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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If you look into it, he had nothing to do with that. The record company hired a popular British puppet outfit to do the video. Phil Collins only agreed, because he saw the puppet caricature of himself, and like it. The politics of it were created by the puppet company, Spitting Image. No one from Genesis had any input on it.
Mind blowing, 15 minute piece all memorized, I don’t know how they did it and I had no idea Zappa was such a kick butt guitar player. A friend of mine in the 1980s was totally into Zappa and use to go to his shows all the time and he would tell me to go and I kept brushing him off “Ahhh I don’t like that sht” I was a close minded bonehead into Zeppelin, totally regret it now
Apparently, the exterior walls are NOT a urinal.
And the thing about Phil is, I actually found his live versions of the Gabriel songs better than the originals, especially the Seconds Out version of “Suppers Ready”.
It sounds like he had a bad taste in women. His first wife cheated on him with a house painter. His third wife, when he got back together with him, moved her boyfriend in and tried to steal the house. But he’s supposed to be personally easygoing.
You and me both, there was always that one Zappa fan in high school, but they were generally the “weirdos”.
Didn’t Rush Limbaugh love Peter Gabriel.
I remember Rush would play “Steam” sometimes.
How would he know if he was at the Alamo?
Being a musician and on the road all the time does not make for a stable love life.
You are rather blunt and acerbic but witty at times
If we flush artists of all endeavors who are lefties we’d be pretty limited in entertainment or museum tours
Artistry and ideological profundity seem inescapably divergent
Creative people tend to be emotive and not facts digging oriented not to mention pressure from peers and agents and publicists and studio execs and so on
Yes, Spitting Image, and they “took the piss” on everybody across the political spectrum.
That would probably have been his best legal defense.
I hope one of them wasn’t named Myrna Vacks.
When he was asked about Freddy Mercury’s death...he said the truth...he was playing a dangerous game and there are consequences.
I guess the way he said it sounded a little cold..but to me it just sounded like the truth.
I love Freddy.
But Collins wasn’t wrong
His kids turned out great, though.
I didn't have MTV at that time, but I saw a few clips of the video. Personally, I thought the puppets were ugly.
Phil with Flaming Youth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DunDGQHNfg&list=PLenMtRmoBJBmjOrwQeEvgjfG-1or-Hfxz
But some artists they just get so obnoxious it gets tuff not to see it on screen or in the music
Sean Penn
Eddie Vedder
Stephen King
DeNiro
Bono
Used to be only Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave were too much
70s
Now the leftists dominate arts top to bottom
I like Frank too
70s very stoned
I can hear intro to Camarillo Brillo in my head now
Dinah mo Hum and her sugar plum
I am the Slime
He could be prescient and loathed his laurel canyon peers even through all camped at his digs
So RIP Frank for sure
He had an eye for talent no doubt
Beef out!
57 comments and no one has blamed his illness on the Vax? FReepers must be slipping!
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