Genesis - Abacab
Well, it's October, and there's one Genesis guy I have never covered, so it's time -- in the words of a garden variety hipster reference from 1973 -- for an unaccompanied bass pedal solo.
It's appropriate because not only is it his 75th birthday today, but they also just released the long-awaited, 50th anniversary box set of the Prog Rock opus The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway the other day.
The live Shrine Auditorium 1975 set still has the ridiculous, 20-years-later overdubs, but we went over that in January last, I'm fairly certain.
Yes, these dudes. If there's a band that's messed up the reissues behind their back catalog worse, I hope never to meet them.
In August I went so far as to reconstitute their whole catalog up to 1984, downmixing the 5.1 surround mixes from the 2007/8 box sets... the ones that avoid the nasty, ear-immolating compression present on the concurrent CDs from those sets.
I would share those, but what happened last month, when some of their closely-held, unreleased live tapes got leaked, chastens my enthusiasm for such a disclosure.
They're notorious for holding onto these kinds of things because they have (gasp!) wrong notes in them. Even their studio catalog exists in a dodgy, substandard form and now that they've sold their post-Peter Gabriel catalog to Concord Music, there's not much reason to expect that will ever change.
There's not another Hall of Fame, superstar act for which that's as true as it is for Genesis. I hope someday they get hip, before it's too late, and make sure that before they all croak there's acceptable, modern iterations of every salient thing they did available to the world in a proper form.
Take this concert, for instance. By all reasonable accounts, this run of LA Forum Invisible Touch shows should be available for purchase as a giant, exhaustive box set, right? We're talking about one of the most popular albums ever made by humans here.
But they don't, and likely never will. So it's up to idiots such as I to sit here for weeks, meticulously reconstructing a full concert from all the best possible, mostly pre-broadcast sources.
Full disclosure: I fully lost interest in these guys after 1983, but I was in attendance at one of the MSG shows that preceded this one two weeks previous, so in lieu of posting that one (it was in the infamous August leak!), I set about turning this one into a project to produce what must surely be the best version of it yet constructed in the ROIOverse.
Genesis
The Forum
Los Angeles, California USA
10.15+16.1986
01 Bill Minkin introduction
02 Mama
03 Abacab
04 Land of Confusion
05 Domino intro
06 Domino
07 In Too Deep intro
08 In Too Deep
09 Follow You Follow Me
10 That's All
11 The Brazilian
12 Home By the Sea intro
13 Home By the Sea/Second Home By the Sea
14 Bill Minkin introduction to part 2
15 Tonight, Tonight, Tonight intro
16 Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
17 Throwing It All Away
18 In the Cage intro
19 In the Cage/In That Quiet Earth/Supper's Ready
20 Invisible Touch
21 drum duet
22 Los Endos
23 Turn It On Again/oldies medley
24 Bill Minkin outro
25 Your Own Special Way (bonus track, Sydney 1986)
Total time: 2:34:31
disc break goes after Track 13
Tony Banks - keyboards & vocals
Mike Rutherford - bass, guitars, bass pedals & vocals
Phil Collins - drums, percussion & vocals
Daryl Stuermer - guitars, bass & vocals
Chester Thompson - drums & percussion
crossfaded composite of all available KBFH preFM CD issues of these shows
embellished with missing bits from 320/48k audio streamed from Wolfgang's Vault, converted to 16/44 CD Audio
spectral analysis of the CDs is lossless past 22 kHz; streamed material is lossless to 20 kHz
Track 25 is a bonus track, with strings, from Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney AU 12.20.1986
from the 2000 "Genesis Archive #2" box set on the Virgin label
assembled, edited and remastered for unity by EN, September 2025
1.02 GB FLAC/direct link
So anyway, Michael Rutherford -- as responsible as anyone for the existence of Genesis, having endured his teenage years imprisoned in Headmaster Hell at English public school, his guitars confiscated as "symbolic of the Revolution" -- is the big platinum 75 today!
Obviously he's got more than just Genesis (easily one of most beloved & beguiling bands of our human era here) on his rez, what with his hitmaking Mechanics machinery and such.
I may go on a binge and return right away with some completely different -- yet just as enchanting! -- sheeit tomorrow, not sure yet. But given that I've covered the other four classic G boys, I thought it would have been a dick move to gloss over or otherwise forget Mike Rutherford on a milestone day such as this. So I hope, in his honor, you'll enjoy these funny things that happened on the way to, and at, The Forum almost 40 years ago!--J.
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