Texas Stadium, Irving TX (Rehearsals)

This has always been quite a mystery to me. I have the strong suspicion that the two sets of WCD rehearsals are sourced from a set of mp3s that appeared on WinMX a few months earlier. The sound on the (original?) mp3s is less muffled with slightly more hiss and stage buzz audible The stereo is also mixed differently. Another interesting note: The downloaded mp3s included a peculiar standalone of the FoF instrumental with somewhat inferior sound, which might have been discarded by the creators of the WCD rehearsal sets as coming from another rehearsal or soundcheck (from the Calling All Stations tour?). [regnelmo]

No, these are NOT the same things that were on WinMX. The "Set 2" rehearsals came directly from someone who received them from a roadie for that tour. They are completely unrelated to what was on WinMX. As for this MP3 business... again, no. The rehearsals did land on MiniDisc at some point and ATRAC3 compression looks a lot like MP3 compression. [speedy]

I am the one who got these from the roadie, they were sent to me on cdr back in 2002. No mp3. [genesisguru]

Rehearsal. Only known live recording of Way Of The World.

The last cut is (supposedly) a Farm rehearsal for the 2002 reunion.

Interesting record because you will find the only available live performance (rehearsal-recording) of the song "Way of the world". This song was rehearsed but did not find his way onto the final we can't dance tour setlist. [felix.baerenz]

The "backstage chat from Abacab tour" is from New York, the same as included on "Wrapping up the world in brass and cellophane". I believe that the "follow You Follow Me" recording is the same as on the "Genesis Songbook" DVD, which would mean it was recorded in 2001 or earlier. [holden]