Genesis: Home by the Sea (cover)

Well, technically, it’s “Second Home by the Sea”. It was an interesting exercise in transcription to see how it all fitted together. The prog purists sometimes poo-poo anything post Gabriel, but they did do some good songs in the Phil era too. This is one of them for me!

Oh - I should apologise for the short vocal section at the end. It sounds like it’s sung by someone from The X Factor :rofl: It was a piece of software not a real voice!

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Phil

A multi-instrumental masterpiece: as ever your musical and technical skills are near perfect.

Brian

Truly epic musical production Phil, great work. I’m a Genesis fan :+1:

I just love this song :heart_eyes:
one of my favourite song for Genesis ( my other favourite would be In the cage )

really hard one to play , awesome job !

I just cant wait for your next production !

I am in the Phil Collins Genesis era so loved this!
Excellent renditions, transported me back to 1983…
Richard

WonderPhil stuff as ever! Good to see the hi hat getting an outing. Doesn’t sound like an easy one to transcribe either!

Amazing Phil, to put that all together must have been quite a challenge, excellent

That is brilliant, Phil! Incredible! :exploding_head: :clap:

It’s mindblowing that you play all of this yourself. So skilled, I can’t even express that with words.

May I ask how long it took you to finish this masterpiece?

Thanks for sharing, already looking forward to the next one! :slight_smile:

Private Jones excels yet again with a clean pair of socks to boot. Despite it being post PG there is still a proggy vibe to this one until Phil went full TOTPs. So yeah a goodun for the second era. Production was really polished as in well buffed and not reminiscent of eastern Europe. Was the geezer at the end IA or some other trickery ?

When I saw the title I knew I wanted to immediately listen to it.
Second thing I saw “Twistor59” Ah, of course… who else but you could deliver this one? :slight_smile: Enjoyed it a lot! Thank you Phil!

Always loved this song and also part one that we as public sang along to and had to do the ghost sounds as an intro to the song when Phil Collins told us so. I will have to dig out all my Genesis CDs now :slight_smile:

Haha, now I remember I helped out at the DJ desk at a friends 30th birthday party for a short moment. It was late already and I chose to play “Abacab” and to my surprise the dance floor emptied and the last people went home. Oh, my fault! :grinning_face:
Never understood it! :slight_smile:

Always glad to listen to (and watch) your oeuvres!

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Another superb production, Phil. Difficult to find new superlatives, truly incredible work. Same as Lisa, I always wonder how much time it takes to transcribe, learn to play, record and then mix audio/video together for something like this? :exploding_head:

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Thank you all for your encouraging comments!

I have a short Yes medley mostly done. Someone offered to do the vocals, but we haven’t had the chance to arrange the meeting yet.

@Lisa_S @Boris1565 This one took about two months to do. The hardest part was the drums - what I ended up with was only an approximation to Phil’s part - I only have the drum sample pad and I haven’t practiced much! The guitar was mostly simple triad chords, so not too bad. For the keyboard, this was one where Mr Banks wasn’t being too flashy fortunately!

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Thanks for this glimpse behind the scenes, Phil.

It’s quite impressive, this one was “only” two months given all the parts you had worked out and played yourself, let alone the editing. That’s dedication and passion for music, I guess. Amazing! :slight_smile:

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Amazing Phil!!!
Bravo!!! Can’t wait to see & hear your next post!!!

Tod

What kinda magic brew did you stir up here! Nice job man! :smiley: Pretty interesting, I dont even know what kinda instrument some of those are Lol.

the :man_mage:returns… with a full six-minute epic! :open_mouth:
I’ll not bore you with the superlative complements you’ve already rightly received, but just toss my virtual bouquet :bouquet: at the screen and give you an (IRL) applause :clap: :clap:
Bravo!
Simply out of curiosity, do you sometimes record short clips and then edit them together (or even copy and paste eg. for drums) or tend to stick to playing the whole thing or long sections in one go?
I was quite relieved you didn’t burst into song at the end, leaving the rest of us with that tiny bit of reassurance that none of us are perfect! :wink:
:top_hat: :top_hat: off to you, Sir!

@CATMAN62 Thanks Tod! I have something pretty much ready - just trying to convince someone to add a bit of vocal :rofl:

@Bytron08

I’m guessing you mean the bass pedals Byron? Genesis have always used them as part of their sound!

@brianlarsen Yes, I recorded the drums in sections - I couldn’t hold it all in mind at once - not enough functioning neurons! I did the same for bass - I think I also did the keyboard in two sections. The rhythm gtr I did all in one, so it wasn’t all cheating :rofl:

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