Genesis - Abacab - The Mama Tour 1984 Birmingham, UK - National Exhibition Centre, February 1984 Phil Collins – drums, electronic percussion, lead vocals Tony Banks – keyboards, Moog Taurus, backing vocals Mike Rutherford – guitar, bass guitar, bass pedals, backing vocals with: Daryl Stuermer – bass guitar, guitar, backing vocals Chester Thompson – drums | Progressive Rock Land

“Abacab”, Live in Birmingham on The Mama Tour, 1984 🇬🇧 | Genesis

Genesis released ‘Abacab’ as a single, from the album of the same name, on this day in 1981. Phil, explaining the song’s name: “Well “ABACAB” originally was a way of remembering the sequence of the song. “A” was the verse, “B” was the chorus, “A” was the verse [again], “C” was the bridge. So it went verse, chorus, verse, bridge, verse, chorus. We didn’t do the song like that in the end. But our way of remembering it was, “It goes A-B-A-C-A-B, all right?” The way we did it in the end was unpronou