I should have stayed with the audio cassette! Tommy Vance, bless him, gave us "two hours of Genesis live on their recent sell out London tour" on the Friday rock show in 1980.I taped the whole thing and have it to this day, as much as i love Genesis this DVD is pretty awful.
I remember people pirating movies in cinemas with their video cameras in the 80's...nah thats not what happened here, is it?
I'll just have to keep listening to my tape with the occasional interruption by the late great Tommy Vance.
A little waste to release this.... There are not many words to describe this show at the Lyceum Ballroom in London. When the menu start you only see 'Play Concert' and 'Title Select'. So I've noticed I don't have many options so I just started the gig. The opening track 'Deep In the Motherlodge' start with a show from the (I think) far end of the building. Like an other reviewer says 'Is that Tony Banks or Mike Rutherford behind the keyboard'. To be honest while I'm writing this review I was watching the DVD. As long as they were making... more info
I waited 28 years for this! This was my first Genesis gig so I was thrilled that the BBC recorded it for the Old Grey Whistle Test. I still treasure the VHS I recorded off air in 1980. It's just about the same quality as this DVD! Someone has got some explaining to do. Why were the original BBC master tapes not used? Why didn't someone ask Tony Banks' brother to clean it up at his post production house? Please Tony Smith, let's have the same dedication to the archive that Jimmy Page employs with Led Zeppelin. This is a special... more info
Buy with extreme caution 6 May 1980. I had tried (in vain) for years to get tickets for a Genesis gig. As I recall, this one was a much-demanded extra show added at the end of their sell-out tour of small-capacity UK theatres. And, at last, I had won the lottery (so to speak): I was at this very gig. All these years later, I thought it would be fun to be 'there' again. Never mind that the film and sound quality is no better than you'd expect from 28-year old, pre-digital technology. Of course I can accept that. What really... more info
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