Genesis (Mono) The Gods

• 1Towards The Skies03:26
• 2Candles Getting Shorter04:31
• 3You're My Life03:19
• 4Looking Glass04:17
• 5Misleading Colours03:36
• 6Radio Show03:18
• 7Plastic Horizon03:34
• 8Farthing Man03:16
• 9I Never Knew05:24
• 10Time And Eternity02:42
• Total Runtime37:23

Info for Genesis (Mono)

Before signing a record deal, their original guitarist, Mick Taylor, departed to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and during this period Greg Lake joined the band briefly, replacing John Glascock on bass. By 1968 the band had signed to EMI's Columbia label and had settled into a line-up that saw John Glascock return to the band. By this time The Gods had embraced both Psychedelia and Progressive styles. Genesis was a fine album and is now rightly hailed as a classic of the late Psychedelic and early Progressive era.

John Glascock, bass, vocals
Ken Hensley, guitar, percussion, keyboards, vocals
Lee Kerslake, drums
Joe Konas, guitar, vocals

Recorded at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London
Engineered by Peter Vince
Produced by David Paramor

Digitally remastered

The Gods
are probably better known for including a few famous British rock stars as members -- before those musicians went on to international recognition -- than they are for the two albums they actually released. Two future Uriah Heep stalwarts, keyboardist/singer Ken Hensley and drummer Lee Kerslake, both played on those albums, and prior to the first Gods band album, both Mick Taylor and Greg Lake had passed through the lineup. The two Gods albums were undistinguished, keyboard-based rock that were midway between late-'60s British pop-psychedelia and early-'70s heavy progressive rock. They were less histrionic than Uriah Heep by a long shot, but nor were they very distinguished, settling into the second or third class of late-'60s British rock music.

GenesisThe Gods started in Hatfield, England in 1965 as a blues-based band including Hensley and future Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor. Taylor left in 1967 to join John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, and The Gods disbanded for a few months before reforming, with only Hensley left from the first version. Greg Lake played in this lineup for a while, but quit before The Gods' debut album, Genesis was recorded in 1968; soon, of course, Lake would resurface in King Crimson and then Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Genesis didn't make much of an impact, nor did some non-LP singles, including a 1969 cover of "Hey Bulldog," quite possibly the only attempt at making that obscure Beatles' song into a hit. The Gods disbanded in early 1969, though a second album, To Samuel a Son, was posthumously released in 1970. Both Gods' albums have been reissued on CD by Repertoire, with the non-LP 45's added as bonus tracks. (Richie Unterberger, AMG)

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