cungar

Phil Collins Regrets Genesis Comeback
11th July 2007 21:01:01

Rocker Phil Collins regrets agreeing to reunite with Genesis, because the
comeback tour has kept him away from his two young sons.

The singer has split with his third wife Orianne Cevey since agreeing to
reform the band - and he hates the way the tour has left him thousands of
miles away from Switzerland, where Cevey lives with their children Nicholas
and Matthew.

He tells Mojo, "I'm not interested. My life is in turmoil. Frankly, at the
moment I am living for my two little boys, so this tour is actually a pain
in the *beep* because I'm away from home. I've been trying to keep it short.

"Every time somebody said we could pay for the tour if we do another four
dates, I said no. I signed on to buy a blue suit: I don't want to end up
with a red one."

The band formed in the 1960's and have sold 150 million albums worldwide
placing them amongst the top thirty best selling acts of all time.

Collins joined the band in 1870 as the drummer. But when Peter Gabriel left
the band in 1975 Collins took over lead vocals.

Collins was a hit on vocals as the band had a string of successful albums
throughout the eighties including Abacab, Genesis and Invisible Touch.

Collins left the band in 1996 to focus on his solo work.

Flashback

And he is complaining about what?

Supermallet

No wonder he's unhappy, he's been with the band for over 100 years!

bigjim25

Suck it up Phil. If Keith Richards can be with a band that long you can too.

From Billboard.com: Genesis Sketching Out Live DVD, Autobiography

There's no new music in the offing, but that's not keeping the reunited Genesis from planning a parade of product in the fourth quarter of the year, including a book and a probably DVD and live album.

Guitarist Mike Rutherford tells Billboard.com that "a guy's filmed every breath I've taken since the first meeting in New York last October," and that Genesis will be filming its concert Saturday at the Circo Massimo in Rome, which closes out the European leg of the Turn It On Again Tour.

"We're gonna film that one for a DVD and probably have a live album out from the tour as well," Rutherford says, guessing that they'll probably come out "this year, I'm sure. It makes sense to have it this year." Genesis is also releasing soundboard CDs from each concert via the Encore Series at the web site themusic.com.

Also coming this fall is a new book, "Genesis Chapter and Verse," which will present the official biography of the band including interviews with Rutherford, Phil Collins and Tony Banks as well as Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett, plus managers and others associated with the group. The late Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun gave one of his final interviews for the tome.

"It's a nice book, actually," Rutherford reports. "My wife read it and couldn't put it down. It had an effect on me, too, reading all that stuff you say about each other. It kind of brought it to the front of your mind how kind of special the way we work is and has been -- the way we write, the way we get on so well, the way we've done things. I think it made us appreciate what a great journey it's been and what fun it still is."

Genesis continues the journey on Sept. 7, when the North American leg of the reunion tour begins. What will happen after those 20 shows, however, is anybody's guess, according to Rutherford.

"At the moment we're avoiding making long-term plans," he notes. A reunion that includes Gabriel and Hackett is still a possibility, but Rutherford says a full-scale reactivation of any form of Genesis is unlikely.

"It's not like we reformed the band and we're going to get back and do an album," he explains. "But that doesn't mean we can't do stuff together -- but in a slightly different way. We're having a very good time. We're enjoying ourselves, and so we'll talk when we get there about what else we might do rather than map this big, long plan out."

vegasbaby

Phil looked VERY bored at Live Earth. I'm saving my money.

bigjim25

2007 Special Double CD Edition of the Anthology of the Former 1970's Progresssive Rock Band who in the 1980's Became One of the the World's Biggest Selling Pop Bands. This Edition was Created to Celebrate the Group's 2007 World Reunion Tour that Brings the "...and Then There were Three" Trio Back Together Once Again. The Second Disc of this Special Set Includes One off Singles Like "Paperlate" and "Pigeons" (From the UK "Match of the Day EP"), as Well as "Follow You, Follow Me", "Misunderstanding", "Many Too Many" and the Ray Wilson Lead "Congo".

Disc: 1 1. Turn It On Again 2. No Son Of Mine 3. I Cant Dance 4. Hold On My Heart 5. Jesus He Knows Me 6. Tell Me Why 7. Invisible Touch 8. Land Of Confusion 9. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight 10. In Too Deep 11. Throwing It All Away 12. Mama 13. Thats All 14. Illegal Alien 15. Abacab 16. No Reply At All 17. The Carpet Crawlers 1999

Disc: 2 18. Paperlate 19. Keep It Dark 20. Man On The Corner 21. Duchess 22. Misunderstanding 23. Follow You Follow Me 24. Many Too Many 25. Your Own Special Way 26. Afterglow 27. Pigeons 28. Inside And Out 29. A Trick Of The Tail 30. Counting Out Time 31. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 32. Happy The Man 33. The Knife (PART 1) 34. Congo

bigjim25

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/..._id=1003655963

Disc: 5 (Extra Tracks - only in box set) 1. On The Shoreline 2. Hearts On Fire 3. Do The Neurotic 4. Feeding The Fire 5. I'd Rather Be You 6. Anything Now 7. Sign Your Life Away 8. Run Out Of Time DVD VISUAL EXTRAS *Reissues Interview 2007 *Archive 2 1976 to 1992 EPK *Knebworth 1992 *MMF Awards Ceremony 2000 All are available seperate except Disc 5

* - All songs with stars have their videos on the DVDs.

Disc: 1 (Genesis) 1. Mama* 2. That's All* 3. Home By The Sea* 4. Second Home By The Sea* 5. Illegal Alien* 6. Taking It All Too Hard 7. Just A Job To Do 8. Silver Rainbow 9. It's Gonna Get Better DVD VISUAL EXTRAS *Reissues Interview 2007 *Mama Tour Rehearsal 1983

Disc: 2 (Invisible Touch) 1. Invisible Touch* 2. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight* 3. Land Of Confusion* 4. In Too Deep* 5. Anything She Does* 6. Domino 7. Throwing It All Away 8. The Brazilian DVD VISUAL EXTRAS *Reissues Interview 2007 *Tour Documentary *Behind The Scenes of Land Of Confusion *OGWT - Rock Around The Clock

Disc: 3 (We Can't Dance) 1. No Son Of Mine* 2. Jesus He Knows Me* 3. Driving The Last Spike 4. I Can't Dance* 5. Never A Time* 6. Dreaming While You Sleep 7. Tell Me Why 8. Living Forever 9. Hold On My Heart* 10. Way Of The World 11. Since I Lost You 12. Fading Lights DVD VISUAL EXTRAS *Reissues Interview 2007 *No Admittance 1992

Disc: 4 (Calling All Stations) 1. Calling All Stations 2. Congo* 3. Shipwrecked* 4. Alien Afternoon 5. Not About Us* 6. If That's What You Need 7. The Dividing Line 8. Uncertain Weather 9. Small Talk 10. There Must Be Some Other Way 11. One Man's Fool DVD VISUAL EXTRAS Reissues Interview 2007 Calling All Stations EPK 1998 Rock Im Park Germany Polish Television 1998

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Disc one: "Duke's Intro" - "Behind the Lines" - "Duke's End" "Turn It on Again" "No Son of Mine" "Land of Confusion" "In the Cage" - "The Cinema Show" - "Duke's Travels" "Afterglow" "Hold on My Heart" "Home by the Sea" "Follow You Follow Me" "Firth of Fifth" "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)"

Disc two: "Mama" "Ripples" "Throwing It All Away" "Domino" "Conversations With Two Stools" "Los Endos" "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" "Invisible Touch" "I Can't Dance" "Carpet Crawlers"

reverie

I'll be picking up the live disc for sure! I was sad I couldn't really afford to see them in Detroit. As with the last box set, I'll pass on this. I've got the albums, I've got the videos (Cinema Show)... that's plenty.

cungar

I'll wait for the Trespass -> Lamb Lies down on Broadway Boxed set.

1983 is the year I stopped listening to Genesis. Their pop crap got worse with each release until they descended into a light rock version of the Phil Collins Band.

Decker

Hey, nothing says "Cutting-edge progressive rock" quite like "No Son Of Mine".

cungar

Yeah I had to sit through that crap so I could hear snippets of Firth of Fifth and Cinema Show at the Hollywood Bowl.

JSwarce

The 3 disc DVD set of their last concert tour is coming out on Tuesday. It's called When In Rome 2007, and it is only available at Walmart (for now). The website shows it at $19.88. I saw them in Boston at the Garden last year....a great show. Although there wasn't 500,000 fans in Boston like there was at their show in Rome (yes, that figure is right!)

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=9907168

--John

cungar

The concert was held at the Circus Maximus where they used to have the chariot races in Ancient Rome. Must have been an amazing place for a concert.

Sean O'Hara

Approves.

cungar

I think this facet of the character was put in to show how shallow he was. Who would welcome the advent of the drum machine in a band? ANd Whodunnit is widely considered by some fans to be the worst song Genesis ever did.

I've been a big fan of Genesis ever
since the release of their 1980 album,
Duke. Although I found all of their
previous albums to be too artsy, too
intellectual, I was able to embrace
Duke, mainly because the music became
more modern, the drum machine became
more prevalent and the lyrics started
getting less mystical, more specific.
Complex, ambiguous studies of loss
became, instead, first-rate pop songs.
A classic example of this is
"Misunderstanding", which not only was
the group's first big hit of the
Eighties, but also seemed to set the
tone for the rest of the decade.
Duke was followed almost immediately
by ABACAB, yet another weapon in an
increasingly impressive musical
arsenal. Once again the songs
reflect dark emotions, focusing on
people who feel lost or are in
conflict. Sound depressing? Hardly.
The production and sound, courtesy of
producer Hugh Padgham, are gleaming
and upbeat. One of my favorite songs,
"Who Dunnit?" profoundly expresses the
theme of confusion over a funky groove
and what makes this song so exciting
is that it ends with its narrator
never finding anything out at all--

danstheday

Seems like the concert is split over disc 1 and 2 just like they did with Elton Johns new york concert dvd from 1 or 2 years back and just like the Eagles Live from australia which sucks why cant they just fit it onto a duel layer dvd

redhenry

Italy was the first country that gave them any real success and has been their Mecca ever since!

bigjim25

From billboard.com:

Rhino's comprehensive Genesis reissue campaign will conclude Nov. 11 with the release of "Genesis: 1970-1975," a 7-CD/6-DVD collection loaded with rare material and 5.1 DTS audio mixes.

The boxed set includes the studio albums "Trespass," "Nursery Cryme," "Foxtrot," "Selling England by the Pound" and "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway," all of which feature original lead singer Peter Gabriel.

Each album includes a corresponding DVD with film footage from the era and 2007 interviews with band members. Among the highlights are 1972 performance footage from Belgian TV and Rome's Piper Club, found on "Foxtrot," and 90 minutes of live video from 1973 on Italian TV and at Paris' Bataclan, found on "Selling England by the Pound."

Collectors will be thrilled with the disc "Extra Tracks 1970-1975," specifically four songs recorded in 1970 for a documentary about painter Mick Jackson that never materialized. "Provocation," "Frustration," "Manipulation" and "Resignation" pre-date Phil Collins' arrival in Genesis by a year and are all previously unreleased.

The rarities disc also boasts a demo of "Going Out To Get You," three tracks from the BBC show "Nightride" and the 7-inch single "Happy the Man."

Genesis toured last year with Collins for the first time since 1992. The worldwide trek grossed $109 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.

Lateralus

I hate Phil Collins Genesis, so that box set gives me a

reverie

I was really looking forward to it.. but why why why is there no "Live"?

cungar

This is the one I will buy. Hearing those albums in surround is something I've been waiting for. Supper's ready in 5.1. Can't wait.

Supermallet

YES! I'll be pre-ordering that set. While I do enjoy Collins-era Genesis, that material is nothing compared to the Peter Gabriel era.

bigjim25

Genesis Rounds Out Reissues With Live Box Set by Gary Graff

When Genesis released "Genesis: 1970-1975," its third boxed set of studio albums, last fall, keyboardist Tony Banks told Billboard.com that "the next logical thing to do would be something with the live albums. We have a few of those, and we have quite a bit of stuff in the vaults that could be added to flesh things out a bit."

That will happen on Sept. 29, when Rhino releases "Genesis Live 1973-2007," a 10-disc set featuring five of the group's six official live albums -- it will include a spot for last year's "Live Over Europe" album from the 2007 reunion tour -- along with a wealth of unreleased material. Included in the latter will be "Live at the Rainbow 1973," an oft-bootlegged nine-song collection (portions of which have been previously released) recorded during October of that year in London after the release of "Selling England By the Pound."

The 1973 release "Genesis Live" will be bolstered by five tracks from "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" tour recorded in January of 1975 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. "Seconds Out" from 1977 will remain intact, while the version of 1982's "Three Sides Live" in the box will feature the live tracks from the U.K. edition of the album -- "One For the Vine," "Fountain of Salmacis" and a medley of "It" and "Watcher of the Skies" -- rather than the studio songs that were part of the U.S. package. The box also reconciles the two versions of "The Way We Walk," which had been sub-titled "The Shorts" (1992) and "The Long" (1993), and combines them in the original concert sequence.

Genesis members Banks and Rutherford rode herd on the remixing of the albums with Nick Davis. "Genesis Live," "Seconds Out" and "Live At The Rainbow 1973" all feature 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound versions.

Delving into the backlog of live recordings may also hasten the release of individual shows via Genesis' web site, something the group promised when it launched the portal several years ago. "We still talk about that," Banks acknowledged. "We will get to it. I don't know when, but I promise you we'll do it. We've pulled tapes from all sorts of areas, and we've got board mixes from quite an early era, so that will be quite fun for some people." Rutherford added that, "There's some quite nice things there, I think. It just requires energies from someone to pull it all together and put it all out in a way that makes some sort of sense."

The full track listing for "Genesis Live 1973-2007" is:
Genesis Live: "Watcher Of The Skies," "Get 'Em Out By Friday," "The Return Of The Giant Hogweed," "The Musical Box," "The Knife" Bonus Tracks: "Back In N.Y.C.," "Fly On A Windshield," "Broadway Melody Of 1974," "Anyway," "The Chamber Of 32 Doors"

Seconds Out: "Squonk," "Carpet Crawlers," "Robbery, Assault & Battery," "Afterglow," "Firth Of Fifth," "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)," "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"/"The Musical Box (closing)," "Supper's Ready," "The Cinema Show," "Dance On A Volcano"/"Los Endos"

Three Sides Live: "Turn It On Again," "Dodo," "Abacab," "Behind The Lines," "Duchess," "Me And Sarah Jane," "Follow You Follow Me," "Misunderstanding," "In The Cage"/"Cinema Show"/"Slippermen"/"Afterglow," "One For The Vine," "Fountain Of Salmacis," "It"/"Watcher Of The Skies"

The Way We Walk: "Land Of Confusion," "No Son Of Mine," "Driving The Last Spike," "Old Medley" -- "Dance On A Volcano"/"The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"/"The Musical Box"/"Firth Of Fifth"/"I Know What I Like," "Throwing It All Away," "Fading Lights," "Jesus He Knows Me," "Home By The Sea"/"Second Home By The Sea," "Hold On My Heart" "Domino" ("In The Glow Of The Night"/"The Last Domino"), "The Drum Thing," " I Can't Dance," "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight," "Invisible Touch," "Turn It On Again," "Mama," "That's All," "In Too Deep"

Live At The Rainbow 1973: "Watcher Of The Skies," "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight," "The Cinema Show," "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)," "Firth Of Fifth," "The Musical Box," "More Fool Me," "The Battle Of Epping Forest," "Supper's Ready"

cdollaz

I probably will pass on this one. The article appears to state that Three Sides Live and The Way We Walk will not be in 5.1. Kinda stupid to do some of them but not the rest. Just not enough added value to make me upgrade. I'll just dowload the Rainbow 1973 show or maybe buy it if they do individual releases like in the past.

Supermallet

I'll buy the reissue of the 1973 live album. Annoyingly, the Lamb songs they added are already available on the Genesis 1969-1975 Anthology set, which I already own. I'll buy a copy of the Rainbow show from ebay or something.