Product Description

Live album taken from the pop-prog band's 2007 tour of Europe. Proving that their back catalogue is one of the strongest in music, Rutherford, Banks and Collins rip through a thrilling live set on this double CD. Includes the hits 'Invisible Touch', 'Follow You Follow Me' and 'No Son Of Mine'.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Duke's Intro (Live In Manchester)
2. Turn It On Again (Live In Amsterdam)
3. No Son Of Mine (Live In Amsterdam)
4. Land Of Confusion (Live In Helsinki)
5. In The Cage (Live In Manchester)
6. Afterglow (Live In Manchester)
7. Hold On My Heart (Live In Hannover)
8. Home By The Sea (Live In Dusseldorf & Rome)
9. Follow You Follow Me (Live In Paris)
10. Firth Of Fifth (Excerpt) (Live In Manchester)
11. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (Live In Manchester)

Disc 2:

1. Mama (Live In Frankfurt)
2. Ripples (Live In Prague)
3. Throwing It All Away (Live In Paris)
4. Domino (Live In Rome)
5. Conversations With 2 Stools (Live In Munich)
6. Los Endos (Live At Twickenham)
7. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (Excerpt) (Live In Rome)
8. Invisible Touch (Live In Rome)
9. I Can’t Dance (Live In Munich)
10. Carpet Crawlers (Live In Manchester)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #545 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-26
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Enhanced, Live

Customer Reviews

An MOR triumph
If, like me, you lost interest in Genesis when Steve Hackett left then this album is a good way to catch up with why they became MOR Superstars in the '80's and '90's.

Collins (much as I dislike his solo work) is on great form vocally and the post-Hackett songs are excellently put together, catchy and very enjoyable. 'No son of Mine' and 'Hold on to my Heart' are particularly good IMHO. The attempts at longer form songs do not however do it for me.

As far as the songs from the Hackett era are concerned, my view is that at best they are performed in a perfunctory manner (Los Endos) and at worst resemble a 'Stars on 45' megamix ('In the Cage - Cinema Show - Dukes End' medley). The latter is put together so precariously, I really wonder what they were thinking of.

'Ripples' is a disaster - it is a very subtle song which needs a light touch and is made by the interplay between the 12-string guitars. Err...where are they?

As far as 'Firth of Fifth' is concerned, Stuermers butchering of one of the most famous guitar solos in the Progressive Rock canon is unforgiveable.

So in summary, if you want to know where Genesis went then this is a great album. If you want to know where they came from buy 'Seconds Out'.

Pointless release
I bought this pretty much knowing what i was going to get. Excellent musicianship, good sound and for the most part good songs. Unfortunately the set is delivered with so little drive and energy that it sounds like a muzak set. All song keys are dropped by a full tone making some of them (Ripples esp.)virtually unrecognisable. Does Phil, who i rate very highly as a drummer and a singer, really have to sacrifice the proper song key for the entire set? Noone expects older rock musicians live work to stand up against work done in their youth - but this should serve as a stark warning not to record and release it. The set may satisfy those who have heard nothing of this group before but personally speaking it is a lacklustre effort of a once vibrant and truly musical group. Buy the magnificent 'Seconds Out' album instead.

A few myths put to rest
Like so many other reviewers, I was at the Twickenham concert, with my daughter, 15, and son, 21. I though it was absolutely superb from start to finish, and the band injected life and style into some of the most unpromising material. The kids were completely silenced by the band's musical quality and by the brilliance of the sound. I have to say that we heard every word and every note with perfect clarity, and the old boys simply blew the place apart, as did the lightshow and firework display. In the last few years we have seen Cream, Jeff Beck (whenever possible), Stevie Winwood, Paul McCartney, Meat Loaf, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, B B King, Procol Harum (magical, quite unbelievably good), Gary Moore, Eric Bell - and now, Genesis.

And the CDs? Buy with complete confidence - they are just fantastic.

I mean, what do you people want out of life who moan about this recording? I think Phil Collins is bloody excellent, for all his faults - do any of you realise how hard this stuff is to sing? Or how incredibly well he sung it? And what a killer drummer he is, too - and with Chester Thompson, late of Weather Report and Zappa (go get "Inca Roads") the sound they made was, to use an overworked word, awesome. Chester Thompson and Daryl Stuermer on guitar do not need to play with Genesis - in fact, the pairing is unlikely - but they seem to really respect and enjoy this incredible music. I remember Chester saying in an early interview that Phil Collins was one of the best drummers in the world and "hard to keep up with." That, from truly one of the best drummers in the world.

The tracks - well, if anybody out there thought that they would play "Supper's Ready" and wheel out the old catalogue and Mr Gabriel, then I would be surprised. Extracts from the very fine "Duke" were great, as were "In the Cage" with a long instrumental ending from "The Cinema Show." "Home by the Sea" is well-played but an OK song (chords from "Duke's Travels" for main theme) whereas "Domino," which I never enjoyed much, came across as a wierd and wonderful song, like a cross between "Underneath Your Pillow" and "Old Man and the Angel" by It Bites, and I can pay no better tribute to either band. The instrumental section of "The Firth Of Fifth" is a real powerhouse, with Stuermer excelling on guitar. I also disliked "We can't dance" on record but it was such fun on stage: and the duet between Chester and Phil was just so good - and very hard to play too. These guys are real real players.

"Los Endos" again had the demon drummers together and it was too easy to forget that basically we have here a four-piece that sounds like an orchestra. "Ripples" was faultless - again, a very hard song to sing - and Carpet Crawlers did the job, as always. The rest, all good, and "Land of Confusion" particularly enjoyable.

Special mention to: Phil Collins, for singing and acting his heart out and playing some sensational kit with the wonderful Chester Thompson: Mike Rutherford for being the Bass Player's Bass Player - and also for great 6 and 12 string guitar (clawhammer fantastic), bass pedals, vocals and songwriting: Tony Banks for being a keyboard wizard, for writing "Afterglow", for writing the whole of "Trick of the Tail" and for being Tony Banks: Darly Stuermer for consistent and accurate guitar: and the whole of the crew for a fabulous live sound and light show.

This is as good as it gets, folks, it really is. Forget all the crap about Collins being bland and so on and just listen to them PLAY. When you look at the opposition, who else can play music like this and show all the time that they were never happy to stay still or play three-chord ditties? I reckon that I am an OK musician and my son is a very good sax player, recording at present on alto, tenor and soprano - but we agreed at the end of the concert that we would never be that good. Why is it that so many atrocious new bands, successful after one single and one gig in the Goat Tent at Glastonbury, don't just at least listen to this and see what can be done with the same instruments and same number of fingers? I saw Genesis countless times and they were always brilliant (and my favourite is B B King)with a fab sound. This CD is also remarkable as is the band.

Just LISTEN to it, doubters. What else do you want from a fourpiece?

PS and to all those who still do it - PLEASE don't write reviews in text "language" and PLEASE try to make reviews accurate enough grammtically to be readable. Old fools like me just cannot stand or understand Insta-Speak. It's horrible.