The long awaited reunion will happen next year, according to one report (but not this one, which says details to be released in next few weeks.)
Peter Gabriel won’t participate. Apparently his schedule wouldn’t permit anything before 2008.
Yeppers…was just gonna add this to the Phil Collins thread…
Then what good is it? I mean really, why the hell bother? I’ll bet a lot of people don’t even know that Genesis is broken up. Those who would care if Steve Hackett (and/or Anthony Phillips) is there would ALSO care about Peter Gabriel being there. Jeez how stupid can you get? WAIT FOR PETER GUYS! What’s another year??
My bonafides to say this: became a Genesis fan in 1974, saw 'em twice with Peter Gabriel, stayed with 'em up to and including Abacab then said my byebyes when my ears turned to female vocalists.
It ain’t Pink Floyd without Waters, and it ain’t Genesis without Gabriel. In a very fertile period
when he made 2-3 of the best albums of his career (solo or not), Genesis was penning the
likes of ABACAB.
Eh, I’d see a Gabriel-less Genesis if it included Hackett. Gabriel-less Genesis with Hackett wrote a number of good prog songs like Squonk, Wot Gorilla?, and All In A Mouse’s Night. But without Gabriel and without Hackett? I’ll take a pass, as Genesis really went downhill after Hackett left.
No Gabriel OR Hackett??? Three letters:
M E H
I guess they’re content to capture the mid-30s-and-younger market (who don’t remember Hackett at all and remember Gabriel as the “Sledgehammer” dude).
I went to many Genesis concerts post-Hackett, and I still enjoyed the shows. However, I’m not in the habit of spending several hundred dollars on senior citizens trying to recapture their youth. (yes, I know that technically speaking, they’re not senior citizens)
I admit to being one of the “mid-30s-and-younger” crowd (per Snooooopy’s description), but I have just not understood this mindset.
I think, frankly, that the percieved lameness of Genesis in its later years is connected to the lameness that all (or at least most) rockers seem to go through who maintain active and vibrant recording careers for fifteen to twenty-plus years.
Both A Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering were great albums (particularly A Trick of the Tail). The next few were a little blah, but Genesis was a decent album.
How many other prog groups from that era were able to maintain their original prog sound more than ten years or so after their debut albums? You can’t say that Peter Gabriel remained ‘true’ to Genesis’ original sound while Phil & friends trod a different path. Gabriel also moved in a different direction. Yes, Genesis changed over time, but so did each and every one of the musicians in the group.
If Peter Gabriel had stayed with Genesis, then I don’t think we’d see a particularly different output of music from either him or Collins. Maybe a slightly different sound, but In Your Eyes would still have been written. Likewise with shudder Hold on my Heart.
Genesis had 15 studio albums, seven of them with Gabriel. I only have four of them, so I can’t vouch for them all, but the ones I have range from good to awesome.
I have three post-Gabriel albums, which also range from good to awesome.
Wow, I am going on about this for far too long, but my basic point is that I think it’s unfair to compare a 1969 album to a 1986 album and say that the suckitude of the newer one is a result of the lack of creative force of a guy who hasn’t had input in the group for ten years. And, if the 1986 Gabriel had joined Genesis in 1974, the band still would have taken a dramatic turn (whether it would have been for the worse, who knows).