Shopping iTunes. You know I didn’t have any old Genesis music in my modern music collection. I had a couple old tapes of Abacab and Invisible Touch on cassette back in the 80s. Though I couldn’t really say that I was a big Genesis fan, they were the first concert I ever went to and all their mid 80s songs were the soundtrack to my college days taking the train to Columbia College hauling around my big old 4×5 view camera and hanging out in the darkroom with my Walkman. Oh those were the days.
All those memories came back tonight when I realized I didn’t have any Genesis in my collection. Now I do, about 27 songs including the complete album of Abacab. The rest are pick and choose from their other albums. And for good measure, one Peter Gabriel fronted song (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway). As for Peter Gabriel I do have a Greatest Hits album from him but looking at my iTunes library I see I only downloaded Shock the Monkey and Games without Frontiers. I should go dig out that old CD and see if there is anything else I might want on the iPod.
While listening to the “new” Genesis stuff I went on Wikipedia to read about Genesis’s history and in true Wikipedia fashion that lead me in all kinds of places finally resting on Adrian Belew listing. I loved Adrian in 1989 around the same time I took these Poloroids that I just dug out and posted on Flickr in honor of ‘Roid Week
Aren’t I cute? 😉
Like I said, I loved Adrian Belew, he was just quirky enough for me and an amazing musician. I didn’t realize he had his fingers in some of my favorite music like Nine Inch Nails and especially Paul Simon’s Graceland which for a long time was my favorite album. So I stopped playing the “new” Genesis and the old Adrian Belew I had and put on Graceland. Now it is time for bed. Good night