Peter Gabriel as lead vocalist 1967-1975

"I have collected Genesis since the late 1980's and have steadily acquired a reasonable collection of unofficial recordings, in due course I hope to comment on every item on this page." Paul

From One Fan To All Others

Contains material dating from BBC studio tracks from 1970 to a live performance to 'The Lamb' from 1974

UNRELEASED LIVE COLLECTION , THE

Contains material dating from BBC studio tracks from 1970 to a live performance to 'The Lamb' from 1974. 'Stagnation' is the rare 'Treasure Trove' version which features extra end lyrics

Join with me, upon the quest for gold

There's enough to make us all feel good

Join with me, we'll share the treasure trove

Seems to me like any other crowd.

HAPPY THE MAN

Contains material dating from BBC studio tracks from 1970 to a live track from 'The Lamb' from 1974. The track 'Mary, Mary' has (more or less)been identified as being the work of an American group called Genesis

BESIDES THE SILENT MIRROR

This recording contains the only known live recording of 'The Light', there gas been a lot of discussion about the exact date this gig was performed, the sleeve says 7th March 1971 but there is some evidence to suggest other dates in 1971. The recording is far from perfect but the atmosphere is all there, Peter talks in a halting French/English mix and the stories are more or less intact, a real gem for collectors of the band.

Transcript of spoken words (wip)

(Small but appreciative audience cheer and clap) PG: "Merci, bonsoir Madam, Monsieur, ah, ah [PG laughs] (??) Francais (audience laugh), um, this is a number about a man who eats his fingernails, I think, Happy The Man."

Music: Happy The Man (with alternate lyrics)

"PG: "This next one is about a man who ate more cheese and onion potato crisps than any other man, this made him exceeding-exceedingly fat, um, (PGlaughs) anyway he was paid a large amount of money by the Smiths Crisp Company, and he used this to built an air raid shelter beneath the ground, er, this he filled with onions to take away his underarm odours, and also with tomato sauce in which he used to take his morning bath (audience laughs). He lived in this (?) for five years and accumulated a great deal of money, after five years he crawled up to the top again to discover that the bomb had dropped (PG makes a bomb exploding noise) and all the little people who had been running around before were lying flat on the ground. So he went for a walk with his dog. This is called Stagnation and was written for people with er bad breath.

Music: Stagnation

PG: "Merci. This next one is about a light; a lumiere, from the left hand nostil, (de la may?) er, it is excreted you know, [PG makes an excretion noise] out of his left nostril [audience laugh] spreading germs all around. This is called the interlude. [the sound equipment This is called, hopefully The Light. [quietly in the background you can hear PG say to someone "This is it"] This is supposed to be er funny so we hope you are enjoying it, er. La Lumiere. PC?: 1-2-3-4"

Music: The Light (unique live recording)

PG: "[?] La Lumiere"

STUDIO

Studio recordings from 1973

TANGO

Live 1972 and 1973

RECORDED LIVE IN BASEL

Watford Technical College 4 March 1972

ROMA, 18 APRILE 1972

A real gem of a recording, features a wonderful drum solo by PC during a technical fault

IN THE BEGINNING VOL 1

IN THE BEGINNING VOL 2

In The Beginning Vol.3

Note: this album has a lot of indistinct talking included as well as count ins from the band (both of which I have not timed) I will mention the bits that I can make out, but otherwise I will mark the section with: [chat]

Track names are as listed on back of CD sleeve, but track listing is corrected, and music is timed.

Key: > track ends suddenly < track starts suddenly [sic] spelling is correct

1. Carpet Crawlers - Demo Take #1 section from start to "And the wise and fool >" ("ish virgins giggle") 2:48
1a. Carpet Crawlers - Demo Take #2 section from ("...chambers said") < "to be, Like the forest fight for sunlight..." to end 3:13
2. Carpet Crawlers - Demo Take #3 in full with longer unedited ending than album 5:27
3. Carpet Crawlers - Demo Take #4 in full with detail differences 5:06
4. I Know What I Like - Intro the "cosmic lawnmower" sound ! 2:44
5. The Waiting Room - Demo is this a studio track ? It could be live? 3:55
6. The Cinema Show - Studio Take #1 < starts in instrumental section and quickly faded just before vocal, 1:48 (cuts off at equivalent of 4:41on remaster cd) time includes different 2 second section at end
7. The Cinema Show - Studio Take #2 < starts in instrumental section (as above) and includes vocal section, cut > just after vocals 2:23 cuts off at equivalent of 5:26 on remaster cd)
8. The Waiting Room - Sound Effects this is very odd, it consists of a person (possibly PG) experimenting with some kind of device that makes a repeated sawing sound then a fizzing sound effect, there are a few words spoken and at one point the person bursts out laughing and leaves the room! What the device is, I don't know. there are a few sessions of this that last for 5:03
9. Lillywhite Lilith - Demo [sic] track as album faded at 2:42
10. The Waiting Room - Demo faded up, but as album 5:11
11. Anyway - Demo track as album till 3:08 continues into
12. The Supernatural Anaesthetist - Demo w. Phil on vocals track as album 2:50
13. The Lamia - Demo track as album 6:52
14. Riding The Scree - Demo count in from Phil, track as album but with complete unedited ending 4:09 (including count in 4:11)
15. Silver Song, Demo w. Phil on vocals has weird echo especially on vocals, no keyboard solo at end 4:09

In The Beginning Vol.4

Track names are as listed on back of CD sleeve, but track listing is corrected, and music is timed.

Key: > track ends suddenly < track starts suddenly [sic] spelling is correct

1. Happy The Man - Demo faded up just as "aaahhs" at the start end, very good version 2:43
2. Silver Song (Demo w.Phil on vocals) very good version 4:10
3. Only Your Love (Demo w.Phil on voclas) [sic] this is the "finished" version 2:55
4. Studio Improvisation (instrumental) unreleased ensemble workout gem 5:57
5. Studio Improvisation drums and odd noise, tiny bit of guitar at end 0:19
6. The Battle Of Epping Forest (Instrumental studio take, intro + part 1) does not fade out at start as album, band stop after few bars of where the vocals would be, (tempo does not speed up) no vocals, wonderful vibe! [chat] 2:38
7. The Battle Of Epping Forest (Instrumental studio take, part 2) Phil counts in "1-2, 1-2-3-4" band start playing where album lyrics start (at album tempo) Peter sings nonsense lyrics, faded just after album version gets to "just like any picnic" 2:49
8. The Battle Of Epping Forest (Instrumental studio take, part 3) rough improvisation on "They called me the Reverend" section, nonsense lyrics, Peter asks question, Tony plays 2 chords for him 5:33
9. The Battle Of Epping Forest (Instrumental studio take, part 4) Phil counts in "a-1-2-3-4"repeating theme before "Reverend" section, Peter starts nonsense lyrics about half way through, band stop at 6:18
10. The Battle Of Epping Forest (Instrumental studio take) Phil counts in "1-2-3-4" nonsense lyrics, as above but after 34 sec they go into the "Reverend" section till "Hands were them fit to recieve, recieve alms" band stop after 3:02
11. The Cinema Show (fast instrumental take) count in "1-2-3-4" fast exciting burst of track 0:26
12. The Cinema Show (instrumental studio session) [includes next 3 tracks] count in "1-2-3" 0:30 sec of track [start equivalent of 5:23 on remaster] then stop, Phil can be heard in the background "da da da-ing" and quietly marking time to this tune, somebody says "Go again [?]" and we go into track 13
13. The Cinema Show count in "1-2-3" as above 1:12
14. The Cinema Show Peter quietly sings nonsense phrases with Tony playing chords and Mike chipping in with a bit of bass, they stop and Peter says Peter: "Can you do them last chords again, how many were there? Six of them" Tony plays chords a couple of times Peter sings to them 1:18
15. The Cinema Show Phil counts in "2-3-4"nonsense lyrics 1:49
16. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (studio takes) [includes next 2 tracks] Steve does dramatic guitar solo, PC drums, MR bass [chat] 0:52
17. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight as above but end 0:09 sec section of solo, Phil in background sings what he wants the guitar part to sound like
18. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight as above with count in 0:09 sec, after Steve twiddles away for a few seconds then there is 9 sec of a guitar groove >
19. The Battle Of Epping Forest (studio take part 1 & 2) count in "1-2-3-4" band start at "Picnic" section and continues to "Hands were fit to recieve, recieve alms" part > 4:05
20. The Last Time (Jagger/Richards) > Peter sings in high voice! 1:01 [chat]
21. You Really Got Me (Davies) > Peter sings wildly, Steve tries guitar solo which goes out of control, everyone laughs 0:52
22. The Battle Of Epping Forest (intrumental studio take part 2 & 3) count in "1-2-3-2-3-3" 0:45
23. The Battle Of Epping Forest (slow instrumental version, intro + part 1) count in "1-2-3-4" starting drum roll with marching sounds into vocal section (no vocals) tempo not speeded up 1:41
24. The Battle Of Epping Forest (instrumental studio takes; 2 tryouts + part 3 outro) keyboard section tryouts: 1st lasts 0:08 sec. 2nd: count in "3-4" lasts 0:55 sec includes drums >
25. The Battle Of Epping Forest (several insrumental takes) [includes next 8 tracks] count in "1-2-3-4" 1st lasts 0:16 sec, count in "3-4" 2nd lasts 1:02 then 0:02 sec of guitar >
26. The Battle Of Epping Forest count in "1-2-3-4-1-2-3" 1:48
27. The Battle Of Epping Forest count in "1-2-3-4-5-6" nonsense lyrics, Phil plays a drum part which causes the others to stop Peter says "Keep it regular" 0:34
28. The Battle Of Epping Forest count in "1-2-3-2-3-3" nonsense lyrics 0:24, the band talk after this segment, Phil has played a drum part which is causing the others trouble, conversation is roughly thus: Phil: "Can you not do that?" ?:"But then I'm trying to keep a regular tempo" Phil: "I know but if it naturaly falls to that [it suggests that it's?] too fast at the moment, it might be at the same speed now but it sounds horrible that fast!" ?: "Well we've gotta get [something sorted] I think, before tempers flare" Phil: "I agree" (others agree) ["It's no good going ?] like that" (Phil plays a few beats) ["and sort of?] making it out of time, lay back, you know, relax a bit, if it falls back into that time let it do it. Alright, I, don't tell me it should be in that tempo, I know!" ?: "Well how we gonna do it?" Phil: "I don't know [?] I just think if it falls back a bit let it fall back [? noticable?] ?: "Alright, all I'm worried about [?"] >
29. The Battle Of Epping Forest as above with flute leading into count in "1-2-3-2-3-3" 0:38 of track the band still have the same problems with Phils drumming and stop again, but they seem to be a lot calmer [indistinct chat as below] Mike?: ["?] made contact yet, ? ..go right from the beginning" Mike? "..the bit before was much better because it's got a bit more detail in fact than the earlier bit"
30. The Battle Of Epping Forest count in "1-2-3-4" 1:22 [chat, Phil larks about] ?: "Clap, oh clapping, I love that" Phil: Yes, I know (starts la,la,la-ing "La, la, la, la, la, la America" and clapping.) [Interesting note considering "I Know What I Like" has lots of la, la-ing in it] Mike?: ["?] like that" [more indistinct chat]
31. The Battle Of Epping Forest end section of song 1:34
32. The Battle Of Epping Forest count "1-2-3-2-3-3" 0:37 [chat] Phil: "Where we going from?" Tony?: "Going right back to" (plays "picnic" section on keyboards)
33. The Battle Of Epping Forest count in "1-2-3-4" end section, Tony plays notes much too high, corrects himself 1:08
34. I Know What I Like (studio take, no lyrics) starts with an electronic twang sound, nonsense lyrics [but lyrics "I know what I like, and I like what I know" is in this early version] at 2:40 band nearly stop but somebody says [Steve?:] "Keep going, I want to get a feel of it [for the stage ?"] band stop at 3:15 [chat] ?: "Er..about two and a half minutes" [band talk about mike levels] then there is 0:04 second burst of twang sound from "I Know..."> then there is a count in "2-3" which is stopped by one of band "Whoa, sorry, sorry" [indistinct chat]
35. I Know What I Like (take 2) count in "1-2-3-4" electronic twang Peter starts singing "Me, I'm just a lawn mower you can tell me by the way I walk" then goes back to nonsense lyrics 3:39
36. The Cinema Show (studio take, no lyrics) faded up before Peter starts nonsense lyrics, faded out 3:07

IN THE BEGINNING VOL.5

Track names are as listed on back of CD sleeve, but track listing is corrected, and music is timed.

Key: > track ends suddenly < track starts suddenly [sic] spelling is correct

1. Drum Solo faded up, Phil at his drumkit, no songs Genesis or otherwise are recognisable 4:51
2. Drum Solo Phil at his drumkit, no songs Genesis or otherwise are recognisable 3:04
3. Firth Of Fifth (1) Instrumental Take, nice guitar (0:13-4:59) count in "1-2-3-4" section leading up to guitar solo, not the same as remaster, band play up to "leads his flock away" (no vocals) and stop 4:46 [chat, Phil can be heard in background marking time and "da-da-ing" a piece seemingly at Steve who plays what he hears]
3a.Firth Of Fifth (2) Faster Version (5:16- 10:09) count in "1-2-3-4" as above, another variation on solo, Tony plays lovely light ending 4:53 [chat]
3b.The Cinema Show Rehearsal (10:19-11:06) count in "1-2-3-4" [starts at equivalent of 5:23 on remaster] > after 0:47 [chat]
3c.After The Ordeal Fast Version (11:22-15:39) wonderful complete fast alternate take, with glorious electric guitar from Steve!!! 4:17
3d. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (1) Various Piano & Vocal Takes [includes next 2 tracks] (15:56-:17:42) Peter says "1-2, 1-2, 1" Tony plays a piano note, then starts playing unfamiliar introduction, Peter sings sad sounding nonsense lyrics to song > 1:46
4. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (0:03-2:16) as above (piano and vocal only) sudden end > 2:13, after Peter suddenly says "O.K.! This is it, I hope" and we go into the next take
4a. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (2:21-5:34) as above (piano and vocal only) but with a lot more energy, it is apparent that Tony replays sections that Peter does not get quite right without stopping the song, it gives an idea of how well they worked together 3:13
4b. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (2) Vocals, Organ, Drums, Bass (5:43-7:19) count in "3-4" nonsense lyrics, very punchy interpretation, Peter really goes for it but band stop playing after 1:36 [chat]
5. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (3) Whole Ensemble [includes next track] (0:01-0:11) delicate guitar intro but others fail to come in on time 0:10 [chat] "Sorry, I thought [.....?], Try again"
5a. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (0:18-2:26) they try again, band come in at the right time with a count in "3-4" this sounds much as the album but the vocals are still nonsense, band stop after 2:18
6. The Battle Of Epping Forest 5 Instrumental Rehearsal Takes (*note* some confusion over which takes make up the five, I have taken it literally so the next four tracks are included under this title, even though it makes little sense) (0:03-1:32) count in "1-2-3-4" the marching introduction into where vocals would be, band stop after 1:29
6a. The Battle Of Epping Forest (1:34-7:18) continuing after above with count in "1-2-3-4" (no vocals) through to "To save my steeple, ..." where it is quickly faded out 5:44 [chat] Mike? says "Lets [try?] it, before we start" and beats out a rhythm on a microphone while "da-la-ing" the tune, then he says to Phil "Come on, lets try it"
7. The Battle Of Epping Forest (0:14-7:51) Phil drums what he hears then band join in, no vocals, repeating theme on marching introducton, gets quite spirited, band stop after 7:37 [chat] what caused the band to stop seems faintly ridiculous, somebody seems to have wandered into the studio to ask for directions! Mike: No, [it's in?] another, [room?] across the road, [embarrased laugh from visitor] it's alright." they pause then get back to business Mike: "There is two kind of ways you can pull out of that bit, one is like, one is...." >
7a. The Battle Of Epping Forest (8:12-8:46) count in "1-2-1-2-3-4" as above band stop after 0:34 [chat] Mike: ["? now with that 4th time?] now the other one [....?"]
7b. The Battle Of Epping Forest (8:54-9:07) count in "1-2-3-4" as above band stop after 0:13
7c. The Battle Of Epping Forest Instrumental Rehearsal Takes (see note on track 6. includes next 2 tracks) (9:08-10:49) count in "3-4" as above, [chat] after band stop playing after 0:41 there are small bursts of "clean" and distorted electric guitar and organ playing bits of song, and chat
7d. The Battle Of Epping Forest (12:34-13:03) count in "1-2-3-4" as above but band seem to be experimenting with different "sound" 0:29 chat after: ?: "Yeah might be one way of doing it" [lots of chat, Mike says to someone a couple of times "you're either with us or against us" somebody proposes alternate way to do Epping Forest that "Sounds funny" and thumps his fingers on the microphone to mark time while "da-da-ing" Tony chips in and plays an extra gliss on the organ to same tune]
7e. The Battle Of Epping Forest (?) (14:07-14:51) count in "1-2-3-4" weird drum, bass and organ bit that may or may not have been rehearsed for Epping Forest although there does not seem to be a recording break between the preceeding chat and this track, could just be a jam session? > 0:44 [chat]
7f. The Battle Of Epping Forest (no specific title since Peter sings on this track and also track 8.and 8a. so they are not "Instrumental Rehearsal Takes) (15:01-15:30) Peter is back singing nonsense 0:29 [lots of chat]
7g. The Battle Of Epping Forest (16:19-16:24) count in "3-4" quick burst 0:05
7h. The Battle Of Epping Forest (16:25-16:30) count in "3-4" quick burst 0:05
7i. The Battle Of Epping Forest (16:32-16:40) count in "2-3-4" quick burst 0:08 [chat]
8. The Battle Of Epping Forest (0:08-1:21) count in "1-2-3-4" fun with nonsense lyrics 1:13, after band chat and experiment with the ending of a bass part, then Mike? says "Start again"
8a.The Battle Of Epping Forest (2:31-4:48) more fun with nonsense lyrics 2:17
9. The Cinema Show Rehearsals (0:00-1:08) [chat] < sudden start, nonsense lyrics, music is quiet, then there are noises like someone is moving the microphone to a better position to record the band, and quality becomes better at 0:33, band start to talk as they play then at 1:03 > < sudden cut to 0:05 guitar ending a song, no idea if it is Cinema Show 1:08 (both parts)