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I just had a look - how many “Ultimate” Genesis tribute bands can there be? :D

Hey! I remember Sideshow Dave - excellent :D

I do miss the old forum and in fact, a couple of months ago, Rosie organised an evening “reunion” on there where we all piled in and really woke the...

I was at the Barbican gig - what a great night. I saw Steve Rothery in the audience.

I will also be at the RAH :)

Their keyboard player Peter Jones is a regular poster over on the Big Big Train...

The very same :D

I haven’t really been on forums much the past 3 or 4 years - mostly on the Big Big Train Facebook Group where a lot of the Genesis gang from the Turn it on Again forum emigrated...

How was the gig? :lol

One of my favourite ever performances was Talk Talk playing "Living In Another World" at Hammersmith Odeon on the Colour of Spring tour in 1986. It was totally outstanding and I would love to...

Thanks for the excellent update SRS and apologies for the very slow reply :)

I was at the Genesis "booing" show in Leiden in 1981. It was rather shocking hearing the booing but in reality it was just a few pockets of fans booing stuff such as "No Reply At All". There were...

"Bald Phil Collins look-a-like"?

Do you not realise that this is David Longdon, lead singer of Big Big Train? One of the best, if not THE best prog bands from the past few years? Multi award...

Well, I have to agree with you.

Second's Out is where I came in and it changed my life. I am always meeting fellow Genesis fans around my age (early 50s) who were too young for the Gabriel years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1Gf2Z_Dhg

Amen - in a nutshell.

Space Revolver is the first TFK album I heard, it is still my favourite and it is one of my favourite all-time albums.

From start to finish it is music that totally...

Fantastic memories :)

Thanks so much for sharing from someone who was just a tad too young to see those tours ;)

Errrr.........I don't think so ;)

Agreed.

The Tommy Vance show is where I first became aware of Marillion and I had their Radio 1 session on tape back in 81/82. There was a real buzz about the band primarily amongst young Genesis...

First ever concert: ELO - Wembley Arena - June 15th 1978 - Out Of The Blue - £3.50

First prog concert: Yes - Wembley Arena - October 26th 1978 - Tormato - £4.00

:)

If Big Big Train get their live thing together in time and were invited to play on one of these cruises, that would probably be enough to tempt me and lots of other Brits to join in the fun ;)

Very, very well said!! :)

This performance was intended as a very special one-off (for now!) moment in time and the TA guys did an amazing job rehearsing the piece and presenting it so as to back...

Space Revolver "poor"?

In 15 years of loving this band I have never heard anyone say that. Most fans I know have it in their top three and it has been my favourite right from the start.
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"Who in the last decade has even approached the artistic scope and vision of the classic early ‘70s albums by bands like Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Magma, Banco, PFM and a host of...

I am reading it at the moment and up to Abacab.

It is indeed an excellent read, even though my memory seems to be better than Mike's on certain issues ("Talk Talk getting heckled at Knebworth in...

It's interesting to read some of the jaded views towards Transatlantic, Neal Morse, etc, in terms of how it's "all sounding the same" and maybe this bombastic prog has "run it's course", etc.

I do...

No, there's really no need to thank me for posting it :doh

Watch it on YouTube - all the tracks, timings, etc are listed there ;)

This is a fantastic recording from the W&W tour (but I'm sure you all know this):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBMfIKgs0HI

In short......

Second's Out was the sound-track to my teens, the album that got me into Genesis and still my favourite album of all-time. It had a massive impact on my life at that "difficult" age...

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring

The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops

Camel - Nude

Sting - Nothing Like The Sun

I hope Paul Weller pays ELO royalties for this track:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v9WhRpQw8E

I can't remember if I have posted in this particular ELO thread but I admire Trekki's dedication to the cause so thought I would chip in.

ELO were the first band I ever saw as a wide-eyed 15 year...

Go Go Go!!

I have seen them many times over the past 10 years or so and they are excellent. A whole bunch of us always go to their 2-nighters at The Stables in Milton Keynes. On the 2nd night last...

Shocking news about Daniel and I hope he recovers very soon. In the meantime, Ted is a superb temporary replacement. I saw him with Spock's Beard in London last year and thought he was excellent -...

This is one of the songs that was booed at the famous concert in Leiden in 1981 (I was there).

Order was soon restored when they played Firth of Fifth straight after.

To quote the original question:

"Going through various reviews, best-of lists and so on of 2013 raises the question of who are the most successful current prog bands. I don't mean artistically,...

Wish You Were Here for the indie generation ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KglFXn0fg9M

I consider Radiohead to be truly progressive (in the real meaning of the word) and Muse to have elements of prog about them in terms of how bombastic and complicated some of their stuff is.

In...

I saw the very first Genesis gig at a house party in Surrey in 1968 and they were truly ground-breaking. Wonderful versions of Stones and Beatles tracks and a whimsical jazzy version of Happy...

37 years after that track was released it still has the power to cover me in goose-bumps and get the tears flowing.

Truly powerful and beautiful and probably their crowning glory.

:)

Do you mean the four new songs on Full Power that aren't on either of the English Electric albums?

If so, they are fantastic and as good as anything on each of those albums - or rather, they...

You mean Flower Power ;)

As you like Babylon, there's no real reason not to like around 75% of the entire Flower Kings output as it is quite representative.

Mind you, there is so much great...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdP5X89Ebq4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iwyffW-Shw&list=PLUdmMccuxH2H-F7hFV25voeK0NwYq3y-V&index=11

How I wish they had just thought "sod it" and done that - ie released a double album. How much better would those Abacab shows have been with the inclusion of that suite with the long slow...

"Despite the....." what? Paulrus?

Sorry, I can't read that :lol

Here's an excellent article with David Longdon (the lead singer with Big Big Train) where he talks at length about his time auditioning for Genesis before the Calling All Stations album.
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Oh crumbs - you've got me rethinking now ;)

Big Big Train have zoomed onto my musical radar in the past year and I've been astounded by the quality of the last few releases. I cannot wait to see...

Genesis - Second's Out
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
The Flower Kings - Space Revolver
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Nik Kershaw - 15...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV711Uwwp4Q

Very nice!!

:)

Here is the DPRP top 15:

http://www.dprp.net/wp/radio/?p=735

Yes indeed - what a strange time it must have been for Phil. One year he's a beardy prog rock and jazz fusion drummer/singer and the next, he's a global superstar in his own right. Amazing, looking...

I never quite got into Caravan as much as Camel for some reason but I keep thinking of rectifying this as I do love most of what I have heard.

At the time of the Rainbow gig, all I had of Caravan...

Hurrah! I am not the only ticket stub fan. My wife is here next to me and thinks I am bonkers! :)

Anway, whilst I have got Volume One out, I've had a check and the only one that fits in with the...

Your comment really had me wracking my brains and I have had to consult my ticket stub collection to clarify things. It transpires that I actually saw Brand X twice at The Venue and I think I must...

Just a quick shout for Walking On The Wind.

In the 90s I was unaware of the 3rd wave of prog until I heard this track on UK radio back in about 1997. It totally blew me away and was the best prog...

I saw them at The Venue in Victoria, London on this tour and they were supported by Bruford - what a double bill!!

As a young and relatively new Genesis fan it was thrilling to see Phil wandering...

Being more of a "mainstream" prog fan ("mainstream" these days seemingly meaning any band that sells more than 1000 CDs) these are my top 3 most anticipated events of 2014:

1) Big Big Train tour...

Yep!!

:)

Beautifully put :)

I would like to hear these moaners having a go behind the drums or their prog covers ;)

Well said!

There are some very nit-picky, small-minded, bitter and negative people on this forum.

Instead of focussing on the positive, they strive to find the one negative (in their view) aspect and wallow...

Brilliant!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqqq_wQhCXo

I think John has explained this pretty well people. Even I can understand this now.

Of course Foxtrot hasn't sold more copies than We Can't Dance (yet!), but what's being stated here is that...

Thanks for posting that.

I would really like it if Roine collected all of the FK bonus tracks into one package - probably a double CD. Of course it would only be of interest to fan-boys but it...