On 20 January 1973 the Italian part of the Foxtrot Tour of the Genesis (second date on the 22nd in Rome - LOOK). Here are notes and images of that evening.

The first very famous photo of the third landing on the Genesis peninsula, after two of the previous year, is this one, at the Cral Club of the'Linate airport in Milan, in a press conference together with the Lindisfarne, who have just arrived in Italy. Here she is:

The concert is part of the Charisma Festival, like the subsequent Rome date - on stage with Genesis other bands, with a last minute variation of dates as seen from the poster above -. And here's the "right" one:

Now the recording of the concert:

A look at Peter's costumes. For Watcher Of The Skies has not yet adopted bat wings, but looks like this:

On the ending of The musical boxthen the twist. Peter appears with the red dress of his wife Jill and the fox mask.

A historic moment, this, for the Genesis, inaugurated on September 28 of the previous year in Dublin, the beginning of an era of masks and disguises, even if not completely shared by the other members of the band.

Even in Supper's Ready the famous costumes have not yet appeared. Peter will insert them in a month in the English part of the tour. In Italy, at the end of  Apocalypse in 9/8 looks like this:

For the encore, The Knife, the black dress returns, but without the round of jewels around the neck:

No video recordings of these concerts are available. But thescenic effect of Genesis you can see it in the movie ten days earlier at the Bataclan in Paris. There he is:

And here is the Tour Program:

Concert admirably and in detail reconstructed by:

Genesis in Italy. The concerts 1972-1975

by Mino Profumo

"The Italian public has the opportunity not only to attend a high-level technical performance, but also to witness the band's relentless journey towards a musical / theatrical proposal that will find its fulfillment in the years immediately following".

Genesis. The river of constant change

di Mario Giammetti

"The success is unprecedented, with 8 thousand people present in Reggio Emilia in a room at the limit of capacity and even 18 thousand in Rome, when at home they usually play in front of a few hundred spectators."

Genesis on the cover:

January 10, 1973, Genesis perform at the Bataclan in Paris. Here are the pictures of the evening:

setlist:

00:00 The musical box

10:03 Supper's Ready

21:22 Return Of The Giant Hogweed

26:48 The Knife

33:20 Interviews (with subtitles)

Above the new restored film of the show, released on YouTube.

The video, courtesy of The Genesis Museum website, has been restored to 4k.

Recorded January 10, 1973, during the Foxtrot album tour and shot on 16mm film, the half-hour concert segment, plus additional interviews, contains The Musical Box, Supper's Ready, The Return Of The Giant Hogweed and The Knife.

"This was a really big project", he writes Genesis Museum on their GMusic YouTube channel. "The source had many anomalies, but there was enough "clay" to mold this into something even better".

The interviews have been moved to the end of the video, so as not to interrupt the show.

And the issues of the lower quality of The Knife final coil have been fixed, improving the brightness and details.

Collector's Corner:

Il September 28, 1972 at the National Stadium in Dublin in the final of The musical box, Peter Gabriel had presented himself on stage wearing a fox head and a red dress for women of his wife Jill, unbeknownst to his companions. The beginning of an era of theatricality and costumes, which gave the band a hitherto unknown visibility and popularity.  

In the Bataclan concert video they are seen for the first time.

The Genesis and the fox head - READ and LISTEN

February 3, 1865 is the official day of the inauguration of the Bataclan.

Originally named Ba-Ta-Clan, from the title of an operetta by Jacques Offenbach, the salle de cafà © -concert it has been transformed over time, becoming first a theater and then a cinema. 

In 1969 the Bataclan becomes theater, a must for international music in Europe.

The video of the concert, included in the box set of 7 CDs and 6 DVDs Genesis 1970-1975, includes an unpublished interview with the band in French.

Bataclan source: cafebabel

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