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Reminds me, I have light burned out in the studio.
If I translated this right, it means you went to sleep, no?
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Hi,
With all due respect to the band, and I like their early work a lot, I stopped enjoying the band right after "Trick of the Tail".
The band's music is not an issue, specially in the early days, but there is one thing that no one discusses, because "Genesis" is more famous than the arts and the realities in their history, that helped Genesis, get to where they got.
The 60's and early 70's were massive in Europe with theater and music mixing it up, and it was not just a song either. And in many countries it was an important part of their artistry and their anti-communism and other revolutions that took over Europe in that time, and Checkslovakia, Poland, Romania, Germany, France and even Italy, were very big in this area, that later Peter Gabriel learned to do as well, and brought it to England, not that the Royal Shakespeare Company was not doing this already with "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Marat/Sade", one an intense inner trip and the other a massive voice to the "revolution and its definition. Marat says "I am the revolution" ... Sade says "You think you are a revolution leading people like mice to their deaths." (re-phrased!). Today, we don't even give a poop and have no idea what we're fighting for, anyway!
Stuff like this was very valuable and had a large influence in Genesis. And there are historic documents in "Eurock" about this. However, I do think that the music itself, that Genesis did was also very good, which helped, but all the headlines in Melody Maker at the time on Jack the Knife and other pieces were about the costumes and the lights ... not the music or words at all!
it was a lot of show ... and not enough go. But that is, sometimes, what a new/young band has to do to get some attention, and Genesis, did it really well. So, seeing Guru Guru using masks and fun toys (including making fun of East German marching band music!) hiding their comments about the Wall in Germany, all of a sudden makes a lot more sense in a historical context, than just music for the sake of music.
I think that we have a tendency to ignore that fact and think that music is better on its own, and generally it is not, because it becomes "personal" and not the social event that helped create it.
post edited by Moshkito - 2015/05/20 10:24:38