Genesis - Seconds Out

I have seen them Live Twice in the 70s

I got to see this amazing band twice in Kalamazoo Mich during the 70s. The first time I sat for 2 hours with my jaw on the floor, I had never witnessed anything like it and was so blown away that I had to be reminded to hit the joints being past to me. From that point on I was a Genesis devotee .. well ..at least up to the point where they seemed to sell out to top 40. This live album is maybe the best live album I have ever heard. It perfectly captures what it was like in sound to be at a Genesis concert and a must for any true music lover of any type. May 30, 2008

One of the Best

I loved this when it came out on LP back in the 70's and I love it now in 2007. I guess good music never dies. December 22, 2007

Phenomenall!

I bought my own copy of the vinyl in 1978 after my brother made me listen to his copy. I would put it on the turntable, turn off the lights and listen to it from beginning to end laying down on the floor with my head in between the speakers (I did not have a headset). I would imagine that I was at the show. SECONDS OUT is, quite simply put, the greatest Progressive Rock Live album ever recorded! The band is a the top of its game (despite Peter Gabriel's departure). Phil Collins and Chester Thompson perform what I consider to be, by far, the best live drumming I have ever heard, especially on SQUONK, DANCE ON A VOLCANO and LOS ENDOS. Phil does a surprisingly good job taking over the microphone, Steve Hackett's magic guitar gives the right atmosphere and Tony, well, is just Mr. Cool on keyboards. Absolutely superb! I could not be at the show but someone (God Bless him or her) put the footage of the show on YOUTUBE, including SUPPER'S READY, the ultimate Prog Rock song. Buy this album. You will not regret it! December 19, 2007

Still the best Genesis LIVE ALBUM 30 years after it was first released!!!

English art rockers Genesis' released its tenth album and their first double live album entitled Seconds Out in November of 1977. Seconds Out is arguably (and IMHO) the band's best live album, and is also one of my Top 5 live rock albums ever made.
Drummer Phil Collins proved an able replacement for Peter Gabriel on vocals, he does excellent on the Gabriel material especially on Firth of Fifth.
The band roars through many of their prog rock gems dating from 1971's Nursery Cryme ("The Musical Box") to 1977's Wind and Wuthering ("Afterglow") such as the opening "Squonk", the classic "Carpet Crawlers" (a/k/a Carpet Crawl as listed on the sleeve), the classic "Firth Of Fifth", "I Know What I Like" (complete with Phil Collins' tambourine dance), "Robbery Assault and Battery", "The Cinema Show" (recorded on 1976, the nearly 25-minute epic Supper's Ready and the closing "Dance on a Volcano"/"Los Endos" medley are all played with great gusto and power.
The other tracks "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"/"The Musical Box" (medley) and "Afterglow" surpass the studio counterparts.
Listening to this 2-disc set, you can almost imagine the band's playing live in Paris in the Spring of 1977 or even Madison Square Garden back in 1977.
In addition to Phil's great vocals and occasional drumming, the other members (Tony Banks' keyboards, Steve Hackett's guitar, Mike Rutherford's bass and touring drummer and at the time lone American in the band for touring purposes Chester Thompson's drumming) are on fire here as well.
Seconds Out is brilliant live Genesis from start to finish. The band's stunning, unforgettable performance of Supper's Ready alone is worth the price of this album alone (I apologize Gabriel fans but Phil sang it better) but all the way around, this is a classic live album.
Seconds Out also said farewell to longtime guitarist Steve Hackett, who left Genesis around the time of this live album's mixing stage in the summer of 1977.
Seconds Out was the first live Genesis album to chart peaking at #41 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977/early 1978 considering that their first live album, 1973's Genesis Live, flopped initially.
Highly recommended! November 10, 2007

seconds out

Sometimes it's nice to be an old f_rt! I've seen Genesis live pretty much every tour since my first...Lamb. What a shock that was....I was expecting Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme and got something completely different! Too bad for me Lamb hadn't been released in the U.S. before the tour.

Anyway, in regards to Seconds Out...if any of you are old enough to remember...Genesis was considered one of the top "live" bands to see at this time...sound, visuals (they pretty much invented the laser show!)....the complete package. THIS ALBUM CAPTURES THE INTENSITY BETTER THAN ANY LIVE COMPILATION OF THE TIME! NO DEBATE...

If you don't own it...and never saw the shows at that time...well, I guess there's always reallity TV to watch....

Turned 50 this year and am lucky enough to have been in the right place at the right time!

Tom September 21, 2007

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