**For Episode #99 we take a look "under the hood" and dissect two progressive rock classics from Genesis. Pianist/Music Educator Bill Graham drops by to shed light on Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks' compositional style. Opening the show we talk about how we first heard Genesis music and came to play it on certain occasions. We also discuss Bill's excellent musical YouTube channel, BillGrahamMusic. Next, Bill points out a few of Tony's most widely used approaches to chord inversions and motifs. After that, we dig into the opening cut from the Foxtrot album, the anthem "Watcher of the Skies". "Firth of Fifth" from Selling England By The Pound follows that. We wrap up the show with a look at Bank's style vs his prog rock contemporaries- Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. Also, we discuss the musical vocabularies of Yes, King Crimson, ELP and how they differ greatly from Genesis. We intended to discuss "Supper's Ready" and "One For The Vine" but decided to save those for another episode later this year. These two songs alone offered a lot of info to unpack so we decided to stop before we went into overload. Stay tuned for Part 2! This is a show based on music theory talk, but we hope it proves to be entertaining for everyone. It's a good chance to hear pieces of these songs isolated, and that can be pretty fun.
UPCOMING EPISODES-
* Annie Haslam of Renaissance- July 10th
* Jan Akkerman (Focus)- July 24th
* Peter Erskine- (Weather Report, Steely Dan, Jaco Pastorius)- July 31st
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