Posted on 02/21/2025 12:27:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
Phil Collins’ health is deteriorating. “I keep thinking I should go downstairs to the studio and see what happens,” the retired Genesis musician, 74, told Mojo magazine earlier this week. “But I’m not hungry for it anymore. The thing is, I’ve been sick, I mean very sick…”
The group performed their last concert in March 2022 as part of their “The Last Domino?” Tour. Although Collins’ former bandmate Peter Gabriel didn’t participate in the gig, he still attended the London show and observed the performance from afar. “Phil wasn’t in as great a shape as he used to be, but they did a great job,” Gabriel admitted. “Me going was a rite of passage, really. I’d been part of the creation of Genesis, so I wanted to be there at the end.”
Collins sang while sitting in a chair as his son Nic Collins, 23, took over for him on the drums. Seven months later, the duo spoke about their line of work and the struggles that accompany it in the documentary “Phil Collins: Drummer First,” which debuted on YouTube in December 2022.
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As much as I like prog, I could never really get too much into ELP, but I do think the title track to “Trilogy” is amazing.
Never cared for his music, but no one deserves a lingering sickness.
I liked ELP though it was more like “Keith Emerson and friends”
Peter Gabriel is as far left as one can get- or at least he was.
Yeah, but I still respect him as a musician. Unlike people on the other side of the argument.
Angels never know it’s time
To close the book and gracefully decline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAMBKnKPANo
Speaking of Zappa, I never really got into him or listened to him before until last year then I really got into him. Holy smoke, that guy was unbelievable. The level of musiciainship was just off the charts in the stuff he wrote and his band. I don’t know how he put these bands together and got them to play these incredibly complicated pieces, the time signatures, the pauses. The live 1968 version of King Kong I must have listened to 100 times already blasting it in my car. I can’t get over how they start out with this free form jazz and then this insane happy, skippy stuff and then all of sudden BANG out of nowhere start playing this kick ass jazz and not one of them has sheet music in front of them, mind blowing stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIk7VnVwBNo&ab_channel=jamf
Don’t know his politics.
Fkng amazing artist though.
On the edge of human expression.
Highest caliber in my opinion.
And of course Chester came to Genesis from Zappa.
i always thought his music was constipated, and i saw him twice in concert.
I’m sorry for him, father time can be cruel.
In the U.K. he's considered a Tory, because of comments about taxes, among other things.
I think if anything, he just doesn't care that much about politics, but I see no evidence he's a leftist.
I also feel the same about Andy Partridge. I love XTC, but his politics suck as well. And I skip “Dear God” when I play Skylarking.
I think Collins like Thompson more so because of his work with Weather Report.
This is the best drumming i’ve heard on Supper Ready and its Bill Buford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-PkthyG-c
Yes, I heard for years he was collecting Alamo artefacts, then he got to the point in his life, he wanted to donate them.
One of my favorites.
Star Trek - Long, Long Way To Go (Kirk) - Phil Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP0839nBIYE
I love Ozzy osbourne, I understand he is not welcome at the Alamo anymore.
LOL, I wonder why?
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