Bass Player: Tony Banks

‘A Curious Feeling’ was the début solo album from Genesis keyboard player Tony Banks. It was recorded at Abba’s Polar Music Studios during a brief Genesis hiatus and released in 1979 on Charisma Records. It is one of only two of Banks’ solo albums to have entered the UK Albums Chart, reaching 21 and staying on the chart for five weeks. The album is a loose adaptation of the 1966 Daniel Keyes novel ‘Flowers For Algernon’.

The bass part is in D and is relatively simple chart to get through. Lot’s of repetition and nothing more challenging than diatonic eighth notes. It’s a lovely tune but ‘Giant Steps’ it ain’t. The embedded video is the version from the original album. The 2009 remastered version (also available on YouTube) has a different bass part during the opening section.