Phil Collins says something I didn't expect

Because Fripp still makes good music. 

I feel sorry for him if he is tormented over the reality of what he was in the Brand X and early Genesis days when compared to his current media activity over the last few decades. Singing or writing a song for the TARZAN movie was the old adult musician singer songwriter approach to children's workshops. It's almost as if you could imagine him on Sesame Street. It's healthy do do this but, not if deep down inside you are avoiding your past with an attitude. His participation in a Buddy Rich tribute was a great idea for him to stretch out as a player again. He might miss the extreme progressiveness of his career in the sense that his pop indulgence was to the opposite extreme. Now he is getting older and he is looking back you see? However I did not understand the attitude he presented in Progression Magazine in 2004 when he was interviewed by Nick Tate. He responded at one point by saying Well, the question is how does Peter Gabriel feel about performing "Invisible Touch"? In otherwords, don't worry about how I, Tony and Mike feel about returning to our prog roots because we have no intentions of bending. They must have had a kind of bond in the business sense and their past issues with the early Genesis were still bitter to a great degree. That was the impression I got. But, he is not all one sided and somewhere inside he may feel some kind of regret for turning his back on it. That vibe seems to surface when he defends the early days. Perhaps he is struggling with that reality?

 

 

 

Hell, Dream Theater charted amongst the 10 bes selling artists in many many countries of the world when Black Clouds was releasd and they weren't even able to sell 1m albums world wide. Actually, I domn't even think they sold 500k, but anyway, Genesis simply could not sell albums during their prime man, deal with it. Very few bands can, there is no problem with it.

 

JLocke wrote: ^ Hell, I still don't like Genesis nearly as much as the other bands that were around at the time. If you want an example of a prog act that was actually really well-known while they were still being innovative, look no further than Yes, ''The people's band''.

 

Same with me, their so-called "acclaimed" prog releases are'nt my cup of tea also, though i really really LOVE TResspass and Nursery Crime. ELP also sold millions upon millions back in the day (even more than Yes I think), both rightfully.

 

I knew through PA that Genesis were more popular in Italy than in UK but never knew how much popular were they. Thanks for the info! Trespass being Nº1 in a country makes me smile.

can you guys post the link of these interviews?

ohh the only think I remember he said was that they were tired of playing long songs and old songs. That The band needed to change their  direction. that all!

Seems you don't know about Italy and Belgium,Trespass was N° 1 in Belgium, Nursery Cryme was N N° 4 in Italy and Foxtrot was N° 1 in Italy.

So UK was not the only place with significant sales in the world.

Iván

BTW: Genesis Live (released before SEBTP) was in the charts of UK, keeping N° 9 for 10 weeks

well he isn't perfect!

 

well that depends on which part /era of Genesis you are copying  the 80s new wave heaven or the 70s prog rock heaven, and many of the songs on the Lamb are pretty meldodic and catchy (like It, the Carpet Crawlers, Lilywhite Lilith, Antway, Cuckoo cocoon) I am pretty sure many of those songs have influenced modern pop music.

 

the melody of It is very infectious melodie