Live a good anyway!

The CD version of "Three Sides Live" has cost the logic of this disc its title (it was in the days of vinyl double-live which three were face "live" and "studio"!). This edition contains the exact list of the "Live" vinyl but proposes instead the pieces "studio" (which seem to be definitely left to rot) three pieces "live" from this tour and a previous tour ( with Bill Bruford on drums!).

One may ask why the publisher has chosen to delete songs "studio" which, if it were not the best GENESIS spawned, were not the least those who were on the original version of the album ! Moreover, the pieces "live" alternative are far from the level! Apart from "One for the vine" whose version is nice, quoiqu'inférieure the studio version of "Wind And Wuthering (2007 Remaster)", the rest painfully drags (the version of "Fountain if Salamcis" is pitiful in comparison of the original shown on "Nursery Cryme" and medley "It / Watcher of the Skies brings nothing, really nothing, the album).

The pieces remain "live" from the original edition. Perfectly representative of GENESIS concerts of this era (1980-1981), they take, if not the best, at least a majority of pieces of "Duke" ("Turn it on again," "Misunderstanding", "Behind the Lines" Duchess ") and painful" Abacab (2007 Digital Remaster) ("Acacab", of course, one of the best album title but also the curious "Dodo" and needy "Me and sarah jane") and " Follow you, follow me, "love song full of hope that Phil Collins was undergoing marital crisis, taken from And Then There Were Three (2007 Remaster)". The machine runs at full speed, the group is perfectly prepared to mega-shows, the musicians provide wonderfully and we must recognize that all is listened pleasantly, even if the side a little more "variet" the group makes one regret intensity "progressive" to "Seconds Out (Definitive Edition Remaster ) ", the masterpiece" live "the group."

Please do not forget the best part: The prodigious medley "In the cage / Cinema show / Slippermen / Afterglow" or group found, for fifteen minutes, the magic of the time Pete Gab '. An absolutely great quarter hour which justifies by itself four stars and without which, we must admit, this "live" would not be worth more than two!

Testimony a little "wobbly" GENESIS the early 80s, this live will still fit in your club, even if it is far from the best album of this legendary group.