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Genesis Live 1973-2007 (8 CD/3 DVD)

Genesis - Genesis Live 1973-2007 (8 CD/3 DVD) Audio CD

A fair review of the Genesis "Genesis Live 1973-2007 (8 CD/3 DVD)" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Genesis reviews here, or go back to the Genesis tabs.

Band: Genesis
Title: Genesis Live 1973-2007 (8 CD/3 DVD)
Rating:

Release Date: 2009-09-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Watcher Of The Skies 2: Get 'Em Out By Friday 3: The Return Of The Giant Hogweed 4: The Musical Box 5: The Knife 6: Back In N.Y.C. 7: Fly On A Windshield 8: Broadway Melody of 1974 9: Anyway 10: The Chamber Of 32 Doors 11: Watcher Of The Skies (5.1 Surround) 12: Get 'Em Out By Friday (5.1 Surround) 13: The Return Of The Giant Hogweed (5.1 Surround) 14: The Musical Box (5.1 Surround) 15: The Knife (5.1 Surround) 16: Back In N.Y.C. (5.1 Surround) 17: Fly On A Windshield (5.1 Surround) 18: Broadway Melody of 1974 (5.1 Surround) 19: Anyway (5.1 Surround) 20: The Chamber Of 32 Doors (5.1 Surround) 21: Squonk 22: The Carpet Crawl 23: Robbery, Assault & Battery 24: Afterglow 25: Firth Of Fifth 26: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 27: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 28: The Musical Box 29: Supper's Ready 30: The Cinema Show 31: Dance On A Volcano 32: Los Endos 33: Squonk (5.1 Surround) 34: The Carpet Crawl (5.1 Surround) 35: Robbery, Assault & Battery (5.1 Surround) 36: Afterglow (5.1 Surround) 37: Firth Of Fifth (5.1 Surround) 38: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (5.1 Surround) 39: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (5.1 Surround) 40: The Musical Box (5.1 Surround) 41: Supper's Ready (5.1 Surround) 42: The Cinema Show (5.1 Surround) 43: Dance On A Volcano (5.1 Surround) 44: Los Endos (5.1 Surround) 45: Turn It On Again 46: Dodo 47: Abacab 48: Behind The Lines 49: Duchess 50: Me & Sarah Jane 51: Follow You Follow Me 52: Misunderstanding 53: In The Cage (Medley-Cinema Show/The colony Of Slippermen) 54: Afterglow 55: One For The Vine 56: The Fountain Of Salmacis 57: It/Watcher Of The Skies 58: Land Of Confusion 59: No Son Of Mine 60: Driving The Last Spike 61: Old Medley (Dance On A Volcano/The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway/The Musical Box/Firth Of Fifth/I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)) 62: Throwing It All Away 63: Fading Lights 64: Jesus He Knows Me 65: Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea 66: Hold On My Heart 67: Domino (In The Glow Of The Night/The Last Domino) 68: The Drum Thing 69: I Can't Dance 70: Tonight, Tonight, Tonight 71: Invisible Touch 72: Turn It On Again 73: Mama 74: That's All 75: In Too Deep 76: Dancing With The Moonlit Knight 77: The Cinema Show 78: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 79: Firth Of Fifth 80: More Fool Me 81: The Battle Of Epping Forest 82: Supper's Ready 83: Watcher Of The Skies (5.1 Surround) 84: Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (5.1 Surround) 85: The Cinema Show (5.1 Surround) 86: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (5.1 Surround) 87: Firth Of Fifth (5.1 Surround) 88: The Musical Box (5.1 Surround) 89: More Fool Me (5.1 Surround) 90: The Battle Of Epping Forest (5.1 Surround) 91: Supper's Ready (5.1 Surround)

What a pity! Region 1 DVDs
Which are fantastic. Apart from the contents of the product. I must complain about that the DVDs aren't Region Free. It doesn't make any sense that in a globalised world we live in, it still there are barriers to buy and sell across the planet.

It is known that many people will simply download this contents from the internet, without paying any money and making a great damage to the record industry. I think that companies like Amazon. com should make an effort to change this, using their influence to the records companies, in this case "Rhino", to release their music DVDs without this limitations.

The Live Musical Box
Four live albums: "Genesis Live," "Seconds Out," "Three Sides Live," and a re-sequenced "The Way We Walk," all remastered and remixed by Nick Davis, who worked on the band's previous box sets of studio albums. The Genesis box set releases continue! This time around, the band focuses on their live albums for this particular set, "Genesis Live 1973-2007". There is also an empty slot in the box to put in 2007's "Live Over Europe" (as the band wisely assumes that most diehard fans have already bought it), AND, as an added bonus, you get a CD and 5. 1 DVD of the band's complete "Live At The Rainbow" concert from 1973! Also included is an excellent 52-page booklet, with insights from the band members, and wonderful photographs of the band taken from many years of live concerts. Overall, I'm very happy indeed with this live box set, but I still have to agree with other reviewers that "Live 1973-2007" still falls short of perfection. Let's briefly go through the live albums:

"Genesis Live"---the band's only proper live album with Peter Gabriel, recorded in 1973, sounds great, but it now includes 5 bonus tracks from the 1975 "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" show in Los Angeles, and they're not even in the correct order---"Back In NYC," "Fly On A Windshield," "Broadway Melody Of 1974," "Anyway," and "The Chamber Of 32 Doors. " On the one hand, yes of course it's great to hear some live "Lamb" material in this box set, but why not give us the *whole* "Lamb" concert? In fact, why didn't they just expand "Genesis Live" into a double album so it's now the complete 1973 show (and not just five songs), and throw in the entire L. A. "Lamb" show as a bonus? That, I think, would have been the much better way to go. (At least the whole L. A. "Lamb" concert---more or less---is available on the "Genesis Archives Vol. 1" box set).

"Seconds Out"---this classic Genesis live album, recorded in Paris in 1976 and '77 on the "Trick Of The Tail" and "Wind & Wuthering" tours, sounds amazing, and the slipcase packaging is excellent, but dammit, there are a couple of CD glitches: the second song on Disc One, "Carpet Crawlers," starts to play, only to restart itself before it plays properly (the very beginning of the song is mistakenly attached to the end of Track One, "Squonk"---the CD player then switches over to Track Two and restarts "Carpet Crawlers"). The exact same problem happens again with the second song on Disc Two, "Cinema Show," the beginning of which is mistakenly attached to the end of Track One, "Supper's Ready," so it too begins to play, and then restarts itself. Sure, we're still getting the complete performances of both songs, as neither of them are chopped up in any way, but it's still an annoyance. May as well keep your old CD copy of "Seconds Out" until the folks at the record label can fix the problem, and I hope they do.

"Three Sides Live"---mostly recorded in 1981 on the "Abacab" tour, as well as some concluding live material taken from the "Trick Of The Tail" and "Duke" tours, this re-issue replicates the UK release of the album, and, once again, the sound quality is excellent, but I do have one very minor quibble---I always liked the album's concluding touch of hearing Ethel Merman singing "There's No Business Like Show Business" over the PA system as the album fades out, after the band conclude "It/Watcher Of The Skies". Alas, Ethel has been removed, and that's a shame.

"The Way We Walk"---recorded on the "We Can't Dance" tour from 1992, this a GREAT revamping of this live album, as the original release cut the album in half: "Vol. 1: The Shorts" was all the shorter hit songs, and "Vol. 2: The Longs" was the longer, more art rock-sounding stuff. This new version of "The Way We Walk" re-sequences the songs in the correct performance order, and combines them into the complete double album that "The Way We Walk" should've been the first time around. There's also some extended bits of inbetween-song dialogue from Phil Collins that wasn't heard before, which is really nice. I couldn't be happier with this new, improved version of "The Way We Walk".

The bonus set "Live At The Rainbow 1973"---*of course* I'm thrilled to have a complete live concert of Genesis with Peter at the microphone, and it sounds awesome, but there's a catch: the 5. 1 DVD has the complete concert, but the accompanying CD omits "Watcher Of The Skies" and "The Musical Box," presumably for CD time limitations, and also because the band didn't want to give us *two* live versions of the same song (there's still the live versions of "Watcher" and "Musical Box" on the "Genesis Live" CD). It's understandable, but it still ticks me off that I can't play the *entire* concert in my car or on my home stereo system, just only on my DVD player. Also, the CD of the "Rainbow" concert also omits some of Peter and Phil's inbetween-song dialogue with the audience. Luckily, some of the Rainbow material was previously released on the "Genesis Archives Vol. 1" box set, including Peter and Phil's spoken-word stuff. The only way you can have the complete Rainbow concert on CD (sort of) is if you splice together the Rainbow material from *both* box sets, and throw on "Watcher Of The Skies" and "The Musical Box" from "Genesis Live" to fill in the gaps, and burn it onto a CDR for your own personal private pleasures. It's crazy, but I just might do it.

Insert your copy of "Live Over Europe" into the empty slot, and your Genesis live box set is complete!

So yes, I'm very happy with "Genesis Live: 1973-2007," even though it's not a perfect representation of these live albums. It's still great that the band decided to give the live albums a box set of their own, and I will treasure it. But guys, PLEASE fix those glitches on "Seconds Out," will ya? Thanks. Now, bring on "The Movie Box".

GENESIS LIVE!!!
It has no "video" but i do believe that Seconds Outs makes up for all of that. This Box Set is a wonderful edition to the others. All in all this is a great buy for the true fans, it really allows you to hear Genesis at there best! When they're LIVE!!!.

CDs only Are a Ripp-Off
1 mixes will be provided on the next Video box:

-Three Sides Live
-The Mama Tour
-Live At Wembley Stadium
-The Way We Walk - Live In Concert
-VH1 Behind The Music (Revisited)

The DVD DTS 96/24 5. 5. 1 mixes provided on this box are awesome. They should have provided the same for Three Sides Live and The Way We Walk. The upcoming DVDs will not have the higher def DTS 96/24 format. We should boycott this and the next video only disc, and wait for Blu-ray, with lossless audio.
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Pass
No DVD material and missing there last concert (live over Europe). Dissapointing when compared with the last three box sets. 5. 1 Sound quality neglegible. What were they thinking?.

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