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(premium presse) - Katzh� � tte, 21.06.2009 07:51 - Genesis is a 1967 founded � nds British rock band which are commonly awarded for their very individualistic members and her two clearly different musical � "ren is known. With over 150 million albums sold worldwide za � hlen Genesis to dreißig green bands with Ayten Plattenverk� � � ufen.
At the beginning of the career of urspr� � nglich for nfk� � pfigen band, the complex song structures, instrumentation and sophisticated theater-term k� � artistic live performances Genesis into one of the most important and popular bands of the progressive rock genre. In addition to King Crimson, Emerson, Lake Virgillio, Nir Zidhyaku
The Anfa � nge
The roots of Genesis are at the Charterhouse School in Godalming (Surrey) to find. 1963 Next came Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks in the traditional, elitist � re private school. Both were frustrated by the then very strict and repressive rules of an English Public School and used their leisure to tight joint music. Tony Banks has played since his childhood fr� � HEN piano. Even Peter Gabriel got in his youth, piano lessons, but soon became interested in more f� � r the drums. Since both in school only a piano to Verf� � employment stood, it was agreed that Banks played this, whereas Gabriel sang about. To play both Next-known rock and pop songs of its time, but quickly composed his first pieces.
1964, a year after Banks and Gabriel, Mike Rutherford came to the school. He has played since his seventh year of life guitar. He makes friends with another guitarist, Anthony Phillips, and played in the sequence together with him. Together with their Mitsch� � lern Richard Macphail, Rivers Job and Rob Tyrrell green � nds both her own band 1965 Anon. Phillips was the lead group, whereas the rhythm guitar Rutherford � � bernahm. Macphail (later road manager and sound mixer in fr� � HEN Genesis until April 1973) contributed to the Leadgesang. Anon restrict itself nkte � Next After playing on the tracks of the Rolling Stones and other famous rock and Popgr� � ßen their time. For a while Rutherford was replaced by Mick Colman, since he and drummer Chris Stewart also another band project called Climax pursued.
Around the same time, Banks and Gabriel joined the school band, The Garden Wall of trumpeter Johnny Trapman at. As stieß drummer Chris Stewart added, whereas Rivers job here too the role of bassist � � bernahm. In the summer of 1966 joined the band Anon, The Garden Wall and Climax plant � sslich a charter school house concert together, with the lack of members they partially merge ließ. Who played with whom exactly is unclear, since the subsequent teren Genesis members at different times different Ausk� � � ber nfte dara said. The fact is that the concert for all parties represented an important event, although it is by the school shortly before the end was canceled: Rebel Richard Macphail had despite expressly ban daring, the last song anzusagen.
A short time later l� � ste are Anon, and Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips retreated back to writing songs together. When they some of their 1967 St� � cke wanted to record, they asked Tony Banks to musical � Assisted Support on the piano. Banks � � convinced the vocals only m� � ßig Phillips gifted them, as Peter Gabriel S� � nger dazuzunehmen. Rutherford moved to the rhythm of his guitar to bass, because Rivers Job meanwhile the school behind them, and the blues rock band Savoy Brown had connected. In this occupation, they took in the Easter holidays at a friend Phillips / Rutherford compositions Don? T Want You Back, Try a Little Sadness, That's Me, Lists on Five and Patricia, as well as the Banks / Gabriel-St� � ck on She Is Beautiful . Following Chris Stewart was obliged as a drummer, the initial occupation of the band complete.
The Peter Gabriel-� "ra
First singles and Deba � talbum
As in the same year the former Charterhouse-Sch� � ler Jonathan King, meanwhile a relatively successful music producer, his former college came to him ließ the band sent their demo tape. King was excited by the recordings and took the young band, after yet another demo f� � r had produced him, in his record company Jonjo Music under contract. He had precise ideas about how the group's sound was, and insisted on simple arrangements with acoustic instrumentation in a quiet guitar and piano. In this style, they took their first single Where the Sour Turns to Sweet, which however is not � vera has been published. In the background, the band has already composed l� � nger and more complex pieces, which, however, King missfiel. So they wrote the simple knitted Title The Silent Sun, with whom she put it back on its � � convinced. King produced the song in December 1967 quickly with them as a single, on 22 February 1968 at the Decca label in the market came from.
For these single, and its planned debut album took the band, which until then had half as the New Anon company had a Z� � ndenden name. After several bad ideas like gleichermaßen Meadow Champagne or Gabriel's Angels beat Jonathan King finally called Genesis, which was the beginning of something new and should suggest to all members of the coherence. � Anschließend vera published with A Winter's Tale another single, but like the previous one was unsuccessful. Then verließ drummer Chris Stewart, the band and was replaced by John Silver. Genesis worked with him on the first album, entitled From Genesis to Revelation should appear. It was in summer 1968 within ten days in the Regent Studios in London.
The album finally appeared in March 1969, but without explicit mention of the band name, because at that time already a U.S. band existed, which was the name Genesis. The name of the album prompted the Plattenl� � about the album irrt� � mlich Category RELIGIA � se assign music? with the result that there are only about 600 copies sold down completely. Also, the single release of the St� � cks Where the Sour Turns to Sweet in June 1969, the sales figures do not increase. The input and invariably short popular pieces of plate were not yet the musical potential of Genesis, but rather had the taste of its producer Jonathan King adapted. Meanwhile nachtr� � � gte hinzugef� resembled strings and Bla � serpassagen stießen in the band? Anthony Phillips in particular? on little approval, and due to the ever green Ayer expectant k� � � artistic differences separated is finally freed from King. Meanwhile, all members of their school and were in a phase of finding what their zuk� � of future development were concerned.
Reorientation (getting it together in the country)
After a short break, the band met in the summer of 1969 together again. Gabriel, Phillips, Banks and Rutherford quickly discovered her joy of music again and decided to make a professional musician. John Silver, who had left the band to enter the U.S. to study, was the new drummer John Mayhew replaced. On 20 August, the group a demo tape with the new song White Mountain, Family (one fr� � he version of Dusk), Going Out to Get You and Pacidy on. In this phase, bought the band members with borrowed money, all their first professional tools and increased their instrumental skills further.
From October 1969 to April 1970 the band moved secluded cottage, the Cottage Christmas with parents of her friend Richard Macphail, the first order over a long period of intensive work on their music. Despite some differences between the band members, the community musical Bema � tionships here a giant step forward. During this time, Genesis also used every opportunity to live and the tracks in front of an audience to test, making the first small but loyal fan base was born. Two recording sessions are in this phase: On 9 January 1970 took the band four St� � cke f� � r a never-broadcast BBC television documentary of the painter Mick Jackson on. By Paul Samwell-Smith produced Instrumentals Provocation, frustration, manipulation, and resignation are a Jackson fan tapes known. On 22 February we played live at the BBC Maida Vale Studios titles Shepherd, Pacidy, Let Us Now Make Love, stagnation, Looking For Someone and Dusk for the BBC radio show Nightride On.
Finally the band came when Charisma label under f� � r them in June and July, their second album started. Trespass on 23 Vera � October 1970 and is published today by many fans as the first? Right?, Unverf� � lschte album of the group. Compared to her first album was the music of Genesis clearly evolved: In place of short pop songs were up to nine minutes long title with extended instrumental parts. Trespass is generally more acoustically and kept ZWA � lfsaitigen guitars, organ and piano dominated. Only the fr� � he live bookmark The Knife is a dynamic rock number, and by aggressive guitars game marked. This title was published? divided into two parts? in May the following year as a single. Despite some good reviews, the album was commercially less successful.
Shortly after the recording of Trespass, there was a personnel change in the band: Due k� � artistic differences and Krankheitsgr� � nd verließ guitarist Anthony Phillips Group. He suffered from stage fright, was of the now numerous appearances geschw� � cht and musical issues are often different opinion than the other band members. This withdrawal was f� � r Genesis a big loss since it beside their guitarist will also play an important song writer and the actual temples fr� � he � sselfigur the band lost. The subsequent period of the remaining members still considered greatest crisis of the band's history is described. In the wake of Phillips? Farewell is also separated from drummer John Mayhew, who is now high musical level of the band could no longer hold. After a short period of helplessness, in which even the end of the band stood up for discussion, we finally decided to go ahead and by ad in the Melody Maker for a new 12-string guitarist and a drummer f� � eligible to seek.
Admission by Phil Collins and Steve Hackett
The ad appeared Phil Collins, who has been fr� � her childhood and has played drums as a youth by a role in the musical Oliver B� � hnenerfahrungen had gathered. Moreover, he had some film and television productions, including the super-Beatles film Yeah Yeah Yeah (A Hard Days Night). Together with his friend Ronnie Caryl, he played in the relatively unknown band Flaming Youth, in 1969 the album Ark vera � 2 was published. It was just after a new musical challenge, when he learned that Genesis searched for new musicians. So he filed in September 1970 along with guitarist Caryl on the ad and they were in the house of Peter Gabriel's parents invited preludes. It quickly became clear that Collins the job as a drummer would get � rde. He played the Genesis St� � cke � � not only conviction but also humanly fit the band. The search for a guitar made in the wake of difficult because you not only looking for a musician, but also a song writer, one of the band fit. Moreover, mainly by Mike Rutherford asked instrumental requirements for the new guitar player is very high. So it was that the search Next remained unsuccessful. Therefore, we played a few months as a quartet and Tony Banks � � bernahm the guitar parts on his keyboards. F� � r short time stieß guitarist Mick Barnard joined the band, although the level of the remaining band could not hold.
In December 1970 Peter Gabriel discovered in the Melody Maker a display of guitarist Steve Hackett, who are looking for like-minded musicians and song writers was. Hackett has played since the mid-1960s, electric and acoustic guitar. Already at the age of 16 he left school and then in different bands involved. He has been helped by the blues guitarist of his contemporaries such as Eric Clapton influenced equally by Gitarrenk� � experimental artists such as Jeff Beck and later Robert Fripp. In his game, he came to less speed, but rather that, with his guitar into new melodic and harmonic areas. Gabriel called him and advised him that the St� � ck stagnation of Trespass anzuh� � ren and to report back if it coherence. After a free concert by the band at London's Lyceum, the Hackett attended, he was appointed as preludes to Tony Banks? Houses and got the job. For the year 1970/71 was the? Classic? Occupation of Genesis completely.
The first months of the year 1971 were examined by � gt charisma Package Tour, due to the low ticket prices also known as Six Bob Tour became known (six six British bob = shilling). Label boss Tony Stratton-Smith ließ his three most promising bands touring together and Genesis era opened the concerts � f� � r Van der Graaf Generator and Lindisfarne. The first album with two new band members, Nursery Cryme, was completed in August 1971 and in November published � vera. It contained the classical influence of Salmacis The Fountain and The Musical Box with one of the green Ayten � Genesis classics, in whose creation process also preset � nger Hackett Phillips and Barnard proportion had had. Collins groups enriched the sound with his jazzy style, and sometimes there has been a short St� � ck Absent Friends For the first time as Leads� on h� � nger However � Hackett gte aggression for one and a green Ayer atmospheric � � entrepreneurial bandwidth the other added.
International reputation
After successes in Belgium (Trespass on top of the charts) and Italy (Nursery Cryme on No. 4) gave the beginning of Genesis in 1972 their first concerts außerhalb Great Britain: after a gig in Brussels in January, the band in April the same seven times in Italy. The single Happy the Man was in May 1972 while still singing and toneless below, but in October vera � Foxtrot album published with the epic Supper's Ready and the Arthur C. Clarke inspired Watcher of the Skies brought the band finally The commercial breakthrough in their own country (rank 12). Was the band by then mostly as the opening act and other acts as part of the festival programs in appearance, it was on the live album Genesis Foxtrot Tour documented by 1972/73 their first tour as the main attraction dar. At that time Gabriel began with various disguises and masks to experiment, to the often surrealistic visual texts of the band to be emphasized. His eccentric B� � hnenshow and generally the Verkn� � Pfungen of music and look at the concerts helped Genesis to large Popularit� � t. Until then, Tony Stratton-Smith and himself rather than more poorly managed, the band undertook with Tony Smith 1973 for a professional manager who now s� � mtliche marketed Genesis works (from 1977 with his company hit most of the time used Effektger� devices were custom-made products of the Dutch � nders Theo Botschuijver. A special hand-held laser allowed Peter Gabriel, the audience with various light effects to bother, whereas his Slipperman-Kosta � m not appreciated by all H� � hepunkt represented his masquerades. Collins remembered subsequent � ter:? He stuck in this? Slipperman?-Kosta � m and tried the microphone somehow into the N� � he his mouth to get entangled and fell while v� � llig except breathing. Towards the end I found that the singing is not really too was h� � ren. Already at the beginning of the tour, in December 1974, had Peter Gabriel's band colleagues Verka � nds that he will leave.
Gabriel's farewell
The Gr� � nde f� � r Peter Gabriel's Genesis exit were complex: The band was in the �-public increasingly recognized as Gabriel and his perceived opponents, which led to internal tensions � vessels had done, which can still strengthen � markets, as the front man in the middle of the writing process for The Lamb a listing of the director William Friedkin f� � r a joint film project to follow. As the end of July, shortly before the album recording, then still lead to complications during the birth of Gabriel's first daughter arrived, it was the mutual alienation perfect, the others (children) band members showed little understanding-Image f� � r Gabriels desire to strengthen � rkt to wife and child k� � mmern, instead of all of his time in the service of the band to make their breakthrough in the U.S. with H� � nd was to take effect.
Peter Gabriel as Solok� � nstler 2004
Gabriel's Farewell was finally freed on 27 May 1975 with the last concert of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour in French Besanon, but was only made public in August. Urspr� � nglich wanted the musicians to rock Business f� � r always saying goodbye, but in 1976 he once again took first demos with solo material. The song Solsbury Hill his first album, Peter Gabriel (1977) was an allegory about his departure from Genesis in which his ex-colleagues with lines like? No-one taught them etiquette? thoughtful. Despite the hard time interpersonal conflicts are Gabriel and Genesis until now linked in friendship remained in subsequent years earlier ußerte � � � nachtr� the band resembled full-Image understanding for his decision, the family the priority.
The Phil Collins-� "ra
Bombast Rock
In the search for a successor for Peter Gabriel tried for the remaining band members numerous S� � nger, before they realized that the right man for the job r is already in its own ranks was: drummer Phil Collins, who has from the outset as a background -S� � nger of the band had convinced � � � � bernahm finally the position of Lead-S� � nger. By David Hentschel (former engineer of the album Nursery Cryme) produced first album of the post-Gabriel-� "ra, A Trick Of The Tail, was established in 1976 by fans and critics, friendly and sold better than any previous Genesis albums. At the end of the (almost) instrumental St� � cks Los Endos was a Peter Gabriel gema � nztes self Quote from Suite Suppers Ready to h� � ren:? Theres an angel standing in the sun freed to get back home?. According to many klang Collins? Voice? More than Gabriel Gabriel himself?. For the live performances of the trick-Tour � � bernahm former Yes / King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford Items by Collins, so that to concentrate on the singing was. Collins? Approach as a front man for live performances differed by Gabriel theaterinspirierten appearances and his interpretations of the Gabriel-St� � cke sounded vibrant. Years later, at the Milton Keynes-reunion concert of 1982, Gabriel Collins revealed that he had the songs better than he himself s� � nge, but never like him.
In December 1976, the album winds Full ignored, he was never, but the highest modern sound of the eighties adjusted. The use of a drum machine was a constant feature of future k� � Genesis and Collins solo albums. The commercial music was designed for the mass media good reviews. Duke was f� � r Genesis, the first number one success in the BBC's album chart, and the outcoupling Turn It On Again and misunderstanding were two of the band and liked h� � frequently played songs.
Rise to world stardom
Early 1980s verf� � gte the band the first time in its history over green � Ayer financial resources and could be its own recording studio The Farm Building in Surrey, where s� � mtliche further albums were recorded. The beginning was 1981, the minimalist style Abacab album with the band tried a Großteil drops its bombast and new ways to package the proceedings. F� � r the song No Reply at All, the later occurring as Phenix Horns Bla � sersektion of the group Earth, Wind and Fire is committed. Significantly f� � r Abacab was the use of the Collins-typical gated-reverb drum sounds, the reverb, volume � strength and compression effects and marked the beginning of that year already maßgeblich to the success of Collins? Worldwide in the Air Tonight, and his Deba � talbums Face Value had contributed. Developed this particular sound urspr� � nglich by Peter Gabriel, co-producer Hugh Padgham and Collins in the recordings Intruder, the first song on Gabriel's 1980 album. The gated-drum sounds should also be the hallmark s� � � mtlicher zuk� of future Genesis and Collins are par albums.
Vera � 1982 the band published the live double album Three Sides Live. The U.S. version of this album consisted of three (vinyl-) pages live material (hence the album title), plus a page with studio recordings, including the song Paperlate, where again? Earth, Wind and Fire? Bla-ser on h� � � ren are. In Great Britain, three were unchanged � published the title of the studio side of the DP with 3 x 3 on the market. This is why the British version of Three Sides Live additional live material, but it was � � lter and fr� � heren tours came.
On 2 October 1982 was held in Milton Keynes under the name Six of the Best a unique reunion concert at which both Peter Gabriel as well (for the encores) Steve Hackett participated. The organization took place under big time pressure rather than the concert revenue should the financially ailing Gabriel's WOMAD project benefit. To the chagrin of the fans from this performance, there are no official recordings.
The Genesis eponyme album was 1983 the third number-one album in Great Britain. It included radio-friendly titles such as Mum and That's All. With Home by the Sea, due to its Pentaton in Asia was particularly popular, was a reminiscence of the days long and epic songs. The St� � ck Just a Job to Do became the title tune of the ABC detective series The Insiders (1985). At this time shifted the interest of the band members on their respective solo careers, which also illustrates that, from the former album sessions untypischerweise no additional material in the form of outtakes or single B-sides emerged.
1986, when the Popularit� � � t Solok� of Phil Collins nstlers their H� � hepunkt had attained vera � published her best-selling Genesis album Invisible Touch. The album has five U.S. Top 5 singles show Invisible Touch, In Too Deep, Land Of Confusion, Tonight, Tonight, Tonight and Throwing it All Away. Despite a rather meager place 15 in the British charts reaching the title song as a single-title Genesis � � berhaupt place one in the U.S. singles charts. Beginning of the year, Collins had a Verulkung his person on Spitting Image, a British satirical show seen them and was so impressed that the makers of the show with the production of music videos to Land of Confusion behalf. The video has been beißend-sarcastic comment to the Cold War, in which Banks, Collins and Rutherford and including the Superman disguised as Ronald Reagan as rubber dolls were displayed. The clip was f� � r the MTV Video Music Award nominations, which then, however, went to Gabriel's Sledgehammer. Anheuser-Busch took Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (as well as Collins In the Air Tonight) f� � r their beer advertising, whereas In Too Deep in the film Mona Lisa was received. The Instrumentalst� � ck The Brazilian was in the animated film When the wind blows used. On the tour for the album was Genesis in 1987 the first volume in the Wembley Stadium four evenings in a row before a sold out house spielte.Genesis was also the first band, the Vari * Lite lighting effects, Jumbotron video screens, and the Prism sound system to was used, nowadays the standard for rock concerts in big arenas However belong �
At the Prince's Trust concert at the Royal Albert Hall 1988 played Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel for the first and so far last time since 1982 live together again. Collins was at this evening, the house band drummer who will be Gabriel's Sledgehammer Hit escorted.
After one of Soloaktivit� ten ausgef� � � l� � nger llten alongside Collins was out since the mid-1980s, including Mike Rutherford with his second project Mike was the group in 1991, to We Can? T Dance to publish, Collins? so far last studio album with Genesis. It included successful singles such as No Son Of Mine, I Can? T Dance, Hold on My Heart, Jesus He Knows Me, Tell Me Why and Never a Time, and l� � nger St� � cke as Driving the Last Spike and Fading Lights. The Song Since I Lost You wrote Collins plant � sslich of the death of Eric Clapton's son Conor. F� � r the album the band first worked with Nick Davis, who has all new Publications of the band produces, and the � � older material has remastered and remixed. Prior to 1988, he had 5 plus classic Mike Anthony Phillips and John Silver), to invest � sslich of Publications Archives of I? 1967? 1975 interviews to give and f� � r posing for press photos. In October 1999, included the compilation Turn It On Again? The Hits by Trevor Horn produced adding Carpet Crawlers, although the entire original cast of the St� � ckes, but was recorded separately. In 2000, the trio Banks / Collins / Rutherford in London's Hilton hotel, a private concert f� � r band manager Tony Smith in the form of a short Akustiksets.
The R� � ckkehr by Phil Collins
After numerous speculations about a reunion was in October 2006 in the press announced that f� � � R 2007 facts chlich a tour through Europe and the U.S. occupation in the Banks / Collins / Rutherford planned. The urspr� � ngliche plan had been The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway with Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett reiterated the B� � hne to bring, but Gabriel was based on its own activities ten f� � r a new version of Genesis in F� � nferbesetzung initially not available. Since the quad band version of the 1976/77 only a short Übergangsphase had been decided that Banks / Collins / Rutherford to instead as a trio to perform. In a brief note on its website showed Steve Hackett understanding-Image Dafa � r and gave his best W� � nsche for the reunion tour.
Phil Collins in June 2007 again on tour with Genesis
On 7 November 2006, Turn it on Again? THE TOUR at a press conference in London officially angek� � ndigt order on 11 June 2007, almost exactly forty years after Gr� � ndung of the band, to start in Helsinki. The tour included a total of 22 concerts in Europe, nine of them in German stadiums (Hamburg, Hanover, 2x D� � sseldorf, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Munich). Within nine hours were in Germany alone sold 200,000 tickets. The conclusion of the Europe section of the tour took place on 14 July in Rome, where the band in the Circus Maximus, with free admission of approximately half a million viewers was seen. From 7 September (Toronto) to 13 October (Los Angeles) went there for R 24 concerts in Canada and the USA. � rkt understanding was the band back through their old companion Daryl Stuermer and Chester Thompson. The setlist consisted of pieces from the period 1973 to 1991. The second of two concerts in the LTU Arena in D�sseldorf was on 27 June 2007 Live in cinemas in Great Britain, Sweden and Spain, � � transfer. The tour was with the live album Live over Europe and the live DVD When in Rome documented.
Genesis Boxset? 1976? 1982? +? 1983? 1998? +? 1970? 1975?
2007 brought the band to two Boxset with digitally remastered and re-mixed the original albums. The first box includes the period from 1976 to 1982 and contains the albums A Trick Of The Tail, Wind Sahneh� � ubchen included, inter alia, the Jackson-Tapes of 1970, where subsequent additional pieces of the band were already included embryonic, and on DVD all the original slides, which in 1974/75 The Lamb-shows could be seen.
Current
F� � r * a planned fourth Boxset remixes Nick Davis live recordings of the band, including bonus material.
* Ex-drummer John Mayhew, 26 succumbed to M� � rz 2009 an heart attack. He is the first Genesis member whose death is to be deplored.
Inspiration and Einfl� � sse
Genesis were supported by a broad spectrum of music from classical music to the mainstream rock and jazz influences. The packages in mid-1968 recorded their first album From Genesis to Revelation is still oriented to The Moody Blues and the Family Deba � talbum and, in the case of the single The Silent Sun, to the Bee Gees, whose outspoken fan producer Jonathan King was. 1969 then the entire band from the first King Crimson album is fascinating, the show traces in their music hinterließ. Another important fr� � he Einfl� � sse, of the bands with classical musicians Ankl� � nts like Procol Harum and The Nice, but also the Folkrock band Fairport Convention.
Banks named Alan Price of the Animals as "the first person that I am the organ in the rock context aware ließ?. Zu seinen Einflüssen aus der Klassik zählt der Keyboarder Rachmaninow, Ravel, Mahler und Schostakowitsch. Collins war Buddy Rich und dem jazzigen Mahavishnu Orchestra zugetan, die Eingang in seinen Schlagzeugstil fanden. Gabriel ließ sich gesanglich von persönlichen Favoriten wie Nina Simone, Otis Redding und Familys Roger Chapman inspirieren. Alle Mitglieder der 5er-Besetzung waren zudem Fans der Beatles, auch wenn deren Einfluss eher selten zu erahnen ist (etwa bei I Know What I Like).
Coverversionen von Genesis-Songs und Einfluss auf andere Bands
Die meisten (Ex-)Mitglieder der Band haben bei ihren Solo-Konzerten auch Genesis-Material gespielt, allen voran Hackett mit In That Quiet Earth, Los Endos, Horizons, Blood on the Rooftops, After the Ordeal und I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe), letzteres Stück auch mit seiner kurzlebigen Supergroup GTR. Zu Gabriels Live-Set am Anfang von dessen Karriere gehörten The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway und Back in NYC, während Collins seine Neuinterpretation von Behind The Lines spielte sowie später auch I Cant Dance, Turn It On Again, Misunderstanding und Invisible Touch. Etliche Genesis-Songs wurden von Ray Wilson live interpretiert und auf den beiden Alben Live und Live and Acoustic dokumentiert: Carpet Crawlers, Follow You, Follow me, I Can?t Dance, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, No Son of Mine, Shipwrecked und Mama, zudem In the Air Tonight (Collins solo) und Biko (Gabriel solo).
Der erste Künstler, der einen Genesis-Song im Studio coverte, war Phil Collins mit Behind the Lines auf seinem Debütalbum Face Value. 1993 versuchte sich Fish auf seinem Fremdkompositionen vorbehaltenen Werk Songs From The Mirror an I Know What I Like. Im selben Jahr war Carpet Crawlers in der Interpretation der deutschen Band M. Walking on the Water auf deren EP Pictures of an Exhibitionist zu hören. Das 1998 postum veröffentlichte Album Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk von Jeff Buckley enthielt eine Coverversion von Back in NYC. Die schwedische Death-Metal-Band In Flames coverte 2003 Land of Confusion auf ihrer EP Trigger, ebenso Disturbed 2005 auf ihrem Album Ten Thousand Fists. Zudem nutzte die schwedische Discopop-Gruppe Alczar den Refrain des Songs für ihren Hit This is the World We Live In von 2004. 2009 sampelte der kanadische Rapper Classified No Reply At All für seine Single Anybody Listening.
Es existieren auch ganze Tribute-Alben, auf denen diverse, zumeist unbekanntere Musiker Genesis-Stücke coverten. Die bekanntesten dieser Kompilationen sind The River of Constant Change (1995, unter anderem mit Galahad und der deutschen Tributband Seconds Out), Suppers Ready (1995, mit Annie Haslam, Kevin Gilbert, Richard Sinclair) und The Fox Lies Down (1998, mit John Wetton, Daevid Allen, The Flower Kings). Auch Steve Hackett zollte 1996 auf seinem Album Genesis Revisited (US-Titel: Watcher of the Skies) mit den Gästen John Wetton, Bill Bruford, Ian McDonald, Paul Carrack, Chester Thompson, Tony Levin, Colin Blunstone und dem Royal Philharmonic Orchestra seiner ehemaligen Band Tribut.
Des Weiteren wurden den Genesis-Werken Interpretationen von Klassik über Jazz bis zu (Pseudo-)Gregorianischem Gesang zuteil. Auf Phil Collins? Live-Album A Hot Night In Paris von 1999 sind die Genesis-Stücke That?s All, Invisible Touch, Hold on My Heart und eine Endos Suite im Big Band-Gewand zu hören. Eine ebenfalls rein instrumentale Angelegenheit war das 2000 von Daryl Stuermer präsentierte Werk Another Side Of Genesis mit Smooth Jazz-Versionen einiger Hits der Band. Aus der Klassik-Abteilung können lediglich das von David Palmer (mittlerweile Dee Palmer) mit dem London Symphony Orchestra und Gastmusiker Steve Hackett eingespielte Album We Know What We Like (1987) sowie das ebenfalls von Hackett unterstützte zweiteilige Projekt Genesis for two Grand Pianos (2002/05) der Pianisten Yngve Guddal und Roger T. Matte überzeugen.
Der vor allem mit der Band Spock?s Beard in Erscheinung tretende kurzzeitige Session-Drummer von Genesis, Nick D?Virgilio, wagte sich 2008 in Zusammenarbeit mit Produzent Mark Hornsby an eine Neuinterpretation des kompletten Doppelalbums The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. Das Rewiring Genesis: A Tribute To The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway genannte Werk wurde von ausgesuchten Musikern aus Nashville mit starken Jazz-Anklängen eingespielt.
Als Vorreiter des Progressive Rock-Genres werden Genesis von zahlreichen der seit den frühen 1980er Jahren aufgetauchten Neo-Progrock-Gruppen als Einfluss genannt: Marillion, IQ, Dream Theater, Echolyn, Spock?s Beard, The Flower Kings, Änglagrd, Phish, Pendragon und Opeth, ebenso von älteren Bands wie Ange, Camel, Rush, Goblin, Kansas und Saga.
Tribute-Bands wie The Musical Box, ReGenesis oder Duke, führen regelmäßig meist älteres Genesis-Material aus der Peter-Gabriel-Ära auf.
Alben-Cover
Die Alben-Cover von Genesis reflektieren die Musik-Themen des jeweiligen Albums und sind meist aufwändig und komplex gestaltet. Das erste Album hatte ein ganz in schwarz gehaltenes Cover mit dem Schriftzug From Genesis to Revelation in goldener gebrochener Schriftart in der oberen linken Ecke. Der Name der Band wurde ansonsten nicht erwähnt. Das Cover dieses Albums änderte sich mit nahezu jeder der zahlreichen Wiederveröffentlichungen.
Die Cover der drei folgenden Alben stammten alle von Charisma-Records-Grafiker Paul Whitehead. Das Cover von Nursery Cryme war durch die Geschichte rund um den Song The Musical Box beeinflusst, das von Foxtrot zeigt eine weibliche Figur in einem roten Kleid mit dem Kopf eines Fuchses. Whitehead gab in einem Interview an, dass der Jimi-Hendrix-Song Foxy Lady ihn zu dieser Darstellung inspiriert hatte, die wiederum Gabriel zu einer seiner ersten Kostümierungen inspirierte.
Nachdem Whitehead nach Los Angeles gezogen war, verwendeten Genesis für das nächste Album Selling England by the Pound eine bereits bestehende Zeichnung von Betty Swanwick, zu der die Künstlerin lediglich noch den Rasenmäher hinzuzeichnete. Später engagierte die Band die renommierte Designer-Firma Hipgnosis, deren Künstler bereits die Cover für Dark Side of the Moon von Pink Floyd und Houses of the Holy von Led Zeppelin entworfen hatten. Das erste Hipgnosis-Album-Cover für Genesis wurde für The Lamb lies down on Broadway erstellt. Hier war zum ersten Mal auf einem Genesis-Album auch eine reale Person abgebildet, die laut dem Covertext den schlichten Namen Omar trug und den Protagonisten Rael darstellte.
Die übrigen Genesis-Alben-Cover der 1970er Jahre wurden von verschiedenen Hipgnosis-Künstlern, allen voran Colin Elgie, gestaltet. Auf dem Cover von A Trick of the Tail waren einige der Song-Charaktere abgebildet: Der Räuber von Robbery, Assault and Battery, der Squonk, das Untier vom Titelsong und von Ripples ein metaphorisches Bild eines alten Menschen, der in Erinnerungen an die Jugendzeit schwelgt. Duke wurde mit Karikaturen von Lionel Koechlin aus dessen Kinderbuch Lalphabet dAlbert illustriert. Abacab und Genesis gestaltete das Bill Smith Studio. Für das Cover des meistverkauften Genesis-Albums Invisible Touch zeichneten Assorted Images verantwortlich, die zuvor Cover für Duran Duran und Culture Club erstellt hatten. Das an Wind t Dance-Aquarell stammt von Felicity Bowers. Die Cover von Calling all Stations und der Kompilation Turn it on Again: The Hits wurden von Wherefore Art? entworfen.
Kritik
Aufgrund ihrer ?Progressive Rock?-Wurzeln und ihres Public School-Hintergrunds unterschieden sich Genesis von anderen Rock-Künstlern ihres Zeitalters wie Led Zeppelin oder Black Sabbath. Die meiste Kritik, der sich die Band in den 1970er Jahren ausgesetzt sah, richtete sich gegen den Progressive Rock im Allgemeinen, den viele als zu verkopft und protzig ablehnten. Fans konventionellerer Rockmusik und sogar etliche Genesis-Fans kamen zudem mit den künstlerisch-theatralischen Auftritten und den Maskeraden Gabriels nicht zurande. 1977 beschrieb ein Artikel des Q-Magazins eine Ray Lowry-Karikatur, in der Fans einem Auftritt der Band GENESNOOZE (engl. snooze = Nickerchen) ?entweder schlafend, sterbend oder komatös? beiwohnten.
Aber auch mit ihrem Wechsel von längeren und komplexeren zu überwiegend kompakteren und zugänglicheren Stücken konnten Genesis es vielen Kritikern nicht recht machen. Eine Plattenkritik zu And Then There Were Three äußerte sich folgendermaßen: ?Kurz gesagt ist dieses verachtenswerte Werk nichts weiter als der bleiche Schatten früherer Leistungen der Gruppe. Der Schaden ist nicht nur unabänderlich, er wurde weithin bekräftigt: ?And Then There Were Three? ist Genesis? erste Goldene Schallplatte in den USA.? Allerdings verließ die Band die Pfade des epischeren, ausgedehnten Rocks nie vollständig.
Vor allem Collins wurde häufig für Genesis? Wandel von einer Progrock-Gruppe zu einer Mainstream-Poprock-Band, deren Musik sich kaum von der des Solokünstlers Collins unterscheide, kritisiert. ?Ich denke nicht, dass wir uns selber verfälscht haben?, sagte Collins in einem Music Express-Interview. ?Irgendwann mal werde ich die Schuld für die Veränderung auf mich nehmen, ich denke aber nur, dass wir älter geworden sind und uns anderen musikalischen Dingen zugewendet haben.?Tatsächlich zeichneten alle drei Bandmitglieder seit 1978 gemeinsam für den Sound und die graduelle musikalische Weiterentwicklung verantwortlich, so dass die sich allein auf Collins richtende Kritik nur in Teilen zutrifft.



Genesis



Genesis live im Olympiastadion Berlin (2007)


Gründung
1967


Genre
Progressive Rock, Artrock, Pop


Website
http://www.genesis-music.com


Gründungsmitglieder


Gesang, Flöte
Peter Gabriel (bis 1975)


Gitarre
Anthony Phillips (bis 1970)


Keyboard
Tony Banks


Bass, Gitarre
Mike Rutherford


Schlagzeug
Chris Stewart (bis 1967)


Aktuelle Besetzung


Bass, Gitarre
Mike Rutherford


Keyboard
Tony Banks


Schlagzeug, Gesang
Phil Collins (1970?1996, seit 2006)


Ehemalige Mitglieder


Schlagzeug
John Silver (1968)


Schlagzeug
John Mayhew (1969?1970)


Gitarre
Steve Hackett (1970?1977)


Gesang
Ray Wilson (1997?1999)


Studio- und Live-Musiker


David Thomas, Mick Barnard, Bill Bruford, Chester Thompson, Daryl Stuermer, Nir Zidkyahu, Nick D?Virgilio, Anthony Drennan



Diskografie

Studioalben



Jahr
Titel
Chartpositionen
Anmerkungen


DE 21
AT 22
CH 23
UK 24
US 25


1969
From Genesis to Revelation
-
-
-
-
-



1970
Trespass
-
-
-
-
-



1971
Nursery Cryme
-
-
-
39
-
chartete erst bei Wiederveröffentlichung 1974


1972
Foxtrot
45
-
-
12
-



1973
Selling England by the Pound
-
-
-
3
-



1974
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
-
-
-
10
-



1976
A Trick of the Tail
43
-
-
3
-



1977
Wind 81 ? 83
-
-
-
-
-
mit sonst nicht auf CD erhältlichen Live-Versionen vom Turn It On Again-Medley und Firth of Fifth


1998
Archive I ? 1967?1975
75
-
-
35
-



1999
Turn It On Again ? The Hits
1
6
10
4
65



2000
Archive II ? 1976?1992
-
-
-
-
-



2004
The Platinum Collection
15
-
72
21
100



2007
Box Set 1976?1982
-
-
-
-
-



2007
Turn It On Again ? The Hits: The Tour Edition
9
-
19
5
132



2007
Box Set 1983?1998
57
-
-
-
-



2008
Box Set 1970?1975
22
-
-
-
-





Singles



Jahr
Single
D
A
CH
UK
US


02/1968
The Silent Sun/That?s Me
?
?
-
?
?


05/1968
A Winter?s Tale/One-Eyed Hound
?
?
?
-
?


06/1969
Where the Sour Turns to Sweet/In Hiding
-
?
?
?
?


05/1971
The Knife, Pt. 1/The Knife, Pt. 2
-
?
?
?
?


05/1972
Happy the Man/Seven Stones
?
?
?
?
?


1973
Watcher of the Skies/Willow Farm (US)
?
?
?
?
?


02/1974
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)/Twilight Alehouse
?
?
-
21
?


11/1974
Counting Out Time/Riding the Scree
?
?
?
?
?


04/1975
The Carpet Crawlers/Evil Jam (=The Waiting Room live)
?
?
?
?
?


1975
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway/Counting Out Time (US)
?
?
?
?
?


1976
A Trick of the Tail/Ripples
?
?
-
?
?


1976
Ripples/Entangled (US)
?
?
?
?
?


1977
Your Own Special Way/Its Yourself
?
?
-
43
62


1977
Spot the Pigeon EP
?
?
?
14
?


1978
Follow You, Follow Me/Ballad of Big
8
15
6
7
23


1978
Many Too Many/The Day the Light Went Out/Vancouver
41
-
-
43
?


1978
Go West Young Man (=Deep in the Motherlode)/Scenes From a Night?s Dream (US)
?
?
?
?
?


1980
Turn It on Again/Behind the Lines, Pt. 2
66
?
?
8
58


1980
Duchess/Open Door
?
?
?
46
?


1980
Misunderstanding/Evidence Of Autumn
?
?
?
42
14


1981
Abacab/Another Record
28
?
?
9
26


1981
Keep It Dark/Naminanu
?
?
?
33
?


1981
No Reply at All/Me and Sarah Jane (US)
?
?
?
?
29


1982
Man on the Corner/Submarine
?
?
?
41
40


1982
3 x 3 EP
36
?
?
10
32


1982
Paperlate/Turn It On Again (Live)/You Might Recall (US)
-
?
?
-
-


1983
Mama/Its Gonna Get Better
4
10
2
4
73


1983
That?s All/Taking It All Too Hard
27
19
15
16
6


1984
Illegal Alien/Turn It On Again (Live, mit Medley)
?
?
?
46
44


1984
Taking It All Too Hard/Silver Rainbow (US)
?
?
?
?
50


1986
Invisible Touch/The Last Domino (=Domino, Pt. 2)
16
?
13
15
1


1986
In Too Deep/Do the Neurotic
55
?
?
19
3


1986
Land of Confusion/Feeding the Fire
7
27
8
14
4


1987
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (Edit)/In the Glow of the Night (=Domino, Pt. 1)
23
?
?
18
3


1987
Throwing It All Away/Id Rather Be You
?
?
?
22
4


1991
No Son of Mine/Living Forever
3
7
8
6
12


1991
I Can?t Dance/On the Shoreline
4
2
8
7
7


1992
Hold on My Heart/Way of the World
45
?
?
16
12


1991
Jesus He Knows Me/Hearts On Fire
13
26
?
20
23


1992
Invisible Touch (Live)/Abacab (Live)/The Brazilian (Live)
?
?
?
7
?


1992
Never a Time/Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (Live)/Invisible Touch (Live) (US)
56
?
?
?
21


1993
Tell Me Why/Dreaming While You Sleep
51
?
?
40
?


1997
Congo/Papa He Said/Banjo Man
31
35
32
29
?


1997
Shipwrecked/No Son Of Mine (Live, akustisch)/Lover?s Leap (Live, akustisch)/Turn It On Again (Live, akustisch)
82
?
?
54
?


1997
Not About Us/Anything Now/Sign Your Life Away/Run Out Of Time
81
?
?
66
?


1999
The Carpet Crawlers 1999/Turn it on Again/Follow You Follow Me
72
?
?
?
?




VHS-Videos



Jahr
Titel
Chartpositionen
Anmerkungen


DE 21
AT 22
CH 23
UK 24
US 25


1982
Three Sides Live
-
-
-
-
-



1987
Visible Touch
-
-
-
-
-
siehe The Video Show-DVD


1988
Videos Volume I
-
-
-
-
-
siehe The Video Show-DVD


1988
Invisible Touch Tour
-
-
-
-
-
siehe Live At Wembley Stadium-DVD


1988
Videos Volume II
-
-
-
-
-
siehe The Video Show-DVD


1991
Genesis A History
-
-
-
-
-



1994
The Way We Walk
-
-
-
-
-
siehe The Way We Walk-DVD




DVDs



Jahr
Titel
Chartpositionen
Anmerkungen


DE 21
AT 22
CH 23
UK 24
US 25


2001
The Way We Walk ? Live In Concert
-
-
-
-
-



2001
The Genesis Songbook
-
-
-
-
-



2003
Live At Wembley Stadium
93
-
-
-
-



2004
The Video Show
-
-
-
-
-



2008
When in Rome 2007
1
-
-
-
-





Preise

Grammy Awards

Auszeichnungen

1988: Bestes Konzept-Musikvideo (Land of Confusion, 1986)


Nominierungen

1985:

Beste Darbietung eines Duos oder einer Gruppe mit Gesang ? Rock (Genesis, 1983)
Beste Instrumentaldarbietung ? Rock (Second Home by the Sea, 1983)


1987: Beste Instrumentaldarbietung ? Pop (The Brazilian, 1986)
1993: Beste Darbietung eines Duos oder einer Gruppe mit Gesang ? Pop (I Can?t Dance, 1991)


American Music Awards

Auszeichnungen

1993: Beste Gruppe (Pop/Rock) (We Can?t Dance, 1991)


Nominierungen

1987: Beste Gruppe (Pop/Rock) (Invisible Touch, 1986)
1993:

Bestes Album (zeitgenössisch) (We Can?t Dance, 1991)
Bester Künstler (zeitgenössisch) (We Can?t Dance, 1991)




Siehe auch

Tribute-Band The Musical Box


Literatur

Chris Welch: Genesis ? The Complete Guide To Their Music.
Paul Russell: Genesis ? Play Me My Song. A Live Guide 1969 to 1975.
Dave Thompson: Turn It on Again: Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Genesis.
Alan Hewitt: Opening the Musical Box ? A Genesis Chronicle.
Armando Gallo: Genesis. 1981, ISBN 3-9800216-0-2 (engl. Original: Genesis ? The Evolution of A Rock Band. 1979.)
Dave Bowler, Bryan Dray: Genesis: Die Biographie.
Robin Platts: Genesis ? Inside & Out (1967?2000).
Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford: Genesis. Chapter and Verse (Weidenfeld and Nicholson), 2007, ISBN 0297844342


Weblinks
� Commons: Genesis ? Bilder, Videos und Audiodateien

Offizielle Internetpräsenz der Band (englisch)
Offizielle deutsche Internetpräsenz der Band
Deutscher Genesis Fanclub IT
Links zum Thema Genesis im Open Directory Project


Hörbeispiele

Ausschnitte aus Titeln von Genesis im MP3-Format
Ausschnitte aus Titeln von Genesis im MP3-Format

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