Petes Stories auf Konzerten zwischen den Songs

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Pete's introduction to The Musical Box - UK Tour 1971. Thanks to Jim Hardy for the transcription of this introduction.
Pete (In soprano) " 'Henry, Henry, Henry, whats happened to our game of croquet?' (Normal voice), cried little Henrietta. Henry found croquet completly irrestible, and so he rushed out onto the front lawn to join his little sister. Just as play was about to commence, she raised her croquet mallet in the air and with one fair swoop, she removed little Henry's head. This had the effect of killing him. (Crowd laughter)
Two weeks later, she was in Henry's old room, and she found an old musical box which used to play the tune of "Old King Cole" and when she opened the musical box and the tune began to ring out, a strange, somewhat familiar pair of green knickerbockers were mysteriously lowered from the ceiling. Into these Henry was dropped. He'd been given a second round. Always a bit on the roundy side, Henry found himself a young lady and he led this young lady up the old wooden stairs into the attic to show off his very fine watertank. (Crowd laughter)
The nurse was downstairs however and she heard strange noises, so rushed up, picked up the musical box and instinctively smashed it into the bearded child, destroying both.
In the middle of this number, we've arranged for a small pair of satin green knicerbockers into which, very casually, a naked Eddie Waring will be dropped. (Crowd laughter and applause) This is called 'The Musical Box' (applause)

Narration by Peter at Watford - 28th June 1972, as Phil is doing his drum solo.
"...Some of you may even have heard this before...Seven years ago Philip Collins left to go to Russia to study for this, tonight's performance of the one handed drum solo. He studied under a famous Russian spastic [Laughs]. It's very exciting...(Phil pauses for a second)...You fluffed that one Phil [Laughs]...Then he grew a big...[pause and laughter]...a leg [base drum starts]...then you add another hand, 2 hands..blow it man..and you leave him to it..[Phil carries on bashing out]

Introduction to The Fountain Of Salmacis, as told by Peter Gabriel, Switzerland January 1972. Thanks to Eric Jonathan Hall for this transcription.
This is from Nursery Cryme, and it tells the tale of the first hermaphrodite, who is the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, and his name is Hermaphroditus. And he goes for a walk in the woods, and sees this nymph, Salmacis. And he's much taken with this nymph Salmacis; she has plenty of, er, bluibluibluibluiblui. And, er, the nymph Salmacis is very much taken with him, too. And she looks up to the heavens and prays, and all of a sudden the woman and the man are joined together, producing only one, the first hermaphrodite. This is called, "The Fountain of Salmacis," or "La Fontaine de Salmacis" if you prefer it.

Introduction to The Musical Box as told by Peter Gabriel, Imperial College, London, 18th November 1972. Thanks to Eric Johnathan Hall for this transcription. [???] denotes a word that couldn't be made out.
Everyone's uncle Henry managed to pluck up enough courage to buy himself a dirty magazine. And he hurried home with the dirty magazine under his dirty raincoat, until he returned to his dirty house, where he lept up the dirty stairs, and locked the dirty bathroom door behind him. As he was turning over the pages of the dirty magazine, he noticed it was having a most peculiar effect on his dirty body. Or, to be more specific, his hair was moving from a dirty normal position to a dirty erect position. "What the hell can I do with my hair standing on end?" thought Uncle Henry. "I definitly can't leave the house like this." So he went down the dirty stairs into the dirty kitchen, where he made himself a dirty cup of tea. Then he picked up the dirty pussy on the floor, put it on his dirty lap, and began to stroke it, very slowly... and dirtily.
Nine weeks later, he came home from dirty work, and there was an awful mess on the dirty floor. There were hundreds and hundreds of dirty little kittens running about the place. "Alas, my dirty little [???]," he said. It's a giveaway; they all have Uncle Henry's face. So he picked them up, one by one, by their tail, dropped them into a very clean, white, porcelain bowl, slid it into a clean, plastic carrier bag, and dropped them to the bottom of the dirty river. Then he came back, had a plate full of gorgeously wonderful Kellogg's Corn Flakes (must emphasise _Kellogg's_ Corn Flakes) and brought out The Musical Box which is the name of this song

The Musical Box introduction. Done after one of The Lamb performances.
"We'd now like to do a little older number. This particular thing concerns two Victorian children, one named Henry, the other named Cynthia. And little Cynthia says to little Henry, she says (Peter puts on a posh childs voice) 'What about a game of croquet Henry?' Henry replies (puts on his old man voice) 'Of course, I'd be delighted'.
Seven and eight year old...kids walk out to the freshly mown croquet lawn, holding hands. And just as Henry is about to begin his very first stroke on the red croquet ball, little Cynthia comes up behind him with her croquet mallet raised high in the air. (Peter makes the sound of the croquet mallet hitting Henrys head and the head flying through the air and eventually hitting the ground with a thud.) He's dead. [Cheers from crowd]
He rapidly aquires 2 fluffy white, fully deodourised wings under each armpit, flies all the way up to heaven, is rejected by the authorities, comes all the way down again, and meanwhile little Cynthia pokes around in the old attic room and discovers beneath some books, a little wooden musical box..." [Cheers and The Musical Box begins...]

NYC Academy of Music May 6, 1974
We want to start off with a slight explanation for our absence last night. Contrary to public opinion, we were not taking the night off to watch the elephants mating at the zoo. What actually happened was some thoughtful person relieved us of six guitars last night (Boo's from the audience), including the double-necked guitar over here which removed the possibility of Michael playing on a large number of our numbers. This thoughtful person, however, offered the guitars back to us for some small sum of money and now were playing tonight. But we apologize for the inconvenience. MEANWHILE a large lady is being rescued by some gallant moonlit knights. This is called Dancing with the Moonlit Knight.

Song introductions from the show on 17th December 1973. (Date may be wrong since PG mentions that it is the last show the tour.) Thanks to Jack Beerman for the transcription.
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
Phil says "Thank you" PG says "Good Evening" Phil says "Hello everybody"
(With helium) Hello Everybody. It's just wonderful to see you tonight. Welcome to the world of Genesis fantasy. Every one original untouched by human hands. And now we'd like to take you little further down from this gas which is slowly sinking into the belly where we seat ourselves upon a little stool and turn upon the television. Here on your particular television you have several or a dozen channels to choose from. In England we have one, it's called the english channel. The english channel is between england and france and every night millions of english men sit along the coastline to look at the only english channel What they expect to see being nice englishmen is nasty frenchmen. But we are a nation of pacifists in the middle of the sea is our suffering nuclear deterrent the lady brittania. For brittania the waves are both cold and wet her life is uncomfortable but she frightens frenchmen she is big well equipped and embodies the great character and pomp of the british empire. This is the song of the englishmen's feathered friend it's called dancing with the moonlit knight.

Cinema Show So romeo armed with his technicolor armpits noticed a strange growth somewhere above his knees and below his waist. He identified the growth as a fig leaf. The fig leaf was bravely removed to investigate what lay underneath. This was duly stuffed into one of his technicolor armpits where he kept all of his favorite things and there it was left for over two weeks. Two weeks later the green fig leaf had changed color to a deep maroon. The maroon fig leaf was crumpled in his hands into a fine powder when he could stuff it in his wet eager lips and digest it. It produced in our Romeo a high degree of sexual excitation. . . Subtle symbolism. (In response to a clapping fan: Thank you, do come again. You'll receive your dollar after the show. ) Anyway concerning this rather large obstacle that was restraining the story continuing did not restrain romeo from advancing on Juliet hanging over the balcony blu blu bu So he grabbed the young lady and took her into the darkness of the cinema for what he described as the Cinema Show.
Firth Of Fifth He tells the tube train unzipped woman cleaning ticket story (on the cover of Genesis Live) which ends with "with a cleaning ticket on the left arm saying must fly firth of fifth."
The Musical Box Thank you. Now we'd like to take you to a peaceful english game of croquet. Croquet is played on the front lawn outside a largs victorian mansion by little henry and his playmmate little cynthia. Little cynthia approaches little henry with her croquet mallet raised high in the air. Pow. Henry was dead but like all recenty deceased hot little boy bodies he grew lttile furry white wings. And these he proceeded to move up and down. to leave the ground one had to flap like hell to get to heaven. Unfortunately when he got above he clouds he was rejected by the authorities and sent down again to return in his old man's body or at least what would have been his old man's body on the opening by liittle cynthia of his very favorite musical box.

Supper's Ready Old Michael walked past the pet shop which was never closed (open?)never open into the park which was never closed. So he took off all his clothes as the grass was very clean very green and very smooth. And he rubbed his pink flabby flesh into the clean green grass. This made a slight scraping sound and as he developed a little rythm section with his belly he accompanied himself with his fingers and toes tapping on the ground. Beneath the ground the litte pitter patter on the surface was interpreted by the colonists or worms as being rainfall. And rainfall to worms means two things mating time bath time. Both were enjoyable. Within seconds the entire worm colony was above the ground covering the green grass. So there was a sea of swurming warms, worms warm worms. Old Michael smiled and continued to rub his pink flesh into the dirty brown swarming mass. THis time he whistled a little tune. For our contribution to boogie music and phil collins. Far fucking out. To us this little rendition was a Christmas last night of tour celebration of Jerusalem boogie, but to the birds in the sky it was interpreted as meaning supper is ready.

All of the song introductions from a show in Toronto 1974. (Thanks to Jack Beerman for the transcription.)
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight Phil says good evening.
Peter :
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, This one is about a lady who ?sits in the middle of the sea in England between England and France it's cold and wet. Her name ( someone yells hello to which PG responds "no her name is not hello") her name is Brittania because she is the voice of Great Britain. This is Dancing with the Moonlit Knight.
Cinema Show So Romeo with his little green fig leaves neatly growing himself. One day, Sunday afternoon, he removed one of his little green fig leaves, stuck it under his arm--pit which is where he kept all his favorite possessions. Several weeks later he removed it. It had changed color. He digested the leaf and it produced a high degree of sexual excitation. He was randy. Fortunately for the world, little Juliet (blu blu blu)* was just around the corner. Very soon (noise--I assume he is making a sexual movement) you understand? All this went on in the darkness and obscurity of the cinema show.
Firth Of Fifth We have to apologize because we usually have with us a certain amount of lights in the way of stage lights and back projection slides and the like (unclear here) Unfortunately the driver of all this equipment is currently somwhere between Quebec and Toronto. We apologize. (Phil--we're sure he'll be here soon.) Meanwhile there were five rivers. One two three four and the fifth river could not be seen at all. Coule be heard at night time. So they put out blankets to catch the river and in the morning when they woke up there was a brand new clean blue river. This was the fifth river and the mouth or firth of the fifth is where this song begins.
Musical Box This is a little english game you see which is concerned with primarily removing balls from one point to --removing balls from one point to another. This is done by the aid of sticks or mallets. One day little Henry was partaking of a game of croquet. Plenty of people called Henry here tonight. And little Cynthia crept up behind him. Pow whistling . Dead ?(Something said quietly that I could not understand.). But Henry grew little wings went right up to the top only to be turned down again to reapper as an old man on the opening of his Musical Box.
More Fool Me Thank you thank you. This is something a little different. A little different. (Then the former singer of Genesis sings More Fool Me.).
Supper's Ready Old Michael walked past the pet shop which was never open into the park which was never closed. And there, seeing that the grass was very clean, very green and very smooth, he took off all his clothes and rubbed his body in the cool wet green grass. He accompanied himself with a little tune. It went like this..Beneath the ground it was interpreted the pitter patter as rainfall. Rainfall for worms means two things mating and bath time. They enjoyed both.Within seconds the entire surface of the park was a mass of dirty brown writhing worms. Old Michael continuted to rub his body into it. This time he whistled a little tune. Went like this. (Phil plays the high hat very fast. PG says:) It's a little more laid back. (Then phil plays very slow. They start whistling and then stop. I think PG says something off mike, or he is motioning to speed up. They they do the whole whistling routine.) Jerusalem Boogie to us but to the little birds it meant Supper is Ready.

Na geil
Viele Dank
jetzt kann ich die Ansagen mitsprechen, wenn ich Genesis live höre *lol*

Übrigens: Bei der Story zu Supper's Ready auf dem Archive #1 spricht er einemal von Old Henry und einmal von Old Michael. Da hat er wohl was verwechselt...

Pffffffffff!!!! Das ist ja voll super!!!!
DANKE für diese Texte,... ich freu mich wirklich und werd mir das ganze abspeichern.
Gruß FIM!

Sehr cool, das Forum war mal wieder sehr hilfreich!

Bin gestern nach diversen Quersuchen bei dieser Geschichte gelandet, Faden verloren und wollte es dann wiederfinden. Nun, hier ist sie, die Henrietta-Kopf-Ab-Geschichte, und ich finde sie grenzgenial
Damals ging man also keine Briefmarkensammlungen zeigen, sondern ging auf den Dachboden, um der/dem Angebeteten seinen neuen Wassertank zu zeigen. loool

Hier mein Videofund von gestern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh8MOY9f368

Zitat von Katrin-aka-ZahmeLamie

Pete's introduction to The Musical Box - UK Tour 1971. Thanks to Jim Hardy for the transcription of this introduction.
Pete (In soprano) " 'Henry, Henry, Henry, whats happened to our game of croquet?' (Normal voice), cried little Henrietta. Henry found croquet completly irrestible, and so he rushed out onto the front lawn to join his little sister. Just as play was about to commence, she raised her croquet mallet in the air and with one fair swoop, she removed little Henry's head. This had the effect of killing him. (Crowd laughter)
Two weeks later, she was in Henry's old room, and she found an old musical box which used to play the tune of "Old King Cole" and when she opened the musical box and the tune began to ring out, a strange, somewhat familiar pair of green knickerbockers were mysteriously lowered from the ceiling. Into these Henry was dropped. He'd been given a second round. Always a bit on the roundy side, Henry found himself a young lady and he led this young lady up the old wooden stairs into the attic to show off his very fine watertank. (Crowd laughter)
The nurse was downstairs however and she heard strange noises, so rushed up, picked up the musical box and instinctively smashed it into the bearded child, destroying both.
In the middle of this number, we've arranged for a small pair of satin green knicerbockers into which, very casually, a naked Eddie Waring will be dropped. (Crowd laughter and applause) This is called 'The Musical Box' (applause)