Mellotronists

Hi all!

I got a chance to hear Musical Box this past weekend and I went with the
idea that, having seen Genesis during the original "Selling England by
the Pound" tour, I was going to be disappointed. Far from it, on this
occasion. Remembering that several people on this site thought that the
band was using sequencing in order to play the material, I was watching
very carefully.

From my observation point, they certainly seemed to be playing
everything that I heard coming out of the very fine sound system. I'm
pretty sure the singer was playing all the flute parts. Well, he was
playing the correct fingerings, so he's got the hard part down and I
assume he's figured out how to blow the damn thing. They have a new
keyboard player who was DEFINITELY playing the keyboard parts. The guy
in the audience who does the recreation of John Bradley, jumping up and
down and generally acting like an asshole, REALLY has that part down. I
had to look twice to be sure that it wasn't John...

All in all, the show brought back a lot of memories and I thought it was
really true to what Genesis had done all those years ago.

By sheer coincidence, Peter Gabriel is performing in town tonight
(Toronto), and in retrospect, I probably should have gone.

Rick B.

PS This is the first concert I've been to in living memory where I could
honestly say that it could have been louder. Since I'm usually
complaining the other way, this was a pleasant surprise. My only gripe
was that the mellotron parts (played on their faux m400) were a bit too
far back in the mix.