It should be noted that the tracklisting of 12 tracks with Bill Bruford on drums is valuable: the official discography is actually quite skimpy on line-ups in which the English drummer is interesting, even as a mere musician.
Indeed, listening to this 33rpm double album, one is struck by Bill Bruford's utterly versatile approach to the Genesis repertoire. In this regard, the drummer stated in retrospect, ‘I liked to have a bit of fun on stage, but Genesis were very sensitive. I learnt all the tunes from the albums, but when I did something different from what Phil was doing in the studio, someone would throw a funny look at me and say, ‘Hey Bill, can you make it sound a bit more like the record?’.’ Not being a real session musician, I wasn't very good at playing parts. In fact, the thing that finally got me out of my rock ‘n’ roll routine was repetition. That's what separated me from Yes and made me join King Crimson, who were much more appealing to me because they were more open to improvisation. They were saying to me: surprise us, come on, improvise..... Just fantastic!’.
Fans of the extras should also be reminded that in the past only the tracks ‘White Mountain’ and ‘Entangled’ have appeared as vinyl discs, namely included on ‘The Rarest Live Vol.2’ (Pound, 50012, 1980) as well as on the triple ‘The Rarest Live’ (SABAM 5001/5012/5013, year unknown, which included three chapters of ‘The Rarest’ series in one release).
Finally, a rather inexcusable omission that represents the only real flaw in this gem concerns the inexplicable exclusion from the tracklisting of the classic ‘I Know What I Like’, present, however, on all the aforementioned discs.
