Genesis - The Reunion Rehearsal - 1982

[JKL2000]

Sorry if this was already posted somewhere. A previously unreleased (?) BBC broadcast of the warmup for the 1982 reunion show. Has this already been seen/heard in the wild?

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1. "Back In NYC"
2. "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight"
3. "The Carpet Crawlers"
4. "Firth Of Fifth"
5. "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"
6. "Fly On A Windshield"
7. "In The Cage"
8. "Supper's Ready"
9. "The Knife"
10. "Solsbury Hill" (take 1)
11. "Solsbury Hill" (take 2)

[moecurlythanu]

I have a couple vinyl bootlegs of those rehearsals. (Actually, one is a reissue of the other, so in a sense, I have one.)

[Steve983]

I think I have a bootleg of this..at Hammersmith odeon?

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[moecurlythanu]

^ Yep.

[JKL2000]

I have a vinyl bootleg, but I thought it was an audience recording of the actual performance. "Six of the Best."

[moecurlythanu]

^ There are several of those too.

[JKL2000]

^ There are several of those too.

So is this maybe the first legit release of the rehearsal?

[Digital_Man]

I have a vinyl bootleg, but I thought it was an audience recording of the actual performance. "Six of the Best."

That was at Milton Keynes (not Hammersmith Odeon) so this must be something different. What they are talking about here was probably a rehearsal with no real audience.

Also(and I know this is slightly OT), but apparently PG reuinted with Genesis for an encore in 78 on their ATTWT tour. He also apparently sang with Steve Hackett for a song or two(maybe also for an encore). Does anyone know any details about these things?

[Flightwave]

The “Wicker Man” label has released many unauthorized recordings and this looks to be yet another. I have a copy of these rehearsals on cassette from years ago, may need to dig it up.

Edit: YouTube audio here:

https://youtu.be/OZsNCeucnU0

[moecurlythanu]

That was at Milton Keynes (not Hammersmith Odeon) so this must be something different. What they are talking about here was probably a rehearsal with no real audience.

Also(and I know this is slightly OT), but apparently PG reuinted with Genesis for an encore in 78 on their ATTWT tour. He also apparently sang with Steve Hackett for a song or two(maybe also for an encore). Does anyone know any details about these things?

The Gabriel appearance for the encore in New York in 1978 first appeared on the vinyl bootleg And Then There Was Gabriel. I'm sure there are plenty of digital versions around.
I can't name the cameos with Hackett off the top of my head. I'd have to do a bit of research.

[Steve F.]

So is this maybe the first legit release of the rehearsal?

Legit, my ass.

[Progatron]

So is this maybe the first legit release of the rehearsal?

Well, I wouldn't use the term 'legit'...

He also apparently sang with Steve Hackett for a song or two(maybe also for an encore). Does anyone know any details about these things?

Gabriel and Rutherford joined Hackett on stage in '83 for I Know What I Like. I used to have the bootleg tape, it was nothing special.

[Flightwave]

Also the BBC never broadcast this nor the actual reunion. Not sure why it’s written in the description but seeing as it’s unauthorized anyway, and audio is available on YT and Movement site, save your money !

[JKL2000]

Well, I wouldn't use the term 'legit'...



Gabriel and Rutherford joined Hackett on stage in '83 for I Know What I Like. I used to have the bootleg tape, it was nothing special.

Oh, wasn't Mike Oldfield at this too, for some reason? They did "Shadow on the Wall?" I used to have a bootleg cassette of that.

[moecurlythanu]

^ I think that was the "Double O" charity gig. Marillion was involved.

[JKL2000]

^ I think that was the "Double O" charity gig. Marillion was involved.

I was going to say I think Fish was there too, but I thought maybe I'd made that part up!

[Johnboy]

This was circulated years ago, a tape of the rehearsal (not the actual show that some people are mistaking it for above). It wasn't broadcasted I'm fairly certain that's complete BS.

[Trane]

Not interested in the rehersals recordings, but one day , I would like to hear the actual MK show, just once - out of curiosity.

I suppose it was taped (+/- professionally) and that there are places on the web where it could be available (non-legit, though), but I'm not interested in those Torrent-type of sites.

[Koreabruce]

I don't think it was professionally recorded. Mike Rutherford expressed a bit of regret at this many years later.

[lazland]

I don't think it was professionally recorded. Mike Rutherford expressed a bit of regret at this many years later.

There are very poor quality audience recordings available, none of which is remotely listenable. I do think, though, that there were some sound board recordings. I recall Banks and Gabriel saying in separate interviews that these were not polished up and released because nobody thought that the quality of the gig warranted such a release.

As someone who was there, it is a matter of some regret that they have not changed their minds on this. The whole point of the day was the sheer emotion of the reunion, and that made it one of the most memorable gigs I have ever been to.

[Flightwave]

There are very poor quality audience recordings available, none of which is remotely listenable. I do think, though, that there were some sound board recordings. I recall Banks and Gabriel saying in separate interviews that these were not polished up and released because nobody thought that the quality of the gig warranted such a release.

As someone who was there, it is a matter of some regret that they have not changed their minds on this. The whole point of the day was the sheer emotion of the reunion, and that made it one of the most memorable gigs I have ever been to.

I'd love to hear any memories you have of that day. If you get bored and want to ramble on the keyboard please do !! :-)

[lazland]

I'd love to hear any memories you have of that day. If you get bored and want to ramble on the keyboard please do !! :-)

Ha! Love it! Well, we are going out soon, so some short memories.

Above all, it was wet. And when I say wet, I mean that we were beyond wet by the time it finished. It was an October day, and it did nothing but crash it down with rain all day and night.

From the support acts, I remember John Martyn being excellent, and Talk Talk being pelted with cans and bottles.

The band were introduced on the stage by Jonathan King, reprising his very old “they would be nothing without me” routine. Gabriel was carried on stage in a coffin to the opening bars of Back in New York City. I seem to remember Collins singing Solsbury Hill, whilst Gabriel played drums on Turn It On Again. Suppers Ready and Musical Box especially were greeted with pure ecstasy by all assembled.

In 1982, I was a somewhat callow and awkward 17 year old and although into Genesis for about 5 years by then, of course I had not had the opportunity to see them with Gabriel, so a dream come true. Steve Hackett joined them for the I Know What I Like encore, having flown over from Brazil where he was touring, and having had to listen to Daryl Stuermer playing his finest moment on Firth of Fifth, very well indeed I might add.

It was a magical day. It was a gig which will live in my memory to the day I die, and it is this which disappoints me a wee bit with the musical decision not to release it officially, because, in all reality, it wasn’t about the music, it was about the experience.

[Conti]

^Thanks for sharing your memories. It is a shame it was not properly recorded or filmed, to much regret of Mike Rutherford as shared in his book.

[alucard]

I don't think it was professionally recorded. Mike Rutherford expressed a bit of regret at this many years later.

Most boots of the show are decent soundboard recordings. I have one with the Steve Hackett & Gabriel/ Rutherford bonus tracks

Genesis & Peter Gabriel reunion, Milton Keynes Concert Bowl - Saturday 2nd October 1982.
Guildford, 28/01/1983 - Steve Hackett Band with Peter Gabriel and Mike Rutherford.
I would like to see one day The arrival on stage of Gabriel in the coffin but if they are videos I suppose they would already have popped up on the net.

[Steve983]

Here we are