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Met Phil Wainman in forest hill studio lecture. He picked me out and gave his card. Went to meet him in Eutopia village. He could not believe the demo i played him and offered the band a publishing deal. Unfortunately the band had other ideas and did not act on it. Sorry o never got tp work with him he was a straight talking person whom was easy to get on with. This was around 1985.
Tony Banks, your album *Still* - still rates my fave of your solos. You write so well with both Nik Kershaw and Derek (Fish) Dick. All four of those songs are most remarkable. And these two singers/co-writers' vocals are phenomenal fits. 'Still' baffled over there not being a hit single from the album. I'd like to see the three of you in a new group, perhaps with Janey Klimek. (Toyah?). Would love to see you get back into prog/pop, and keyboards, lovely as your orchestral work is.
This is wonderful to hear ant philips talking very elequently about his own career with subtle references to his time in genesis he is a very accomplished musician in his own right fantastic interview well done Anthony philips awesome 😅😅😅
Great producer. How did you get those drum sounds on The Sweet's Ballroom Blitz. Fell in love with it as a boy and it's stood out all these years as a great production.
Multiple layered, like they did with the vocals. Mike Leander used that technique earlier on with the Glitter Sound. A drummer can never play a song exactly the same, twice; that's how you achieve that specific sound. Mick Tucker was a great drummer btw!
He fascinates me I saw him live this week in Nottingham the gig was fantastic. the only thing was I came home with tears because of all the memories the music has for me ✌️
Very interesting interview, I love to hear Tony discuss his entire solo story like this! I'm glad to hear that he's happy with how his career's turned out in general, certainly he has a large body of work he can be extremely proud of!
I wonder if Genesis had a concert for charity with both Phil and Pete and Steve showing up, whether Ant could be persuaded to come out at least for one song.
He has said that he couldn't even go to Genesis concerts as a member of the AUDIENCE. He does have a couple of videos where you can see him play. But I think that ship has sailed. Apparantly he couldn't even be persuaded at the concerts Genesis gave just for their manager.
What does he mean 'it hadn't bitten either". It was huge in BELGIUM. So they should have simply moved to Belgium. And sung and written in ....belgian? Is that a language? Sorry to the belgians. Its odd and interesting that Mr. Phillips can't remember how they made the decision to go on the road because ALL the other guys point the finger directly at him as being 'the guy' who wanted to go on the road, and loved being on stage. So is it self deprecating to try to evade the 'responsibility' or is it humbleness that doesn't want to say "yeah Genesis wouldn't exist now if it weren't for me".
Lovely warm lady,amazing voice and has a great aura.Very underrated group was propaganda one of the best groups ever without doubt and they deserve to be mentioned in the best company like Omd/human league/soft cell/depache mode etc etc and all the other great synth bands around that time.Timeless music propaganda made as sounds as good today in 2023 as they did in 1983.
20:00 The highest commercial success he had was definitely 1994, two songs constantly on the radio and on music channels Edit to clarify: Two songs and number 20 is definitely better than one song at number 10
The amount of comments here that say "Tony Banks is good but..." grime me, but who cares really, you people look too much into things and your opinion is worthless, just like me, must be the way of the internet i suppose. For me, i love his solo output, can't wait for the next album >:)
Just came across him on a rerun of an old I/V with Sinead O'C.... Liked what he said & how, back then...and now... He has a lovely sensitivity & awareness.
That mixing desk behind Mark is right now listed on That Auction Site for 175 000 GBP.. has been on there quite a while actually.. can't believe no-one has yet snapped up such a bargain!! 😂
Un grand compositeur. Il a écrit de très belles pages de musique, il rayonne d'une simplicité qui dans sa musique n'est qu'une impression. Son jeu est élégant, émouvant et harmonique ment très abouté. Le son anglais...dans ce qui se fait de mieux.
I have mused about the great Blind Faith that could have been---with Bruce (instead of Ric Grech) and the rest of the lineup. The biggest disappointment with Blind Faith was the songwriting. I saw their US tour (in Aug 1969) and the first album (only album) was so weak that the concert's song list was forced to rely on Cream songs recycled to include Winwood. A Traffic song or two was included for some of the shows. Instead imagine Winwood and Bruce teaming up to create songs!
I loved mike rutherford,s comment that boarding school prepared him for low level touring...tired, hungry and being treated like crap. Having been through both myself, he was absolutely right
