ANTHONY PHILLIPS, GENESIS CO-FOUNDER :PT 2. FULL UNCUT INTVW. ON LEAVING GENESIS "I HAD NO CHOICE" 

To add to that, I can't remember the name of the podcast, but I'm in canada and there is a guy in Nova Scotia who has a podcast of some sort, and he basically got hold of 'Ant' to be on his show. For the life of me I can't remember what it was any more, but I remember hearing the beginning and what struck me is what seems common in many of his interviews is he spends as much time asking the hosts about the places where they live as talking about himself. Just don't ask him if he regrets leaving Genesis.

Were there any blankets or concrete in his drum?

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Sounds like they had enough writers but had to work at including everyone's ideas, not easy.

Not exactly a piece of cake later in life either.

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He plays with Steve some on the album "out of the tunnels mouth". Both though are lead players, and there's a definite personality type to a lot of musical positions and Phillips has said he wouldn't want to do more because he wouldn't want to jeopardize their friendship. Mike has always been a great rhythm player so even that would be cool, but at this point, well, Steve's got a new album, you take what you can get:) I think real musical innovation and maybe even inspiration comes when people are young or under some kind of pressure I don't think we're ever going to hear anything 'seminal' from any of these guys, and frankly they'd be right to say "what, MORE??":) After listening to Strings of Light I had the thought that what would be really interesting from Anthony Phillips would be a christmas album of midieval christmas carols done with some of the many different instruments he has, sort of the way Loreena McKennitt has done them, or Bruce Cockburns Riu Riu Chiu. One time when I was really into Trespass I remember writing a 'return to white mountain' because I really hated how that ended, and a pipe dream I had at the time is it would be cool to have all guitarists of Genesis, Ant, Steve, Tony, Mike, even Darryl, add a flavour. But after awhile of listeing to a lot of musicians you realize this is mostly because we've been suckered into notions of celebrity, I've now personally met a dozen guys just nearby who are phenomenal guitarists. But then of course I said "ok, write me a musical sequel to white mountain" and as Rick Wright says, "well, if I knew how to repeat Dark Side I would". Although in some other news, the guy at Rocky Mountain Music, who has worked with both Phillips and Hackett has said that they have an upcoming project with......Tony Banks. So life and music goes on. And Phillips has said he'll probably play music til he can't anymore, and hopefully that will be awhile.

Hi. I actually started with Phil. Tony next. I interviewed Steve in the morning and Ant that afternoon. Peter last. ps yes a very nice man !

Very!

I dont think. You have to remember isn't a band at that time with a ton of money to rest on their laurels. That saying may be an english thing:) But as they've said, they were deep in debt til after Peter, but after peter they got Tony Smith and proper management that wasnt' buying race horses. If you recall when Phil was GOING to leave, both Tony and Mike said 'well hold on, we're working on solo albums'. If they were working on solo albums then obviously there was at least a little wiggle room. And then there were three got them that hit, which means they had a couple of years with some money in the bank. I remember a movie about a guy who had ONE hit and basically retired. Maybe it wasn't that, but they obviously COULD take a break.

Was the One-Hit guy Fred Wedlock? Or perhaps Don McClean, who did American Pie? Someone asked Don what American Pie meant, and Don replied that it meant that he never had to work again. Of course, Vincent was another massive hit. Don would never sing the same song twice in exactly the same way, to give the audience a different take on it every night.

@@peterdixon7734 Its possible I can't quite remember, there are probably a number of them, it usually depends on how good their managers are. I think The Verve said their megahit, uh, dammit, I forget what its called but you've heard it, but they get nothing from it. That guy that did Margaritaville apparantly parlayed that hit into a BILLION dollar empire somehow. All I know about that is that anybody who even SAID 'Margaritaville' got threatened with a lawsuit unless they paid up. But he was also big on the concert circuit and I think there's a documentary on his fans, they have their own name, I can't remember it. But its too bad Ant wasn't in america or did some really big shows. I'd heard Rick Danko basically got way too much drug money from ''this wheels on fire' when Absolutely Fabulous was on. Apparantly that was a huge check. Getting your song onto a hit show is big money. On a related note thats not so related, apparantly that guy in Mott The Hoople had a song called 'england rocks' which got turned into 'cleveland rocks' on the Drew Carey Show, so he likely got some big bucks for that. Next to going to Vegas, thats about the best thing a songwriter can get. Just on an unrelated note, I was shopping at two stores yesterday and noticed two big songs being played but by generic singers. LIkely some company is saving a FEW bucks by taking pop songs and getting joe no name to sing them. I worked retail before and its godawful listenign to billy joel over and over again, but now its piano man by 'just some guy'. All to save a few pennies. Welcome to the new world.

I hadn't watched to the very end before and when I was just listening to it I was thinking "this could not get more british unless at the very end he says we should all have a cup of tea". And there it was. In another multiverse there's an Ant that stayed in Genesis with Mike Rutherford and was heard saying "this coke is really lovely"