Genesis on Foxtrot Complete Interview 1 of 3 

Epic album at all levels. Supper's Ready is a work of unparalleled beauty.

Everything from Trespass to The Lamb is genius

One of my favorite albums. Suppers ready my opinion is better than stairway to heaven. Amazing album

Great and true words from Peter about when they would get to the end of Suppers Ready they felt like they were actually touching and moving people. Of the hundreds of times that Ive listened to it I still get chills during the whole As Sure as Eggs part. its almost a religious experience complete with tears in the eyes and goosebumps Amazing.

The first genesis album I heard and probably still my favorite. Suppers ready is simply one of the greatest pieces of art ever created.

"Tony strikes me as the type who irons a crisp crease in his underwear, categorizes it by color, and then alphabetizes by brand name.... great musician, though." HAHAHAHAHA, AWESOME comment from GreenAlligator.

Funny how Phil said he loved going to see YES to inspire in him better musicianship for his drumming. In the SEBTP interviews the say how inspiring King Crimson was to them. Also I recently watched The YES Story doc where they said King Crimson was hugely inspiring to them. All the best prog bands influenced each other. Small world huh?

suppers ready used to be my "wake up" song i would listen to it in bed- for approx 3 years every morning - my turntable was so bad, i think i bought the album 3 times.... still know the lyrics of the album by heart (as well the lamb)

Watcher is such a great tune to play live. The ending where the keys play 8 bars of 6 and the band plays 6 bars of 8 is just so powerful!

Steve H is just lovely.

The first time I heard Supper's Ready was when I went to see Genesis on the Trick of the Tail tour at the Montreal Forum 1976. I think it is one of the best song ever recorded but that's just me. To this day it still gives me goosebumps when I listen to it. Have to disagree with DinjenPolesmoker. Although Phil's voice is great in some of the earlier Gabriel era songs they performed live, but how could it possibly be better than the original versions... Just saying...

A friend and I was having a conversation about are favorite genesis album was and It’s the one I’m listening too at the time. They all have there own brilliance.

Watcher of the Skies is probably my favorite Genesis track of all time.

i simply grew up in the wrong era. i would give ANYTHING to have been born in 1947 in england so i could have seen all the bands in their infancy like yes, genesis, zeppelin, elp, the nice,etcetc....i love metal thrash and death but thats different altogether so i need that in my life but as far as other music...get me a time machine so i could go back to 1967 and see the grestest music unfold i would have been on cloud nine for the rest of my life man!!!!!!

A lot of Supper's Ready Fans below (me too)....but to me Watcher of the Skies is my favorite

I've always enjoyed the unique staccato vocal lines on _Watcher of the skies._

there best album by far

Hello Genesis - hearing you talk here it seems you don't have a clue how GOOD you were at that time. I remember after Gabriel left I was I a bus and heard the new abloom and thought - "hey something here is wrong" later I found out it was made without Gabriel.

Mike is like "that's crap, that's crap. Oh we can't dance, best thing we ever did."

This is such a strong Genesis album (as far as the Peter Gabriel fronted Genesis albums are concerned)! My favorite sections on Supper's Ready are Lover's Leap, Ikhnaton and Itsacon and Their Band of Merry Men, Willow Farm, and Apocalypse In 9/8.

What a amazing band.

Complete Interview Part 1 Titles like that always make me laugh.

I guess straight after Gabriel had left there was enough spirit in the band to keep the direction. "Wind and Wuthering" and "Then there were three" slowly left it and after that they became kinda Phil´s prog-pop band. The magic was gone.

In England they still have the show "This Is Your Life", and they featured Mike on the show once. When Daryl Stuermer came up to talk about Mike, he mentioned that once on tour Mike asked an assistant to get him some straws, but instead of straws he brought back some Stroh's Beer (not understanding Mike's thick accent! lol!!)

IMO Foxtrot is even better than Selling England, may be because of Supper's Ready. Anyway both are the greatest albums from Genesis...

After atom heart mother, Suppers ready is my favourite song!! :)

Supper's Ready is my shit.

Foxtrot is a superb record. Their best.

I want to make a Sherlock Holmes movie starring Genesis. Mike Rutherford IS Sherlock. Tony Banks would do for Mycroft, Peter Gabriel is the charismatic Moriarty, Phil Collins is Dr Watson, Steve Hackett... Lestrade? :) More seriously, love them to bits, but I can't really enthuse about the band after Gabriel left, Collins is an excellent singer, but it was like the mischief, and the colour had faded from the sound - for me.

I know they tended to go in other "directions" from Abacab up. However, they had brilliant/amazing gems on every single LP/CD. Try "Home By The Sea" and "Just A Job To Do" from their self titled album. And, the FULL version of "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight", "The Brazilian" from Invisible Touch and "Driving The Last Spike", "Dreaming While You Sleep", "Living Forever" and "Fading Lights" on We Can't Dance. I can't offer anything from "Calling All Stations", due to the drummer not "speaking to me".

All Banks talks about are his own contributions and how important each one was. He is such a pretentious jerk. And what the hell is Tony's problem with Peter? He's always complaining that the lead singer is singing. PG is bigger and better and more revered than Banks will ever be. Get over it.

Supper's ready has a well known tape speed error in the section before Apocalypse in 9/8 that's really obvious when you know about it. They fixed it in the recent remixes but I wish they'd left it alone because it still sounded great.

They REALLY, Don't Like Sir Peter, Dooo they?.

Tony strikes me as the type who irons a crisp crease in his underwear, categorizes it by color, and then alphabetizes by brand name.... great musician, though.

Genesis may not be as “obviously great” as a lot of their seventies peers, but when they were on.. it was magic.

This is what really pisses me off. Unless a song is 2 seconds long, people don't have the patience to listen to it now. Yes, its 26 minutes long. What part of that stipulates it's a bad song? This society is SO obsessed with money now, that it's taken away all the value of everything else. People don't see the value in music as priceless art, so they're hardly going to go & buy it now are they? It's such a corrupt generation. It's no wonder music is either Rushed, Cheap or manufactured now.

Tony, relax, it will NEVER be forgotten!!!!!

...and it seems he only has good things to say about a song or a lyric or a riff if he was directly involved/responsible. All of the others are honest and humble. Let it go Tony, and move on already.

YOU ARE GENIOUS . MOZART BACH OF THE 70's PETER + TONY+ MIKE + PHIL. GOD MADE THE WORLD IN SEVEN DAYS. HE GIVES TO US JESUS. AND CREATED GENESIS

Tony talks about foreplay at 12.20...

I've loved Genesis for forever, and have all of their albums on vinyl - and love them as individuals, especially Gabriel, but I have to say that Tony really comes off as a whiny, tight, self-centred patsy in this interview. All of the others say "we" more that "me" or "I", whereas Tony seems to only talk about what he contributed. Disappointed.

Sirius radio Deep Tracks plays Supper's Ready!

As an old german girl I have some problems to understand Tony Banks, because of his quick sort of telling. Its much easier to listen and understand Peter Gabriel.

Yea we just have to accept this fact unfortunately. Even phil sounded somewhat reluctant to take credit for the rhythm. I also find it funny that Mike criticizes the song for being stiff lyrically and not singing well...when in fact it compliments the feel of the song. The stiffness keeps it strange and dark. Yep...tony and mike were kind of always the strong voices...meh oh well. The music is and will always be amazing though.

Watcher of the Skies is my favorite Genesis song :D

Of course Banks thinks Watcher is the star of the album - he only ever thinks his compositions are the stars ..

Why Mike and Tony are always dissing Pete???

Though while appreciating it being on here, the aspect ratio is wrong, i.e. people's faces are lengthened :D Have met Steve fairly recently and he didn't look quite like this!

They should have stuck with the engineer who did the first half of Suppers Ready. He gave it a great atmosphere.

I disagree with Mike re Watcher of the Skies. The uniqueness of the interplay between lyrics and music was what drew me into the song, and subsequently the band.

My first introduction to 'Supper's Ready' was the Seconds Out version - listened to it for years before I heard the original. I prefer it also for the same reason - Phil's amazing vocals on the end section.

I like all the era's that Genesis went thru. From the Anthony Phillips stuff to the Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel era. On thru the commercial crap. Even in the popular era there is a lot of good stuff. You just have to sift out the chaff in the Phillip Collins era, but there was still a abundance of great music in there too!!

1:40 hilarious

warts and all a masterpiece...just rough enough to give life to pretention...

All of the Peter Gabriel-era material sounds better live, I think.

Experienced engineer loses promising career upgrade to record producer, after suggesting to a then unknown 22 year old Tony Banks, that he doesn't like the opening to said musician's masterpiece. (Watcher). If only he realised the kind of person he was up against........

I actually think the cover to Foxtrot was really cool and unique

Foxtrot has two of the best songs on it Genesis ever produced but isn't their best album.

very easy album for them five virtuosos something common in that country i wish would have never existed, cant get rid of my envy sorry, for the world this album is very complicated but beautiful

Amen....therealKINDLE...music has definitely changed...

Watcher great track, some mixed feelings about this album, Nursey Cryme is still excellent listen although more aquired taste. If you are a country boy like me, you might like it....

You also should listen to ELP.

Por favor si alguien se copa en subtitularlo porfa, gracias!

thats the problem with today's market for music its a fucking joke isnt it? i agree 150 percent with you man!! if supper's ready came out today you think any one would really pay attention in this generation? most kids wouldn't even bother with that at all!!! very sad and very pathetic to see today's music standards so cheaply made!!!

I hate the off handed comments from Banks...he was a composer and composed apocalypse. ..it's not a jam

lol Gosh! It's like listening to myself! I totally understand where you're coming from. Music today is utter bilge. I'm waiting for some wise guy to intercept & claim "It's not all bad, there are some decent artists out there". But that's hardly a comfort to missing the best bands in history! I now have the impossible task of convincing people that electronic music can be good & offer more than just kick snare trite manufactured waveform. ¦:-\ Do you think Rock & Electronic can be integrated?

Cheers! :)p Yes Unless it's trendy, it's not made at all now. There's little variety outside of Soundcloud. Watch a documentary [on here] called "PressPausePlay" which talks of how the music industry has become so saturated with mediocrity that we could be entering a new cultural dark age. When I heard Genesis for the first time, The Cinema show knocked me off my perch & sent me into a demoralized state. I'm making my own project atm, & I thought I was doing well! But this? This is VIRTUOSITY.

@klwewf I agree. It's amazing how dismissive many people are of the years following Gabriel's involvement, but I think they produced some of the best songs later on.

Non avevo ancora visto Dio,per di più con gli occhiali...

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Yes last played The Marquee in summer 1970. Foxtrot was made in summer to Autumn 1972. Collins is BS'ing.

aspect ratio.... annoying AF.

steve has a huge upper lip

FFS Peter... look alive man !

I can see why Gabriel left... the other boys were boring bumpkins.

This was weak after Nursery... and it certainly wasn´t Sellig England...

I love Genesis, and obviously I enjoy the Gabriels period the most, but boy! this man is a boring interviewee! Lots of 'uhms' and 'ahs', very softspoken and he sounds like he's not quite sure how to answer the (albeit unheard) questions. In these video's, he's almost the exact opposite of how he is on stage! Still, if you can see past this, his parts too are a wealth of information for us Genesis fans...

One of my favorite albums. Suppers ready my opinion is better than stairway to heaven. Amazing album