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Poll Question: Which genesis member was most progressive (career spanning)
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6 [7.32%]
5 [6.10%]
27 [32.93%]
0 [0.00%]
23 [28.05%]
4 [4.88%]
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    Posted: April 08 2006 at 00:53
So, which member of Genesis kept proggin'? I think Steve Hackett, though Gabriel has done some good stuff too (Up is very nice) 


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I'm gonna go with Hackett as well...although i haven't heard any of MR or Phillips yet, so perhaps my vote is useless.
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Tony Banks followed by Gabriel.
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Ray Wilson!
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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2006 at 12:39
I really hope that the one vote for Collins is a joke 

anyway, I voted for Hackett...thought I havent heard Rutherford
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Sorry, fellas, but I think that ANTHONY PHILLIPS has the most prog career. Second (very-very close) Steve Hackett. Third (miles away) Peter Gabriel...

Anthony Phillips has created real prog masterpieces after he left the band at the early 70's (after TRESPASS). A few years later he edited his first solo album THE GEESE AND THE GHOST a classical symph-folk prog piece with colaborators as Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford. This album is very delicate, full of exquisite arrangements and medieval inffluences... Most of the next Phillips' albums are really great: PRIVATE PARTS AND PIECES II, IVORY MOON, THE MEADOWS OF ENGLEWOOD, WISE AFTER THE EVENT (Maybe one of the best prog albums ever), SIDES... I really love Hackett's work, but Phillips' career it's really fantastic, honest and very-very prog...

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Hackett, followed by Phillips and Banks
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well...hooray for ray wilson
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I have to say Tony Banks.

He established such a powerful sound and backbone to the style of the Gabriel-era Genesis.  But even into the more commercial Collins-era Genesis, his style and playing was still there in songs like Los Endos, Robbery, Assault & Battery, Wot Gorilla?, Home By The Sea, and Fading Lights. He will always be the Genesis sound.

I don't think Banks ever needed to make solo albums. Genesis was  his milieu, career spanning.  
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All you have to do is compare Voyage of the Alcolyte to other Genesis members' solo projects to understand that Steve was the driving force behind Genesis's prog sound.
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I will agree with Hackett, but Gabriel released some very good albums throughout his career. And I must say, Mike Rutherford's first solo album Smallcreeps Day is also quite nice, it has a nice 20+ minute epic.
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Originally posted by DeepPhreeze DeepPhreeze wrote:

All you have to do is compare Voyage of the Alcolyte to other Genesis members' solo projects to understand that Steve was the driving force behind Genesis's prog sound.
Yes, I have to admit Hackett was a very, very  close second. Actually, a tie for me, (with Banks). There have always been so many "what if's" with Genesis, ever since way back when Anthony Phillips left the band.

It's too bad Hackett left and one can only imagine (or fantasize) how the band would have sounded. I've always felt Hackett's solo albums were really Genesis extensions, or what would have been included in their albums had he remained.  

True, Hackett is the only one that continued carrying on the Gabriel-era classic Genesis style to date.  
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Another one for Anthony Phillips here. He has produced the most prog sounding solo albums and he's a much better player than Hackett. Had Phillips stayed in the band I have no doubt that the guitar sound would have been more prominent in the Genesis Gabriel era & not mostly keyboard dominated!
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wow, 20 throw away votes but not one for mike!
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Points: 1485 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2006 at 03:46
Originally posted by Rando Rando wrote:

Originally posted by DeepPhreeze DeepPhreeze wrote:

All you have to do is compare
Voyage of the Alcolyte to other Genesis members' solo projects to
understand that Steve was the driving force behind Genesis's prog sound.
Yes, I have to admit Hackett was a very, very  close second.
Actually, a tie for me, (with Banks). There have always been so many
"what if's" with Genesis, ever since way back when Anthony Phillips left
the band.


It's too bad Hackett left and one can only imagine (or fantasize) how
the band would have sounded. I've always felt Hackett's solo albums were
really Genesis extensions, or what would have been included in their
albums had he remained.  


True, Hackett is the only one that continued carrying on the Gabriel-
era classic Genesis style to date.  




How can anyone vote for Banks? He is one of the members that kept the
"un-prog" flame in later day Genesis going. He was in all the terrible
albums. I'll take Hackett's solo career (judging by progressiveness) EASILY
and without any question over all albums after W & W. Have you guys
heard Tony's solo career?
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Points: 2530 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2006 at 04:29
THIS IS A EASY ONE .MY VOTE GOES FOR STEVE HACKETT
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