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Gezz66 t1_jd18kqd wrote

One favourite bit of Eno trivia.

He recorded Taking Tiger Mountain... at the same studio and same time that Genesis were recording The Lamb... album. Gabriel being an admirer invited him to contribute and he duly provided some ethereal touches to what was already a very trippy album.

He is the only non-member to have a writing credit on a Genesis album (check out The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging). However, his influence seems to pervade the album more generally - there are 2 short ambient songs.

However, Eno needed a drummer to work on Mother Whale Eyeless and Genesis offered up Phil Collins (he stated he felt like a prostitute). It obviously went well because Collins would also play on AGW and B&AS.

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JunebugAsiimwe OP t1_jd4ujj9 wrote

Now this makes me wish we got a Peter Gabriel album produced by Brian Eno back in the 80s.

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Gezz66 t1_jd5748s wrote

The ideal album for Enossification would have been Melt for sure. It is surprising Eno didn't feature on any of his albums given that Fripp was prominent on the 1st 3 and produced Scratch. But they were clearly going in different directions.

Eno went towards Ambient while Gabriel went for a more industrial sound up to Mask at least. But in fairness to Melt, it was already an excellent album and I guess you could draw a contrast with Bowie's Scary Monsters. Melt for all its electronics is quite a sparse album while Scary Monsters is rich and layered.

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