cbostrum@watdaisy.UUCP (Calvin Bruce Ostrum) (06/28/83)
peterr is mistaken about when steve hackett left genesis. he did, in fact, play
during the seconds out tour, and it is thus him along with rutherford doing
the guitars on the album. he actually left when the album was being put
together after the concert. however, his first solo album, the excellent
voyage of the acolyte, was recorded well before he left, and in fact
features many of the genesis personnel on it.
also, peterr exagerrates the disagreements between gabriel and the rest of
genesis. as far as i understood it, gabriel himself chose to leave,
altho much of the band did not want him to. he was worried that the band
was becoming to centered around him (as it clearly was; during the lamb
tour he was very much at the center of attention) and that his admitted
enjoyment of that would cause problems. he also wanted to do things that
he alone would be responsible for in the event that they were a real bomb.
for instance, the second and third albums' blatant social criticism, being
very personal, would not be something that he could expect the others to
back up. (i heard gabriel in an interview discussing problems with the
label of his second album not wanting the third: "they felt with the second
album i had went a little to the left, and that with the third, i had
dropped of the edge of the known universe")
Calvin Ostrum, Dept Computer Science, University of Waterloo
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