Genesis - LIVE
Tuesday, Oct 10 - Dateline, San Jose. Genesis, live in concert!! We went out to see the 'reunion tour', the first time in 15 years that Phil Collins has played with Mike Rutherford & Tony Banks. The reunion was originally conceived with Peter Gabriel & Steve Hackett as well - how awesome would that have been!! Still, this concert was cool, the best of the year I must say. They played for about 3 hours without a break. A lot of typical choices - the 'old medleys' were the same as what they had done on previous tours (In The Cage -> Cinema Show -> Afterglow, & "Firth of Fifth/I Know What I Like w/tambourine tarantella"), but a few surprises : opening with Duke's End, playing "Ripples", and 'Domino'. The video display was solid for the most part (too-cheezy CG animations; and, really - "Hold on My Heart"? Utter waste of 4 1/2 minutes), and the delivery was effective (they transposed most of the later stuff down, so Phil wouldn't have to sing so high). Plus, a good 1/3 of their set was Hackett-era material, he should've joined them on the tour!! They coulda done "Please Don't Touch" and "In That Quiet Earth", and maybe even "Star of Sirius" with Phil singing... Ah, a fan can dream...
FYI - you can get a copy of each concert from either their N American or European tour, 2-CD set soundboard mix, or a complete collection of every concert from each leg of their tour. Lemme just say - I find live albums kinda pretentious and opportunistic - I mean, it's the same songs you know, with a different arrangement & poorer sound quality. But for someone to buy 20 versions of the exact same concert ($940 for the entire boxset) is f*cking absurd! Still, I'd consider getting the San Jose concert, just for memorabilia's stake, kinda like getting your photo from the Splash Mountain, probably won't though... Plus, their T-shirt merch was kinda silly - just rehashes of old album covers, much like The Police tour shirts. And, at $35 a pop, not fun.
What was fun was a concert this weekend - The Fiery Furnaces, Oct 19 at The Independent Lounge . Very college-rocky band, but they have a great mixup of punk, prog, and '70's retro (with a refreshing absence of guitar - all keyboard. Plus a female singer). They'll play a theme in a song, and do several variations on it (think how many times the main theme of Beethoven's 5th gets varied in the first 2 minutes of that piece), and live they'll play a nonstop medley of songs. Strong groove, strong melodies - perhaps too incohesive, and a little too much of their 'garage virtuosity', but still satisfying. It was one of those shows where you say, "OK, two more songs and we'll leave.", but we ended up staying for their whole set.
FYI - you can get a copy of each concert from either their N American or European tour, 2-CD set soundboard mix, or a complete collection of every concert from each leg of their tour. Lemme just say - I find live albums kinda pretentious and opportunistic - I mean, it's the same songs you know, with a different arrangement & poorer sound quality. But for someone to buy 20 versions of the exact same concert ($940 for the entire boxset) is f*cking absurd! Still, I'd consider getting the San Jose concert, just for memorabilia's stake, kinda like getting your photo from the Splash Mountain, probably won't though... Plus, their T-shirt merch was kinda silly - just rehashes of old album covers, much like The Police tour shirts. And, at $35 a pop, not fun.
What was fun was a concert this weekend - The Fiery Furnaces, Oct 19 at The Independent Lounge . Very college-rocky band, but they have a great mixup of punk, prog, and '70's retro (with a refreshing absence of guitar - all keyboard. Plus a female singer). They'll play a theme in a song, and do several variations on it (think how many times the main theme of Beethoven's 5th gets varied in the first 2 minutes of that piece), and live they'll play a nonstop medley of songs. Strong groove, strong melodies - perhaps too incohesive, and a little too much of their 'garage virtuosity', but still satisfying. It was one of those shows where you say, "OK, two more songs and we'll leave.", but we ended up staying for their whole set.
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