They all put in something that made their music special. Well, probably. But I was fortunate. He basically played us these tunes hed come up with. How did he know you? [Ed. Its just that on tour, Daryl and I both would sometimes get dragged to a media thing. But he just enjoyed being around us since we were so lively and fun. We all knew he was going to be a great player. Ive already played stuff for the guys. We were like 9,000 feet above sea level in Colorado. He put everything into it. Did you watch Bobs show a lot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7_vNpVXubA, What happened from there? Are you hoping to be back onstage soon? It ended up being a little awkward since they were going to be down there for seven weeks. [Laughs] Umm I didnt really think it was going to be the end. This means nothing at all, it's almost a tradition. Really cold of Phil to not reach out after 10yrs. The vibe just changed. Phil and I locked way easier than Ralph Humphrey and I did. It was amazing to be in the room while they were playing at full tilt and because . This means nothing at all, it's almost a tradition. They kind of assumed that he would. They limit the amount of times you can access their site. Ive done tours of my own with my jazz trio. Don Henley: another drummer who is lead singer, and main writter with guitarist Glen Frey, and he also sings ballads without being "hated" as Collins is. In fact, we wound up doing a tour opening for them. Ive never not played jazz. The news that he left didnt come out until 1996 or so. What I don't like is MUZAK (Elevator music), and that's Phil's field. Hed then go off to a studio and work on whatever he had in the can. But what a great tour and what a great band. In this 2014. Well appreciated, keep up enjoying Phil Collins! Well, lets see. Peter Criss (Even lead vocals), Keith Moon, Carmine Appice, Roger Taylor (Much better backing vocalist than anybody else and even lead a couple of times). I recall someone asking Chester if he could swing with his snare tilted so steeply. I dont know when he slept. That's pretty much the zest of it. It's just horrible. I dont know what they might have been going through behind the scenes, but our time together was just great. Exactly. But they had so many new tunes they were promoting. Phil Collins had to hire Chester Thompson and Bill Bruford. I cant be gone that much at this point. Thats when Ricky [Lawson] wound up doing [the Phil solo tours of the mid-Nineties]. Yeah. Its one of those What Will You Be letters. Chester Thompson on His Years With Genesis, Frank Zappa, and Weather Report, Northern California between Sac and SF, CA, (You must log in or sign up to reply here. But Phil Collins still did great things with those two albums. I know my reaction to Hacketts "Genesis revisited" was- Hmm, I guess hes running out of money As I wrote, I find Hacketts soloalbums uneven but on the other handhis music is solid (apart from that GTR-thing, didnt like it!) Man, it was fun. My problem is not even Phil the singer (Even when I like Pete's voice and singing more), my problem is wiyth Phil the songwritter. You taught for years at the college level. Not even Peter made an album with all Genesis tracks, only Steve. Mike Portnoy, Lars Ulrich: I don`t know nothing about them. Im still pretty good friends with the only two that are left, Ruth and Anita. Phil Collins was always skittish about leaving the drum stool. I got back to L.A. and I called them up and said, When are we going back in the studio? They were like, Well, you dont need to go back in. I was like, Whats going on here?. When the audition came, I was absolutely up for it. Pat Mastelotto: I don`t know about his status with King Crimson. Genesis' The Last Domino? I mean to be keep in the background in their importance in the bands. It was going to be South America too. Unfortunately, somehow Ike or his people lost the master tape. What a nice man, Don Van Vliet. He only truly related to drums. You can tell he is play acting. But I was pretty surprised when he left. We were out there hitting it together and theres something about that. I know people were caravanning from here to see it, but it was still a little too raw at that point. I think try get hold of the album. I thought, Why not? I had no idea I was going to fall in love with teaching. I didnt see Phils tour. I have mixed feelings about Phil Collins. And so the horns would make a mistake and hed turn around and look at me. I said, Man, I cant do that. Chester was very cool in this article. Whens the tour? And Tony Smiths eye lighted up like Id rarely seen. But if youre a music-ed student, you need to learn a different instrument group every semester. not too many of them are composers, not too many of them become famous as soloists, not too many of them are very good lead singers. Daryl and I came back. The five of us lined up for a picture. In the meantime, hed gotten a solo record deal. When it happened, we got together in New York for two weeks to just play and see if they wanted to do it. And he just totally shot down the idea of doing anything. The 2021 tour is billed as "The Last Domino?" named after the song "Domino" which . It was kind of like asking your buddy to come cover your band because suddenly youre doing something different. Keith Moon, John Bonham: great drummers, yes, key members, because their band never sounded the same without them, butthey weren`tthe main composers in their bands. And I think its a fantastic opportunity that his son gets to play with him because his son drummed backstage when he was five. But the opening fill, all of that, is me. I had gone back to Baltimore. Why didnt it go well? Prog Rock is melodic and can be romantic, there's a difference between romantic and cheesy, most Phil Collins songs are cheesy. Ive never heard anything he did that had that particular feel to it. By then, my son was starting college. If you listen to the title track, there are two different drummers on two different days of recording. With that said, I love all of the Genesis albums from 1972-1977, including A Trick of the Tail and Seconds Out which both have Phil Collins on lead vocals. At the same time, there are artists Id love to play with as well. Theyve got a studio. He said they were going to be doing something totally different and they werent interested. Phil Collins - Gesang, Piano, Schlagzeug; Daryl Stuermer - Gitarre; Maybe once in a lifetime. Well, he was a little different from me. PHIL COLLINS on HIS DRUMMING PHILOSOPHY , DRUMMING STYLE & DRUMMING WITH CHESTER THOMPSON JOHN EDGINTON DOCUMENTARIES 23.2K subscribers Subscribe 2.3K 148K views 1 year ago NEW YORK PHIL. I guess life had happened in between. No, the frontman is the most important man in most of the cases and in live acts, but remember, there's rock without guitar or keyboards, but there's no rock without drums or Bass (Except in a few and veryrarecases). Id love to do my own tours. Genesis, as soon as they could afford it, started chartering planes for tours. I was there just a week and I actually ran across them in Sydney. . They felt that was pretty interesting, but it was the only way we got through it. It is an impressing line up. He canceled a tour and was honest about it. He was very cool in a clinic I saw with him and saw Genesis a few times live with Chester boogaloon them through. It wasnt his most intense stuff, but fortunately I knew who he was and that it was going to be good stuff. IvanI think we have reached the end of our discussion wether Phil is nasty or not. Steve and I always stayed pretty good friends. Sat 27th Nov 2021 20.00 GMT. It didnt frustrate me so much that I didnt do it. What was the first music you remember hearing as a child that really struck you? And then it got to be a little more honest. That stuff smokes. No. A little bit later he goes, Man, I think I broke my finger. We all went, Come on. It was really brilliant. They have a game plan that was a whole lot different scenario than anything Weather Report had experienced. You couldnt take yourself that seriously. "And so the horns would make a mistake and hed turn around and look at me! I read it and just wept because most of it had happened by that point. [Weather Report bassist] Alphonso [Johnson] had been a friend for years. There was a short tour coming up and he reached out to me. He was into a lot of the American jazz drummers. I was wide-eyed and paying attention and had no idea what was going on. If I were to sum up my opinions of the five (actually leaving out Ant Phillips seems wrong since I think his guitarplaywas important to the early Genesissound and the fact that Mike calledhim the keymember at the time) members life after Genesis: I feel like Ive sort of left the point wether Phil is nasty or not Summary: I dont think Phil is a nasty man and he doesnt deserve all the critisicm he sometimes gets here at Progarchives. He asked if Id consider coming in. My first drum lessons were in jazz. With the exception of when he is doing his solo work, Collins is usuallythe one most in the background, going with the opinions of the rest of the group. Her daughter was this quiet little kid, but shes turned into this monster artist named Judith Hill. Some of it was Frank. Good read! A Godly man a class act. I didnt find out any of this until later, but the timing was amazing. Almost a tradition? His name was Birdlegs [James Youman]. Hed come home and always put on some Billie Holiday. Phil Collins had to hire Chester Thompson and Bill Bruford. most great drummers won't ever do that, because they live for their drums. We want to hear it. Im constantly writing, constantly trying new stuff. He was a guitarist that was comic relief, almost. A couple of the Drum Duets were released as singles in several places in South America and some countries in Europe, which is kind of cool. We normally had a lot of eye contact at shows. During this time, the drummer somehow also found time to tour with Santana and the Bee Gees and maintain a solo career. It was really disturbing because, for the first two weeks, I could not follow a single conversation, he admitted. I started playing clubs at 13. Are there any salient quotes or paragraphs detailing why they fell out? But there was always a second kit near him, and. [Laughs] Culturally, we were on opposite sides of the world. And Phil and I had a lot of the same roots. And even though Im not doing it anymore, Im glad that he decided to go back to work. I felt like I needed to work on my playing. If you werent busy enough with Genesis tours and Phil Collins tours, you joined Santana in 1984? It was pretty profitable. Not at all. When they did, theyd literally call each other up and go, Lets go do it. And so that never happened, basically. I did not write this, but it always makes me laugh. I think it's best to keep this stuff to yourself, don't air grievances in public., especially not the press. But not only did Thompson stick with Genesis all the way through their Turn It On Again reunion tour of 2007 Collins also brought him over to his solo career in 1981 and used him for nearly all of his tours between 1981 and 2010. Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Progatron, Feb 4, 2021. Did it surprise you that they called you back? It made me realize that it really was a band. My wife and I went down to see his big band in Birmingham. It was really cool. It just turned out to be a one-off, but fortunately we recorded and videotaped it. He liked having a big band onstage, too. How was it for you culturally? Thompson believed he had landed a short-term job when Collins asked him to join Genesis without an audition in 1977, but he went on to take part in every road trip until 2007 and was also a. I dont think hes holding a grudge. He isn't the main cause of downfall for Genesis, so shut up about that. The very first one, and I had to beg my older brother to take me, was Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Peter Criss (Even lead vocals), Keith Moon, Carmine Appice, Roger Taylor (Much better backing vocalist than anybody else and even lead a couple of times). I also think that he is underrated, because he likes ballads, and not many people who likes Prog Music likes ballads. I mean, as a matter of fact, the seed got planted on Phils tour at the end of 2005. As a matter of fact, we had already been told what dates to hold for 2008.
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