the first four pictures were taken by Martin: who else would photograph an empty drumset?



a bass player's drug: coke



ingo listening, front view



ingo listening, rear view



a portrait of the band as a young plastic mug.



this is udo doing the backing vocals of "discussed". no, there have been no drugs whatsoever involved in the process, just good ole brain washing... this is a 70s-smile, isn't it?



thomas and ingo discussing the bass sound and totally misusing compressors and noise reduction devices.



martin recording electronic percussion ("one step further").



that's what professional recording looks like (cf. peter gabriel, "secret world" for -> VERY professional recording)



even during the stressing efforts of recording an album, there is always time for intra-band sensuality.



this is what our music looks like in pro tools format. in case you did not recognize it, this is "discussed", right before the e-bow guitar solo.



verena recording the flute tracks... and there's udo again, now, really, there were no drugs involved in making this record!



thomas using all his professional knowledge about guitars in repairing his nighthawk.



ingo, "discussed", a 5string musicman bass and 2 funk fingers



martin waiting for the prompt... and probably for some coffee and a cigarette break.



the whole band including kathrin, thomas' girlfriend, having some lunch at thomas' parents' house.



thomas doing some editing or other work at the computer. nope, no minesweeper involved.



udo is working hard on the very demanding keyboard parts as you can see...



first and last and always: wolfgang "wolgi" schroeder. i guess he's what genesis meant by "sound friend": someone to unnerve about every technical detail of processes we don't know the slightest bit about apart from how to switch them on (sometimes also apart from how to switch them off again).