Genesis comments on their ninth album ...And Then There Were Three. Genesis 1976-1982 Box Down And Out Undertow Many Too Many Follow You Follow Me Link for Duke • Genesis on Duke
Yeah I agree. It's such an amazing album at a hectic time of their career. One of my all time favorite genesis album's even though they all are so good and hold their one magic. But to be In A situation where another key member of genesis leaves and be able to still produce this album is truly amazing. Tony banks is God 🙌
Its ok , not bad, just decent, in comparison to the albums before, Steve Hackett was missed, the band were never the same again...they became soft poppy and run by Tony Banks, who comes across as insufferable , and pompous, he looked down on Steve, but Steve is the better man for leaving, Genesis last hurrah is TTW3 , the rest after that were , well, rather dull and boring and poppy. I never bought another Genesis album after Then There Were Three.
@@tramlad2 I get that about Tony. Seems so insufferable. As for their albums after Steve, Duke and Abacab i rarely listen,although I do enjoy the albums...just. Mama album is fantastic I think as is Invisible Touch. Great childhood memories as my folks bought the LPs which I still have. I guess it's all down to individual taste. I couldn't get into Marillion post Fish.
Me too! Age seven I put my mums vinyl copy of the album on with headphones one day, lay on the sofa and opened the gatefold. The cover imagery and atmosphere drew me in and I remember following the lyrics from the very start. By the time I got to side two and The Lady Lies I was a changed boy 😅… Back in 1981 when I heard this it wasn’t what most other 7yrolds were listening to in the uk, it was all Adam Ant and other New Romantic stuff so I felt I was in a little club of my own. It marked the beginning of a lifelong relationship with music….and Phil became my private mentor… in my mind anyway😄
When Phil commented that "Follow You Follow Me " is still played on the radio today....well that says it all. Sometimes the most simple catchy tunes work out the best.That song takes me right back to my High School years and floods me with memories.Music is life and we get to relive it quite often when we listen to our favorite tunes.
No one. No one ever played better. Oh there were a few who were close, and it surely isn't a contest. Bruford, of course, but I actually like Alan White better. Then there was Barriemore Barlow, who made it hard to choose Phil as the King. But once it was all said and done, or rather played, well it's the material. Barlow and White, all those middle era Yes and Tull albums, okay, phenomenal. And the early Yes with Bruford, phenomenal. But Collins? We're talkin everything from the third album up to when they stopped the epic prog, which was really Duke, Duke was the last one, then it was all 4/4 and everyone stopped shredding. All three of them stopped shredding at once, Rutherford, Banks and Collins after Duke. The guitar stopped shredding with this album, because Rutherford wasn't a guitar shredder. He really wasn't your typical bass shredder either, but he pulled it off fine. But Collins? Just phenomenal. You have six albums before this one, one a double, and Duke, so that's nine discs, if I have the math and the chronology right. No one else did that much. The early and later Tull albums, nope, and Barlow wasn't even on the early ones, but well that guy Clive Bunker was no slouch! And the early and later Yes albums, nope. I suppose White kept at it but Yes got way less involved, arrangement speaking. They didn't go and do pop music, but the Yes songs on later albums, they still attempted to be epic, but it just lacked something. But Sound Chaser? The drums on Sound Chaser alone put Alan White in the Hall of Fame. Anyway, nope, no one. Collins won, he's Babe Ruth. Longevity and content. He's Jim Brown, Joe Montana, Barry Sanders, Bill Russell, etc. All due respect to Buddy Rich. :) PS Of course it wouldn't be right to not include John P. Weathers though. He actually complicates the matter considerably. PPS I believe I've read that both Collins and Barlow, reflecting many years later, both said that looking back on it all, they feel they overplayed, and if they could do it again they'd be more subtle. Good thing they can't turn back time! PPPS Carl Palmer doesn't make the voting, for some reason I can't really explain. John Bonham would be eligible if Zeppelin had played a little more prog, as would pretty much all of Zappa's drummers. Prog has certain traits though, so you have to fit the mold to qualify. It can't be fusion, it has to be prog. Someone in the band has to sing about Moors in England, and stuff like that, and medieval times.
Ya. I remember back when I was in my early teens getting into wars of words over who was a better drummer, Phil or Bonham, or Phil and (gasp) the up-and-coming Lars Ulrich. A metalhead friend of mine was all over Lars, so I had to play him Down and Out. Lars couldn't play DnO if his life depended on it. Love Metallica's stuff, but seriously now.
My favorite Genesis album. Like they said, it represents their "in between" period; stepping away from the past but not fully into the future yet. Love this one and Duke.
I didn't know Genesis in 1978 but i saw this album for sale for $3.99 and loved the album cover and the 3 mysterious figures in the dark. So i bought it...and WOW! No choice then, started buying all the albums in reverse order. Opened up a whole new world of music for me. And Genesis more than any other band invoked a sense of longing to see England - Epping Forest, the Earl of Mar, Duchess, and loads of Pigeons!
Don't underestimate "Snowbound," for there's a powerful metaphor in there I find riveting; just beneath conscious awareness but extremely and emotionally potent; an anthem of (our) mortality, and the mortality of all things, I think. Brilliant.
To all those people who think that Tony Banks hated Steve and wanted him out, listen to this interview. He said he viewed Steve as an "ally" and liked that Steve supported his more outlandish ideas ("Firth of Fifth", for example). Tony was also there with Peter when Steve auditioned and recommended him to the group. Tony in the past viewed Steve as an important member and said he grew considerably as a writer and contributor with the band. I think in a lot of ways, they are two sides of the same coin and sometimes that works out well and other times, not so much. Steve wasn't as strong of a personality as Peter or Tony and I think that at times caused his music not to get on albums. I also think Tony got upset about Voyage of the Acolyte because he planned on doing a solo album after Lamb due in many ways to his dissatisfaction with the experience and the album, yet he held back and put those songs on Trick to help the band survive. Steve, on the other hand, took Phil and Mike and did his own thing. I remember Tony saying how there were a good number of songs on that album that could have been on Trick. Steve requested time to do another solo album after the Trick tour, which Phil was supportive of (Phil always worked with other musicians and bands from the beginning, with little push back from the others), but Tony (and likely Mike) were not. So then Steve requested 25% of the songwriting credits, which was also denied. I think he hit a point where he didn't have enough space to do his own thing. I also agree with what Mike said in a future interview about how Steve's departure was likely preventable and if the four of them got together and talked it through, they likely would have come up with an arrangement similar to what they had in the 80s (where they took time off to do solo albums, and then reconvened to do group albums). I like Steve's solo stuff, but a damn shame they couldn't work it out. I think he could have added a lot to the 80s albums.
Steve’s own solo albums output in the 80s was instantly forgettable though, but I think he would of made a tune like home by the sea ll a classic with his guitar work weaving through it.
Tony has been the fall guy for years, he's an intelligent man, and maybe the self realisation that he was a nasty piece of work, is making him regret some of his bullying. Or maybe as he gets into his old age, he just wants a better press.........
Jeez, Steve's intricate guitar solo on "Seconds out" Firth of fifth, is off the scale brilliant, i almost wish that he had,nt left, but if he had stayed, would we have got "& then there were 3" etc ?.
This album always reminded me of winter and Christmas time. I always chalked that up to past memories, but there actually are several references to the season on the record. Snowbound with (of course) "The Snowman" and "a snow year" being a good year, the mention of "It will still be snowing out there" from Undertow, and the "snowflake drifting on the breath of the breeze" on Burning Rope. But there are the memories as well. Of playing the record on cold winter nights, ice covering my bedroom window with the blurred but colorful lights of the neighborhood leading up to and proceeding the Christmas holiday twinkling through the cold panes of glass.
Oh my God. What a trip. I got this album from a friend of mine in high school as a Christmas present on Christmas day 1983 and played it all over the holidays. Id never heard any of the songs except follow you follow me a couple of times at the most! INCREDIBLE!
@@maeredabtsog6164 Funny....'Follow you / follow me' seemed popular here in the 'States in Summer 1980..... But maybe that's just my personal memory of being driven to baseball camp every day at 13. But I'll always agree the entire album is very good.
I agree! I’m weird, I only play certain music during certain times of the year, for various reasons I guess, subject matter or when I discovered said music, who knows. Weird I am
How beautiful. I feel EXACTLY the same about this album. The whole atmosphere for me is very special and provokes such deep, delicious memories and feelings.
They are sooooo right about Follow you, follow me. I was 15 when I bought my first Genesis album around 1975/76 and listening to this mixes my emotions so much. I want to cry because it's so beautiful and also because my life has whizzed by as well. I am grateful, but also sad that those times have gone forever, and now it's a different era, not one I love quite as much, too complicated, less innocent, harder.
I got into Genesis as a 12 year old in 78 when I found a cassette tape my father had brought home from work with a Genesis mix of all songs from the first 7 albums. I listened and listened again and have loved them for another 41 years since. Best band ever imo.
My most favorite album of all time❤️❤️. My most favorite lyrics of all time are from, “Undertow.”❤️ AND, my most favorite musician of all time is, Tony Banks❤️. Thank you Genesis, for 44 years of soul touching music.
@@trespasser121 there is no UNREAL or REAL Genesis. That is all YOUR perception. I have been a huge fan since 1972. I have seen them, and all the offshoots, at least 30 times live. Still listen to all their music, flipping from 1970 to the most recent solo projects. It is all good stuff. Yes, the first few years were spectacularly different than other bands. However, to say that is the REAL Genesis, is total crappie. It wasn't even the original line up. And yes, I think Hackett and Gabriel are great musicians. I specially love the revisited tours. Daw them last year for the 3rd time. It is all REAL good stuff.
I love And Then There Were Three. I'm not saying it was one of their best, but it's one of my favorites. Burning Rope is one of my favorite songs. ATTW3 might be in my top 3.
Nunya bidniss agreed. for me this their last truly great album. hardly a bad song on it tho ironically follow you follow me was my least favourite yet their most successful.
Peter Roberts yep, I became bored with fyfm because of constant radio play, I love ATTWT but find ballad of big the only song I totally have no time for. My faves are down and out and undertow.
The boys of Genesis were always outstanding, and this album simply catapulted them to new heights. "The Lady Lies" and "Undertow" are incredible songs! Who else at anytime ever sounded like this band?
Their best work in my opinion. An album that has staid with me for almost 40 years. I've got the whole Genesis cannon but feel too many people get vexed over the breakup of the band to see the beautiful wood for the sometimes hit & miss whimsical trees. Track for track this is by far their greatest. Other albums had some amazing songs on but this is consistently good with probably at the most 1 or 2 OK songs mixed in with some sheer Rutherford & Banks genius.
Compared to other Genesis, this one took awhile for me to fully appreciate. It now has become one of my favorites of theirs along with Duke. Burning Rope, Down and Out, Lady Lies, Deep in the Motherlode, Many too Many are all brilliant songs. Undertow is a damn masterpiece. And i don't care if it's hated by most I really love Follow You Follow Me.
I think being a true Genesis fan involves having an appreciation for everything they did, not just one specific era. If anything, these guys are one of the most versatile acts in rock. Everyone has their favorite albums and eras, but at least have an appreciation and respect for their entire career. For me personally, starting at Trick of a Tail onward, I can listen to each album all the way through, and love 95% of the tracks. But I also love me some Peter Gabriel Genesis, even if the albums in their entirety are a bit too strange and grandiose for me. If you can switch from listening to The Musical Box to Misunderstanding, you're probably a true Genesis fan.
I don't even know why a person would want to be a "true fan" of anything. You like what you like, no need to wear a badge. There are many, many, many reasons for a person to like or dislike one given song or album, even reasons that are entirely personal and don't have much to do with the music itself. So why bother with such labels? I enjoy the vast majority of the Genesis output, and all that means is that I have more music to enjoy. No reason for pride.
Nate Byrne I can agree with that, but for me their solo work is included as well. It's great to hear how each member evolves on their own, and I think you develop a greater understanding and appreciation of what each member brings to the collective. For example, Peter has traveled down a very unusual musical path. Had he stayed on-board longer, One can only imagine how that might have influenced their sound. Roads not taken, I suppose...
@Nelson Robert Willis Very much agreed, and they made a good, though underrated, album (Calling All Stations) without Pete or Phil. Was it a great? I can't say that, but I think they called it quits too soon. They had a solid sound with Ray, would have been interesting to see where they might have gone next.
I got the album when I was thirteen and wow it was the best I had ever heard. I am a one legged drummer and i returned to playing in the last year and set up a kit in the living room and di all thew drum parts flawlessly on the album. there are many that are very complicated with fast fills and unusual timings and a whole host of different things but I have managed all of them flawlessly.
In May 1978 when Follow You, Follow Me was in the Top40 in Canada, once or twice our Dad drove us to the nearby A&W Drive-In for burgers. This was the first Genesis song I remember on AM radio (58 CKY and/or 13cfrw, Winnipeg, Canada). The song was on when we ordered our hamburgers. My youngest sister just turned 5. So I associate this song with that time at the A&W.
I grew up in such an amazing stage of music, this was my first Genesis album that I heard WOW! Still love it, snowbound makes me cry still...Stay with me, still one of the best love songs!
Loved this album. I got it in 1983 as a sophomore in college. My girlfriend introduced me to this album and TOTT. I pretty much wore out the record during the summer of 1983 or 1984. Undertow was the one that grabbed me first, but the entire album is great, of course. I was surprised to learn in recent years that the band wasn't as proud of this album as their others. Listening to it today, the prominence of the synthesizers does make it sound a bit dated. But I still love it. It was a few years later that I got Seconds Out and then that one really blew me away. To this day, I prefer Phil's singing voice to Peter Gabriel's on the Genesis tracks. I guess it's because I started out with Phil first and then heard the older Genesis later. I just recently learned how to play Entangled on the guitar -- great song.
Got the album on vinyl , then CD, then downloaded..... Still my favourite recording by Genesis........maybe all time. brilliant. Burning rope and Snowbound still get played almost daily .
Though it lacks in comparison to A Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering, it's still a hugely underrated album. I love Undertow, Snowbound, Burning Rope and The Lady Lies.
The only song I found to be a dud on ATTWT had to be ballad of big, I skip that song but love the rest of the songs, maybe apart from fyfm because it was played too much on radio and I became a bit bored of it. Down and out and undertow are my faves on it.
Burning Rope, Undertow, Deep in the Motherlode, Snowbound, Down and Out and The Lady Lies are The True Standouts IMHO. Follow You, Follow Me was their first huge single that eventually grew on me somehow, despite my adoration for The 1970-1977 More Prog Era. I Think after Duke, which is damn good, they changed too much for me, though some songs here and there or a song on a subsequent album was Good, but the rest of the album, not so much.
Hi Vicky Viking., Truth , ditto, and Absolutely! The actual artists, talking and reflecting on their own art. BRILLIANT! I Love this album SO MUCH!!! 🤜💥🤛💞
Awesome album that had one of Britain's best loved rock groups survive into a new musical era when so many others became irrelevant. Follow You Follow Me was the sound of that summer,
@@PeterMayer Are you talking in terms of popularity? Because then I agree, it isn't close to the "greatest" album of all time.. but musically, I think in a world full of millions upon millions of records, this is easily one of the best of all time.. and I don't need anyone to agree. This is objectively my (and the poster's) opinion which is 100% true for us.
Never will understand why the band didn't care for this record. One of my FAVORITES. Those first 5 collins albums I thought were them at their BEST. Selling England and The Lamb from the Gabriel era. STILL my favorite band of ALL TIME
Die hard Genesis fan for many years, I feel like alot here, I really liked this album. Michael Rutherford seems like one really laid back dude you know. Kind of guy that could be real cool to hang with.
Agree! I bought this LP back in '78 for the single Follow You Follow Me, not knowing some of the best music ever made existed on this Album. Deep in the Motherlode at volume 60 is still my go-to for spine-tingling goose bumps. Many Too Many, as noted by others... the best love song ever written. "I thought I was lucky, oh I thought that I'd ... got... it....made! Collins, you killing me here. My God, this album is sofa king good.
I could never figure what the cover had to do with the contents and I thought three contributors instead of four showed - but there are some beautiful melodies on there (Undertow is a favourite). For me it's THE Genesis album where on hearing it again, I'm transported back to the house where I first heard it and the vibe at the time - it has a real character.
Released April 7th, 1978, [ a banner year in Rock ] at 53 min 35 sec, with every track, movement, chapter and verse, rolling mellifluously into the next, transporting the listener, on an epic lyrical and sonic journey. My personal favorite album by Genisis., which speaks to every fiber of my being., along with afterglow, from Wind & Wuthering. The entire album, feels like a dreamy hypnagogic experience, i.e., the trippy state between wakefulness and sleep. Wonderful compositions and era [ LOVE the 70's. ] Most cohesive, transitional, and a wall of sound, have all been used to describe the album. It bridges the gap of past and present exquisitely, and to perfection, with expert craftsman's use of layers, nuances, light /'shade, softness, and strength. I am happy for the band, and audience, that follow you follow me, earned them a well deserved radio hit, with increased record sales / a larger audience, and more ladies, at their concerts. I am the exception to the rule, when I say my interest in the band started and ended with this album...Sublime, a grand masterpiece, and a monumental achievement.
This was the first Genesis album for me. I was around 7 years old and my dad played this record many times. I love it, the sound on this seems unique. The songs are great, no filler tracks, all class.
This was my last really liked Genesis album. Even with the shorter songs, the melodies were still rich and powerful. Steve's spirit was still there, though it'd fade quickly after.
GENESIS were gonna be toast ,.... but then this amazing album comes along and saves the day ,..as it blows minds ; The lady lies, Down and out !, Burning Rope,..oh fucking shit wow ; WHAT AN ALBUM !!
During the ATTWT-tour I joined my first Genesis-gig. Great memories and a decent setlist with great stuff from the Gabriel-era as well as the early Collins-era. Phantastic concert and phantastic album! 🥰🙏
Tony Banks is the core, but Steve wrote some beautiful music. You guys were good without him, but it’s like losing your super powers when each member left. The whole was definitely more interesting than, “ And then there was three “. I did really love all the Genesis albums til Duke. Just my humble opinion.
Tony Bank's song Many to Many is one of the best ever.. I should say best love song of Genesis.. Had many memories of childhood.. still a lovely song... Congraculations for that song if you hear meTony !! :-) ..
This IS the album for someone going through a heartbreak. Although, some tracks I just skip over. Besides those tracks, fantastic album. Always close to my heart, this one is.
Too many people still smash this album as they did in 1978. They speak as if this one were really so much different from any previous Genesis album, and I think this is a false myth. It's just the songs that are sometimes shorter, but to me they still sound very much like , apart from the classic guitar bits that belonged to Steve and only to him himself. The rest is still the same dramatic, keyboard-driven, anthemic sound only Genesis had... I mean, Tony's still the main writer here, that's what makes it sound 'proper Genesis'. Genesis started moving away from their typical atmospheres only when they wrote , an intentional 'non-Genesis' song... and the first album where they relegated their usual style to a small number of tracks is indeed. Anyway, I'd still love them on and on, no matter what.
Follow You,. Follow Me....Mike! You wrote that in 10 minutes. I wish you'd done something else with those 10 minutes. That's such an annoying song! Of course Phil's thrilled.
This album is very interesting to me ,.... They compacted so many ideas here ,..and so much of this thing WORKS WONDERS !! ,... Surprisingly GREAT !!,...
As a five-piece, they were legendary. As a four-piece, a great band. As a three-piece, a good band. Genesis has always been a good band, but the best lineup will always be Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford.
I saw this tour and I absolutely love this album. This album made me realize it’s gonna be just as good as a three-piece. I do believe though they lost me after invisible touch.
The amazing thing about this album is how effortlessly Mike stepped into the lead guitarist role. So effortlessly in fact that they don't even mention it.
What a Wonderful album !! I was lucky to grow up musically listening and transcribing this entire masterpiece note-by-note, and also two more Genesis albums from the late 70's : "Wind and Wuthering", and "Duke". I also loved UK's "Danger Money", "Heavy Weather" by Weather Report, and "The Pauper In Paradise" by Gino Vannelli. There was no internet back then, no gadgets, no MTV, but lots of good quality. True artists were our heroes... Now the young generation has their "idols" instead. Pity..
The thing about the two different eras of Genesis are this: The classic lineup (Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford) was legendary and influential. Sure, not as commercially successful, but the music, with its odd time changes, blend of classical influences with folk, hard rock and even jazz, with Gabriel's mix of wit, mystery, theatricality and strangeness, Hackett's tapping and sweep picking, Banks beautiful piano, Collins complex drumming and Rutherford's steady bass pulsing throughout, really influenced many alternative artists and bands into the future. The albums from this time frame are the ones that are still selling today and that music fans still like to talk about. When Gabriel left, much of the music stayed the same for the two albums when Hackett was still on board, but after his departure, two important members were gone and the sound did indeed change. The trio lineup (Banks/Collins/Rutherford) was a good band, but I wouldn't call them legendary and influential. They were popular for their era and sold boatloads of records, but today their music sounds very dated and when you talk to Genesis fans, they likely will reach back to the classic lineup catalog, Duke not withstanding. Both good bands, but one legendary and one merely good.
+Ben Kizer I preferred the "classic" lineup, but found many enjoyable deep cuts in their later material. Mainly, I was happy they were having mega-hits, because it reactivated their back catalogue sales, meaning a whole new audience was turned on to the older stuff as well, and they finally made some money. As it stands, probably partially as a result of the "Genesnooze" (sic) years, it turns out "The Lamb" is the most consistent seller in their discography, and STILL sells after all these years
@@ocean686 Not at all how it was. Tony, Peter and Mike, with Steve a little less, all wrote music and lyrics, even Phil wrote little bits and pieces here and there.
And Then There Were Three is an excellent album...the whole thing! I fell in love with "Follow You Follow Me" the first time I ever heard it in 1978. I still listen to it to this day.
Well now, Genesis. Their music is not always catchy like pop. It's not actually pop music yet it has become popular. It takes a lot of listening and it's worth it. I was 17 in the early 1970s. I was working in a covers band playing chart music we liked what we played and thankfully busy. My girlfriend bought me "FOXTROT" for my Birthday. Ok.. So we listened to it. I was normally used to 4/4 or 3/4 time music. RnR, Beatles ect. I just didnt get it but knew it was fine music. I only played it when she was around. Afterall it was her present to me. After a few weeks I put it on one day when I had a day off. I was listening to "watcher of the skies" with it's unuasual timing. I dont know what happened but it was like breaking a musical code. I started to count the time of it and suddenly it just all clicked into to place. It's compliicated alright but in the best sense of the word. Suddenly everything fell into place. Genesis are a very, very special band. One of my favourite bands. I wont dwell on it but Genesis had a new style in their approach to writing and playing music. It's quirky as hell sometímes and that's what I like about them. Great lyrics and great playing . I feel they took up where the old 60s music left off and didnt limit themselves musically. They are probably one of the most inventive bands Ive heard. I feel like they took up where the Beatles left off and just followed their muse honestly, as Brian Wilson, The Beatles ect did in there era. Yes Im a Genesis fan. I think anyone who says they dont like theyre music simply just has not listened to it. When that music gets you, youre hooked. What a band.
I must agree... It was an album that didn't originally float my boat much as I'm a HUGE fan of Trick followed by Wind, but after giving Three a fresh listen just a couple of years ago I suddenly realized how brilliant this album is, and it has some of the most blistering guitar work by Mike!
I'm a lifelong fan and I love this album. I understand the complaints of prog purists, but ATTWT is arguably the bands most experimental album, after Trespass and Nursery Cryme. On ATTWT they tried to forge prog concepts in 3-4 min soft rock/pop formats, still maintaining some of the classic prog rock dynamics evident on Trick and W&W; huge chords, lush intricate melodies. To create their best selling album at the time, following the loss of a second key member of the band, was also an enormous achievement. In some respects ATTWT is a rehearsal for Duke, and although Duke was a more cohesive and 'complete' work, some of the songs on ATTWT are far superior IMO.
I think this is a strong "in between" album. Much of early (before this one) Genesis are very proggy.. Which might be hard to get into if you aren't a big proghead already. It's not as a dated / poppy as some of their later works either. If you are sort of classic rock fan who wants to explore Genesis.. This isn't a bad start at all. Everyone comes from a different background. Especially talking 70's rock that could be anything from Kiss to King Crimson. There is a lot of middle ground there and for those that aren't 110 % King Crimson NOR in the Kiss Army. This album is rather nice. I like it!
I think what they did on this album may have quietly been the most brilliant work that they had accomplished. "...And Then There Were Three" accomplished a successful merger of prog and radio rock that was credible in both aspects. Bloody Brilliant !!
After "Second's Out" this is still my FAVORITE studio album by Genesis. This is probably their most cohesive album from the 1st song "Down and Out" all the way to "Follow You,Follow Me".
Legendary album. Been a blast enjoying Phil's music, and what an inspiration he is with his music and Genesis. Wishing you all the best bud, True masterpiece this album was and extremely under-rated.
First Genesis Album i bought because it was the current one i loved it from the off ............bought Seconds out and Foxtrot just after and fell out of love with "And then there were three" a little but find myself being pulled back to it more and more over the years and its now close to being my favourite Genesis Album
Always wondered about the Weather Report story. Chester joined Genesis in 1977, a year before Follow You Follow Me was even recorded, so he can't have told Phil about it then. Also, Chester was in Weather Report on and off between 1975 and 1977, so he couldn't have been on a bus with them in 1978. Furthermore, Chester tells another Weather Report bus story, namely that Alphonso Johnson played A Trick Of The Tail continuously. Since Johnson also auditioned for the Genesis-job that Daryl Stuermer eventually got, I guess it's very well possible that he could have made a compliment about the track in that audition process, either to Mike or to Chester, and I wonder if maybe Phil has conflated those two things together.
Yeah this seems a plausible storyline. Of course, Chester could just still have been in touch with his former colleagues in WR, and when he told them he would be playing for Genesis, they could have responded with the compliment and the tour bus story.
