Steve Hackett's guitar playing was ahead of its time in 1973. Mike Rutherford's best bass playing came during this period. People forget sometimes what a fine drummer Phil Collins was (and still is). Tony Banks was most responsible for making the band sound as awesome as it did - one of the best keyboard players in any rock context. How majestic all of this once was . . .
"Hogweed" live reminds me how much, much better Genesis were than Jethro Tull (with all due respect). The song never stalls, never gets boring, fresh ideas keep coming, there is real depth to it all and the performance is fantastic. All musicians have unique and wonderful sounds and yep: Peter is such a powerful frontman. British prog rock at its very best.
Still the best music I ever heard. I had one chance to see them in a concert on 1975, but I did not know Genesis at that time. Just one year later, I would have paid a fortune for a concert with the original band. In fact, the second christian name of my daughter is Genesis.
This was the best time of Genesis.. Gabriel, Banks, Hackett, Rutherford and Collins all working together. to producing Wonderful Music... .. Genesis just totally sank into the depths of commercial garbage by 1979...
I love when the uploader says something like "Super Lineup:", it is so true. People talk about how good other bands are, but it doesn't get better than early 70's live Genesis. No other band comes close to this focused intensity as a collective whole. They were THE definition of EPIC.
About 1986 I was boozing at a party with several Boston punks. Somehow this title came up. Suddenly one of the local scenesters and I were bellowing the entire lyric in unison while several horrified onlookers stood back. Bluesers like me and punks like him had secret prog fetishes. Who knew? Another time in the late 1990s I surprised the 18-year-old vid store clerk who was blasting Genesis Live by identifying Get 'Em Out By Friday. Genesis had humor, the missing element in most Prog.
The date on this says "1971", but it can't be that. Peter has the front of his head shaved which he did for Supper's Ready. So this performance, which is AMAZING (!!!!!) must be from the Foxtrot tour in 1972/1973.
Linda donmore. My mother met Peter in spring '72 and he had the front of his head already shaved. In fact she asked him what had happened to him. and he gave her a silly reply
saw it last year , one of the greatest concerts of my life , i live in philly and saw almost every group since 1976 , amazing , amazing made me want to cry with joy,
I think he has always been mild mannered. He seems like the same guy during interviews now as he did during his backstage interviews during his time with Genesis. Everything he did on stage was purely an act. He was always a totally different (more insane) person on stage than in person, which is one of the things i like about him so much. I think he is just smart enough to know that being crazy & strange on stage is entertaining for the fans, even though he is not really like that in person.
simply amazing,i don't know where all you people come from with these precious videos but all i want to say is;Allelujah,thank you and bring on some more if you have,i've only been waiting 25 years to see this.
Agreed 100%. It is a miracle they made it at all. In a way their - much criticized - huge success during te 80s is a blessing. Now we have access to so much material from their 70s output, including bootleg trading. Couldn't be better!
Good stuff ^_^ I immensly enjoy Peter's "rowdy" side. Thanks youtube for showing us something that I was not alive to see at the time!! ^And his hair! LOL It seems everyone, even PG, goes through that stage :P
Hogweed! Hogweed! Hogweed! Hogweed! Love this song. Epic storytelling in musical form. Between this and ELP's Karn Evil 9, 3rd Impression, the world doesn't stand a chance! If you get the opportunity, there's a guy who's done closeups of the guitar from this, and he's pretty talented, look around for it. -- Man, how many of us would sever fingers to see the entire Genesis team reunite to perform this single song?
I first discovered Genisis through a greatest hits collection on Buddah records. It ended up being a 2 record set consisting of Foxtrot and Nursery Crime. To this day they are two of my favorite albums. I'm about to watch the Supper's Ready clips that I never knew existed. As far as the Giant Hogweed B wolf, I dreamed I saw it going up over the Hill with the Grassy Knowle
Saw Genesis at about this time at school. The roadies screwed Gabriel's bass drum to the Great Hall stage. Headmaster complained about the bloody great holes in the stage timbers the next morning.... Great concert though.
4:26 is just a long line of Genesis tamborine antics. If you've ever seen Phil "play himself" it is unreal for a guy to be able to do that during a performance.. Hogweed and Harold the Barrel are classic Genesis jams..best band ,Pete, Phil Mike Tony and the Steve era..of all the folks that think Phil was the dictator..Steve left because he thought Tony was :-) Something Tony was surprised to hear
I think something that often gets overlooked in the transition of Genesis to a pop band is Phil Collins leaving the drumset. Obviously him taking over vocals and having more say and influence in the sound of the songs had an effect, but I am talking about his absense from the drumset. He was so good at drums and had a unique rhythym and style that suited this music perfectly. No other drummer could fill in for Collins and be as effective in keeping the style like he did. It's such a shame.
Unique...anti-conformistic musical unities like the band called Genesis... where always totally genuine and fresh, tough very complicated to most... Between my 14 -first hearing ....and today at 51...nothing really has changed of this genuine intensity of their always self-renewing beauty and technical skill! Bernard Belgium.
I agree that their songs' quality dropped after Hackett left, but a) Rutherford was an EXCELLENT bassist, and in fact always remained so, b) his guitar work hardly ruined them, and c) if you think Phil ever was a dictator in that band, you don't know their history. Commercial success ruined them, like it does to most bands, not Phil or Mike or anybody's playing. I do agree that Steve was highly underrated, though.
Indeed...this was the reason driving Steve to leave Genesis...All guitar players and musicians know how he tremendously contributed to all songs of the Gabriel era, but for all the others his guitar works were too "embedded" in the sounds to be appreciated...Steve is in my opinion one of the most influential guitar players of the last decades...
early genesis was very much a band. much of the songs consisted of instrumental segments, even a singer with gabriel's charisma stood back amongst his bandmates.post-peter the energence of collins the vocalist is viewed as a surprise,but he sings quite a bit on this earlier stuff.they should have changed their name after 1975.
I would say he has a crazy imagination. The entire Lamb album is pretty much a metaphor for some bigger, hidden journey(i have heard about sex, birth process, maybe both, among other things) He does the same thing now, using metaphors in his songs for sexual meanings (sledgehammer, shock the monkey, etc...) And hearing him talk in interviews, I find it hard to believe he is crazy in any way. I think he just knows damn well how to entertain a paying audience, slipperman being part of that.
Just saw an article about the giant hogweed on MSNNow. According to the source it was linked to, If the sap gets on your skin in your eye, you can get blistered, scarred or blinded. Most definitely should know it on sight and keep your distance. The song was likely a dry, humorous exaggeration of what a hard-to-kill pain in the ass it is.
That, fused with some influence from Day Of The Triffids (radio-play version broadcast on BBC in 1968 and probably heard by PG & co: this song came into being '70-71, or maybe earlier if there are any riffs recycled from The Movement)
When you think about this song, it's pretty funny; kind of like a condensed science fiction movie. I think some punk rock group should cover it. The Giant Hogweed attack!
This clip is from "Genesis The Best From European TV 1972-74" released 2004 by Armada's Video. Watch if you find it on ebay because that is where i obtained my copy. It was a copy of the original and a bad copy at that, very,very low quality.
From 4:10 onwards I was busy drooling all over Tony ("waah, he's so cool", "look, curls jumping up and down", bla bla bla random fangirl talk) when I suddenly saw something behind him flying up on the air... "what the heck was that?!"... had to go back and pay attention. The hitting with the mic didn't look on purpose to me...
Coolest (& weirdest) chord progression ever played at the end. This songs got nards. Now why did the camera guy think it was more important to film Peter playing with his tambourine and bass drum than to catch Hackett Hackett'ing out???
@hondasfour you are so correct Steve was the soul of the band All the great guitar riffs and effects just listen to the musical box or watcher of the skies marvelous guitar work Steve you rock
without a doubt peter was THE focal point of the band, singing lyrics he primarily wrote & creating visual accents to the songs as a whole, but i don't think it can be argued that tony's keys & guitar work is the basis for what is now considered the "classic" genesis sound, btw i'm not disputing the talents of mike, steve & phil in that place & time...clearly the synergy of these 5 individual players are manifest.
Congratualation: very impressive document of the golden-era of Genesis. Explosive and energetic performance by Peter!... Does exist a longer video of this concert?
@thelizardking1943 Actually he is right. Peter Gabriel was the soul of the group, and his influence, and feeling was still there. Genesis made two great studio albums, and one live album without him after he left. A Trick of The Tail, and Wind and Wuthering. Then they made an amazing live album Seconds Out. Steve Hackett leaves we get …And Then There Were Three… which wasn't horrible, but didn't sound the same, and then the next album they completely lost it, and we got Duke.
They could be a abit arrogant in those days - I saw them at the Liverpool Empire in 73 on the Selling England tour. They refused to play Musical Box and Gabriel told the audience to f off and they wouldn't do an encore. They had to bring a safety curtain down.
Of course, they may just have been having a bad night. Or somebody in the audience may've been giving them a particularly hard time. It may perhaps be a bit much to make a sweeping generalisation based on your perception of one gig... Speaking from personal experience, most of the time at the end of a gig I (and the rest of the band) love chatting with our fans, but occasionally during the gig we've had some numpty or other giving us a hard time over our song choices and it tends to put a dampener on the gig, sometimes so much so that we just slouch off stage and lick our wounds at the end. We're only human after all. But our real fans know that that rarely happens so they forgive us. Perhaps that's what happened that night...?
@@ElektrikHob The theatre was only about half full as well, which may have pissed them off. But the next time I saw them, also at the Liverpool Empire about 18 months later on The Lamb tour, they did 3 nights (all sold out). I went to the 2nd night, and they gave one of the best performances of their life. That particular show is on a high quality, soundboard bootleg, which is on TH-cam, and in my opinion is better than both the studio album and the official multi track live recording at the Shrine Auditorium. Listen to the Liverpool version of The Waiting Room. All is forgiven
@@tarbuck1 I have a copy of that Liverpool Empire 19/4/75 recording (I'm a member of Genesis Movement) and yeah, Phil was on fire that night! I also have over a dozen versions of the Waiting Room (Evil Jam) and that is definitely one of the better ones.
I've seen the FOXTROT,SEBTP,TLLDOB, and other tours, these guys were the best. The idiots who call themselves musicians today could not hold a candle to these guys. Composition,talent,and imgination are lacking in music today. Their stage shows could not be beat, nor the music. I doubt there is a better keyboard player than Tony Banks, including Rudess.
Banks had a hard time playing the intro live and stormed off the stage on more than one occasion. Roger King (Steve's keyboard player) nails it every night.
Genesis, Pink floyd, supertramp, ha.... I just find funny the beginning of the song: "...and we're proud to present you... THE RETURN OF THE GIANT HOGWEED!!!!"
The live versions seem to skip (or edit out) my favorite part on the record -- the little segment around 2:30 where Phil actually switches to a swing beat for a while. Very unexpected and fun.
I have been a fan since 1977. I love the Gabriel era but to say genesis "lost it" after 1980 is to deny the quality of many of the album tracks after this date. Sure there were some AOR singles that sounded like Phil's solo rejects but the "longs" were just as magnificent as some of the Gabriel-era stuff.
Giant Hogweed is really bad stuff, we have it here in England, as a tribute I made a humorous but serious video about the Hogweed plant itself , to see it simply type in.............'Giant hogweed with Hugo Montego'
I think that was more Rutherford's bass-chord strumming, and Phil Collins' SICK drumming that you hear. Yeah, thet coulda shown more guitar than tambourine...still cool.
i know but instead of smashing guitars he smashes his tambourine. but if you watch the video of the knife from this same concert he throws his mic at the end. and, mysteriously, he has his tambourine back
It's not about that weed dude. It's about a Giant Hogweed that becomes sentient and goes around and kills everyone in a battle. Make sure you know what you're talking about before you comment.
@DavidKinner i agree....genesis without gabriel turned into middle of the road slop.....especially after collins got control.....i have the early albums but genesis live is the only one i still play....
Steve Hackett's guitar playing was ahead of its time in 1973. Mike Rutherford's best bass playing came during this period. People forget sometimes what a fine drummer Phil Collins was (and still is). Tony Banks was most responsible for making the band sound as awesome as it did - one of the best keyboard players in any rock context. How majestic all of this once was . . .
"Hogweed" live reminds me how much, much better Genesis were than Jethro Tull (with all due respect). The song never stalls, never gets boring, fresh ideas keep coming, there is real depth to it all and the performance is fantastic. All musicians have unique and wonderful sounds and yep: Peter is such a powerful frontman. British prog rock at its very best.
Still the best music I ever heard. I had one chance to see them in a concert on 1975, but I did not know Genesis at that time. Just one year later, I would have paid a fortune for a concert with the original band. In fact, the second christian name of my daughter is Genesis.
extremadrummer I saw them in Los Angeles in ‘75 ... Lamb tour, Shrine Auditorium 👌🏼🙂
It's unfortunate we don't see enough of Steve.He truly is a very innovative guitar player.
Probably my fav song from the early genesis years, lyrics really kick ass!
This was the best time of Genesis.. Gabriel, Banks, Hackett, Rutherford and Collins all working together. to producing Wonderful Music...
.. Genesis just totally sank into the depths of commercial garbage by 1979...
Speak for yourself, SpectreE! Us *True Fans* of the band are the "all-eras" folk... ;-)
I bought Foxtrot when it came out and no matter how down I might be. this music brings me back to a time when things were right
Cool! I got to see this lineup live 2x - Selling England & The Lamb tours. They were amazing!
I love when the uploader says something like "Super Lineup:", it is so true. People talk about how good other bands are, but it doesn't get better than early 70's live Genesis. No other band comes close to this focused intensity as a collective whole.
They were THE definition of EPIC.
About 1986 I was boozing at a party with several Boston punks. Somehow this title came up. Suddenly one of the local scenesters and I were bellowing the entire lyric in unison while several horrified onlookers stood back. Bluesers like me and punks like him had secret prog fetishes. Who knew?
Another time in the late 1990s I surprised the 18-year-old vid store clerk who was blasting Genesis Live by identifying Get 'Em Out By Friday.
Genesis had humor, the missing element in most Prog.
The date on this says "1971", but it can't be that. Peter has the front of his head shaved which he did for Supper's Ready. So this performance, which is AMAZING (!!!!!) must be from the Foxtrot tour in 1972/1973.
yeah, he didn't RUIN it for all us girls til late 72/73 :/
dhdunn1995 And also Steve is standing up which is rare.
after careful thought, P.G. is still SO FINE, even w/ that ridiculous inverted damn Mohawk & outlandish costumes...........
Linda donmore. My mother met Peter in spring '72 and he had the front of his head already shaved. In fact she asked him what had happened to him. and he gave her a silly reply
dhdunn1995 This is from late winter/early spring 1973, during the Foxtrot Tour, at the Bataclan theater in France
Mint. Absolutely mint.
saw it last year , one of the greatest concerts of my life , i live in philly and saw almost every group since 1976 , amazing , amazing made me want to cry with joy,
pg...such a weirdly amazingly creative guy!
I think he has always been mild mannered. He seems like the same guy during interviews now as he did during his backstage interviews during his time with Genesis. Everything he did on stage was purely an act. He was always a totally different (more insane) person on stage than in person, which is one of the things i like about him so much. I think he is just smart enough to know that being crazy & strange on stage is entertaining for the fans, even though he is not really like that in person.
One of the best reasons for hearing Progressive Rock songs. The qualified multipersonality of its interpreters.
simply amazing,i don't know where all you people come from with these precious videos but all i want to say is;Allelujah,thank you and bring on some more if you have,i've only been waiting 25 years to see this.
Tony is a God...and the reason I will be spending thousands of dollars to go to the US from Australia for the tour. Bring it on!
And now somehow the Giant Hogweed is beginning to infiltrate my homeland! How prophetic!
Always a pleasure to see this era
Agreed 100%. It is a miracle they made it at all. In a way their - much criticized - huge success during te 80s is a blessing. Now we have access to so much material from their 70s output, including bootleg trading. Couldn't be better!
Great lineup with Gabriel in the center - so innovative and creative!
Genialità senza fine un gruppo magico colonna sonora della mia vita Genesis all' infinito
Good stuff ^_^ I immensly enjoy Peter's "rowdy" side. Thanks youtube for showing us something that I was not alive to see at the time!!
^And his hair! LOL It seems everyone, even PG, goes through that stage :P
nice hit at 4:26! XD and was Steve ACTUALLY standing up at the end?! awsome friggin band, i love Genesis! 5/5
Hogweed! Hogweed! Hogweed! Hogweed! Love this song. Epic storytelling in musical form. Between this and ELP's Karn Evil 9, 3rd Impression, the world doesn't stand a chance! If you get the opportunity, there's a guy who's done closeups of the guitar from this, and he's pretty talented, look around for it. -- Man, how many of us would sever fingers to see the entire Genesis team reunite to perform this single song?
This is a great version of this song.
Never seen this before. Didn't even know it existed. Thank you so so much for sharing! Praise be 2 teh YouzeTubez!
I listened to this in 72 when it came out...still magig
Que bueno ver al Genesis "casi" original, el mejor de todos, sin dudas.
this is true art rock in the terms of the word!!!!
May you have many more years to catch up on the brilliance that was Genesis.
I first discovered Genisis through a greatest hits collection on Buddah records. It ended up being a 2 record set consisting of Foxtrot and Nursery Crime. To this day they are two of my favorite albums. I'm about to watch the Supper's Ready clips that I never knew existed. As far as the Giant Hogweed B wolf, I dreamed I saw it going up over the Hill with the Grassy Knowle
Yeah! the awesome thing is that the guitarist is using two-handed tapping on 1973!
Nice! Epic! Better than anything else out right now, thats for damn sure
Saw Genesis at about this time at school. The roadies screwed Gabriel's bass drum to the Great Hall stage. Headmaster complained about the bloody great holes in the stage timbers the next morning....
Great concert though.
cool song!!! love this!!
Fantastic.
amazing stuff i didnt know this stuff existed,Peter in his prime. Hackett made all the difference inthe world.
4:26 is just a long line of Genesis tamborine antics. If you've ever seen Phil "play himself" it is unreal for a guy to be able to do that during a performance..
Hogweed and Harold the Barrel are classic Genesis jams..best band ,Pete, Phil Mike Tony and the Steve era..of all the folks that think Phil was the dictator..Steve left because he thought Tony was :-) Something Tony was surprised to hear
I think something that often gets overlooked in the transition of Genesis to a pop band is Phil Collins leaving the drumset. Obviously him taking over vocals and having more say and influence in the sound of the songs had an effect, but I am talking about his absense from the drumset. He was so good at drums and had a unique rhythym and style that suited this music perfectly. No other drummer could fill in for Collins and be as effective in keeping the style like he did. It's such a shame.
@fableblue2010 Sweet! Thanks man! Dad's been bugging me to find this for him for AGES!!!
Unique...anti-conformistic musical unities like the band called Genesis...
where always totally genuine and fresh, tough very complicated to most...
Between my 14 -first hearing ....and today at 51...nothing really has changed of this genuine intensity of their always self-renewing beauty and technical skill!
Bernard
Belgium.
GREAT !!!! THIS IS UNEAL FOOTAGE !!!
I agree that their songs' quality dropped after Hackett left, but a) Rutherford was an EXCELLENT bassist, and in fact always remained so, b) his guitar work hardly ruined them, and c) if you think Phil ever was a dictator in that band, you don't know their history. Commercial success ruined them, like it does to most bands, not Phil or Mike or anybody's playing. I do agree that Steve was highly underrated, though.
Indeed...this was the reason driving Steve to leave Genesis...All guitar players and musicians know how he tremendously contributed to all songs of the Gabriel era, but for all the others his guitar works were too "embedded" in the sounds to be appreciated...Steve is in my opinion one of the most influential guitar players of the last decades...
early genesis was very much a band. much of the songs consisted of instrumental segments, even a singer with gabriel's charisma stood back amongst his bandmates.post-peter the energence of collins the vocalist is viewed as a surprise,but he sings quite a bit on this earlier stuff.they should have changed their name after 1975.
Without that 'shyte', I who was only born in 1978, would never have known of their existence.
I would say he has a crazy imagination. The entire Lamb album is pretty much a metaphor for some bigger, hidden journey(i have heard about sex, birth process, maybe both, among other things) He does the same thing now, using metaphors in his songs for sexual meanings (sledgehammer, shock the monkey, etc...) And hearing him talk in interviews, I find it hard to believe he is crazy in any way. I think he just knows damn well how to entertain a paying audience, slipperman being part of that.
I love them and now on SACD also!
tony banks IS genesis the others have admitted he is the one they couldn't replace! LONG LIVE TONY!
tra i grandi...di sempre..
meraviglosi ! Buongiorno ! :-))
Diana Ferrara buondi Diana...
Just saw an article about the giant hogweed on MSNNow. According to the source it was linked to, If the sap gets on your skin in your eye, you can get blistered, scarred or blinded. Most definitely should know it on sight and keep your distance. The song was likely a dry, humorous exaggeration of what a hard-to-kill pain in the ass it is.
That, fused with some influence from Day Of The Triffids (radio-play version broadcast on BBC in 1968 and probably heard by PG & co: this song came into being '70-71, or maybe earlier if there are any riffs recycled from The Movement)
Prog rock may be dead but I still love it for what it is/was.
WTF? I've searched the internet to find this DVD. Nothing on Amazon or elsehwere. Dude, is this an import? I'd buy it in heartbeat.
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CLASICO DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS
When you think about this song, it's pretty funny; kind of like a condensed science fiction movie. I think some punk rock group should cover it. The Giant Hogweed attack!
God bless the giant Hogweed
Good old Genesis and good old me.
I am going to see Musical box Saturday Night in NYC 11/25/2006....There LAST USA APPEARANCE ! They're retiring !
That's right, I strongly advise it to any Genesis fan. Furthermore, in 2007 they will be touring for the last time, so "be warned" :-)
Too bad the ratings stop at 5 stars...Absolutely great!!
I was thinking the same thing. No way could that have been intentional. But if so, that is pretty damn impressive.
This clip is from "Genesis The Best From European TV 1972-74" released 2004 by Armada's Video. Watch if you find it on ebay because that is where i obtained my copy. It was a copy of the original and a bad copy at that, very,very low quality.
From 4:10 onwards I was busy drooling all over Tony ("waah, he's so cool", "look, curls jumping up and down", bla bla bla random fangirl talk) when I suddenly saw something behind him flying up on the air... "what the heck was that?!"... had to go back and pay attention. The hitting with the mic didn't look on purpose to me...
Faboulus! GENESIS .. nothing has ever been better
Coolest (& weirdest) chord progression ever played at the end. This songs got nards. Now why did the camera guy think it was more important to film Peter playing with his tambourine and bass drum than to catch Hackett Hackett'ing out???
Yes.
He is talking about the band "The Musical Box" a tribute band that "emulates" Genesis in its early years.
THE RETURN OF THE GIANT HOGWEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!
@hondasfour you are so correct Steve was the soul of the band All the great guitar riffs and effects just listen to the musical box or watcher of the skies marvelous guitar work Steve you rock
without a doubt peter was THE focal point of the band, singing lyrics he primarily wrote & creating visual accents to the songs as a whole, but i don't think it can be argued that tony's keys & guitar work is the basis for what is now considered the "classic" genesis sound, btw i'm not disputing the talents of mike, steve & phil in that place & time...clearly the synergy of these 5 individual players are manifest.
Congratualation: very impressive document of the golden-era of Genesis. Explosive and energetic performance by Peter!... Does exist a longer video of this concert?
@thelizardking1943 Actually he is right. Peter Gabriel was the soul of the group, and his influence, and feeling was still there. Genesis made two great studio albums, and one live album without him after he left. A Trick of The Tail, and Wind and Wuthering. Then they made an amazing live album Seconds Out. Steve Hackett leaves we get …And Then There Were Three… which wasn't horrible, but didn't sound the same, and then the next album they completely lost it, and we got Duke.
Sure about that? Phil played drums on two of Gabriel's albums.
A-bloody-men!
I love this, even as I am reminded of why punk happened in response to this "overly-learned rock n roll." I still love this, though.
They could be a abit arrogant in those days - I saw them at the Liverpool Empire in 73 on the Selling England tour. They refused to play Musical Box and Gabriel told the audience to f off and they wouldn't do an encore.
They had to bring a safety curtain down.
Intelligent reply ?
Of course, they may just have been having a bad night. Or somebody in the audience may've been giving them a particularly hard time.
It may perhaps be a bit much to make a sweeping generalisation based on your perception of one gig...
Speaking from personal experience, most of the time at the end of a gig I (and the rest of the band) love chatting with our fans, but occasionally during the gig we've had some numpty or other giving us a hard time over our song choices and it tends to put a dampener on the gig, sometimes so much so that we just slouch off stage and lick our wounds at the end. We're only human after all.
But our real fans know that that rarely happens so they forgive us.
Perhaps that's what happened that night...?
@@ElektrikHob The theatre was only about half full as well, which may have pissed them off. But the next time I saw them, also at the Liverpool Empire about 18 months later on The Lamb tour, they did 3 nights (all sold out). I went to the 2nd night, and they gave one of the best performances of their life. That particular show is on a high quality, soundboard bootleg, which is on TH-cam, and in my opinion is better than both the studio album and the official multi track live recording at the Shrine Auditorium. Listen to the Liverpool version of The Waiting Room.
All is forgiven
@@tarbuck1 I have a copy of that Liverpool Empire 19/4/75 recording (I'm a member of Genesis Movement) and yeah, Phil was on fire that night! I also have over a dozen versions of the Waiting Room (Evil Jam) and that is definitely one of the better ones.
I've seen the FOXTROT,SEBTP,TLLDOB, and other tours, these guys were the best. The idiots who call themselves musicians today could not hold a candle to these guys. Composition,talent,and imgination are lacking in music today. Their stage shows could not be beat, nor the music. I doubt there is a better keyboard player than Tony Banks, including Rudess.
Banks had a hard time playing the intro live and stormed off the stage on more than one occasion. Roger King (Steve's keyboard player) nails it every night.
Genesis, Pink floyd, supertramp, ha....
I just find funny the beginning of the song:
"...and we're proud to present you... THE RETURN OF THE GIANT HOGWEED!!!!"
damn stuff is all over my allotment :(
4:26 hard to say whether that was intentional or not, but pretty awesome either way.
I am going to see Musical box Saturday Night in NYC 11/25/2006....Their LAST USA APPEARANCE ! They're retiring !
The live versions seem to skip (or edit out) my favorite part on the record -- the little segment around 2:30 where Phil actually switches to a swing beat for a while. Very unexpected and fun.
Bring them to Scotland, We need the early Genisis POWAA
yeah the intro is guitar but tony (keyboard) is playing in sync on the keyboard
I have been a fan since 1977. I love the Gabriel era but to say genesis "lost it" after 1980 is to deny the quality of many of the album tracks after this date. Sure there were some AOR singles that sounded like Phil's solo rejects but the "longs" were just as magnificent as some of the Gabriel-era stuff.
Giant Hogweed is really bad stuff, we have it here in England, as a tribute I made a humorous but serious video about the Hogweed plant itself , to see it simply type in.............'Giant hogweed with Hugo Montego'
It's brutal and the Brits brought it to the U.S.
It's bad stuff for sure if you get the sap on your skin
yeah! i thought exactly that but realized it wasnt Mike :)
Too bad it was cut. Anyway one of the best songs in the genesis cataloge
The audio is a bit hot, but this is s fantastic performance nonetheless.
I think that was more Rutherford's bass-chord strumming, and Phil Collins' SICK drumming that you hear. Yeah, thet coulda shown more guitar than tambourine...still cool.
i know but instead of smashing guitars he smashes his tambourine. but if you watch the video of the knife from this same concert he throws his mic at the end. and, mysteriously, he has his tambourine back
It's not about that weed dude. It's about a Giant Hogweed that becomes sentient and goes around and kills everyone in a battle. Make sure you know what you're talking about before you comment.
@DavidKinner i agree....genesis without gabriel turned into middle of the road slop.....especially after collins got control.....i have the early albums but genesis live is the only one i still play....
and look at Gabriel now...... evolution
It was the HOGWEED! It made him bald!
per palati fini...................................................................
anyone knows where is the complete video????
the bedside yellow foam, do you have it?