Location: The Studios, Las Colinas, Irving TX
Date: 5th November 1983
Taper: Unconfirmed (Likely Jim Yukich)
Video Quality: B/B+
Audio Quality: B+/A-
Recording of the first half of the Mama tour's setlist from a rehearsal tape. The location and person behind the camera are not confirmed, but the location is likely Dallas, TX, and the person filming is likely Jim Yukich, the man behind several of the Genesis and Phil Collins music videos.
The footage interesting for several reasons: it shows the first half of the early version of the setlist that only last for a few days of the tour before being dropped, with Dodo/Lurker segueing into The Carpet Crawlers and Abacab being placed later instead and the Old Medley being the very rare Eleventh Earl of Mar (first two verses) / Ripples / Squonk / Firth of Fifth, before being reduced to Eleventh Earl (opening) / Squonk / Firth of Fifth a few days into the tour.
The audio and video are fair quality, while being commendable for being incredibly stable and not moving around much, also suffers from being a bit too overblown (note how the band member's features disappear in the white light), and the audio is quite good but a bit boomy in places. I cleaned up the audio a little bit and balanced the audio as it was louder in the right channel than the left.
NOTE: At the time I used AI scaling with the hopes of improving video quality, but since then I've grown to dislike the quality loss and smeary nature of the upscale, along with the ethical + power concerns of the format. I'm leaving this up for posterity but might reupload with a better un-AI'ed version in the future.
00:00 Dodo/Lurker
07:09 The Carpet Crawlers
12:50 Phil Talking
14:07 That's All
18:58 Mama
26:35 Band Talking / Tuning Up
27:49 Illegal Alien
33:25 Band Talking / Tuning Up
34:41 Old Medley: Eleventh Earl of Mar
38:00 Old Medley: Ripples
40:56 Old Medley: Squonk
43:50 Old Medley: Firth of Fifth
50:12 Man On The Corner
54:27 Whodunnit?
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Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, drummer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band Genesis and had a successful solo career, achieving three UK number-one singles and seven US number-one singles as a solo artist. In total, his work with Genesis, other artists and solo resulted in more US top-40 singles than any other artist throughout the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period ...
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