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The Musical Box
The Musical Box performing in 2009
Background information
Origin	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Progressive stone
Years active	1993 (1993)–present
Website	www.themusicalbox.net
Members	Denis Gagné François Gagnon Sébastien Lamothe Ian Benhamou Marking Laflamme
Past members	Michel Cloutier François Richard Guillaume Courteau Denis Champoux Éric Savard Christian Hebert Martin Levac Pierre Veilleux Marc Léveillé André Lépine David Myers Gregg Bendian Marc Laflamme Guillaume Rivard Antoine Baril Bob St-Laurent

The Musical Box are a Canadian tribute band formed in Montreal, Quebec in 1993 who recreate performances by the English rock ring Genesis during the 1970s. The current line-upwardly is formed of vocaliser and performer Denis Gagné (Peter Gabriel), guitarist François Gagnon (Steve Hackett), bassist Sébastien Lamothe (Mike Rutherford), keyboardist Ian Benhamou (Tony Banks), and drummer Marc Laflamme (Phil Collins).^[1]

History [edit]

The Musical Box were formed in 1993 in Montreal, Quebec in Canada, and take their proper name from the song of the same proper name from Genesis's third studio anthology, Nursery Cryme (1971).^{[2] [3] [four]} Founding member and musical director, bassist Sébastien Lamothe, advertised in local newspapers for musicians who were Genesis fans to play in the band.^[3] The group initially performed every bit a seven-piece band and incorporated visual furnishings and costumes that were a part of Genesis'south original shows. From 1993 to 2000, The Musical Box focused on Genesis concerts during their Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot (1972), and Selling England by the Pound (1973) tours.

In 1994, following the deviation of lead singer and performer Marc Léveillé, the ring recruited Denis Gagné as his replacement through a newspaper advert.^{[3] [five]} He recalled listening to Genesis albums when he was at school and becoming a fan of Gabriel. He attempted to put on a concert featuring himself and his friends playing forth to the music, but it never happened.^[6] The ring reformed as a five-piece, mirroring the fellow member count that Genesis had at the time. The new line-upwards marked the beginning of the band concentrating on staging Genesis shows more accurately, including lights, costume, and recreating Gabriel's on stage persona and dialogue.^[7] Gagné immersed himself in the role of Gabriel, learning to play the flute, growing his pilus long, and shaving a bald spot in the front of his hairline. Since 2001, The Musical Box has grown in popularity, and has performed big sold-out shows in Canada, the United States, Europe and Due south America.

In 2004, the band secured the license to re-create Genesis'south 1974–1975 tour that featured their double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) performed in its entirety, with encores.^{[2] [half-dozen]} The bout was registered as a play.^[five] This time round, the band wished to recreate the two-hour bear witness as closely as possible. They observed silent footage of the band performing, gathered magazine manufactures and audition member accounts of the shows, and Banks granted them access to The Farm, the band's recording studio in Surrey, to hear the original 24-track chief tape of the album and so they could isolate each rail and take autonomously passages in the music they deemed as well difficult to recreate.^{[6] [3] [viii]} The stage bear witness included apply of the ane,200 projection slides used on the original tour, including the original slide operator.^{[2] [six]}

In 2007, The Musical Box toured North America and Europe with a mix of Foxtrot and Selling England by the Pound shows. Some dates featured the "Black Show", a recreation of the 1974 leg of Genesis's Selling England by the Pound bout that features an alternating set list and arrangements.^[iv]

In early 2007, plans for The Musical Box to stage a recreation of Genesis's 1976 tour in support of A Play tricks of the Tail (1976) were in the tentative stages.^[nine] This marked the first fourth dimension the band performed Genesis material non from the Gabriel-led era. The bout began in September 2008, and featured Gregg Bendian every bit their second drummer in the office of Beak Bruford. As the 1976 tour marked the debut of Collins on atomic number 82 vocals, the role of Collins was played on stage past Gagné on vocals and Marc Laflamme on the drums and 2d vocals.

The Musical Box took a break in 2010. In 2011 and 2012 the band toured The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, this time with keyboardist Michel Cloutier.^[10]

In 2013 and 2014, the band toured Selling England by the Pound in celebration of the album's fortieth anniversary, with some dates replaced with their Foxtrot show. The tour was and so extended and performed until early 2018, with some dates featuring the "Black Testify".

From late 2018 to early on 2019, the ring toured a new production titled, A Genesis Extravaganza, in celebration of the band's twenty-fifth anniversary. The show was a three act functioning, featuring music spanning from From Genesis to Revelation (1969) to Wind & Wuthering (1976).^{[xi] [12]}

In late 2019 and early 2020, they will tour a sequel to the acclaimed A Genesis Extravaganza, titled, Extravaganza Volume two. The setlist of this production will span from Trespass (1970) up to ...And And so There Were Three... (1978), marking a venture into the trio era for the beginning time in the band's history.^[13]

Reception [edit]

Critics [edit]

In The Buffalo News, Jeff Miers wrote: "The Musical Box elevates the concept of the 'tribute' band to a new level".^[7]

Genesis [edit]

The Musical Box is the simply Genesis tribute ring that has received active support and permission from the existent group.^{[six] [5]} In 2002, Hackett joined them on phase at the Royal Albert Hall in London, playing an encore of "Firth of Fifth". He played with them on phase once again in Switzerland.^[14] Collins wrote a positive introduction of the band for one of their tour programs,^[half-dozen] and was an audition member at their evidence in Geneva, Switzerland in 2005 during The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour, which featured him on the drums for an encore functioning of "The Musical Box". Gabriel attended the band's first show in the UK,^{[half-dozen] [5]} and brought his children and then "they could see what their father used to do".^[15]

Setlists [edit]

The Musical Box'southward setlists are identical to those played by Genesis during their early tours.

• The Foxtrot shows included songs from the albums Plant nursery Cryme and Foxtrot: "Watcher of the Skies", "Can-Utility and the Coast-Liners", "The Musical Box", "Get 'em Out by Fri", "Supper's Ready" and "The Render Of The Giant Hogweed", as well as two encores: "The Pocketknife" and "The Fountain of Salmacis".
• The Selling England setlist comprised six eighths of the titular album ("Later the Ordeal" and "Aisle of Plenty" were not performed), and a pick of live favourites: "Watcher of the Skies", "The Musical Box", "Supper's Ready" and "The Knife". "Horizons" and "The Return of the Giant Hogweed" were sometimes played instead of "More Fool Me" and "The Knife" respectively.
• The Lamb shows comprised the entirety of the 1974 album, plus "The Musical Box" and "Watcher of the Skies" or "The Knife".
• The A Trick of the Tail shows comprised the following numbers: "Dance on a Volcano", a medley from The Lamb ("The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"/"Fly on a Windshield"/"Broadway Melody of 1974"/"Carpet Crawlers"), "The Cinema Bear witness", "Robbery, Assault and Battery", "White Mountain", "Firth of Fifth", "Entangled/Squonk", "Supper's Ready", "I Know What I Like (in Your Wardrobe)" and "Los Endos" with an encore of "It/Watcher of the Skies". "The Cinema Testify" featured extensive double drumming from Collins and Bruford every bit did "Supper'southward Ready", and "Los Endos". "Watcher of the Skies" was a brusk instrumental version merging the first and ending sections of the song.

Members [edit]

Current

• Denis Gagné ("Peter Gabriel") 1995–Present – pb vocals, flute, occasional percussion (he also represented Phil Collins equally a vocalizer during the Trick of the Tail bout, and did the same for the first act of the Genesis Caricature tour)
• François Gagnon ("Steve Hackett") 2004–Present – 6-cord electrical and acoustic guitars, 12-string guitar
• Sébastien Lamothe ("Mike Rutherford") 1993–Nowadays – bass, bass pedals, 12-cord guitar, vocals, musical director^[8]
• Ian Benhamou ("Tony Banks") 2018–Present – keyboards, 12-string guitar, vocals
• Marc Laflamme ("Phil Collins") 2008–2018, 2022–present, drums, percussion, vocals

Former members

• Marc Léveillé ("Peter Gabriel") 1993–1994 – lead vocals, percussion
• Pierre Veilleux ("Tony Banks") 1993–1994 – keyboards
• David Myers ("Tony Banks") 1993–2001, 2003 – keyboards
• François Richard ("Tony Banks") 2002 – keyboards
• Éric Savard ("Tony Banks") 2004–2006 – keyboards
• André Lépine ("Tony Banks") – keyboards
• Michel Cloutier ("Tony Banks") 2011–2012 – keyboards, 12-cord guitar, vocals
• Guillaume Rivard ("Tony Banks") 2013–2018 – keyboards, 12-string guitar, vocals
• Christian Hebert ("Steve Hackett") 1993–2003 – guitars
• Denis Champoux ("Steve Hackett") 1993–2004 – guitars
• Martin Levac ("Phil Collins") 2002–2007 – drums, percussion, vocals
• Gregg Bendian ("Phil Collins", "Neb Bruford") 2007–2013 – drums, percussion
• Marc Laflamme ("Phil Collins") 2008–2018 – drums, percussion, vocals
• Guillaume Courteau ("Phil Collins") 2013–2018 – drums, percussion
• Antoine Baril ("Phil Collins") 2019 – drums, percussion
• Bob St-Laurent ("Phil Collins") 2018–2021 – drums, percussion, vocals

References [edit]

1. ^ "The Musical Box Official". www.facebook.com . Retrieved 7 August 2018.
2. ^ ^{a b c} DeRogatis, Jim (24 Oct 2004). "Musical Box pays stunning tribute to Genesis Canadian grouping resurrects spirit of '70s at Vic Theatre". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 29 Oct 2017. Retrieved 28 Oct 2017 – via Highbeam Inquiry.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Chapple, Mike (22 April 2005). "Lamb That Just Won't Prevarication Down; Mike Chapple Talks to the Man Who Has Recreated Peter Gabriel's Legendary Performances with Genesis". Daily Post. Archived from the original on 24 May 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2017 – via Highbeam Research.
4. ^ ^{a b} Chapple, Mike (29 October 2007). "ARTS DIARY: MUSIC the Musical Box/ Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool". Daily Post. Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2017 – via Highbeam Research.
5. ^ ^{a b c d} "Denis Gagne of The Musical Box". DaBelly . Retrieved 28 Oct 2017.
6. ^ ^{a b c d eastward f g} Bitts, Maryalice (12 December 2004). "In the first, there was Genesis". LNP. Archived from the original on 29 Oct 2017. Retrieved 28 Oct 2017 – via Highbeam Inquiry.
7. ^ ^{a b} Miers, Jeff (15 Nov 2002). "Band in a Box". The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2017 – via Highbeam Research.
8. ^ ^{a b} DeMasi, Vincent (ane July 2008). "The Musical Box". Guitar Player. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2017 – via Highbeam Inquiry.
9. ^ Chappele, Mike (19 February 2007). "ARTS DIARY: Musical Box Opens for the Last Time". Daily Postal service. Archived from the original on 28 Oct 2017. Retrieved 28 Oct 2017 – via Highbeam Inquiry.
10. ^ "WiV Amusement Ticket Shop".
11. ^ "The Musical Box Official". www.facebook.com . Retrieved 7 August 2018.
12. ^ Com, Genesis News. "Genesis News Com [information technology]: The Musical Box - A Genesis Extravaganza 1970-1977 - tour dates". www.genesis-news.com . Retrieved 7 Baronial 2018.
13. ^ "The Musical Box - Extravaganza". www.themusicalbox.cyberspace . Retrieved 21 July 2019.
14. ^ Kopp, Bill (22 February 2017). "Genesis tribute band The Musical Box knows what information technology likes". Pittsburgh City Newspaper . Retrieved 28 Oct 2017.
15. ^ "The Musical Box Gig Reviews". Retrieved 17 March 2012.

External links [edit]

• Official website TheMusicalBox.net
• Official MySpace
• Official Facebook page

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Box_(band)

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