One of the benefits of being newly single is that I now have sole control of the Netflix queue. Because of this, I was able to bump up "Inside Genesis: 1975-1980."
Truly, this was one of the most bizarre documentaries I have ever seen. There is some actual concert footage of the band, most likely from their 1979 and 1980 tours, but they never let you see a full song. More importantly, none of the footage features Steve Hackett, who left in 1978 following Seconds Out. So, on the "cool old concert footage" score, this one's a dud.
But the "talking heads" they chose are the most bizarre thing about this. They are: a music critic, a keyboardist, a singer who was probably born in 1978, a session guitarist and a session drummer. I have no idea who any of these people are or why they were chosen to talk about Genesis. The keyboardist sits behind a keyboard and says silly things like, "The song starts in G, which is nice for guitars because it's such a big, open string chord." He actually says this twice and in both cases there is no guitar playing a big open G chord. Hilariously, one of the commenters (the drummer, I think) , actually says that he didn't really think much of Tony Banks until he heard "Duchess" from Duke!
Anyway, for the old Genesis fans who read this blog, I have to warn you away from this time waster.
Now, if they would just re-release a high-quality version of the 1973 concert film of the Selling England by the Pound tour. That would rock.
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ahhhhhh... the good old genesis tour. yeah its hard for me to see why you are still single. - bg
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I saw a documentary on Genesis that was fairly good, it was a straight up rockumentary with clips, concerts, interviews, and embarrasing schoolboy photos. I did a quick search, and can't find it.
that's porn blogger/writer/teacher to you.
Ted actually typed the words "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" into Limewire last night, and I could feel the computer shudder.
Limewire, what's that?
It's like the Mac only Napster (I think it's Mac only).
Anyway, file sharing (aka "Rippin' off the Man")
I have avoided this one ... happily. There is a new book out on Genesis that I just ordered, which I forget the title of right now. Maybe it will be better for us than schlock like this.
-- david
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