A Brand X Timeline 1974 to 1998

1974

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Peter Gabriel leaves Genesis, and form a band to launch his solo career; The line-up includes Goodsall with Genesis members Collins, Rutherford and Anthony Phillips (their original keyboard player.) after two weeks rehearsal they made a ten song demo at Trident studios and performed live at several large european rock festivals.

1975

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Mike Clarke plays on Herbie Hancock's album Thrust 1975 Pre-Brand X session which includes most of the members: The Eddie Howell Grammophone record.

1976

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Bonus and Wilding do Pleasure Signals, on which many of Brand X members appear and which has a similar style to Brand X. Lancaster and Lumley do Marscape. January 1976 Bill Bruford joins as percussionist, and plays live with the band before the first album was released; but does not seem to involved with the album sessions. February 1976 Release of "Trick Of The Tail". Apr-July 1976 "Trick Of The Tail" tour. July 1976 Release of "Unorthadox Behavior" (Collins/Goodsall/Jones/Lumley) Unorthadox must have been recorded before A Trick Of The Tail, or in the period between February and April 1976. With the same line up Brand X records live at the BBC Radio's Alan Freeman show two of the three tunes recorded then are never released on any album. Collins tours with Brand X during this period before he returns to Genesis in Late 1976 for recording sessions. This is the last time he toured with them until 1979. August 1976 Preston Heyman (Kate Bush drummer) joins as percussionist, while Phil is still with the band. Like the previous percussionist, he doesn't last long.

1977

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January 1977 Release of "Wind and Wuthering". Jan-July 1977 "Wind and Wuthering" Tour. April 1977 Release of "Morrocan Roll" (Goodsall/Jones/Lumley/Collins/Pert), Phil  Collins has to leave the band during the mixing of the album, and drummer Kenwood "Woody" Dennard joins for the tour. Phil won't  reappear until ' 79. October 1977 Release of "Seconds Out". November 1977 Release of "Livestock" (Goodsall/Jones/Lumley/Collins/Pert/Dennard), "Livestock" is the most jazzy and free-form of all the records, and shows the early impetus and direction of the band. "Livestock" is mostly taken from a 1976 two weeks stint at Ronnie Scott's club except the Dennard material, which is from 1977.November 16 Recording of live at Shaumberg, (CD I of Timeline Buckyball Records BR006)

1978

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1982

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1978 Goodsall goes to trident to demo some fusion tracks with Bill Bruford, Bayete (Todd Cochran) and Don Harvey from Automatic Man. Then plays some guitar on Bruford first solo album “Feel Good To Me".  September 1978 Release of "Masques" (Jones/Goodsall/Pert/Robinson/Burgi) Robin Lumley produced "Masques", bringing in Peter Robinson on keyboards. Phil Collins was not involved with masques at all, since Genesis had an almost non-stop late 1977 and 1978 tour. Drummer Chuck Burgi takes over the studio drums and does one US tour including opening for Genesis in New York's Central Park and Toronto's CN stadium. Percy Jones plays the Wal bass and develops his distinctive sound for the first time on this album. In 1978 during The "Masques" tour John Goodsall suffered from an attack of tendonitis caused by excessive playing and tour schedules, He was replaced by Mike Miller during the second half of the tour. Approximate dates based on magazine articles: August 2: Burgi/Goodsall/Robinson/Jones/Pert. August 9: Burgi/Miller/Robinson/Jones/Pert. October  31: Clarke/Miller/Robinson/Jones/Pert.

1979 Goodsall,Robinson,Pert and Lumley tour with (Rod) Argent using Weather report rythm section Chester Thompson and Alfonso Johnson. The UK tour culminate with an Argent appearance on British rock show "The Old Grey Whistle Test", Brand X has performed several times on this show with Collins between '76 -'80.May 1979 Release of "Product" (Goodsall/Collins/Giblin/Lumley/Jones/Robinson/Clarke/Pert) Brand X was essentially Goodsall/Jones/Robinson/Clarke/Pert with Robin Lumley and Phil Collins both adding themselves to the list of performing musicians. For some reason. John Giblin joined, because Percy had moved to New York, he was John's neighbor and happened to sound a bit like Percy. The band essentially split into Lumley/Giblin/Collins and Robinson/Jones/Pert/Clarke with Goodsall playing all the guitars, recording in shifts. "Product" marked two firsts for Collins; Wal to Wal was the first time he used a drum machine on a record. Soho was the first time he recorded a song on his home studio and then took it into the studio, a modus operandi he would use often. 1979 The "Product" tour, (Lumley/Robinson/Collins/Goodsall/Jones) A slimmer Brand X with two keyboardist took to the road and even included a few songs with vocals (...And So To F...and Dont Make Waves; Soho was not performed). That was the last tour of the regular Brand X before the reformation in 1992.

1990

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1993

Release of "Do They Hurt?"(Jones/Robinson/Clarke/Goodsall/Giblin/Collins/Lumley). This a second album of material that was recorded at the same time as "Product". After the last tour Brand X members went of into there own projects.

Release of "Is There Anything About (Collins/Robinson/Jones/Giblin/Lumley/Goodsall/Ravenscroft/Short). This is a compilation of outtakes and jams that were rejected from the previous six albums. Brand X gave no permission for and was unaware of this release.

1983

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Phil Collins first solo tour after the release of his second album features Peter Robinson

Percy Jones forms a band called Stone Tiger with drummer Mike Clarke (later Dougie Browne) and guitar player Bill Frisell, no recordings are released.

The mysterious pseudo-bootleg "Live In Lybia" appears. The last Passport release, a compilation called "Xtrax" also comes out.

John Goodsall Fire Merchants releases its first self titled album. Features Doug Lunn on bass, who had worked with Andy Summers in his jazzy solo albums, and Genesis tour drummer Chester Thompson. Produced by Franz Pusch. Percy Jones releases "Cape Catastrophe" on Hot Wire Records.

Percy Jones releases "Propeller Music". including a lot of music recorded during the early to mid 80's. also form the band Tunnels (called Hex at the time) with wagnon on midi vibes and Katz on drums

Brand X reforms with Goodsall, Jones and Frank Katz on drums who has worked with Percy's trio project (Tunnels) since 1990

Percy Jones forms Tunnels, with Marcc Wagnon Frank Katz, and Van Manakas records an album self titled Tunnels