GENESIS - BBC Sessions 1 (January 1970 - May 1971) - SPA Top Gear Edition - LISTEN - VERY RARE

This brilliant, fan-club, Spanish CD contains very early, fantastic material recorded for BBC radio/TV between early winter 1970 and spring 1971 - that is, at a time when the band was only becoming the greatest (alongside Pink Floyd) progressive institution. This 80-minute disc, released in a run of 500 copies, brings together recordings of three sessions - two of them with guitarist Anthony Phillips and drummer John Mayhew. All eleven tracks have survived in perfect sound quality. The first session consists of four instrumental, beautiful pieces composed for a television film, the second contains, among others, three unreleased, ballad-progressive compositions, and the third (recorded already in the classic line-up with Collins and Hackett) contains, among others, an early version of 'The Musical Box' that is 80 seconds longer. In addition three bonus tracks are included - among them the only recorded version of the completely unknown track "The Light" and one of two or three live performances of the dynamic, but never officially released "Going Out To Get You". Both recordings had appeared on classic bootlegs, but now they sound slightly better. The BBC sessions were to be released officially in 1998 (a few test copies even came out), but in the end the project was halted by Tony Banks. An absolute must! (JL)