Genesis.

Saddleworth2 said:
Each to their own mate and my choice of words could have been more accurate. What I should have said is that the loss of Hackett had a far greater impact on the bands music than when PG left and was a blow from which they never recovered musically. A guitar sound and a delicacy of arrangement they would lose for ever. Unlike you, I believe their music nose dived when he left. Their attempts at prog rock post Hackett are pale imitations of what went before. Trespass was a very inconsistent album with one or two standout tracks. Their creative peak ranged from Nursery Cryme to Seconds out. I have been fortunate to see them live from Foxtrot onwards and continue to attend SH annual jamboree.
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Thanks for that reply pal, and yep I think we are on the same page in lots of respects, and certainly I agree the era SH was when the band was at their best overall, absolutely.
 
I have seen lots of excellent restorative works from the olden days of proggresive rock and numerous from tommygun https://www.youtube.com/@Tommygun1028/videos that are par exquisite for the course.

Here's G Music and company, emphasizing the painstaking work that's carried out behind the scenes to recreate our love of this musical genre, thank you very much to all of them for the work they do.

Early Genesis live from Shepperton studios 1973 on 16mm film (HD) G music (Genesis Museum)
Words cannot even begin to express how classic the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis was.



Watcher of the Skies (00:00)
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (8:36)
I Know What I Like (17:40
The Musical Box (24:00)
Supper's Ready (37:10)

It was 40 years ago that Genesis performed in this studio and 10 years ago that I did our first transfer of this 16mm film in PAL format (720x576). The results of this effort along with the generosity at meeksgenesis, SAB for the audio work, RH for the artwork, and a host of others well documented, created a masterpiece that has been used countless times after on TV, bootlegs, "review" DVDs, and even the official Genesis boxed sets. Who would have thought that our work would go so far? Well, I am here to try to push the envelope a little further... I give you Shepperton HD.​

16mm is used for amateur (and even professional) filmmaking so there are many more transfer options than for 8mm. But the best of the best is the Spirit DataCine in 2K (2048 pixel CCD resolution) and is used for Hollywood films, as well as PG's recent Secret World Blu-Ray DVD. Of course it is far more common nowadays to see 35mm, transferred by the Spirit in 4K since the film is bigger. They also make an 8mm gate for the Spirit, but because the smaller film size can only use 1K of the resolution (less than HD) this caused debates as to whether it is worthwhile and makes this 8mm gate extremely expensive and almost unheard of. You may also notice that the gate on the Spirit is a little bigger than the previous transfer, maybe 3-5% or so of extra image around the edges. This is still a 4:3 aspect ratio, but more of the stage can be seen than ever before.​

The definition we are presented with here is amazing HD (1440x1080), and a beautifully low contrast image. If you thought it was impossible to see more detail than the DVD we created 10 years back, your eyes will feast on this. Cymbal grooves, wood grain, each string on a 12-string guitar...it's all here. Of course in addition to even more film grain, we can see new imperfections like hairs and dust. But I noticed that most of these imperfections switch as the camera view switches, and then switch back when the angle switches back. This means is that these are as a result of the original film recording/creation/editing, and are permanently on the print I have and cannot be removed. I did "clean" some of these digitally, but this is an inexact process and I estimate I was able to remove only about 30% of these imperfections.​

The Spirit allowed for better color adjustment during the transfer, so I had less work to do on the color this time. However, the color on this film is kinda a nightmare. One example of the color issues occurs at the end of The Musical Box, where three separate shots show a perfect black background, a cut to a shot with a blue background, followed by a shot that is balanced towards green...all in a matter of a few seconds. So not only has the film been spliced (each splice mark can be seen in HD) between films with a different color balance, but there is sometimes a different color on the right side of the film than the left side of the film in the same scene. I corrected as much as realistically possible, but it is far from perfect.​

Because of the amazing video transfer, I felt that the audio was a not a good match in quality. This 16mm film uses "optical" audio, printed down the side of the film like waveforms. This is common for 16mm and fine for dialogue, but not good for music. And unfortunately, there is no great machine to get a better audio transfer, and no great audio source has been discovered even after all these years. So I decided to resync it. Of course there are stories before some songs that could not be redubbed, so they are there in their original form. But I estimate that I was able to achieve about a 90% match for the entire film. I used various soundboards and radio shows, switched and layered and cheated and fine tuned to get it as close as possible. Thanks to Willem for help reviewing my work and suggesting alternate audio sources, and to Dave Raphael for some amazing original artwork as well as suggestions on the film itself.​

 
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Two Gun Bob said:
I have seen lots of excellent restorative works from the old days of prog rock and plenty from the esteemed https://www.youtube.com/@Tommygun-fg1lb/videos that are par exscuisite for the course.

Here for your perusal is G Music and co, ephasising their painstaking work that's carried out behind the scenes to recreate our love of this musical genre, thank you very much indeed for all the work you do.

Early Genesis live from Shepperton studios 1973 on 16mm film (HD) G music (Genesis Museum)
(Words cannot even begin to express how classic the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis was)


Watcher of the Skies (00:00)
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (8:36)
I Know What I Like (17:40
The Musical Box (24:00)
Supper's Ready (37:10)

It was 40 years ago that Genesis performed in this studio and 10 years ago that I did our first transfer of this 16mm film in PAL format (720x576). The results of this effort along with the generosity at meeksgenesis, SAB for the audio work, RH for the artwork, and a host of others well documented, created a masterpiece that has been used countless times after on TV, bootlegs, "review" DVDs, and even the official Genesis boxed sets. Who would have thought that our work would go so far? Well, I am here to try to push the envelope a little further... I give you Shepperton HD.​

16mm is used for amateur (and even professional) filmmaking so there are many more transfer options than for 8mm. But the best of the best is the Spirit DataCine in 2K (2048 pixel CCD resolution) and is used for Hollywood films, as well as PG's recent Secret World Blu-Ray DVD. Of course it is far more common nowadays to see 35mm, transferred by the Spirit in 4K since the film is bigger. They also make an 8mm gate for the Spirit, but because the smaller film size can only use 1K of the resolution (less than HD) this caused debates as to whether it is worthwhile and makes this 8mm gate extremely expensive and almost unheard of. You may also notice that the gate on the Spirit is a little bigger than the previous transfer, maybe 3-5% or so of extra image around the edges. This is still a 4:3 aspect ratio, but more of the stage can be seen than ever before.​

The definition we are presented with here is amazing HD (1440x1080), and a beautifully low contrast image. If you thought it was impossible to see more detail than the DVD we created 10 years back, your eyes will feast on this. Cymbal grooves, wood grain, each string on a 12-string guitar...it's all here. Of course in addition to even more film grain, we can see new imperfections like hairs and dust. But I noticed that most of these imperfections switch as the camera view switches, and then switch back when the angle switches back. This means is that these are as a result of the original film recording/creation/editing, and are permanently on the print I have and cannot be removed. I did "clean" some of these digitally, but this is an inexact process and I estimate I was able to remove only about 30% of these imperfections.​

The Spirit allowed for better color adjustment during the transfer, so I had less work to do on the color this time. However, the color on this film is kinda a nightmare. One example of the color issues occurs at the end of The Musical Box, where three separate shots show a perfect black background, a cut to a shot with a blue background, followed by a shot that is balanced towards green...all in a matter of a few seconds. So not only has the film been spliced (each splice mark can be seen in HD) between films with a different color balance, but there is sometimes a different color on the right side of the film than the left side of the film in the same scene. I corrected as much as realistically possible, but it is far from perfect.​

Because of the amazing video transfer, I felt that the audio was a not a good match in quality. This 16mm film uses "optical" audio, printed down the side of the film like waveforms. This is common for 16mm and fine for dialogue, but not good for music. And unfortunately, there is no great machine to get a better audio transfer, and no great audio source has been discovered even after all these years. So I decided to resync it. Of course there are stories before some songs that could not be redubbed, so they are there in their original form. But I estimate that I was able to achieve about a 90% match for the entire film. I used various soundboards and radio shows, switched and layered and cheated and fine tuned to get it as close as possible. Thanks to Willem for help reviewing my work and suggesting alternate audio sources, and to Dave Raphael for some amazing original artwork as well as suggestions on the film itself.​

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Love Watcher of the skies and Dancing with the Moonlit Knight. Know what I like, Musical box and Suppers ready, prefer Seconds Out version. Thanks for posting though, good to reminisce
 
Well. Just got back from seeing Hackett in Bristol.

What a show.

Selection of Lamb songs performed to perfection, and then an additional treat of Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, Cinema Show, Firth of Fifth and Los Endos.

Would have liked a couple of additional Lamb personal favourites, but no complaints.

Shadow of the Heirephant was also spine-tinglingy good and the arena was reverberating with it.

The guy is a genius, and his sound is the Genesis sound as far as I’m concerned.

Hoping for a Trick of the Tail tour next year
 
Two Gun Bob said:
Two different bands without Gabriel. The voice .. the energy .. the joy de vivre!
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He is amazing! I’ve been listening to his songs non-stop and definitely want to find more of his work. But first, I need to sort out some of my own responsibilities. I’m thinking about looking up more information on a reliable writing service to help manage my workload. It’s been tough balancing everything, and I could really use the extra support so I can focus on enjoying music and other things I love.
 
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