On one hand, I really like PG's music. And doing Lamb might be interesting, the way they describe it (if it were to happen). On the other hand, I really don't want to deal with the suckfest that Phil Collins has become.

/ymmv

I just want to see them do "Supper's Ready" and watch the audience not make a peep for 26 minutes until the song fades all the way out.

And then they go batshiat.

I want that so badly I can taste it. I would raft to England, if necessary, to see the show.

But it will probably never happen.

Whats all this then?



And yes, I plan on bringing up South Park in every Phil Collins thread.

Wish Gabriel would do something - anything! He's another one of these guys that takes WAY too long to make a 10 song album.

I would really like to see Gabriel and the boys get together once more, just to catch the spectacle. But I ain't holdin' my breath.

Everything has an end.

carmody: I would really like to see Gabriel and the boys get together once more, just to catch the spectacle. But I ain't holdin' my breath.

Everything has an end.

why? the musical box does it better than they did it back then.

Gulper Eel: I just want to see them do "Supper's Ready" and watch the audience not make a peep for 26 minutes until the song fades all the way out.

And then they go batshiat.

There's always gotta be one guy who can't stop saying "The Knife".

/probably even DURING "The Knife"

Tony Banks: It was really quite a special show for us. It was a free concert in the Circus Maximus, which is internationally known. It was a free, outdoor concert to a half-million people.

Did YOUR favorite band play to a half million people? No. No, they didn't.

/owned

I like the carpet crawlers myself. The words are so surreal. Phil had a light touch back then on The Lamb Lies Down CD. Besides that on another song on the CD, one of the greatest lines ever...."and I'm hovering like a fly waiting for the windshield on the freeway"....

I ditto Peter doing some more.

I'd much more interested if they got Steve Hackett back, too.

I Like Bread: Tony Banks: It was really quite a special show for us. It was a free concert in the Circus Maximus, which is internationally known. It was a free, outdoor concert to a half-million people.

Did YOUR favorite band play to a half million people? No. No, they didn't.

/owned

Britney Spears sold WAY WAY WAY more albums than Genesis. Is...SHE the greatest artist in the world?

Collins still sucks.

I like Phil's collaboration w/ BTH on Thug World Order, on a song called "Home." Never really listened to Akon, so I don't know what that'd be like.

Peter Gabriel, on the other hand, needs to do something. I rather enjoy his music.

Marla Singer's Laundry: Britney Spears sold WAY WAY WAY more albums than Genesis.

Britney: 83 million (none of which anybody will admit owning)
Genesis: 150 million (130 million of which fans know by heart right down to Mike's unaccompanied bass pedal solo)

I Like Bread: Tony Banks: It was really quite a special show for us. It was a free concert in the Circus Maximus, which is internationally known. It was a free, outdoor concert to a half-million people.

Did YOUR favorite band play to a half million people? No. No, they didn't.

/owned

That's just because they were opening for Obama.

liquidlen: Gulper Eel: I just want to see them do "Supper's Ready" and watch the audience not make a peep for 26 minutes until the song fades all the way out.

And then they go batshiat.

There's always gotta be one guy who can't stop saying "The Knife".

/probably even DURING "The Knife"

Reminds me of some of the audience banter you can hear on live boots.

Box set 1:
"Battle of Epping Forest!!"
"Wrong."

Box set 2:
"Where's the rest of the band?!?"

misterhowl: Wish Gabriel would do something - anything! He's another one of these guys that takes WAY too long to make a 10 song album.

He's too busy being Jesus Christ.

On topic, this would be cool and we would definately go.

CarnySaur: That's just because they were opening for Obama. Winston Churchill.

FTFY.

I Like Bread: Tony Banks: It was really quite a special show for us. It was a free concert in the Circus Maximus, which is internationally known. It was a free, outdoor concert to a half-million people.

Did YOUR favorite band play to a half million people? No. No, they didn't.

/owned

Yes, as a matter of fact, they did.

There were a half a million people on the lawn
And we sang to the faces in the dawn.

/morning maniac music
//actually hard to pinpoint a single "favorite" band of mine, but 2 of them were there.
///thinks judging your favorite band by their commercial success is pretty shallow anyway

FTFA:
Phil Collins' obsession with building a model railroad in his basement is preventing him from making a new solo album,

Funny thing - my father has always been an avid model railroader and somehow he managed to hold down a full-time job and build an extensive model railroad in room that was added on to our house (basements not exactly being common where we lived).

I've also seen quite a few other model railroads. Somehow, I just don't see Phail Collins being able to make a respectable one.

Just found this quote from Phil Collins in Rolling Stone: "I'm sure when the railroad gets close to being finished"

That's a sure sign of fail - model railroads are NEVER finished (you can always find something that could have been done better, whether it's cutting out individual shingles for a train station on your layout, building a bridge from scratch, upgrading switches or just building, painting and weathering new cars and engines - it never ends)

mud_shark: I've also seen quite a few other model railroads. Somehow, I just don't see Phail Collins being able to make a respectable one.

Cut the man some slack. He's got enough money that he's probably using real trains.

il Dottore: I'd much more interested if they got Steve Hackett back, too.

Failing that, a Gabriel-Collins-Rutherford-Banks-Anthony Phillips lineup would be pretty tasty. They could even add a couple of songs from "Smallcreep's Day" to the set.

And as long as I'm dreaming, I want them to play my back yard...

Ignorant McNugget: Failing that, a Gabriel-Collins-Rutherford-Banks-Anthony Phillips lineup would be pretty tasty.

I think Ant may still have stage fright. Besides, I want to see Steve do his thing.

They could even add a couple of songs from "Smallcreep's Day" to the set.

They're more likely to play "Pigeons" than do that. I don't think fans are waiting 35 years for obscure solo material.

Pete says don't rule it out.

"Some people would be surprised that such a forward-moving artist would even consider a reunion with a band he left in 1975, but Gabriel does not rule it out. "It's a bit like a child:however far you move on, you still love your children. On a good day." "

Olympus Mons: I ditto Peter doing some more.

His last album was great, and I'm sure he hhas 50-odd songs on the go that he didn't use. Trouble is, the man's never satisfied. Look at how many of his songs he's redone. Here Comes the Flood, In Your Eyes...

Gulper Eel:
They're more likely to play "Pigeons" than do that. I don't think fans are waiting 35 years for obscure solo material.

You're right, but I've seen The Slippermen perform the classics so many times that actually seeing Genesis perform them would have a diminished impact. And some of that obscure solo stuff is better than 75% of the Genesis material and it just seems a shame to me that so little of it will ever be performed live.

/too young to fully understand bomer nostalgia

Gulper Eel:
They're more likely to play "Pigeons" than do that. I don't think fans are waiting 35 years for obscure solo material.

You're right, but I've seen The Slippermen perform the classics so many times that actually seeing Genesis perform them would have a diminished impact. And some of that obscure solo stuff is better than 75% of the Genesis material and it just seems a shame to me that so little of it will ever be performed live.

/too young to fully understand boomer nostalgia

I'll just offer this up. This is considering the vocal shape of the group members, and the shape they're in otherwise
.
Gabriel/Collins/Banks/Rutherford/Thompson/Sturmer/(Hackett?)
with vocal duties, and plenty of rehearsal beforehand

1. Watcher of the Skies (PG)
2. Stagnation (PG)
3. The Carpet Crawlers (both)
4. I Know What I Like (PG)/ It's Gonna Get Better(PC)

5. Firth of Fifth (Both)
6. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Both)
7. Musical Box (PG)
8. The Cinema Show (Both)

9 Horizons (only if Hackett is on board) / Supper's Ready (Both)

10. Mama/Abacab / Dodo (Both, mostly PC)
11. Get 'em out By Friday / The Knife (PG)
12. Behind the Lines (PC) / Duchess (PC) / Guide Vocal (PG)
13. Follow You, Follow Me / It (Both)

Unhip1: 1. Watcher of the Skies (PG)
2. Stagnation (PG)
3. The Carpet Crawlers (both)
4. I Know What I Like (PG)/ It's Gonna Get Better(PC)

5. Firth of Fifth (Both)
6. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Both)
7. Musical Box (PG)
8. The Cinema Show (Both)

9 Horizons (only if Hackett is on board) / Supper's Ready (Both)

10. Mama/Abacab / Dodo (Both, mostly PC)
11. Get 'em out By Friday / The Knife (PG)
12. Behind the Lines (PC) / Duchess (PC) / Guide Vocal (PG)
13. Follow You, Follow Me / It (Both)

Start with the three-man version:

1. Dodo / Lurker / Turn It On Again
2. Way of the World
3. Me and Sarah Jane / Follow You Follow Me
4. Home By The Sea / Second Home By The Sea

Bring on Steve:

5. Horizons / Blood on the Rooftops
6. Inside and Out
7. Entangled / Los Endos

8. Bass Pedal Solo

Pete (off stage) "That was an unacompanied bass pedal solo from Michael Rutherford..." (walks on stage) "...this is The Musical Box."

9. The Musical Box
10. Watcher of the Skies
11. Firth Of Fifth / Stagnation / I Know What I Like
12. The Carpet Crawlers

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13. (encore) Supper's Ready