Genesis gets into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (in 2010)

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Congratulations to the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees!
Today, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced ABBA, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges as its 2010 artist inductees. Also being inducted this year as individual recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award will be David Geffen and songwriters Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Elle Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell. The ceremony will take place on March 15, 2010 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City and will air live on Fuse, Madison Square Garden’s national music television network, as part of the three-year broadcast deal between the Foundation and Fuse.

“We are very happy to present this year’s inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as they represent a great cross-section of artists that define the broad spectrum and history of rock and roll and people that have contributed immeasurably to our business” says Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation President & CEO Joel Peresman.

The performer inductees are:
ABBA
GENESIS
JIMMY CLIFF
THE HOLLIES
THE STOOGES

Ahmet Ertegun Award (nonperformers):
DAVID GEFFEN
BARRY MANN & CYNTHIA WEIL
ELLIE GREENWICH & JEFF BARRY
JESSE STONE
MORT SHUMAN
OTIS BLACKWELL



The 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performer inductees were chosen by over 500 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. Artists are eligible for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twenty-five years after their first recording is released.

All inductees are ultimately represented in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Through approaches as creative and diverse as the music itself, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
tells the story of rock music with its exhibits, education programs and Library and Archives, which will open to the public in downtown Cleveland in late 2010.

Presenters and performers at the induction will be announced at a later date. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be televised live on Fuse; more information can be found at fuse.tv.

Surprising? certainly. As a Genesis fan, especially the Peter Gabriel work, I won't deny I am happy to see this. Even as much of a joke the Rock Hall in Cleveland is (or has been). Perhaps some of the people voting either a) changed. b) or wised-up finally.

The real evidence will be now having Genesis in there, Yes, Rush, The Moody Blues, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, ELP, even Kansas could follow.

I can't help but think about Kevin Gilbert right now. As huge fan of the Gabriel period, he'd probably be proud, even though I'm sure he felt/would-feel the Rock hall is/has-been as much of a joke as many others like myself.

Deep Purple, Kiss and many others The Ramones? etc should be in there as well. But with Black Sabbath getting in a few years ago it may-have (Metallica) finally changed a bit of the limits of that embarrassing instituition. So as Sabbath did with Metal, Genesis may do with progressive rock. Who knows, maybe Dream Theater and Marillion will find their way in there someday (Marillion would be even more shocking. Porcupine Tree would probably manage to get in 1st, yet arguably PT owe a bit to Marillion certainly).

I'm not sure why I should really care, but I guess it's the never-say-never. If things finally happen, it does change your feeling a bit. But on the other hand, if Gabriel and Phil Collins get in soon-after this, but it's 10 years from now and Rush and Yes aren't in, the feeling about that place and the doors this may open will probably just go away. Because frankly, Genesis were largely more commercially successful than any other "prog" bands save for Pink Floyd. Rush I Suppose is close in some ways, especially in recent years with tv, movie and talk show appearances and references. But Genesis were stadium-worthy back in the late 70's, and just Phil Collins himself probably became bigger than Rush or Genesis alone with his Disney soundtracks and #1 singles.

Plus as I just read Mike Rutherford mention in an interview shying away from the p-word; Genesis to me have always had a different aesthetic than other "prog" bands. It was never about chops with them. They wrote some longer songs, certainly, but they had more of a Beatles-approach to extended songs. It wasn't about chops, but transitioning moods and odd/non-traditional melodies. Theatrical-sense. You could actually call Genesis, mainly with Gabriel "Theatrical-rock" in a way. And to compare that to Dream Theater or Rush even, the emphasis wasn't as much about playing their instruments, but telling a (sophisticated) story.

So in that sense, Genesis were more like Floyd than the musicianship that prog is often thought-of.

Still, to have them finally get in says something. Let's hope it says even more for some of those deserving acts in that signficiant but largely-ignored (and laughed-at) genre.

I wonder what they'll play, or if Peter, Steve, and especially Phil will BE ABLE to play? a Gabriel-reunion from this is really a silly notion, but I'm sure some press will speculate about it.

Peter: I'm looking forward to checking out "Scratch My Back," the new orchestral covers album coming in February; however if this doesn't influence a reunion with the guys, perhaps it will at least give more evidence that the long-awaited I/O record actually will become more than just a name for a possible future album. It only has been 7+ years since Up, lol.

Kevin Gilbert - Nuts and Bolts liner notes from Cintra Wilson

I transcribed them, and feel they are worth more people seeing just to understand why his music is so significant.



It has been twelve-odd years since Kevin Gilbert's untimely death at the tender age of twenty-nine. Those of us who knew and loved him best still miss him a lot and think about him all the time.- and when we think about him (I think I speak for most of us) we think: "Damn, I wish Kev could drop back in for a day, so he could whup out a few of his casually brilliant, hilarious musical comments on our current state of affairs, and also that we might have the opportunity to dummy-slap the tar out of him for depriving the rest of our lives of his peerless talent and exquisite company."

It's hard to say what direction Kevin might have gone in as a songwriter in the last decade. His evolution always happened in leaps, fits and spurts. His personal, professional and creative selves were always wadded up in the same sock drawer - damp, tangled and bleeding colors all over each other. He was already profoundly jaded by Hollywood: his eventual compromise with those Powers That Be would surely have been painful - either for him, for them, or for us. He was already so ferociously appalled by American life that it is hard to imagine him lasting even the first four years of the Bush administration without either moving to Amsterdam or stripping down to a red, white and blue vinyl G-string and immolating himself on the White House lawn. But then again, he never really cared much about what happened in Washington. He had enough political difficulties in his own job. It was a juggling act; he was a showman, in the Bob Fosse sense of the word ("All That Jazz" was, incidentally one of his favorite films), always walking that razor-sharp, piano-wire line between the razzle-dazzle of 'entertaining,' and digging deep, telling the truth, and revealing himself. He encountered the most opposition from his professional world when he felt he was being most courageous: exposing parts of himself that even he didn't particularly want to see hanging around his own living room... let alone singing. He had a profound sense of justice, a nearly pathological need to be honest about tendencies most people would protect themselves by concealing, and a burning sense that he was, in a way, speaking up for underdogs everywhere - he had nearly boundless compassion for people victimized by their own demons.

That was the paradoxical power of Kevin's songs: they are funny, catchy, sometimes too sweet, occasionally too maudlin, always virtuosic, always excruciatingly truthful journalistic dispatches by a reporter at war with himself.

Like Mendelssohn or Jell-O tequila shooters, Kev was always a strong acquired taste...but in a proper mood of submission and indulgence, you might be deeply surprised by what you'd find in your ear.

This collection shows off many facets of the 18-sided die that was Kevin - the twee, sentimental prog-rock troubadour; the emotionally stark naked guy, standing in the dark night of the soul without shoes, shame or raincoat; the caring brother who wrote "Shannon Elizabeth" for his newborn niece; the petulant jerk lashing out a poison pen letter to his ex disguised as a love song to his dog, and most of all: the disappointed, embittered poet who nonetheless tried to redeem his own life, and yours, through piercingly beautiful music...and often succeeded.

What becomes really obvious listening to these tracks is that Kevin Gilbert, as existentially depressing, romantically bereft, and morally liminal as he could be, was a totally blinding, white-hot genius. History may have its share of talented songwriters, and some may have been more well-known or more widely appreciated, but none, really, were any better than Kevin. He truly was, ladies and gentleman, an artist at the apex of human ability in his chosen medium - and those don't come around every day. It's the kind of genius that you're a little more awestruck by each passing year, because even in the midst of certain tangy synthesizer sounds endemic to the year he wrote them, you realize that fundamentally, Kevin's songs are as potent today as they were ten years ago. They're real art: they're timeless.

Of course, what was really interesting about Kevin Gilbert - what Kevin found most interesting, anyway - was his love-life, and the trials he suffered, bedding numerous beautiful women - blondes, primarily - during his short reign on earth (it must be remembered that he began his professional life while still a teen, touring as a keyboardist for rock legend Eddie Money.)What I can tell you from personal experience is that ten inches is a conservative estimate...(to be continued in liner notes of "Bolts.")

Cintra Wilson, 2009



...like I was saying, to pick up where I left off in the previous liner-notes for "Nuts," ten inches is a conservative estimate of how thick Kevin Gilbert's little black book was, and the angsty feelings resulting from these romantic entanglements certainly weren't his alone, but we can safely say he wrote better songs about them than any of his girlfriends.

Anyway, in the legendary graphic novel "Transmetropolitan" by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson, there is a religious movement in which one voluntarily discards the earthly body and "downloads" one's entire consciousness into a cloud of nanobots, and becomes a vapor-state known as a "foglet." the star of the series, future journalist Spider Jerusalem, rhetorically asks:

"If a guy has a prosthetic leg, is he still still human?... How about if he had two artificial legs? Artificial arms? A plastic heart? Carbon fibre bones? Artificial neurons? Where do you stop being human?"

You don't is the conclusion these drawings draw; a foglet is the ultimate, sentient, "postbiological man."

"You could download a mind out of its - let's face it - eminently crappy, badly designed human body and into a seriously useful and functionally immortal artificial form,"

said Spider Jerusalem.

Which leads me to further discussion of the Kevin Gilbert codex.

It's not the wit and sophistication of Kevin's lyrics. It's not the torturously thoughtful production values. It's not even his virtuosic musicianship or that sailing voice - it's the fact that twelve years after his death with a pair of headphones, he still is urgently, throbbingly real, ridiculous, vindictive, whiny, sarcastic, stunningly smart and painfully earnest all at the same time. He is still so beautiful, infuriating and immediate you still want to reach out and hug him and/or cry uncontrollably and/or hurl your coffee mug at him. His ability to press any number of out emotional buttons, for good or ill, is as strong now as it ever was when he was a living, breathing tortured genius-cum-lover-cum-brother-cum-collaborator-cum-friend.

Whatever form Kevin's soul is currently inhabiting in the space-time continuum, it is a safe bet that he still can't find his car keys; it is also safe to say that some eternal part of him is still waiting to feel that enough other people ultimately got him... that his music resounded, was understood, was loved, as listened to, and was necessary.

The songs in this collection have an impact more forceful than Kevin or anyone else ever gave him enough credit for. If you had the good fortune to know Kevin Gilbert while he slouched around earth, you were lucky, especially if you had a piano for him to fool around with. If you didn't know Kev, you're probably better off - he could be a really infectious downer sometimes, especially after he finished your bourbon; and it was inevitable that he'd say something unbelievably rude to several of your guests. But then again, that special charmlessness was half of his enduring charm.

If you still want to meet Kevin Mathew Gilbert - the "Canvas Mattress" himself (his infant brother somehow couldn't pronounce his name any other way) - you have the opportunity to meet Kevin now. He's like a Transmetropolitan foglet. He's still all in there. All of him. Right inside the music. he spared no molecule of himself to make it, and this is why these discs make him immortal. They were, very consciously, imbued by Kevin with the sum total of his own soul.

Cintra Wilson, 2009


"The Best of Everything" may be my newest favorite KG track. Such a perfect piano ballad. I should write something more extensive about these 2, and the Welcome to Joytown DVD soon.

I also should try and find that graphic novel Cintra Wilson referenced "Transmetropolitan" as it sounds intriguing, I've been kind of into graphic novels of late reading "David Boring" recently, "Ex Machina" and "Y: The Last Man" earlier this year. It sounds up my alley, even beyond the fact she referenced it with Kevin.

A Transition..and comments..news..etc

Postings during the day = gone.

To put it simply, I won't be online during the workday anymore, now until the unforeseeable future.

No big deal I hope. But it's a wakeup call.

I got to hear the Local Natives album finally. I'm pretty sure it lived up to my hopes. That band just knows how to write really good songs. And they have their own sound.

if I find the means, a lot more to be told here and rym about that rather soon. Debut album of the year likely, and pretty reasonable chance a top 10 candidate.

The only question is how long it takes until their name becomes a lot more commonly known. I was around in December 2006 ya'll..it's wonderful yet could be sad. But they deserve the success they should get rather soon. Lookout Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, and Animal Collective.

Seeing probably the new Michael Moore movie tonight to take my mind off the stress at work today. Words should come soon after as well.

Twins everything. FTR, I expect them to lose in 4 to New York, but if they somehow upset them, I wouldn't be shocked. Gardy still hasn't proved much as a post-season manager, but this team has no pressure on them, his others kind of all did.

as a result of my change in daily web limits, I may actually be able to do more reading, so perhaps this blog will start to include some literary reviews. Guess I'll see. But I have a a number of things to do now with this change, however unexpected they were.

6 shows next week, lol:


10/12 Fair to Midland
10/13 Warpaint/School of 7 Bells
10/14 Telluric Currents (Greg Herriges) FREE
10/15 Monte Montgomery (and I think) Lehto and Wright
10/17 Mute Math w/ As Tall As Lions
10/18 Mahogany Frog



new FTM demo is doing well on the 93X Cage Match, having won 2 nights in a row. Certainly should be nice to see them and talk to the members, especially Cliff about that.

dredg is filming a DVD for their November 1st show in Dortmund, Germany. Possibly 3 hours and some of the EP/B-side/Unreleased tracks could be played. Wish i lived in Germany, blah blah..

Kevin Gilbert 2 studio and live dvd/cd it appears could be available by Halloween. The wait isn't too far away. Those/That will be as big a deal for a new album to hear all year for me, even moreso than the Local Natives today. Soh soooooon.

KG, Orphaned Land, PT

The live Gruno "Guilty Pleasures" radio show last night, was a pleasure to finally get to hear the new Kevin Gilbert material.

I want it now, more than ever. Likely a few weeks from now, it'll finally be up for purchase on popplusone.com . Production-wise among other things, has me the most overjoyed to experience. And certainly, among the rest, "The Tired Old Man" remains my most cherished new track on them thus far. Such a stellar composition. I bet a lot of people will be talking about that one once they get to hear it.

Orphaned Land's long-awaited/anticipated and Steven Wilson-mixed record "The Neverending Way of ORwarriOR" has been pushed back again, until Christmas 2009/January 2010.

Surprised? no....put it out the best way possible. I want it asap, but I understand the delay. Perhaps getting to chat with them at ProgPowerUSA in a few weeks will add more to my feelings about it. Hearing some of it live too, etc.

http://www.orphaned-disciples.org/site/

Welcome to our new fan site!

I wish to thank Nathalie and Yannick for their efforts and endless love while resurrecting this site – toda achim sheli! I wanted to update you all that we are in the end of mixing process, soon we will do the mastering for the new album and then we will finally set with Century media an official release date for the album.

As you might understood from my video interview – the album will also be released on a very good looking limited edition that will include a dvd with film of how we made the new album, that is with interviews with us, Steven Wilson and more and of course we will get you in the studio to go through the experience with us. PRE-ORDERS WILL START SOON!

More updates and surprises soon as well, till then, turn on the light!

Kobi Farhi.

http://antonsaysdotcom.livejournal.com/7002.html

Latest updates from Orphaned Land:
According to interviews wih Kobi Farhi (http://www.orphaned-disciples.org/site/):
-> The album will contain around 15 songs (79 minutes).
-> The album's artwork won't contain any photoshopped images.
-> The album's artwork will contain customly designed calligraphy in Arabic AND Hebrew.
-> On ORwarriOR Kobi Farhi will sing in English, Hebrew and Arabic.
-> The album will be released with a DVD.
-> Release of the album will be delayed until Christmas 2009 - January 2010.
-> Kobi Farhi's book "A Tango Between God and Satan" is almost ready. He may finish it in 2009-2010 tours. The release date in not known.
-> ORwarriOR's final mixes are (almost) ready (by mid August).
-> Several songs from the new material were performed live at Brutal Assault festival (06/08/09, Czech Republic).
-> Besides "Sapari" (see below) some of ORwarriOR songs' titles might be "Baraka" and "From Broken Vessels".
-> The album will also include a "follow-up" to a track previously released on "El Nora Alila: Deluxe edition" (2006) "Disciples of the Sacred Oath" - "Disciples of the Sacred Oath II". Kobi Farhi mentioned that this song is his favorite song on ORwarriOR.
(Source: http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/o...l-assault.html)




and also invilving Steven Wilson, having heard a subpar leak of the new Porcupine Tree cd "The Incident" disc 1 thus far, I like some of the parts, and some of it I'm not so sure about..namely a large chunk of "Time Flies" in fact.

It requires a lot more time, but perhaps they have come to the point where they continue to include an EP's worth of really good stuff, and the rest?..not so much. Maybe it'll grow and maybe the cohesiveness of all 55minutes will help it out over time. But I'm not expecting it to a huge amount at this point.

Kevin Gilbert....Kevin Gilbert...Kevin MOTHER-FUCKING Gilbert

from LAST PLANE OUT Kevin Gilbert Yahoo Group/Email List



SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO ALL KEVIN GILBERT FANS! COMING THIS SEPTEMBER!

The Estate of Kevin Gilbert is excited to announce the long-awaited release of Kevin's singer/songwriter CD's: (1) Nuts (2) Bolts and the concert DVD/CD combo: (3)Welcome to Joytown – Thud: Live at the Troubadour.

Each CD (Nuts and Bolts ) contains 11 unreleased tracks and are in book-matching digipaks designed by Hugh Brown with liner notes by Cintra Wilson. Each CD is $15.

The live concert DVD/CD package, Welcome to Joytown –Thud: Live at The Troubadour, features a three-camera shoot of the show with freshly mastered sound. The newly re-mastered CD has two unreleased songs from the show. The cost of this package is $30

ADDED BONUS: The first 1000 copies of Welcome to Joytown – Thud: Live at the Troubadour contain a chance to win one of ten, incredibly rare, autographed copies of The Power of Suggestion. There will be a mail-in, custom-printed, entry form in each of the first 1000 packages. The Estate will hold a drawing to select ten winners in April, 2010. Entries postmarked later than March 31, 2010 will not be accepted.

Note: Autographed copies of The Power of Suggestion have been selling for around $300.

Celebrating the releases, Hugh Brown has designed a new Kevin Gilbert T-Shirt. It is available for $20.

All items will be available at http://www.popplusone.com in September, 2009 – just in time for your Christmas shopping. Credit cards, personal checks, and Pay Pal are accepted.

For more information, please visit Kevin's newly redesigned website at http://www.kevingilbert.com

If you have any questions, please drop me a line at suitfugue@yahoo.com.

Enjoy! Believe me, you'll agree it was definitely worth the wait!

Debbie Miller
Webmaster kevingilbert.com

ummm..I just about died.

Soundscape's Grave New World now officially has a BIG challenger to try and hold off. Mannn..I officially need to start a bloody COUNTDOWN to hear these.

FINAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DETAILS:

http://popplusone.com/kgnuts.html



# The World Just Gets Smaller
# While Heroes Cry
# Until I Get Her Back
# When Strangers Part
# Finally Over You
# Circling Winds
# Shannon Elizabeth
# A Tired Old Man
# Childhood's End
# Joy Town (Acoustic Version)
# Kashmir (Studio Version)

http://popplusone.com/kgbolts.html




# Waking The Sun
# Jenny Ledge (Acoustic Version)
# Something Nice For My Dog
# Souvenir
# God's Been Tapping My Phone
# Goodness Gracious (Acoustic)
# The Best Of Everything
# Blank Page
# Taxi Ride
# Lonely Road
# Finale

http://popplusone.com/kgjoytown.html?popplusone_KMG06_http://www.popplusone.com/kgjoytown.html




* Waking The Sun
* Joy Town
* Goodness Gracious
* Shrug (Because Of You)
* Waiting
* Tea For One
* Miss Broadway
* The Tears Of Audrey
* When You Give Your Love To Me
* The Ballad Of Jenny Ledge
* Kashmir
* Smash
* Song For A Dead Friend (CD only)

Bonus Video Material

* Song For A Dead Friend - Kevin Solo - Live at Club Largo 1994
* This Warm Night Giraffe, Rare Footage
* Because Of You Giraffe, Rare Footage
* 1995 Interview with Kevin at Lawnmower and Garden Supply Studio - 32 minutes


$30 + shipping Buy Now!
A limited, numbered edition DVD/CD combo with cover designed by Grammy winner Hugh Brown. The DVD contains a 3 camera video of the entire live performance, freshly mastered sound, and over 30 minutes of extras including an extensive interview of Kevin and rare live footage. The re-mastered CD includes previously unreleased versions of "Tears of Audrey" and "Smash."