A Trick of the Tail

Boom, boom.

Is it Trick of the Tail or something? I don't know.

It's Trick of the Tail, I think.

Yeah.

Anyway, so we decided to do that instead.

What a beautiful song.

Entangled from A Trick of the Tail.

That was 1976.

And we just heard another great song.

I'm doing an EP with Dave Bainbridge at the moment, which is quite fun.

And we've actually done a cover of Ripples from Trick of the Tail.

So

that's

And in many ways, it's an album that I kind of feel somehow...

They never caught the spirit of it again until perhaps Trick of the Tail is the album that's most actually like this one, which, of course, had taken a huge series of lineup changes.

You know, I would always put Trespass and Trick of the Tail as being very, very much closer to each other than, for example, either of those two with Foxtrot.

There's also a couple of my...

My prejudices against Genesis, which of course are quite controversial, but I kind of like Trespass because it comes from an era, it seems to me, as before they'd managed to break into the fifth form drama changing group.

So to celebrate the return of the man himself, let's go back to his last live album, The Lamp Stands Up Live at Royal Albert Hall.

And we're going to play Los Endos, which some of you will know, well most of you will know, and if you don't know, why don't you know? Was the last track on the rather wonderful, the classic Trick of the Tail.

Yes, and it used to feature quite heavily in the original Genesis stage shows.

It's a good way to finish the show.

Now, I don't think there's much to say about that piece of music, to be honest.

What an incredible way to bring a show to an end.

Obviously, it was the last track on Trick of the Tail, so it made sense to feature that as the last track of a live show because it puts a line under the whole evening.

I'm sure you'll agree.

Yeah, on average.

And the shortest, uh, duration was between A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering.

Uh, but here with the album we're gonna listen to tonight, it has been a whopping 724 days, 1.98 years, uh, from-

Mm

They, they've been-

Yeah

... yeah, and they've been with, they've been with them since A Trick of the Tail, and I didn't really realize that, and I didn't talk about it then.

Um-

To me, it's them on another level.

And what Antonio and I talked about, and I agree with him, is it's kind of like they took a trick of the tail and that would be part one of this story.

amalgamation of music.

This is the more mature final part two.

I feel like their writing on this is more mature than a trick of the tail.

The structure of what they were going after they were working on it on a trick of the tail and they reached it on this album.

It is probably I was I was I have to I have to say this is probably my favorite Genesis album because, I mean, it just hits me in a way no other Genesis album does all the way through.

There are songs in certain albums, especially later in their career, and we'll get into those later, that I really, really, really love, but they don't save the full album.

Because this is Concorde now, isn't it?

50th anniversary of Wyndham Wuthering and Trick of the Tail this year.

40th anniversary of Invisible Touch.

All this year, they're just leaving that money on the shelf.