their musical talents to help establish his credibility as a future solo artist - in the writing of the double-album?
Not wonder they wouldn't sign off on his using their co-owned musical compositions for the Lamb movie!

I'm not sure we will ever know the true answer to this, unfortunately....but, Peter tried for YEARS to work the Lamb towards becoming a full-length feature movie (even approaching and working with Jodorowsky to develop it with him).

As for your questions on the "extra, leftover ideas" of the Lamb ~ an old interview with Mike Rutherford revealed that there was enough conceptual material from Peter's storyline "to fill 3 LP's", when he came to the group with his storyline portion of the Lamb deal.
Hackett has stated that they all really scraped hard to gather as much workable musical material (from previous writing sessions) as they could, in order to fill out the needed quota of compositions to support Peter's voluminous story.

They also spent endless hours, jamming together within the rat-infested, haunted halls of Headley Grange to come up with brand-new stuff, as a group (with Peter coming in once in a while - from another room - where he was working on the lyrics to the stuff the band had already written).
The Lamb Session tapes revealed that Peter would sometimes join them in the jamming-room to wordlessly vocalize to their compositions - to help himself nail down the cadence of the proposed lyrics.

I agree that knowing how iconic The Lamb has become, over the years, the original members would want to take advantage of that pent-up expectation, by all of us, monetarily.
They (and Peter Smith) certainly tried hard to sell Peter on the idea, back in 2004...
And, it's possible that it may come to pass...someday (before they..and we..all croak! LOL)
But, with all the legal problems of copyrights, royalties and publishing rights, etc...who can say if they could even DO it, now?

Steve (along with many other original artists) doesn't even own a fair amount of his own music, anymore...which is so sad.

Knowing how rare the Twain Shall Meet (Genesis vs Gabriel Music-Making Machines) - I'm afraid that our (yours & my) hopes for additional Lamb material would likely have only come from Peter's failed movie venture...where we could have found out the "Rest of The Rael Story" Rutherford had referred to.

Heck, I'm just very thankful that The Lamb got made, at all (with all the $#*& hitting the fan, politically/emotionally), back in 1974...and that it turned out as profound a work, as it ultimately turned out to be (despite its claimed flaws).

I'm amazed, actually ~ since I've heard that most Brits of their socio-economic background rarely confide in each other. 
(example:  most of the member's of Genesis did NOT know what "Supper's Ready" was all about - until years later when Peter told Armando Gallo the background story of his wife Jill's alleged "possession" one night, at Coxhill, Gabriel's grandfather's estate...and her return from that spooky, spiritual experience.  You know - "I've been so far from you..far from your loving arms.  It's good to feel you, again!  It's been a long, long time...")

If that remained true for the Lamb, as well:  How did Banks, Rutherford, Hackett and Collins produce such gorgeously complex compositions (with Gabriel adding one or two, himself) - without really knowing the full intricacies of the storyline of Rael?
Unbelievable!

Here are MY sincere questions, Tom.

How did 24-year-old Peter come up with such a wildly creative and multi-layered (with sophisticated allegory, word-play and double/triple-entendres) - while being yanked in (at least) 3 different impossible directions - personally, professionally, creatively?

How did the release and subsequent tour of such a "different" album forever change the trajectory of Genesis, as an entity, and Gabriel, as a future solo artist (once he finished being "One with Cabbages")...ultimately, making them all more successful beyond their wildest expectations?

Well, I am hoping that my Analysis:Lamb Lies Down series has elucidated upon the extraordinarily difficult circumstances which surrounded Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett....and, especially, Peter Gabriel ... during the writing, recording, mixing and touring of The Lamb.

Much of these circumstances were from without: 
The pressure, contractually & otherwise, from the record industry and fans to have a new album - meeting the then-common expectation of an "annual new album" from a group, as well as the fact that Genesis was deeply in debt, as a collective.

...but, also from within:  
The aborted attempt, by Peter Gabriel, to leave Genesis (for an ill-interpreted opportunity with Exorcist William Friedkin), the seeking of more artistic control/contributions to the "Democratic group-writing" process (presented as a condition of him rejoining the group) and the nearly-fatal delivery/post-partem infections which almost took his wife and first child from him, during the Lamb's story/lyric writing process.
Add to that the fact that Steve Hackett was going through a contentious divorce, from his first wife...and, later, being under so much stress/duress - crushing a thin wineglass and severing a left thumb-tendon - and requiring surgical reattachment which not only delayed the start of the Lamb Tour, by many weeks, but precluded him from playing his solos at full, impressive interpretive skill during the first half of that tour.

No.  I think we'd best realize that we are pretty lucky to have gotten what we got (because, in fact, it was not really meant to be).

The unfinished quantitative quality of The Lamb certainly adds to its enduring mystique....and keeps us bound to it, for all (unanswered) eternity.


Xoxo, Lil

Hi Lileigh,

Came upon your website by chance surfing for Genesis you tube videos.
I like your analysis of what genesis had done with their re-issue. 
I hold out hope that one day they may give us closure and do a final world tour. 
Even if they don't tour I would fly to England to see them bring it to a close. 

In 1978-1979 I saw Genesis in 
Fort Lauderdale for the 
And then There Were Three tour. 

Genesis did have a stage setup like none I have ever seen. I have read there is very little video of this tour. 
The stage set had 6 or 8 hexagonal mirrors which pivoted on 2 axis above the group. Lasers were fired at the mirrors. 
I have seen other you tube clips of the concert, most of limited video and audio quality but none with this stage set. 
Is there any good footage that you know which shows this concert as I saw it? 
I have some very good 35mm pictures of the concert but no video, I don't think they do it justice.

Thank You,

Rick


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Hi, Rick ~

Yours is a very perplexing question..in that the "And Then There Were Three" tour  fell into a time when Genesis (by then, Banks, Collins and Rutherford) could certainly have afforded some filming to be done of their always-spectacular, ever-escalating Showco staging - with them playing underneath it. And, yet, they seem to have not...at least for lengthy, commercial release.
I, too, saw that tour...just not sure if it was the same leg as you all had down in Florida (I was in upstate NY, at the time).  But, your excellent, visual description jogs a very old memory of mine - of the hexagonal mirrors, lasers bouncing off of them - I'm sure of it!
**(For those unfamiliar with what Rick & I remember - my collector friend and collaborator Paul Davis, from the UK, has kindly sent me a shot of the foldout from the programme from the "And Then There Were Three" Tour, for all to see!  Look above to see that snapshot. Thank you, Paul!)

I, myself, am not aware of any video of that specific time period, unfortunately.

I will send out some feelers to my collector friends...but, all the internet searches I've been doing on the question - are also coming up blank.  ;-(
Problem, back then, was that video and film cameras were pretty bulky...and if you were CAUGHT trying to sneak in one of those big honkers, you would certainly have been tossed out of the venue, with the offending piece of electronic equipment following you (onto the hard pavement).
No, it would have needed to have been a fully-cleared, professionally-filmed production - for it to have been preserved for the group's posterity (and, knowing Tony's distinct policy on not releasing any Genesis product which doesn't meet his strict standards, it is unlikely to see the light of day - IF it exists within The Farm's coffers). 

I'm so sorry to not be a bearer of better news...but, who knows, if we post this interchange  for all to see - our combined luck may turn and someone might come forward with more concrete knowledge of this new Quest of ours!  :-)

Meanwhile, I'm not the only one to have my curiosity piqued about those marvelous 35mm still photographs you spoke of personally snapping, during the tour!  Would LOVE to see them!

All my thanks for your supportive communiques, 
Xoxo, Lil

Hi, Lileigh,
I cannot hardly believe that I have not heard of you or this site before. 
I'm in the AF, been flying for some really long time, lets say. 
I have used Genesis, Gabriel, Hackett, etc as the soundtrack for my life since college in the early 80. I can't fly a helo, but I have both rappelled and skydived out of some:
(Flying big airplanes, C-5, C-17, KC-135 for the AF) 
Anyway, the analysis of the engineering of Genesis is remarkable. 
It also validates in my own head why some of the later live-stuff didn't "pop" with me as much.....like three sides live. 
The first Genesis concert I saw was in the Oakland Coliseum for the ...And Then There were Three tour, (yeah, I know). 
I was 16 or seventeen. 
Through college I must have seen Genesis, Gabriel, and Hackett in their various tours about twenty times. 
Good times. Hackett even stared at my date for a good portion of one concert.....I listen to them every week at least in some form......I have been so often accused of over thinking my listening to music... and here you are taking it to nigh a fine art. Vivat.      Best;  Dave
LiLeigh, in 2000, after earning her Comm'l
FAA Rotorcraft Rating...it was 105-degrees in AZ,
that day (no a/c in the cockpit) - hence the shorts!


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Hi, Dave!

I'm trying my best to get out all my communiques before Turkey-Gobble Day hits...so, I'm hoping this one finds you and your family reunited for a good communal feast - especially since you are a career serviceman?

God bless you, sir, for serving our country...in such a lengthy term of service.

I'm so very pleased that my videos and website have tickled your musical fancy...as well as your (our) fine memories of all those Genesis/Gabriel/Hackett tours of the 80's and 90's!

Yes, I think also music plays an important role in our lives (or at least, the training portion) as pilots.

Of course, I have nothing on your career, in the cockpit...but, when I was first learning to hover (in the trainer R22 I had no choice to use to learn to fly, get my first Rotorcraft rating) - it was Gabriel's "Mercy Street" which allowed me to overcome the (very common) urge to "over control" the cyclic.

My CFI suggested (after I had experienced the typical "very frustrating" initial hour of attempted stable hovering) that I go home and find a piece of music which featured a steady, hypnotic beat - and listen to it consistently until I came back the next day, to try again.

Gabriel's "So" happened to be in the car's CD system...and I forwarded through it until I came upon "Mercy Street"..and voila! 
;-)

I got back in the cockpit, the next day, lifted off...and was steady as a rock (with "Looking down on Mercy Street, all she can see...", reverberating in my brain).

I'm sure that most all of us have some sort of similar stories about when their music came into play, during the more challenging times, in our lives.

To me, that is what Music, in general, does for the us, as human beings.

As cliche'd as it sounds: Music helps us to connect with each other, in a very intimate way...and helps us to make it through what we all face, on a daily basis.

The wonderful feedback generated via this website, my videos and my attending of all the Gabriel, Hackett and TMB concerts - within the past 3 years and connecting with so many fellow lovers of the music of early-Genesis/Gabriel-solo - underscores this.

I'm so grateful to include you (and all my other Entangled, Genesis-loving friends, who have written me, here) in this superlative fellowship known as "The Faithful".  *grin*


Have a safe and warm Holiday season...and, beyond!

All my best to you,
Lil

Dear LileighWhite,

I just had the idea, that it would be nice to listen to some LLDOBW-songs. 
Don´t know why, it was just a flash in my mind. 

After looking for Lilywhite Lilith on youtube, I found your work and later on your website.    Extraordinary! 
Thanks a lot!! 
Especially because I´m a Genesis-fan too from the age of 16 when I saw them on Peter´s last tour with the group in Düsseldorf, Germany. 

That was my first "real great" concert and I´ll never forget it! 

A year later, I saw the group again with Phil Collins then singing and drumming and Bill Bruford on drums, too. 
Quite good, but not the amazing show that I saw 12 months ago.

Bruford was the way to King Crimson, another of my favourite 70´s groups. 
Not that I totally stucked in the Prog-Rock-Scene until now on, but it had a great impact on my musical life.

Isn´t it funny, that the genesis-songs from that period are quite undeletable from my inner hard-disk - and it´s 40 years later now and the words are still there, even if I´m not a native speaker.

It´s a pleasure to listen to your explanations, your "that´s what he probably meant with that line"-statements. 
Howard Hughes in blue suede shoes? Sound´s nice - and is there a hint maybe hidden in Orson Welles Citizen Cane, 
which I´ve never discovered? A Rosebud...?

Anyway: You´re a rael and a real fan and I appreciate that a lot!

Wish you good luck over the ocean wherever you are and maybe you´ll send me an answer. ;-)

Yours,
Michael 

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Grube aus Arizona nach Dusseldorf, mein neuer Freund, Michael !

Wow...you bring up so many delectable images of the rarest of early-Genesis concerts, with your written memories, Michael.

I mean, other than the 1972/73 Roxy,  Rainbow Theatre and Drury Lane concerts...I would have absolutely given my eye teeth to see Peter's final Lamb concerts, in Europe (where Steve's surgically-reattached left thumb tendon was finally healing up enough for him to REALLY let loose and play "Fly", etc.)...and, then, Bruford stepping into Phil's drumming shoes during the earliest leg(s) of the Trick of The Tail Tour. 

(I, too, followed Bruford right into the re-created King Crimson, with Adrian Belew and Tony Levin joining "Professor" Fripp for "Discpline", et al.   And, I GOT to see them perform, live, in 1981..thank heavens!  Purchased my single ticket..and drove myself up to Syracuse, NY - only to find I was about the only "non-girlfriend" female fan in the audience, that night !  LOLOL) 

Well...Marvelous, my friend....simply marvelous !

I must admit that I adore the way you expressed the way we all feel about this very beguiling music, of early Genesis, en masse:  "the songs from that period are quite undeletable from my inner hard-disk - and it´s 40 years later now and the words are still there".

A better, more descriptive way of putting it - I have rarely come upon!

It's like it is wrapped into the double-helix of our music-enjoying DNA strands....so pervasive is the early work of Genesis.

I was recently fortunate enough to travel along with Steve Hackett's Genesis:Revisited 2 Tour (to film and document it, while they visited the States)....and, I think that even HE was surprised how EXUBERANT the audiences were, in their appreciative reactions to each and every song he presented.
It was almost as if everyone there, each night, had HELD his (or her) breath for 40 years, waiting for this tremendously beloved music to be performed Live, in its entirety, again....and at the hearing of the first opening phrases of all these songs (which, as you say, undeletable from our collective hard-drives) all would BURST out, releasing that long-held, anticipatory breath-  in joy and utter bliss!

Never have I seen anything like it before....nor, am I like to ever see anything like it, again, in my lifetime.

I do so hope that you have (and everyone else, in Europe, the UK..and elsewhere) been able to see at least ONE of these GR2 Tour concerts...they really are quite wonderful.

And, Steve is still in TOP Form!  (God bless 'im ;-)

If you (or anyone else you know, who also loves early-Genesis) can't get to see GR2 concert, live...then, may I suggest ordering a DVD copy of his Genesis:Revisited 2 concert at the Hammersmith Odean, via his website:  Hackettsongs.com .

It is well-worth the investment, I assure you!


Frohe Feiertage zu ihnen und ihrer Familie, lieber Michael.
Alle meine besten Wunsche fur Sie..


Lil (Leigh)

Hey Lil,

Just a quick line to say a heartfelt and sincere thank you for your wonderful and highly insightful analysis of Genesis.

I stumbled across your YT channel purely by chance after seeing a random post of the Lamb on G+, and oh boy, am I glad I did!

In recent terminology, I guess I could be described as an "Indigo child", or "Indigo mature adult" in my case! Lol


I tell you this because as soon as I saw and heard you, I was captivated, drawn in and completely connected.

Your spirituality shines like a beacon, and I adore the way your appreciation of this eternally beautiful music is written all over your lovely face.
I could listen to your commentary all day, not least because your reviews are extremely accurate, but also because I happen to agree with every word you say! Ha ha

How serendipitous to virtually meet such a beautiful, sensitive and intelligent woman such as yourself.

I feel blessed being a lifelong Genesis fan, and now discovering someone who deeply understands their muse with the same passion and enthusiasm, is absolutely heart warming.

I do hope that you continue to spread the Genesis 'gospel' this way, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your knowledge and acute awareness with everyone.

Thank you again Lil from your latest "guaranteed eternal" subscriber!

Namaste,

Phil

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Namaste, Phil...I "see the Light which resides within you", as well ;-)

How much more lovely (and loving) could a message get...I ask you?  *brilliant smile*

Thank you, thank you, my friend.

One rarely knows, these days, what kind of reaction one will get when one personally-crafts something very intimate  (to our collective early-Genesis loving souls) ...and send it out, into the ether, like a Night Sky Lantern (see above pic)

But, when you start looking into the same dark sky...and see HUNDREDS of fellow Genesis/Gabriel-loving Lanterns (Peter's so-named Golden Globes, perhaps?) also floating along with yours, you can't help but feel good.

I'm so very pleased you wrote you me, Phil....what you wrote and when you wrote it also matters a great deal to me, as you likely now know.


Serendipitous?  Perhaps.
But, somehow...I think not so much, as it is Kismet.

And, now it's time to  thank you from the bottom of my heart.

May we all be Entangled in the same dream (of a Genesis Reunion, somehow, someday), tonight!

All my love and Guaranteed Eternal gratitude, 

Lil (Leigh)

Hi, Lileigh, 
An old friend of mine sent a youtube link about your analysis of the Mellotron. 
Thanks a ton, as i don't think I will get any sleep. 
I will watch ALL of your videos. 

Saturday, I saw the Musical Box in Toronto at our historic Massey Hall. 
It was almost 40 years ago exactly, that Genesis did SEBTP on the same stage. 
Thank you for your enthusiasm for the band I cherish more than any other! 
( well, Maybe ELP is close)

All the best, Tom

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Hellay, Tom !

So sorry for the excuse to lose even more sleep (than you are likely getting, already, like all of us ;-) - but, so very pleased you enjoyed my very heartfelt feature on the mighty Mellotron!
Have you, by chance, found my Analysis: BankSynths Vintage Instrument Tour video - with Sound of Contact's keyboardist Dave Kerzner and my collaborator Tom Lord-Alge discussing The Lamb's use of the early BankSynths stuff?


It was such a GREAT time filming them, as they talked (like little kids in a candy shop, I swear!  LOL), surrounded by all of the vintage keyboards that Tony Banks used during the Lamb era.  It was a GAS!    *hearty chuckle, recalling the memory*


As for The Musical Box 's SEBTP Tour - please look above to see the picture that TLA snapped, the other night, in NYC - at the end of Supper's Ready: New Jerusalem.  LOVE THAT BLACKLIGHT MAKE-UP, Denis Gagne !!!!!!  8-D


I have no doubt from your enthusiastic e-comment, you had just as good a time seeing the show as Tom and his brother Jeff did!
(I get to see TMB, in Los Angeles, after the New Year - when CalProg brings them out west - to spread their early-Genesis, black-lit magic.  Yippeeeee!!!)


Thank you again, for matching our passion...it's great to have your esteemed company (and support).


Love,  Lil

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


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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