Festhalle, Frankfurt

Literally the best Genesis bootleg ever. Not only has a full Abacab soundboard show been the hottest dream of quite a number of Genesis fans - including this one - for years, but Tom has made this one sound absolutely terrific. In terms of sound, the only thing there is to complain about is a slight distortion of the base in the back channels in some of the louder parts, but really, you have to be obsessive to find that an issue. Apart from that, sound is razor sharp and crystal clear without being overrepresented in any of the channels. The performance is superb, and apart from a few embarasing song introductions in German (or should I say, an attempt at German) you'll be hard pressed to find a recording where Phil sounds better than this one. Essential. [kaspergm]

If you are a fan of the abacab show, you HAVE to own this without delay!! fantastic show, fantastic quality and if you play Bass, this comes cross very very well clear and crisp on this recording, one of the best soundboard remasters ever. [aquiel]

Without a doubt already the best Abacab boot aroud. A must have for every fan. [symfan]

Well this one is now the "gold standard" for the Abacab tour, no question. Gotta be an A+ because nothing else is as good. Comments: Love being able to hear the backing vocals on "Carpet Crawlers" - which are nicely done; Poor Mike can seem to find the right opening note on "Lamb"; The absolute best version of "Behind the Lines" - goes right on the All Time Best Genesis Live Album; I dug the "foreshadowing" by Phil when, in response to a heckler, he says "We don't play Supper's Ready." All in all, a must have. Brilliant work by the TM guys. Peace! [jrromman]

What an amazing recording!Superb sound quality! Contains one of Phil's best live renditions of Man On The Corner I've heard, definitely a Musthave. [dusk]

What an amazing recording!Superb sound quality! Contains one of Phil's best live renditions of Man On The Corner I've heard, definitely a Musthave. [dusk]

from GASP 012
source: soundboard

Version of the show with more meaningful track separation and various fixes [Simon_Funnell]

Abacab dropout in eBay version is resolved (yay!) and some basic removal of tiny digital clicks will be done. [speedy]

A great sounding recording, directly off soundboard. I rate this A, because a dry soundboard feed like this will never be an A+ source in my book - however, this will undoubtly result in remasters that will blow away all previous complete or near complete sources from this tour. An incredibly valuable source. [kaspergm]



Nice recording. Another great GASP to add to any colection. Recommended. [legalbeagle]

In the intro to Man on the Corner, Phil rather callously mocks Americans and the ensuing exchange between him and an American audience member is probably the ugliest I have ever heard. The fan utterly rips into him, and Phil tries to play it off with some weak one-liners. It seems to me that by 1981, Phil's comfortable rapport with audiences had progressively degenerated into an irritating mix of cockiness and juvenile idiocy. At a time when the band was trying to court new fans without alienating older ones, I frankly find Phil's on-stage persona an embarrassment. It's a shame that on this nice recording we have to endure this extremely unpleasant exchange. [pablo]

I just released the above and it's a smashing desk recording, imo -- excellent quality w/very little hiss and a great performance. A nice, dry board w/great levels. There is a very small, less than a second break during Abacab -- the engineer must have hit the wrong switch! But, this is a very minor incident for an otherwise lovely farm based soundboard. [MAB]

LOL. Not that the ebay guy had anything to do with it. Anyhow, folks, GASP012 will torrent soon. We'll spend some time making more logical track splits. Sounds like Abacab with its dropout at 0:43 is yet another victim of the dreaded consumer CD-recorder. (Why do people use those things??? :)) [speedy]

eBay was auctioning it off, not releasing for general consumption, which was what I wanted to do. My intent was just to get the recording out there in 'raw form' rather than hold on to it or go through the pains of fixing --others can do that if they wish... [MAB]

Great news! We had a sample of Abacab that had the missing 0.3 seconds so we are going to put that in to the GASP version. Bye bye dropout! [speedy]

I gave this an "A" only because of the gap in Abacab and the odd tracking. Otherwise, this is an amazing recording. Sounds fantastic! [Deckard]