Garden Wall (band)

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Garden Wall
Origin Surrey, United Kingdom
Genres Rock
Years active1965-1967
Spinoffs Genesis
Past members Tony Banks
Peter Gabriel
Chris Stewart

Garden Wall was a band from Charterhouse School in Surrey that went on to merge with the remains of another band from the same school, Anon, to form the progressive rock band Genesis in 1967. The band was formed around May 1965 and consisted of Peter Gabriel (vocals), Tony Banks (keyboards) and Chris Stewart (drums). [1]

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The band formed in May 1965, although it had its roots back in September 1963 when Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel both entered Charterhouse. Both of them did not like the school for their first year there[ citation needed ], and as arriving at the same time, they stuck together throughout the first year. It did not take long for them to discover their common passion of music. This led the two of them to going into the nearby towns and villages and listening to whatever music would be playing in the record stores at the time. The two of them were members of the Duckites house at Charterhouse, and there was a piano in the main hall which they used to go and play on. These occasions in the main hall were the first musical collaborations between Banks and Gabriel. [2]

During his time at Charterhouse, Peter Gabriel had been drumming for an R & B band called "The Spoken Word", and another band called "Millords". [3] As a result of his time in this band, Gabriel started songwriting with Banks. The first song the two of them ever wrote together eventually evolved into a track called 'She Is Beautiful', and eventually became known as 'The Serpent' (released on Genesis' debut album From Genesis to Revelation , in 1969).

In May 1965, when future Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips had joined the school, a five-piece band called Anon had come into existence. It was around this time that Gabriel and Banks got together with Phillips' friend Chris Stewart (who was not a member of Anon), and together they formed a three-piece band featuring Gabriel on vocals, Banks on piano, and Stewart on drums. This band named itself Garden Wall. The band simply carried on like this, playing covers and new songs that Banks and Gabriel were writing together.

In December 1965, Garden Wall played their only concert, on a stage inside Charterhouse School on a double bill with Anon. Gabriel showered the audience with rose petals that he had spent the afternoon picking, this was to be the first of his famous onstage antics. [4]

Garden Wall's fellow band splintered at this point, with two of the members leaving in the summer and a third member leaving towards the end of the year. This left Phillips and Mike Rutherford, the band's two guitarists, who then joined all three of the members of the Garden Wall in 1967 to form Genesis. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Gallo, Armando (1980). Genesis: I Know What I Like. DIY Books. ISBN   0-283-98703-0
  2. ↑ Gallo, Armando (1980). Genesis: I Know What I Like. DIY Books. ISBN   0-283-98703-0
  3. ↑ Genesis Early Years Event 2005 - Richard Macphail Interview (3). genesis-news.com, 15 May 2005. Retrieved on 27 May 2007.
  4. ↑ Gallo, Armando (1980). Genesis: I Know What I Like. DIY Books. ISBN   0-283-98703-0
  5. ↑ Gallo, Armando (1978). Genesis: The Evolution of a Rock Band Sidgwick and Jackson Limited. ISBN   0-283-98440-6
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