starring Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel<\/a> \u2013 recorded music in the 60s and 70s.<\/p>\nChris, who is now 80 and lives in Essex, said: “If I hadn’t sold the e-piano for \u00a310, all of this music would have ended up in landfill.”<\/p>\n
The piano was picked up by music producer Will Twynham, who is based in Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire, and goes under the name Dimorphodons.<\/p>\n
“I was browsing eBay for weird and semi-working musical gear, when the sound clip on Chris’s old Hohner electric piano stopped me in my tracks,” said Will.<\/p>\n
“It was a great song, and as a fan of 60s and 70s obscurities I knew it was unknown.”<\/p>\n
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Mary Epworth<\/p>\n
Will Twynham, aka Dimorphodons, was thrilled to discover the unreleased music by The Genesis<\/p>\n
After meeting Chris in person, Will was “absolutely astounded” to hear 80 more tracks from between 1964 and 1974.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t believe that this quantity and quality of music had gone unreleased for such a long time and immediately decided to rectify the situation,” said Will, who is releasing some of the material under his record label Hand of Glory.<\/p>\n
The band was originally called Genesis, but did not register its name and had folded by the time the group fronted by Gabriel shot to fame.<\/p>\n
Chris said their only connection with the other Genesis was via record producer Jonathan King.<\/p>\n
“Jonathan King was managing a band called Hedgehoppers Anonymous, and we did a gig supporting them. Later Jonathan King went on to become the first manager of Genesis,” said Chris.<\/p>\n
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Geoff Hiscock<\/p>\n
Chris, pictured wearing a hat, along with his bandmates in Memorial Park, Luton<\/p>\n
The five Luton men formed the band in 1966, including two workers from the Vauxhall factory.<\/p>\n
“We rehearsed at the local church and started gigging. We used to do a pretty wild version of Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone and Vanilla Fudge You Keep Me Hanging On,” said Chris.<\/p>\n
Instead of just performing covers, The Genesis wanted to write and record their own music, including a pop opera that tells a story.<\/p>\n
“Over a period of three months we came up with this thing. We were blundering around in the dark, we didn’t know what the hell we were doing.<\/p>\n
“It was nothing like we’d heard another pop group do.<\/p>\n
“We managed to con an afternoon with this new studio in King Street \u2013 it was a guy with a mixer and tape recorder.”<\/p>\n
In that same studio, Chris recalls meeting another band rehearsing for a gig.<\/p>\n
“It just happened to be Ian Anderson and Clive Bunker, Mick Abrahams \u2026 who became Jethro Tull.<\/p>\n
“Luton back then was a phenomenal place to grow up, music wise. Both Luton and Dunstable had huge international acts coming to perform.”<\/p>\n
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Chris and former bandmate Snip Turner met at a Luton musicians reunion earlier this year<\/p>\n
Chris said the remaining band members “think it’s insane” that their music is being released.<\/p>\n
“They’re mildly amused that anybody is taking any interest whatever.<\/p>\n
“It appeals to the inner ego, that somebody has finally listened to the nonsense I was writing 40 to 50 years ago and thinks there is any worth in it.”<\/p>\n
Will believes the music is waiting to be discovered.<\/p>\n
“Somehow Chris managed to have a really great stab at all the music of the era, including moody mid-60s beat group sounds like The Zombies, psych, prog, glam and of course a historic, pioneering rock opera!<\/p>\n
“There’s even a fully orchestrated 15-minute Brit-jazz track featuring a saxophonist from the John Barry Seven.”<\/p>\n
Chris concluded: “I have described my life many times as being a series of happy accidents, and this is just another one. It’s a funny old thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louise Parry BBC News, Bedfordshire Geoff Hiscock Snip Turner, Mick Loughton, Chris Stokes, Jock Carleton and Siggi Holmes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-335424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115009542941998753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Geoff Hiscock<\/p>\n