Texas Stadium, Irving TX

Notes :

Genesis - Driving The Last Spike, pt. 2
Date: 8th May 1992
Venue: Irvine, Texas Stadium (Dallas, TX)
Source: Atlantic Promo CD [PRCD 4666]
Quality: Broadcast (pre-FM?) A+

I got this Atlantic promo CD a couple of years ago from Discogs, and it turns out it's the only sale before/since on there, and I can't find any completed sales for it on Ebay, as well as no mention of it on the tracker/database anywhere, so here we go!
This is pt. 2 of Driving The Last Spike played live from a broadcast source, as audience is loud and clear throughout, but not as clear as official releases, but definitely an A+ in my books.

This performance is of note, as for the first month of US leg of the WCD tour, this second half of the song (from around the 'we worked, how we worked like the devil for our pay' lyric) was performed in its original key, but after the show in Cleveland on 25th May 1992, the key was lowered for the second half to reduce the strain on Phil's voice. The reduced key version is the one you hear on all radio sourced recordings, all pro shot videos (besides one), and all official CDs and DVDs with live versions of the track.

One place you can hear a glimpse of the original key version is the Genesis Opening Night video. Luckily, get around a minute and a half of the performance on that video (starting @ 21m45s), and it's luckily footage of the second half. After syncing it to this CD and comparing the two, it's an match performance wise, but the CD is in MUCH better quality, and features a lot more of the track.

This also suggests that more of the concert was filmed/taped than we saw on the Opening Night DVD, which was already a pretty generous serving with several different tracks from the start to the end of the show, maybe there's a full tape sitting somewhere in the band vaults somewhere? One can only hope :D

Quite a poor recording this, throughout some, or even most, of the songs the audience are talking and singing along. This would be great if it were remastered because Phil's voice sounds excellent especially on Drving The Last Spike, and it features a rare performance of Mama. [Kevin-L-]

The appeal of this one for me is the fact that it is the first gig of the Tour. The Domino intro indicates that this was recorded somewhere off to the sides of the Stadium but at least it wasn't captured in the last row way at the back. I enjoyed this. The only thing that I could have done without was the bass distortion. There is alot of it so be warned. [duke23]

At the 5 minute mark on Land Of Confusion, after phil has sang the second last verse the band start to finish the song too early. You need to listen closely to hear it though. The band quickly realises their mistake and correct it!! [Kevin-L-]