Just got home from the Musical Box concert in Toronto. Apart from the fact that their "Peter Gabriel" looked a tiny bit like Alice Cooper and their "Steve Hackett" was a dead ringer for Yanni everything else was perfect. Sound, lighting, even the stage presence of the different players.
If you have a show in driving distance it's worth making the effort to see them.
One interesting thing -- the first Genesis concert I saw was when they were touring for Trick of the Tail. By then Genesis had switched from whatever bass pedals they were using to Tauruses (Tauri ?) with that characteristic "snarl" you hear in Squonk and DOAV, but Musical Box used the older pedals (brand unknown). One thing that surprised me was how loud the "old fashioned" bass pedals were playing without sounding out of place -- the older Genesis concerts must have really been something to see / feel. The whole concert hall was shaking but the sound was still gloriously clean. Very neat.
Time to crank up the sub and dig out my old Genesis LPs
