Queen + Genesis

Genesis?! Sometimes I get lost in a Youtube spiral and I come across some 'classic' Genesis from the 70 noodling around on their instruments playing songs that last half an hour looking like a bunch of homeless.

Utter wank.

Am I the only person in the world who likes the Genesis Sing Calling All Stations? I hear so much negativity over the song. I think it's great!!!

Song* Bloody autocorrect....

It started all so well....

Trick of the Tail is a fine album. I still go back to that one. The first one with Phil on lead vox of course. My favourite Genesis album is actually Invisible Touch. Some perfect touches of pop prog on that one.

Hello Mr Wizard,

I can't find the actual source right now, but I am pretty sure that Peter Gabriel mentioned in an interview I've read, that Genesis did indeed have Roger Taylor at Gabriel's parents house for an audition. Maybe it was the same audition that had Collins getting the gig.
You're right on your remarks concerning the Gabriel-era Genesis as opposed to the Collins-era. Having said that, the live-album Seconds Out is really a must have for anyone who likes excellent drumming. Chester Thompson, Collins and Bill Bruford make the thing sound fantastic. Only Vinnie Colaiuta did beat those guys on Zappa's Joe's Garage.
Personally, I think that Collins went from being a showman in the very early days following Gabriel's departure to becoming a very angry man. I heard him complaining once about people not liking his late solo-output, which only sold 1,5 million copies per album, as he stated. I wonder what Tony Banks would have thought about that remark, when he noticed it...

Uselesss thread with hear say stories and false accusations. Is that the best you can come up useless Wizard????

[QUOTE] [b]Mr Right wrote:[/b]

I'm a useless brat with cheesy stories and false accusations. It is the best I can come up with because I'm useless.[/QUOTE]

Did you really have to troll this thread with something that lame and obvious? You're really sad.

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Interesting. Kevin Ayres' band would have featured a young Mike Oldfield on bass.

thomas quinn Wizard frequently trashes my threads and my god its payback time .

[QUOTE] [b]Mr Right wrote:[/b]

thomas quinn Wizard frequently trashes my threads and my god its payback time .[/QUOTE]

Hmm hmm. Like I said, you're very sad.

There does seem to be an interesting connection going on here. Certainly one I haven't come across before.

It appears that Roger contributed sleeve notes to the 2008 re-issue of Genesis's 1972 album Foxtrot. It may be just on a fan basis (in the same re-issue series Jeremy Clarkson wrote sleeve notes for Selling England By The Pound and David Baddiel for Nursery Cryme) but there could be a deeper connection. I know Roger is a mate of Mike Rutherford.

Someone on here a while ago also mentioned that Phil Collins asked Roger to replace him on drums on Trick Of The Tail so that he could focus on vocals. That seems completely unlikely or do-able since recording for that album was late 1975 when A Night At The Opera was taking off.

Also found this but with no confirmation of where it's from... "In the dressing room after the show, Genesis’ lead singer Peter Gabriel sidled up to Roger Taylor with a proposal of his own. Genesis were on the verge of firing their drummer, had yet to discover Phil Collins and needed a replacement. Was he interested? ‘I told Roger he should take them up on it,’ laughs Barry. ‘But he was having none of it. He was totally committed to Queen.’ At the time, John Anthony had just produced Genesis’ second album, Trespass, but Anthony now emphatically denies ever trying to lure Taylor away from Queen.

I’ll take it with a pinch of salt when the writer/editor of the original extract posted can’t spell ‘swap’!!!

Brian May was also nearly poached by "Sparks" back in 1974 but May declined the offer!

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Brian May was also nearly poached by "Sparks" back in 1974 but May declined the offer!
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How exactly do you decline an offer that was nearly made?

Because of Brian's illness in 1974, cancelling some US dates and then him not being present for some of the recording of Sheer Heart Attack, some people thought he had left the band.

The well documented story is that Sparks, at that time, asked him to join. He decline

Sometime ago I spoked to Brian about this, he said that he was approached about appearing on a Sparks album because they thought his playing would sit along their writing and production at the time. He declined because he was too busy with Queen's schedule.