I'm back from my Songfight tour.  Wow, that was pretty exhausting.  Four towns in four nights - Portland, Seattle, Spokane, and Moscow, ID.  Touring acts that go on the road for months on end?  I don't know how they keep it up.  The Spokane show was recorded, I played bass on both this set and the first half of this one.  Wild times.

Anyway, back to business.  One of the many slabs of vinyl my brother turned me on to a long time ago was the 1982 Genesis album Three Sides Live.  As the name implies, it was a 2-record set with three sides of live tracks and a fourth side of studio stuff.  I dubbed several tracks to tape (duh, that's what we did then) and played them like crazy.  My favorite of the lot was "Abacab."

I didn't hear the studio version (from the 1981 album of the same name) until much later, and it just didn't seem to measure up.

Hear the studio version on YouTube

Watch a live performance