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Mr. Edginton sir, once again, thank you. Just listening to and then there were these 3 is so humbling. Excuse my language but they were fucking huge and here they sit talking about arguments over reverb or no reverb and bum notes! Wow. Probably the best band in the world, ever.
I like how Tony, Phil, and Mike still include Peter and Steve in conversation even though they left the group, there were no hard feelings. Some "rock" bands can't stand each other. Genesis are classy English guys, very English and cool because they play incredible music together. I hope Phil is doing much better. I have all their albums.
Duke is their most perfect album - balanced between the prog 70s and the pop 80s-90s. I never get tired of listening to it, though some tracks are too emotionally intense to just spin without thinking about it.
Genesis saved my life. I give up 17 going on see you in where ever This band brought me through a time I hated so much of life. The Lamb gave ne so much joy, That Life is a good thing.
When The Beatles became a hit, someone asked Paul McCartney if he realized how much his music had changed modern culture. He simply smiled and answered: "You must be kidding me!" From the outside, it's obvious for us to see their greatness. From the inside, they are just blokes who happened to get all this attention.
I love these videos. Thanks. I was born in 1970. “Misunderstanding” was the first time I found out about Genesis when it was a hit in 1980. I remember a kid I played in a junior golf match against singing it as we walked off from the first tee.
I love these Genesis interviews, and I like seeing the 3 guys together again. It’s amazing how much older Phil looks than Mike and Tony and they’re all the same age. It makes me so sad to see Phil’s health so bad. He was always the energizer bunny onstage. They are the soundtrack of my life. Never will be a group like them again. Such massive talent.
John, when will the rest of the interviews be posted again? I can’t find them anywhere anymore. I remember watching them a year or so ago. They are so good.
Great interview - lovely to see the interaction between them. Thankyou for posting this. We were so lucky to have been able to see them and listen to them for all these years.
Great interview! In 90’s I worked at a radio station and I quickly realised that I didn’t wanted to do interviews the same way as everyone else. You’ve got the press release and I took that as things not to talk about, since I understood that they probably were tired of getting the same questions over and over. Eventually the artists asked to be interviewed by me because we had a nice atmosphere. This interview reminds me a lot of that. A relaxing atmosphere where the person interviewing is like one of the listeners.
I could listen to these guys talking all day long. No other band comes close to how they can make music that really moves you. I'm 63 now and was first introduced to them by a friend at school aged 15 and have been listening to them ever since and have seen them live numerous times as a band and also as solo artists. No other band in history has had that amount of success as a band and also as individual artists. Bravo gents.
Compared to past interviews Phil seems more “out of it” in this and subsequent ones…he got his neck injuries on the 07 tour and I assume he was taking strong pain meds even at this point.
@@JohnMacRae23 fair. He could still walk at this time but he looked heavier and slower. That said a few photos I’ve seen of him recently he looks relaxed and happier and healthier. Touring in his condition was probably difficult even with the best of arrangements.
Very smart, clearheaded, driven individuals. You could’ve taken those same three guys and taught them finger painting and they still would’ve been successful.
Thank you John, these videos are so insightful. Phil's breathing seems laboured in this interview. He's always a class act though. Didn't deserve all the backlash, that's the Fleet St tabloid's for you I guess. When these rags end up extinct, your films will serve as the lasting account of the band's history.
Phil seems like such a nice, pleasant, easy-going fellow who gets along well with everyone. Fellow band mates, anyway. However, his marriages are a different story. He seems to have a lot of difficulty getting along with his wives. Tony and Mike, on the other hand, have been in very stable marriages for decades. Tony married Margaret in 1972. Mike & Angie married a few years later.
Hi John, did you ever edit the whole multi-cam together in the end? Was it used at all. I've been to The Farm twice now shooting interviews with Tony and Nick Davies on Banks Statement release around this time maybe 2016. Tony was a Gent both times. Our interview with him is on youtube Cherry Red Records page maybe....did you ever use your footage in a release?
Chissà se fossero rimasti sempre uniti cos’altro avrebbero fatto. L’abbandono di Gabriel è stato micidiale e poi il successivo di Hackett ….Ma quello che ci hanno donato resterà nella storia della musica per sempre.
Short answer: Bum notes. I always forget where i got that joke from and it was Tony who said it lol, i mean, it does sound like something he would say, i just try to not assume that its the case but then there it is
That mixing desk is still for sale about £180K, bargain for what it is. Would love to buy it. Sadly the studio has been closed and everything sold off. Since Genesis sold the rights to their music this year.
When he was younger, Phil Collins was the most punctual musician in Genesis. In fact, he was usually early. Phil is about a year younger than the others. Sadly, age got the better of him first.
TB was wrong about the Robbery, Assault and Battery video not being shown on tv--I distinctly remember asking my parents if I could stay up to watch it on the Midnight Special tv show
Tony Banks says that he didn't really know Mike Rutherford at Charterhouse School. Eventually they met when they started making demo tapes with Anthony Philips and Peter Gabriel. Before meeting Mike, Tony had heard of him. A house master or some authority figure warned Tony to "stay away from Rutherford," whom he considered to be a bad influence.
I wonder if even the other members of Genesis have any idea what Mike is saying. He never learned to slow down and enunciate. Perhaps he never needed to. Bless him.
My friends and I used to laugh so hard at his thick, quick speech. We called him Mumble Mouth Rutherford. Then I learned something which wasn't funny at all. Mike fell off his horse when he was playing polo. He landed on his face, and needed to have all his teeth replaced. Now I feel bad for laughing.
I think one thing they should at least acknowledge is that while THEY see it as a single body of work, guess what, all those women talking about Genesis in the eighties aren't watching videos with interviews or the reaction videos that young and old people are doing. When even Richard McPhail and Anthony Phillips, who are as close to it as anybody, say there was something special about that time you have to take it seriously. As 'artists' it may be ego that makes them not want to admit that 'as a band', as an entity where THEY were not the controlling factor, is when their best output was, at least their 'best' for certain types of fans. Even Peter became much more literal after he left, and so very different. Although I'd tend to agree with the notion that you can't go on forever writing about crazy shit hardly anybody can understand. And you have to wonder when Tony says its the 'interludes' they like better than songs on the lamb, what the album would have been like had it been mostly 'interludes', meaning, jams.
I always say that something in the world totally changed around 1985. Attitudes, philosophies, technologies…no one seems to know what caused the change. In a sense, things are continually changing. The 60s were different in many ways from the 50s and so on. But the values projected in my favorite music do not seem to change over time. The Genesis songs from 1971 to 1983 are just as powerful as ever. I like plenty of the later stuff, too. I know there have been and are “social engineers” who favor certain cultural figures at certain times. Things seem to be way way way more controlled nowadays compared to the 70s.
Hmmm....is it just me or does Phil seem as "jet-lagged and on pain meds for his endless spine/ shoulder issues.".....as a newt....on this interview? Only joking John. Just thought I'd give you a little giggle over the repetitive corrections you're having to make here in this comments section...lol Whilst also paying tribute to the following scene in Yes Minister by way of "source." Hacker (nervously): Anything in the papers about last night? Sir Humphrey: Only a small mention in the Daily Blah; they say that you were "overwrought". Hacker: Thank goodness for that! Sir Humphrey: Well, Minister, the exact phrase they used was "overwrought as a newt"... 🤭
I'd like to know what music the guys listen to while driving, biking, on an airplane, etc, because I hear most musicians don't listen to their own music for enjoyment, which makes sense having to write, rehearse, record, then perform the songs. I'm guessing It's more like work. But I think after 40 plus years one may listen to some of their old albums for nostalgia because it is great music.
It's pretty out in the open Phil started a lot of his days with a bottle of wine after the 2007 tour ended. That and painkillers because his health struggles. My dad who isn't alive anymore had the same issues and that slurred speech is something I can spot a mile away.. I'm just happy Phil is still around and I could see the last domino tour. So bless him because he had a hell of career and got a lot of shit for it.
