The Genesis-Happy The Man connections

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Watkins also talked about it in the first interview he did with Anil Prasad. http://www.innerviews.org/inner/watkins1.html

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Watkins also talked about it in the first interview he did with Anil Prasad. http://www.innerviews.org/inner/watkins1.html

Thanks. Although I must have read this one years ago, it's always nice to re-read those interviews Anil did.

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"Whitaker relocated to Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the autumn of 1972 to study at the James Madison University. Kennell arranged for him and Bach to meet his former musical accomplices, Beck and Fortney, who quickly moved to Virginia to start rehearsals. It was now early 1973, and Whitaker’s elder brother, Ken, having elected to become the band’s sound engineer, suggested the name Happy The Man, a reference to Goethe’s "Faust", and the Bible, rather than the obscure Genesis single which, at the time, nobody in the band even knew existed."
from: http://www.happytheman.com/AL%20Bio%20and%20History.htm

I learn something new every day!!!

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That was a great interview with Stan.

Based on his comments about Gabriel, "he was doing all the costume changes and all the really elaborate stuff", it would have had to have been 1972 (possibly even 1973), probably the Foxtrot tour, as others have said, since that was when he started doing the costume changes. Also, he says they left Germany in 1973, so I'm betting that Zoom club show someone mentioned was probably the one he saw. That was a really long time ago so he can be forgiven. They still were playing The Knife then, and possibly even Stagnation, so that may be why he was thinking Trespass. Just a guess.