Genesis Piper Club Rome 18 April 1972

This is the earliest known footage of a live Genesis concert. The original TV report had the film all mixed up, so I've tried to put it in the right order, matched up with the audio from the concert.

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• Genesis

[danmist]

Actually the Belgium TV footage was earlier in Jan/Feb 72.

[doublebassy]

But that was not a live concert.

[MargusKiistheCritic]

This is not the earliest footage of Genesis, because Peter is already wearing his famous "anti-mohawk" haircut and strange make-up here. The Belgian TV show also uploaded to Youtube is earlier, there Peter is wearing normal haircut and no special make-up.

[doublebassy]

The Belgian TV show is not a live concert. It's recorded in a studio.

[RAinteractive]

We saw them about six months after this footage was shot at Worthing, West Sussex. Tickets 60p.

A friend and myself chatted to Peter Gabriel outside the venue thinking he was one of the audience - the most stunning man we'd ever seen. Suddenly he was on stage - the rest is history AND he still owes me sixpence for the phone booth !

[Aljester]

great editing of fine., rare and most precious images! thanx so much for sharing! an extraordinary testimony bearing witness of pure genius!

[1dgkonig]

peter Gabriel plays his own bass drum? wow.

[borellik]

@mondogio Vieni il prossimo 18 aprile al Piper, celebreremo il quarantennale di quella data storica con un nostro concerto e con ospiti internazionali (John Hackett & Marco Lo Muscio). Tutte le info sul nostro sito dancingknightsdotcom oppure trovi l'evento su Facebook alla nostra pagina Dancing Knights

[borellik]

On the next April 18, 2012, at the same roman venue Piper Club, we will be celebrating 40 years from that very first Genesis concert in Rome.

See all info at our website dancingknightsdotcom

The event is on Facebook at our page Dancing Knights.

Hope to see all of you there!!!

[rocker70sman]

This is such great footage i can't get enough of this stuff from one of my favorite bands at their primes!! Does anyone know if there is any audio recording of this show anywhere?? I think this is one of the best sounding performances of them doing stagnation i've ever heard!! So would love to get my hands on this recording :) rock on genesis fans

[rocker70sman]

@tie32101 The first song is called "Happy the Man"

[tie32101]

Whats the first song?

[chester57ify]

I went to 3 of their concerts at the beginning of the 70s, I was just a teenager. Their standards live were very very high. They were also friendly people (they weren't superstars at the time, ok): I was lucky enough to be introduced to them by a common friend. Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins were the nicest, as they are very gregarious. I was also very impressed by Peter's sense of humour, you could tell he was a very bright man. But the other 3, though quieter, were nice blokes as well.

[dadogranata1]

@mondogio Non immagini quanto ti invidio....spero in una reunion!!!! Spenderei tutti i miei risparmi!!!

[PULCE2304]

bello ... !