From Genesis to Revelation
Occupation
- Song: Peter Gabriel
- Keyboard: Tony Banks
- Bass, Guitar: Mike Rutherford
- Guitar: Anthony Phillips
- Drums: John Silver
From Genesis to Revelation (English for "From Genesis to Revelation " ) is the debut album by British rock band Genesis. It was released in March 1969 and is the only album the group with John Silver on drums. It documents the musical starting phase of the band. In contrast to the follow-up album, From Genesis to Revelation Trespass contains no features of progressive rock; it is pop music, which can be assigned to the late Beat phase.
Formation
At the time of its founding in 1967, consisted of the members of Genesis, Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and Chris Stewart. After they had with Jonathan King found her first producer, they signed in August 1967 their first record deal with Kings record company Jonjo Music. King gave the group the name Genesis (German origin, creation).
By the fall of 1967 took Genesis to several demo tapes, eventually in December 1967 recordings at the Regent Sound Studio A in Tottenham Court Road, the Banks / Gabriel Composition The Silent Sun, and the Phillips / Rutherford song That's Me. Jonathan King was a producer of recordings, musical director was Arthur Greenslade, who added the recordings dominant string arrangements. On 2 February 1968, the first single was released with two songs under the Decca label.
On 10 May 1968, the second single was followed with A Winter's Tale / One-Eyed Hound, both written by Banks / Gabriel. However, despite positive reviews in Melody Maker and the New Musical Express both singles were not commercially successful.
Chris Stewart left Genesis after shooting of A Winter 's Tale, on the one hand his parents wanted him to not leave the band for the school, and partly because Jonathan King did not want to break up with him. He was replaced by John Silver, who was a friend of the group.
In the new line- Genesis wrote new songs; this they met in families of John Silver and David Thomas, who with Peter Gabriel played in the school band The Spoken Word in 1965. They recorded another demo tape, with which they were able to convince Jonathan King, to produce an album with them. The songs were again to be included in the Summer 1968 within 10 days at the Regent Centre. David Thomas sang with the background choir.
The recordings were dominating influences of Jonathan King; in particular he brought from the band was to play long instrumental passages and solos, which thus could only emerge on the following albums as the most distinctive elements of the music and the special strength of the band itself. King also decided that there should be a concept album.
After completion of the recordings, the individual pieces were again provided by the musical director Arthur Greenslade with string passages. But while the band had not yet found it good for the two singles, the violins them appeared much too pushy with the album 's songs, while the remaining instruments were literally pressed to the edge.
The album was released in March 1969 under the title From Genesis to Revelation, but without explicit mention of the band's name because at the time there was a U.S. band, which already bore the name Genesis. The name of the album prompted the record stores to assign the album mistakenly category religious music. This meant that the album then completely went down with only about 600 copies sold.
The single Where the Sour Turns to Sweet / In Hiding On June 27, 1969 was still coupled, but even this could not increase sales of the album.
Unlike many bands does not apply to Genesis fans, this first LP as cult -like and sound -defining the starting point of the band. Basically, only the subsequent album Trespass was rated as the first " real" Genesis plate. On the fourth CD compilation Archive I - 1967-1975, most of the songs on this album are in a " raw" format without string passages, in which the potential of Genesis is rudimentary to guess.
Title list
This list corresponds to the first edition of the album. There were numerous editions under different titles ( In the Beginning, Where the Sour Turns to Sweet Rock Roots: Genesis, The Silent Sun ... And the Word What, The Genesis of Genesis, ... ) published. Then the A- and B-sides of the first two singles from Genesis, as well as various demos of other songs were often additionally contain. Among them, for example, A Winter's Tale, One Eyed Hound, Image Blown Out and She's So Beautiful. The last song was the basis for the song The Serpent of final album; However, he tells a completely different story.
Charts
Album: ( U.S. # 170)
Singles
- The Silent Sun / That's Me (February 2, 1968; false in various publications Date February 22, 1968 ).
- A Winter's Tale / One-Eyed Hound (10 May 1968)
- Where the Sour Turns to Sweet / In Hiding (27 June 1969)
- In the Beginning / The Serpent ( February 1974 )
Occupation
- Tony Banks: piano, organ, keyboard, guitar, vocals
- Peter Gabriel: vocals, flute, tambourine
- Anthony Phillips: guitar, vocals
- Mike Rutherford: bass, guitar, vocals
- John Silver: Drums
- Chris Stewart: Drums at Silent Sun
As well as
- Guest musicians: David Thomas, Vocal
- Producer: Jonathan King
- String Arrangements: Arthur Greenslade