Yeah, but what if you never had the chance to see Genesis live? (By the
way, did you?) What those who never saw them don't realize was that the
music was only part of the show. Yes, I would rather see/hear Genesis
do this material, but that ain't gonna happen. Both my sons (in their
20s) wanted to see what this band was like, so I took them to see TMB.
THEN, all the stuff I'd been blathering on about all these years made
sense to them. They still thought it was really weird...
The worst part of the whole thing was that my eldest was doing security
at the Molson Amphitheater here in Tronto this summer and got to talk
with Gabriel for about 15 minutes. Guess what they talked about?
Even though I don't agree with you, David, thanks for joining in on the
conversation!
Cheers!
Rick
On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 05:24 PM, David Davis wrote:
> Yeah -
> tribute bands are just giving us commodified museum exhibits of past
> culture.
>
> If Genesis had done that in the first place,
> where would we be?
>
> It doesn't matter have slavishly they try to imitate
> the original in terms of musical and visual form -
> what they can never imitate is the fact that the
> original was, erm, original - 5 blokes in a band
> striving to do something new and exciting.