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Charlie Stannett, Friars fan from
Princes Risborough
I
was one of the few
people who actually went to that concert which was held in the function
room UPSTAIRS at the British Legion in Risborough.
It was obviously a long time
ago but things I seem to remember:
No more
than about two or three dozen people in total, including the musicians;
quite a few more simply stayed outside listening for free
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Mike Rutherford had new
electric guitars which I think included double-necked (possibly a
home-made forerunner of the Shergolds???) but that might be a false
memory
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I mucked in helping them
manhandle equipment up & down the stairs, gaining a splinter in my
finger for my troubles
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After the gig, I was helping
somebody sweep the same stairs when Peter Gabriel walked down and
jokingly dropped a business card on the ground. Unfortunately the other
chap who was sweeping made PG pick it up otherwise I’d still have it as
a souvenir!
One of the general things I also
seem to remember about early Genesis is that they were one of the first bands I
can remember matching the power of their PA to the combined wattage of their
guitars. What do I mean by that? Most bands at the times aspired to a 100W
“stack” (usually Marshal) per instrument, then married it up with a 100W PA
(usually WEM). Genesis had something like a total of 400W of instrument
amplification, matched with 400W of PA
Stitch, Friars fan from
Princes Risborough
I am writing to tell you
about Genesis in Princes Risborough. Although my memory is probably not
interesting enough to include I thought I'd write anyway. I was born and
raised in Risborough and one night I had my window open and being quite
young was in bed. I could hear this music coming from the British Legion
and hung out the window to listen. I couldn't really tell what was
happening. So years later ( and a Genesis fan ) I found out it was
Genesis playing. There, not that cool but for me, pretty good
As
below courtesy of Les Payne's personal scrapbook.
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