Genesis - Studio Improvisation 1973 - unreleased

Officially unreleased little jamming during the "Selling England By The Pound" sessions. Joined with some nice, matching pictures.

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Music

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• Genesis
• rare
• demo
• improvisation

[mwol2011]

@PeterMayer: We will never know, I'm afraid. :)

[athrough0]

The beats for each bar are split up 4 + 3 + 2 + 4 + 3, with the occasional 4 + 4 +3 bar, yet it sounds so natural. How does Rutherford come up with these riffs? (He's the one behind the riffs for the 7/8 sections of Cinema Show and Back in NYC, too).

[jensen91865]

Sounds better when done with an electric guitar and keyboard harmony than an a sitar, surprisingly Simon Phillips played the same drum pattern Phil Collins did here

[cramlacy]

The riff here was resurrected for Mike's song ''Compression'' that featured as a B Side to the song ''Working In Line''. from the ''Smallcreep's Day'' album. It was the closing riff to the song and fades after about a minute and a half. Great riff.

[jensen91865]

In the summer of 1973 Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Anthony Phillips did a session together and made the song "Silver Song" and "Only Your Love" Its possible "More Fool Me" came out of this session. Another song Peter Gabriel wrote "Deja Vu" was written during this session but was never put on the album until 1996 when Steve Hackett finished it on Steve's Genesis Revisited album

[jensen91865]

This is the ending section of Mike Rutherford's song "Compression". It's the B-side off his 1980 Smallcreep's Day album. I believe Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford had been workiing on the song since Anthony played keyboards on Smallcreep's Day as well. Who knows. it could have been from their days when Mike and Ant were in the band Anon. It's interesting to hear what Steve, Tony and Phil did with the song. In the end it never got on SEBTP or Smallcreep's Day.

[MobiusRoom]

@Hickers75 ye this does have mahavishnu influence for sure!

[twostikks1]

@windwardpro Look again, I believe someone posted a pretty clean version of "Compression" ...

[wildj611]

Can anyone hear Tony playing here? i think I can hear a distant mellatron/keyboard but I'm not sure. Phil is on drums(obviously) and I can hear Peter on the flute

[wildj611]

That's Mike on Sitar and Steve on guitar. You can tell it's Steve because he plays in that "fly on the windshield" style and Mike was always very good at coming up with catchy patterns

[zalapski]

I think what we're listening to here might just be the very early attempts at what later becomes an intro to "broadway melody of 1974" from Lamb Lies down on Broadway. Hackett's sitar like guitar lines and Collins crashing drums are very simliar in that piece.