Genesis Free CD in the Sunday Mail Paper UK

Genesis Free Mail On Sunday CD
is clever in that as well as commercial tracks
like 'Follow You Follow Me (in a New Studio Mix , first time out)
they have
a 1973 track with Peter
in a New Studio Mix ( from a CD out in Sept)
'The Cinema Show' 10:49 time.



(from left, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Phil Collins,
Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford)
pictured in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1975

Many tracks taken from their new 3 DVD set Live Final in Rome.

Los Endos Live on this free CD (on the Live 2 CD & DVD set as well)
is great as both Phil and Chester play Snares fast towards
the end
with Tony Banks on a Voice Choir Keyboard.


And the Home By The Sea Live 2007 Rome track
is 11:57 with Daryl Stuermer on 2nd Lead Guitar.


So on this Free CD you get
3 New Studio mixes and full lentgh Live tracks.

That 1973 CD is for sale on some sites for $218
so the New Studio Mix ' Selling The Pound CD'
is needed.
Making any old over priced 16-bit CD no good at all.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1021727/Genesis-The-special-chemistry-awesome-supergroup.html



These 24bit Free CD's in this Power Paper
are very clever
it means now many more will buy the DVD set
and in Sept the release of a 24-bit New Studio Mix 1973 CD.


The Paper sold out in many stores
just like when Prince did his Free CD.

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Outtasight
Colin.

Hi Colin,

I had a chance to see and hear Genesis on the 11th of June 2007 in my country (Finland) where the European tour started. A terrific show. The members of Genesis had aged a bit, but were still musically shining. I read that Phil Collins had to work quite hard getting back in shape because he hadn't played drums on a consistant basis for a numbers of years. Yesterday I bought the 3dvd -package (When In Rome), which I've only watched partially so far because there is over five hours of material on the three discs. Highly recommended. Here's a review that is quite comprehensive:

Kind regards,
Anders
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Excellent concert DVD at a good price, 28 May 2008
By Dr. M. Cinnirella "Marco Cinnirella" (Surrey UK) - See all my reviews


This is an excellent, well-priced concert DVD package. You get the entire Rome concert from the 2007 Genesis 'Turn it on again' tour, spread across 2 discs, along with a third disc containing a 1 hour and 50 minute long documentary about the tour. The package is nicely presented in recycled card and plastic with a good booklet containing concert photos. Edited versions of both the concert and documentary have been shown on BBC4 recently, but the DVD seems a lot better. From a technical point of view, the audio quality is good on a surround system - crisp, and with the mix giving a good sense of what it was like at the shows (I was at Twickernham). If I was nit-picking I would say the surround mixing could have been slightly better (sorry Nick) in that the rear channels are maybe a little too loud, but overall the sound quality is great, and you can have fun annoying the neighbours with it on a loud surround system with a decent sub. The picture is crystal clear - I am guessing it was shot on high def cameras, and it shows. The days of those grainy old 70s,80s and early 90s concert videos are, thankfully, long-gone, and even the darkest shots are vibrant and detailed.

The direction, on the live material, is pretty good. Most of the time the camera is right where you would want it to be. There aren't any options to choose alternate cameras - you need to dig out earlier Genesis DVDs for that, but they had so many cameras in use that it doesn't really matter. There are some great shots of the crowd and venue, so you get a feel for the scale of the event.

On the whole the boys played well that night in Rome - of course, those who were there or who are die-hard fans will know that some mistakes (e.g. on firth of Fifth) have been 'fixed' in post-production, presumably by taking audio from other shows that had been recorded.

The track list for the show included something for everyone, although most Genesis fans have their favourite eras, and some only like the early stuff so groaned at the inclusion of tracks like Invisible Touch. But the older material is generally played really well, and with a sense of affection and respect for it, even if a lot of the songs have had to be taken down a key (or more) to compensate for the ageing of Phil's voice. And did Phil realise how, on this tour, he made our hearts skip a beat in the spiel before Carpet Crawlers when he said he wanted to introduce the audience to two members who had been in the band a long time - was I the only one that night at Twickers hoping that Steve and Peter would walk out onto the stage at that point?

...the crowd were...interesting...quite into the music, but not as ecstatic as I might have predicted, maybe because it was a free concert. They certainly weren't as vocal or emotionally charged as the south american crowd on Rush's live DVD shot in Rio...

The documentary is OK - an interesting insight into how much work goes into a major stadium tour, but I guess of more interest for the die hard fan.

So, in conclusion - this is a terrific live DVD. If you were hoping for the 2007 incarnation of Genesis to give us 'Seconds Out' part two, you will be disappointed. But if you are open-minded about Genesis and like them through all of their eras and incarnations, you should like this DVD. if you were at the 2007 shows and enjoyed them, then this is a terrific souvenir - hell, they even scanned the tour programme for you and put it on the DVD as an extra...