Monday, December 6, 2010

Brand X - 1975-07-30 - Marquee Club, London

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Dr. Forrester said...

Brand X
Robim Lumley- keyboards
John Goodsall- guitar
Percy Jones- bass
Morris Pert- percussion
Phil Collins- drums
Marquee Club, London, U.K.
July 30, 1976
performance quality: A-
recording quality: B (very good stereo aud)
source: audience tape (2nd gen?)
setlist: disc 1 50:50
1: running on three
2: tales of ancient mysteries
3: kugel blitz
4: why should I lend you mine
(when you've broken yours off already?!) >
maybe I should lend you mine after all
5: born ugly
disc 2: 40:21
6: malaga virgen
7: Tunisian faces
8: talk and tuning
9: nuclear burn
10: smacks of euphoric hysteria
total runtime: 91:31

comments:
I got this recording several years ago in one of my 1st CD trades, but the copy I got
had low levels, and needed DC offsetting (alot). So I adjusted the DC offset and levels,
and The copy I got after that was better sounding (crisper and clearer) sounds low-gen.
and I felt compelled to share it since it is my favorite live Brand X performance.
(I've seen 3, heard about 20).
At this point they knew the "Unorthodox Behaviour" songs quite well and this seems to be
the full show from the Marquee, which is not a very large place at all. They were playing
some of the Morrocan Roll songs too (Malaga Virgen and Why should I lend you mine... in
this one) I'm pretty sure the untitled tracks are all not on those 1st 2 (or any other)
official Brand X releases in any form, and none of this concert has been released as far
as I know. It's a very good audience recording, frankly one of the best sounding 70's
Brand X auds I've heard, and a fresh, jammy show with lots of the prime material.
if you have any interest at all in John Goodsall, Percy Jones and/or Philip Collins
(that's how he was often addressed with Brand X) from this era, you really should hear
this if you haven't already. I don't know how much lineage there is here, but the guy I
got it from got all his stuff on reels, so there may be just 1 cassette in the lineage
and I suspect, 2 or 3 analog generations at most. I think it was Collins who had the
album "the other side of the mirror"? No, Stevie Nicks had the album, but Phil had
something like that too, and Brand X is the other side of Phil's mirror, the side rarely
seen or heard compared to Genesis, with and after Peter Gabriel. It is not necessarily
the inferior side. Phil does have frontman talent too, but if you ask me, this is
what Phil Collins does best. Play drums. He was good with Genesis too at that, even better
with Brand X and especially in 1976, a very good and very busy year for him with
Brand X and Genesis. In Brand X, Phil is a frontman at the back of the stage. The songs
in my other Brand X 76 upload are mostly different ones than this. I like variety in my
uploads. Not overkill.

December 6, 2010 at 3:18 PM

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