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On January 25, 1974, the 20th show of second series of The Midnight Special, the long-running show that gave many artists their first taste of national TV exposure in The US, was broadcast.
The show was hosted by bluesman Steve Miller on the show were Michigan rockers Brownsville Station – who performed their hit Smokin’ In The Boys Room – plus Tim Buckley, the James Cotton Blues Band, and prog legends Genesis, whose Selling England By The Pound album had been released the previous September.
Genesis’s Midnight Special filming had taken place just before Christmas 1973, in the wake of a six-show, three day residency at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles at the end of the first North American leg of the band’s Selling England By The Pound tour.
On the show the band performed two songs, neither of them from the album. Instead, they played The Musical Box, the first track from 1971’s Nursery Cryme, and Watcher Of The Skies, the opener from the following year’s Foxtrot. And both tracks have now appeared online on the Midnight Special‘s ever-growing archive on YouTube, rendering obsolete the various low-quality rips that have appeared online previously.
So enjoy this pristine footage of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis at their peak. On the downside, the camera cuts away from Steve Hackett‘s fingers during The Musical Box just he does some “Eddie Van Halen-style” finger tapping at the 2’19” mark, but the rest is pure upside, including Hackett’s glorious moustache, Phil Collins’ fetching white boiler suit, Gabriel donning his old man mask to portray the aging Henry, the character from The Musical Box whose head gets cleaved off by a croquet mallet.
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- Genesis - Do The Neurotic - UK - 12" vinyl - £8.00, $10.64, €9.36 (Back In Stock) (arrived 24-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 25, 2025 at 10:04 am
GENESIS Do The Neurotic (1986 UK 2-track 12" vinyl single including In Too Deep [Unedited Version] and Do The Neurotic [Previously Unreleased And Unedited]. The vinyl remains in Excellent condition within the blue & yellow titled sleeve GENS2-12)
- Genesis - Selling England By The Pound - 1st + Insert - Garrod & Lofthouse Sleeve - UK - vinyl LP - £75.00, $99.75, €87.75 (New Item) (arrived 24-Apr-2025 15:24)on April 25, 2025 at 10:04 am
GENESIS Selling England By The Pound (1973 UK first press 8-track LP on the large pink 'Mad Hatter' Charisma label with 'B & C Records' perimeter text, housed in the original picture sleeve with 'Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd' credit on the reverse & complete with the often missing lyric insert printed on paper. The sleeve shows only light general wear, whilst the vinyl is shows few signs of play CAS1074)
- Genesis - Three Sides Live - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £35.00, $46.55, €40.95 (New Item) (arrived 22-Apr-2025 14:39)on April 25, 2025 at 10:04 am
GENESIS Three Sides Live (1982 UK 13-track double vinyl LP, featuring nine songs recorded live in Europe & America during 1981, three tracks recorded in 1980 & It / Watcher Of The Skies from 1976, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve has only minor wear to the spine and slight ringwear on the front and back of the sleeve, the vinyl shows minimal signs of play; thus all remaining in Excellent condition GE2002)
- Genesis - We Can't Dance - VG - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £35.00, $46.55, €40.95 (New Item) (arrived 22-Apr-2025 14:42)on April 25, 2025 at 10:04 am
GENESIS We Can't Dance (1991 UK 12-track double LP, the group's last studio longplayer to feature Phil Collins, issued in a single-pocket picture sleeve with illustrated lyric inners. The sleeve shows a split on the top edge with the rest remaining Excellent, whilst the vinyl shows very few signs of play; remaining Near Mint to Excellent condition GENLP3)
- Genesis - Three Sides Live - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £35.00, $46.55, €40.95 (New Item) (arrived 22-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 25, 2025 at 10:04 am
GENESIS Three Sides Live (1982 UK 13-track double vinyl LP, featuring nine songs recorded live in Europe & America during 1981, three tracks recorded in 1980 & It / Watcher Of The Skies from 1976, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve has only minor wear to the spine and slight ringwear on the front and back of the sleeve, the vinyl shows minimal signs of play; thus all remaining in Excellent condition GE2002)
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