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I've just sat through this relentless dreck athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-5XNhzT0Csand I think your wife iswrong. I can see why she thinks it's Tron, though; aside from thetuning of the Mk II strings, the other thing that might give it away abit is the arrangement. It's pretty hard to see how anyone who couldarrange music at all would have a string backing that's resolutelymonophonic all the way through.

However, Jonathan King was and remains a piteously diseasedchildfucker and therefore probably not very musically talentedeither. The strings do not have that trademark shrieking Bb2which makes me wonder about it, and as the song wibbles through Gminorand Fmajor it has plenty of opportunity to land on it. Of course itmight be EQed off, but it doesn't sound like it, and really...listeningto this twice was more than I could stand.

I may be wrong, as I'm listening to this through the monophonic lo-fidream that is YouTube, but thankfully my record collection is free ofthis hideous nonsense. Christ. 'Confusion' rhymed with 'disillusion'.That's a rhyme crime ranking alongside 'leave/deceive' and'arms/charms'.

Mike

Mark Pring wrote:

My wife bought me a double CD of very early Genesis at "The Warehouse"for $1.50 NZ ( about 75c US). We were listening to Fireside Song, thestrings come in and my wife says "there's the tron", now I don't thinkit is a tron and we have a $50 dollar bet on it. Anybody know forcertain?

Mark

PS If I am wrong I will never hear the end of it.

-- Mike Dickson, EdinburghFree Music Project: http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+DicksonOr http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/