Genesis
Frank, who commented on my “A Flower” post, caused me to dig out my old Genesis albums and wallow in memories… I first heard Genesis (at about the same time as Supertramp) when I was sixteen… they where my first encounters with progressive music, and I never looked back.
Firth of Fifth, which Frank mentioned in his comment, very strongly reminds me of the concert I went to in Berlin. I remember how impressed I was with Phil Collins, such an energetic bundle, it was almost comical how he jumped between his newly acquired post as lead vocalist (inherited from Peter Gabriel, of course) and his accustomed seat behind the drums. And his voice impressed me too. Of course he didn’t have Gabriel’s charisma, but that voice did make up for that. It was not too radically different from Peter Gabriel’s, but also had “something” in its own right. What a pity he had to go the way he went musically. Stuff like “You can’t hurry love” just makes me wanna cry, and for all the wrong reasons too… *cringe*
This video could well have been taken at the concert I saw, some time in the late 70s – my memory is sort of hazy as to when exactly that was. What can I say – old age does that to you!
