Chords for Analysis: Cinema Show Repair

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_ _ _ _ Greetings, fellow Rainbow [A] Theater Cinema Show [Dm] enthusiasts.
Well, welcome to this special guided side tour
into [Cm] one of the more beguiling restored [D] keyboard repairs
done for the extras [G] disc off of the Genesis 1973
[F] through 2007 live box set by Genesis editing guru, Nick Davis.
Well, as most of you know, my previous analysis videos
addressed mainly vocal or lead guitar [N] retrackings
or live substitutions of portions
of the rare single performance multitrack
recordings from the Shrine Auditorium's The Lamb
or the Rainbow Theater's Supper's Ready concerts.
[A#] Well, this is due to Peter Gabriel's partial [E] laryngitis
or tour shredded voice depending on which tour it was,
[A#m] or Steve Hackett's mending, severed [C#m] left thumb
[D#] tendon and controlling [A#] nerve.
This comparison tonight is slightly different, though,
thanks to the [G#m] conditions of a finicky exacting
set of electric keyboards and an [N] _ exasperated artist
trying to keep up with his demanding and lengthy live keyboard solo.
Well, this particular video is dedicated
to reviewing the required 2007 studio repairs to Tony Banks's
part in the _ 1973's The Cinema Show at the Rainbow Theater.
When you hear the problems that Tony's equipment was giving him
that night during his commanding end solo,
you'll quickly see why the farm's resident curating
engineer was called in to work his editing pro tools magic
to make it seamless once more.
[C#m] Well, Nick Davis tells the story of having the 56, 57-year-old
[N] Tony step back into the studio to once again play
his famous cinema show solo at his 23-year-old self speed
and duplicate fingering and having a bit of difficulty
in keeping up with himself.
Tony wrote of the Rainbow that, quote,
trying to play what I had written was sometimes difficult.
I was able to work out a version so that I could play them
on the albums.
And then when we started playing them on live performances,
well, they were doubly difficult because the pieces just
got faster and faster.
This cinema show version, he said,
was probably the fastest we ever did it.
Nick adds, quote, we did a couple of keyboard repairs
on this version of the cinema show
and that it was so fast that Tony couldn't play it anymore.
Well, we tried for a couple of hours.
And in the end, he did the repair at half speed
and played down an octave.
This is definitely fun trying to compare
against the unrepaired version.
And so that's what we're going to do right now.
We're going to take it from the launch into Tony's epic solo
and then compare between the two individual songs
and see the baubles and their attendant flown in repairs.
Here we go with the raw [E] version. _ _ _
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Here's the bauble coming up.
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ OK.
Here's the repaired version.
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[F#m] _ _ _ _ And going back to [G] the raw.
_ _ _ _ _ Here [A] comes another bauble.
_ _ [Em] Right there. _
_ _ _ [F#] Here's the repaired. _ _
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Here's the raw. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] So that's [F#m] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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_ [F#m] _ [C#] it all for this.
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[F#m] _ _ Well, there you [G] have it, the hard core side-by-side [A] comparison
of [Bm] what was [Em] and what it became,
thanks to [C#m] Tony [Em] Banks and Nick [F#m] Davis's day at [Em] the office.
_ Well, [E] Nick reports that my very [B] favorite version of the cinema [C#m] show
is indeed the one on the extras [E] disc.
And it was played so fast, as you [G] can hear,
it gives [D] such incredible [C#m] energy.
If you listen to the [E] seconds out version [Em] after that,
it [A] really sounds dull.
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Well, there's no doubt that many of us agree [G] with that assessment,
considering that the [F] historic Rainbow Concert
also showed what an exceptional live band Genesis [Am] was,
even in the early days [A] when the musical equipment
[Gm] and supporting technology, or lack thereof,
of that [C] era was especially problematic. _
And considering for all that [Gm] which was plaguing the band in the early _ 1970s,
the tube circuitry, the early solid-state boards,
the nearly prehistoric analog [F] instruments,
[F#] the self [C]-designed staging and lighting,
[F#] this concert had very little done to it
in [B] terms of revisionist overdubbing.
And when it's all said and done, that [Bm] is the extras disc.
It's a beauty.
True, there was a technically marred solo replaced [Am] here and there,
like this one,
and some hoarse vocalizations on a few of the softer intro sections were recut.
But in total, considering that it was a [A] beginning-to-end full,
rare, multi-track recording,
it serves as an amazing [E] musical time portal [D] into the past.
For those of us not lucky enough to live in [Am] Great Britain
and experience the days of early Genesis [G] ourselves.
[G#] It truly feels, while one is listening to Nick's 5.1 [C#m] surround sound restoration,
that we are all sitting [E] right there in the front row of the Rainbow Theatre,
enjoying it together.
At least that's the way that I feel about it,
and hopefully [Am] you agree if you're tuning into this series.
But hey, [F#] remember, no live show [D] is perfectly seamless.
[F] But therein lies the beauty of them.
[C] As Mike Rutherford has put [G] forth,
the stage has been a [Bm] huge part of our life.
[F#] Listening to these shows are not at all [C#m] about spotting the [A] details [E] and the mistakes.
The old songs captured the way we could play at the time.
That was then, and that is absolutely _ [Am] fine."
And in my humble opinion,
the 5 [D].1 surround restoration of the Rainbow Theatre [Dm] concert from 1973
[A#] is more than just absolutely fine.
It's [N] absolutely brilliant.
Well, have a good night, everyone.
[Em] See you for the Rainbow Theatre's version of Analysis Supper's Ready.
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