Just release the original mix of the album and be done with it.
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Imagine telling your rock audience to turn the volume down. Those mixes are absolute trash and it doesn't take an audiophile to see (hear) that.
The one small redeeming feature is that Davis reinstated the cold start to the album as it was on vinyl, before the CD versions which faded it in.
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^Agreed.
I will concede that the Gabriel-era stereo remixes were slightly less bad than the Collins ones. But that's not saying much; they are still too loud, and there's still not a single one I find better than the originals.
This is the issue; the band don't think there's a problem. A shame.
The Shrine overdubbing is ridiculous. I couldn't believe my ears when I first heard that. The odd bit (Gabriel fumbled 'Carpet Crawlers' on the night, for instance) I could have lived with. But not what was done.
There's a thread over on Steve Hoffman where a poster has done a very recent interview with Tony 'Tin Ears' Banks..
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Indeed, those teasers from Tony don't sound very promising.
I don't know how exciting is the prospect of a FGTR remix. I just wish they'd release the original mono mix on CD, I'd be happy with this.
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T'would be nice to include a curated version of the 5-hour Headley Grange tapes, including the 20 minute version of Waiting Room.
Maybe someone should ask Peter Jackson if he's also a fan of Genesis. He can "Now and Then" the original tracks into something listenable
(only half kidding...I expect once the well dries on all these re-re-re-re-re-re-issues 'NOW WITH ATMOS', we'll suddenly see a new wave of AI-assisted remixes and remasters, capable of "fixing" all those "problems" that we never knew or cared about in all our favorite music).
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this is the largest 'no brainer/why not?' for the Genesis reissue campaign(s) and bonus track inclusions: we all have those Selling/Lamb/Trick discs from rehearsal that have really cool things on it
if they don't want to put it out the physical release, put it online and/or sell the files a'la the Grateful Dead's 'Angel's Share' series
The full Banks interview is on this podcast. You should be able to just press play. A good interview with details on Lamb/FGTR, although the inference that some fans view Banks negatively...that does not speak for me. Banks clarifies some things about Hackett as well. (I think the bit he means is that weak Together And Apart documentary where he was talking about Stuermer doing 'Firth Of Fifth'.)
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcas...510224&l=en-GB
The holy grail for me was a complete Wembley 1975 and given its apparent non-appearance, I'm assuming that doesn't exist. The (un-molested) Shrine show is pretty good but not great, still fairly early in the tour. Later on they were taking more chances with the improvised, totally different 'Waiting Room' and the like.
It could be interesting, and I hope it does include the mono. As was rumoured, it does appear that Cherry Red (rather than Jonathan King) now own this outright.
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The Lemon Recordings from Cherry Red have some really bad reissues though, like the first Automatic Man.
^Yeah I've read some CR releases are bad needledrops. But Banks mentioned this upcoming one is on Esoteric and their quality control seems much higher.
Yes it's one of their many labels. Many years previously under another distributor they used to be Eclectic Discs. I've seldom seen bad reviews of anything they've put out in either guise.
Banks mentioned in the interview that they uncovered Rutherford's original bass on 'In The Beginning', which King elected to overdub at the time.
I bet one could put together a pretty good "THRAKATTAK"-style compilation of Waiting Room jams that could fill up.a CD or two.
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1974-11-22 Indianapolis 0:00
1974-11-25 Cleveland 5:12
1974-11-26 Cleveland 10:14
1974-11-28 Detroit 15:44
1974-11-30 Pittsburgh 20:48 (left channel go brrrr)
1974-12-01 Baltimore 26:12
1974-12-04 Richmond 31:22
1974-12-05 Philadelphia 37:18
1974-12-06 New York City 42:28
1974-12-07 New York City 48:38
1974-12-08 Providence 54:19
1974-12-09 Boston 1:00:07
1974-12-12 Waterbury 1:06:12
1974-12-13 Passaic 1:11:16
1974-12-15 Montreal 1:17:32
1974-12-16 Toronto 1:23:23
1974-12-17 Rochester 1:28:58
1975-01-10 West Palm Beach 1:34:41
1975-01-11 Lakeland 1:40:26
1975-01-22 Berkeley 1:45:56
1975-01-24 Los Angeles 1:50:35
1975-01-28 Phoenix 1:56:50
1975-02-01 Kansas City 2:02:48
1975-02-02 Grand Rapids 2:07:06
1975-02-04 Chicago 2:12:08
1975-02-19 Oslo 2:18:54
1975-02-21 Copenhagen 2:25:18
1975-02-22 Hannover 2:32:09
1975-02-23 Berlin 2:38:35
1975-02-24 Amsterdam 2:44:26
1975-02-26 Cambrai 2:51:24
1975-02-28 Colmar 2:58:49
1975-03-01 Djion 3:05:03
1975-03-03 Paris 3:11:43
1975-03-06 Cascais 3:18:14
1975-03-09 Badalona 3:24:29
1975-03-17 Paris 3:32:04
1975-03-22 Annecy 3:40:10
1975-03-24 Turin 3:47:16
1975-03-27 Nuremberg 3:54:21
1975-03-29 Bern 4:02:37
1975-03-30 Saarbrucken 4:07:45
1975-04-01 Ludwigshafen 4:15:35
1975-04-02 Stuttgart 4:23:47
1975-04-03 Frankfurt 4:33:21
1975-04-04 Munich 4:41:10
1975-04-06 Dusseldorf 4:49:41
1975-04-07 Dortmund 4:57:44
1975-04-08 Hamburg 5:06:59
1975-04-10 Groningen 5:16:44
1975-04-11 Rotterdam 5:26:08
1975-04-12 Brussels 5:34:49
1975-04-14 London 5:43:58
1975-04-15 London 5:52:10
1975-04-16 Southampton 6:01:44
1975-04-19 Liverpool 6:11:37
1975-04-22 Edinburgh 6:20:33
1975-04-23 Edinburgh 6:29:19
1975-04-27 Manchester 6:37:02
1975-04-28 Manchester 6:45:17
1975-04-30 Bristol 6:53:48
1975-05-01 Birmingham 7:02:18
1975-05-02 Birmingham 7:11:13
1975-05-14 Wiesbaden 7:19:24
1975-05-15 Reims 7:27:02
1975-05-18 San Sebastian 7:35:15
It's like Grayfolded meets ThrakAttak!
Listened to the Indy one.... Will play rest later on with appropriate trendy chemical amusement aids!
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The Mono FGTR bootleg, which is the best place to find a good sounding mono version of the album until they decide to release it officially elsewhere than on the original short-lived mono vinyl pressing, includes some alternate versions from the recording sessions, also not officially released. One of them is "In The Beginning (alternate bass track)", so I guess this is what Banks is referring to. Could it be an indication that the contents of this bootleg (including the mono mix) will finally be released officially?
Not just a Genesis fanboy.
Yeah I also remember hearing about that 50 Years Ago digital release. Maybe some of that could get a physical release in this set. I notice on YouTube the FGTR tracks are indeed credited to Cherry Red.
The Shrine 'Waiting Room' is still fairly close to the studio one. I think my favourite mix of that show is found on the handful of songs that got broadcast on the radio at the time. It has a lot more excitement about it.
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