::
interesting incidents |
This
page is not just intended to be a list of shows where Genesis performed sub-perfect,
but a list of interesting incidents that are worth hearing
Genesis
Date |
Venue |
Incident | Recorded? |
Source / Submitted By |
09
Apr 72 |
Lem,
Verona |
Problems occur and Phil does one handed drum solo | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
14
Apr 72 (evening show) |
Pavia |
During "The Return Of The Giant Hogweed", the electricity goes off. Phil Collins played a drum solo and when power returned, they didn't restart the song but continued it from the point they left it at. | Unknown |
Matteo (teocalle@hotmail.com) |
19
Apr 72 |
Napoli |
Power failure at the mellotron - a drum solo occours while the technician (or Tony himself) fix the problem | Yes |
Casimiro Baldanza (baldanza@bo.infn.it) |
18
Nov 72 |
Imperial
College, London |
Steve played
a wrong note during the guitar solo of Giant Hogweed and had some problems
to find again the right way. |
Yes |
Edoardo
Cantù (dr.dado@libero.it) |
17
Feb 73 |
Sheffield |
Lost power during Musical Box which they had to then restart | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
23
Oct 73 |
Liverpool |
Steve completely botching up the opening guitar work for "Cinema Show". Peter of course quips about it, however, unfortunately, his voice is muffled during this moment, as the person recording was having problems with his equipment. So, you really can't hear what Gabriel related, in response to Steve's very embarrassing miscue. It perhaps was a tuning problem with his guitar, or an outright F**k up, hard to tell really. | Yes |
Mark Bataitas (genesisman@juno.com) |
23
Oct 73 |
Liverpool |
Steve couldn't perform the intro to "The Musical Box" either. In place of the opening guitar to TMB, you hear Mike play his Bass pedal, reminiscient of what we hear on the "Live" album. Peter responds to this, simply saying "Michael Rutherford". After about 4 minutes or so of Peter making jokes, Phil seemingly attempting his infamous "One Handed Drum Solo", that he utilized during the really old days when technical difficulties arose, they skipped TMB all together and performed "Battle of Epping Forrest". | Yes |
Mark Bataitas (genesisman@juno.com) |
08
Nov 73 |
Massey
Hall, Toronto, Canada |
The
band showed up at the venue, but the truck carrying their light show didn't!
At some point in the show an audience member yells, "Where's the
lights"? |
Yes |
Ted Sapp (Paperlatr1@aol.com) |
06
Feb 74 |
Napoli |
Power failure at the mellotron - a drum solo occours while the technician (or Tony himself) fix the problem | Yes |
Casimiro Baldanza (baldanza@bo.infn.it) |
16
Apr 74 |
Ford
Auditorium, Detroit |
During the story of The musical box, someone in the audience shouts at Peter "Your mother eats shit !" and something else after that is not clear. Peter answers "My mother does not eat shit". After some audience applause, Phil adds "There's also a bar..." I guess inviting the offender to leave the venue and drink his strangely-originated anger away. | Yes |
Eduardo de Udaeta (e.udaeta@step.net.ar) |
06
May 74 |
Academy
Of Music, NYC |
Listen
to the bootleg, Live At The Academy Of Music, Peter starts Firth of Fifth
with the last verse and ends with the first. |
Yes |
Ian Barrow (pleasedonttouch@shaw.ca) |
06
Dec 74 |
Academy
Of Music, NYC |
During the middle of the waiting room a fuse blows and the band is left in the dark.Phil instantly starts a drum solo while the roadies look for the fuse box which has and all of the stage area has been painted black. After about a minute or so the band picks up where it left off. | Yes |
apachon@hotmail.com |
08
Dec 74 |
Providence |
Raindrops keep falling on my synthesizer. Tony has some problems with his keyboards. Pete makes light of it. | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
10
Apr 75 |
Groningen,
Martinihal (Holland) |
Peter starts singing "And the lamb lies down..." and falls flat on his face on the stage. | Unknown |
Willem Beens (willemenrosilda@home.nl) |
16
Apr 75 |
Southampton |
During Windshield they interrupt due to technical problems, so Phil does his drum solo which then leads back into Windshield | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
13
Apr 76 |
Pittsburgh |
After the first song Phil says "Hello Baltimore!", which is actually about 300 miles from Pittsburgh! He then tries to dig himself out of the hole he has created! | Yes |
Ted Sapp (Paperlatr1@aol.com) |
15
Apr 76 |
Cleveland |
The wrong tape is played during Supper's Ready during the "we will rock you little snake" section | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
10
Jan 77 |
Manchester
|
Your Own
Special Way starts with a hideous 'Braaannnggg' because Mike's 12-string
is out of tune. Phil chips in with the old "It was in tune when he
bought it" gag. Mike re-tunes and the song re-starts. |
Yes |
Warren Banks (warren@wuzbug.freeserve.co.uk) |
24
Mar 77 |
Los
Angeles |
During Supper's Ready Phil sings "666" too soon | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
24
Mar 77 |
Los
Angeles |
One
overly enthusiastic fan managed to get on stage [during Carpet Crawlers]
and, seeing that Phil's drum kit was vacant, decided to play along. The
would-be stickman was forcibly removed from his throne by three roadies.
PC said. "It could only happen in Los Angeles...I wouldn't want to
be in his shoes right now.." |
Yes |
Martijn
Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) Graham Collins (gpcollins7@aol.com) |
25
Mar 77 |
Winterland |
The
band refuses to start the show until everyone sits down, even though it
is festival seating. They send an announcer out on stage to force the
audience to sit down. It has no effect on the excited audience, and after
about 15 minutes, the band gives up the idea and proceeds, playing to
a standing crowd. |
Yes |
Rob Lawrence (simons52@nvbell.net) |
11
May 77 |
Porto
alegre / Brazil |
On the second
night in Brazil, half way through the show, Mike placed his hands over
his mouth and ran off-stage due to illness. The band carried on for the
rest of the instrumental song and then finished the gig. |
Unknown |
- |
04
Apr 78 |
Kalamazoo |
Show suffers from (keyboard?) technical difficulties. Phil does a brief drum solo to let the technicians do their job. Down and Out [Brief drum solo] One for the Vine. | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
31
Jul 78 |
Saratoga |
Afterglow is played as a stand-alone w/o Cinema Show. Don't know why. | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
03
Sep 78 |
Saarbruken |
Show suffers from (keyboard?) technical difficulties. Phil does a brief drum solo to let the technicians do their job. After Motherlode and before Vine | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
03
Dec 78 |
Sun
Plaza Hotel, Japan |
The synthesiser breaks down before Ripples, they play an improvisation. This synthesiser keeps getting troubles throughout a large part of the show and they keep playing improvisations before the next 4 songs. Phil doesn't know how to explain this in Japanese (embarrassed silences). | Yes |
Halley Ros (halja@wxs.nl) |
17
April 80 |
Sheffield |
The man who shouts 'Albatross' during the story of Albert - I was that soldier. Also Mike split his yellow trousers at the start of the gig - no smoke machines allowed so the roadies came on smoking instead. | Yes |
Dave Hodgson (david@alternativecarelimited.co.uk) |
07
Jun 80 |
Mecca
Arena, Milwaukee |
On squonk phil finish the third verse of the song and then begins the song all over again!So it's about eight mins. long! | Yes |
Andres Pachon (apachon@hotmail.com) |
09
Jun 80 |
Clarkeston |
Daryl is off ill so the band play a reduced set as a four piece | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
11
Jun 80 |
Cleveland |
Someone decides to light a cherry bomb in the crowd after One For The Vine | Yes |
Andres Pachon (apachon@hotmail.com) |
11
Jun 80 |
Cleveland |
Phil sings a five second version of Supper's Ready | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
26
Sep 81 |
San
Sebastian |
Mike screws up the beginning of Abacab | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
03
Oct 81 |
Groenenoordhal,
Leiden, Holland |
The infamous booing concert. The crowd boo the band and Phil has words. | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
06
Oct 81 |
Essen,
Germany |
Daryl has problems with the beginning of Abacab | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
16
Oct 81 |
Cologne
|
Initial verses of Duchess are missing. Possible mic failure? | Yes |
Casimiro Baldanza (baldanza@bo.infn.it) |
18
Oct 81 |
Cologne
|
Phil starts Sarah Jane story and stops: "I f**ked up, this is Carpet Crawl !". | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
29
Oct 81 |
Frejus |
Phil makes mistakes on the start of I Know What I Like, it seems that he forget the words (listen in Me And Virgil or Picture About) | Yes |
Casimiro Baldanza (baldanza@bo.infn.it) |
12 Sep 82 |
Copenhagen
|
During the Cage Medley, Tony gets a bit confused and begins the chord sequence into Afterglow too early during the Slippermen sequence. | Yes |
Will Ingram (seantheirishbastard@hotmail.com) |
07 Nov 83 |
Normal
|
Phil does the "Masturbation will not make me go deaf !"-quote as in intro to Home by the Sea. Not really an incident but who expected this from Mr. Nice guy. . | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
08 Nov 83 |
Ames
|
Phil does the "Masturbation will not make me go deaf !"-quote as in intro to Home by the Sea. Not really an incident but who expected this from Mr. Nice guy. . | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
10
Nov 83 |
Milwaukee
|
Mike's guitar dies and they start that's all without him. Phil says mike will catch up later. | Yes |
- |
23
Nov 83 |
Maple
Leaf Gardens - Toronto |
While Phil is telling his tale leading into "Illegal Alien", Mike, Tony, Daryl and Phil are putting on their 'prop' sunglasses for the "clandestine" effect, and Chester is sitting behind his kit, daydreaming, completely oblivious to what is going on around him, thus missing his cue to don his sunglasses. It was really quite funny, as Phil stopped talking he, Tony, Mike, and Daryl just stood in silence and stared at Chester, with their sunglasses on, until he realised it was time to put on his "Illegal Alien" sunglasses. He put them on, to boisterous applause! | Yes |
Mike
Kameka mlkameka@hotmail.com |
27
Nov 83 |
Spectrum,
Philadelphia |
Tony screws up the cinema show solo. He makes some mistakes (bar counting mostly). It's recorded on the "No Reply At All" bootleg. | Yes |
Santi Jansen (Genesis_midi@yahoo.es) |
09
Jan 84 |
Vancouver |
Phil ends Squonk (part of the 11th earl medley) too early, after he try to sing the missing words | Yes |
Casimiro Baldanza (baldanza@bo.infn.it) |
17
Jan 84 |
Denver,
USA |
During Firth Of Fifth, inside the first medley, at the moment of the solo the Daryl's guitar dies after two notes. The other musicians continue to play the same section of the song until Daryl fixes or changes the guitar. So the FOF solo begins | Yes |
Casimiro Baldanza (baldanza@bo.infn.it) |
21
Jan 84 |
Dallas |
There's a power-outage during Los Endos (twice !) | Yes |
- |
25
Jan 84 |
Lakeland
Arena, New Orleans |
Phil screws up lyrics to Home By The Sea | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
29
Jan 84 |
Kemper
Arena, Kansas City |
Band are affected by a power outage during Illegal Alien | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
25
Feb 84 |
Birmingham
NEC |
Had to restart Eleventh Earl after first couple of bars | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
01
Oct 86 |
NYC |
A woman comes on stage and starts hugging Phil. Phil misses a line from "Invisible Touch", and the woman is carried away. This can be seen on vid too ! | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
23
Nov 86 |
Auckland,
NZ |
Phil screws his voice completely during the tough singing of Apocalypse 9/8. Somehow he finishes the song, but he wasn't able to sing the lyrics correctly anymore and is mostly out of key. Not surprisingly, Supper was dropped from the setlist shortly (or immediately ?) after this concert. | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
11
Jun 87 |
De
Kuip, Rotterdam |
Band walk off stage halft way through the Turn It On Again medley due to a rather rowdy audience | Yes |
Simon Funnell (simon@genesis-movement.org) |
20
Jun 87 |
Mannheim,
Germany |
Mike has a lapse of guitar playing ability during the last part of thats all,but he saves it just in time. | Yes |
Paul Bower (bows_25@hotmail.com) |
17
May 92 |
Tampa,
Florida |
Show cancelled after two songs due to Phil's throad problems | Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
25
May 92 |
Cleveland,
Ohio |
A guy threw a cup of beer on stage and I think Mike slipped on the slippery steps when getting back onstage after doing the ICD "walk." . All without missing a note! | Unknown |
Tony Lastoria (tlastoria@yahoo.com) Matt Lathrum (Matt.Lathrum@motorola.com) |
05
Jun 92 |
Syracuse,
NY |
Phil
announces a marriage proposal of an audience member and this guy is literally set in the spot lights. Then Genesis play Hold on my heart. This event is also bootlegged on video-camera. |
Yes |
Martijn Van Beek (earl_of_genesis@hotmail.com) |
04
Mar 98 |
Cardiff
International Arena |
During Turn
it on Again, when Ray Wilson introduces the band, he calls Tony "Tony
Hatch" (obviously thinking of Crossroads and Neighbours!) |
Yes |
Andrew Ralph (andy@ralph9000.freeserve.co.uk) |
Peter Gabriel
Date | Venue | Incident | Recorded? | Source / Submitted By |
10 Aug 83 | Seattle | Peter forgets the lyrics to solsbury hill and a roadie has to bring out the words for him to read off a paper and the songs restarted. | Yes | Frank (RAEL75@aol.com) |
22 Nov 93 | Milano, Italy | PG
announces Red Rain but the next song in the list is Kiss That Frog. Peter
corrects himself and begins to joke with the names of the two songs "...mighty
the Frog Rain!" |
Yes | Casimiro Baldanza (baldanza@bo.infn.it) |
16 Sep 02 | Alcatraz Club, Milano, Italy | Peter forgets the words at the begining of the new 'UP' song 'More Than This'. Peter stops the band, jokes about his memory with the audience: "Escusa, la memoria di Piter, kaputt! Ancora una volta, More Than This!" (Sorry, Peter's memory, dead! More Than This again!). Then the song is started again | Yes | Casimiro Baldanza (baldanza@bo.infn.it) |
31 Aug 02 | Munich KöniXXtreffen | Peter forgets the words at the begining of "Jetzt kommt die Flut". He must read off the text and is very uncertain. | Yes | Tina Charoll (tina.charoll@gmx.net) |
15 Nov 02 | Minneapolis | A guy in
the 6th row took a leak on the ground. P.A. System was all messed up.
"Sky blue" is among 3-4 songs which they battle on thru even
though the audience can't hear a note. Peter stopped the concert until
the p.a. system could be fixed. During the delay, Ged Lynchplays an impromptu
drum solo. |
Yes | Don (Dwotal@aol.com) |
30 Nov 02 | Colisee - Quebec City | Peter starts
with the second verse on Sledgehammer. Melanie looks at Tony in complete awe. Peter signals the band to repeat the verse - the mishap goes virtually unnoticed. |
Yes | Christian Berube (christian_berube@roche.ca) |
11 Dec 02 | Staples Center | Instead
of singing the third verse of "Solsbury Hill", Peter repeats the second verse. David Rhodes shoots him a knowing wink as Peter rides by on his bicycle. |
Yes | Tom Roche (tomroche@hotmail.com) |
12 Dec 02 | Phoenix, AZ | When the Blind Boys came onstage for Sky Blue, the bass singer wasn't ready, trouble with his ear monitor. When they got it fixed it was too late for him to get to his position (center stage, half-sunken below the main stage, ready to rise up during the ending chorus) so he at the bottom of the stairs leading onto the stage, out of sight of everyone except those sitting right nearby, and sang his part flawlessly when the time came. | Yes | Rex (rexinlasvegas@yahoo.com) |
26-Jun-03 | Marcus Ampitheater - Milwaukee | Peter has to restart due to forgetting the words. On "Darkness" he misses a few bars because he sneezes in which he calls "The first offical sneeze of the tour". During "Father, Son", very loud fireworks start going off in the background because it is the opening night of Summerfest. Everybody seems to be paying attention to the firworks rather than Peter who plays the song flawlessly. | Yes | Mike Lashua (mjlashua@yahoo.com) |
Phil Collins
Date | Venue | Incident | Recorded? | Source / Submitted By |
23 Feb 85 | Birmingham | As
a final encore Phil played You Know What I Mean, but has has a serious
lapse of piano playing ability. |
Yes | Joost (dutchtaper@email.com) |
13 May 88 | Atlantic 40th Anniversary | During
his Piano set, Phil was playing "in the air tonight," when
he forgot the lines. Where he should've said, "IT WAS THE FIRST
TIME, THE LAST TIME WE EVER MET" his mind just blanked out, substituting
it with a mumble, an embarrassed silence...and a loud "HA!"... |
Unknown | Kenny Jarus (Juliocigar@aol.com) |
Jun(?) 90 | Long Island, NY | Right near the end of "In the air tonight", when Phil is pounding on the drums and singing...no more sound!! Maybe after five or ten minutes of the crowd banging on their seats, Phil came back, took the mic and said:"A f***ing fuse blew up!!" | Unknown | Yanick
Cloutier (cloutieryanick@hotmail.com) |
13 Dec 94 | Wembley | When Phil is singing "Only You And I Know" he forgets some of the lyrics during the first verse | Yes | Paul Bower (bows_25@hotmail.com) |
08 Jul 98 | Copenhagen | A drunk guy gets on the stage during "Sussudio" and takes the microphone and starts singing. Shortly afterwards the guards take care of him | Unknown | Michael (MTA@sns.dk) |