Excellent! I’ve not commented before on your music notes, but have thought many times “Wow, JMG listens to a lot of the same music I do, but I NEVER see a mention of Genesis.” Glad to hear that’s being addressed!
There’s a LOT to explore in that music space. The earliest guitarist for Genesis was Anthony Philips, who suffered from stage-fright, dropped out, but who has many excellent solo albums (Private Parts and Pieces 3 is a particular favorite.) The initial lead singer Peter Gabriel is an AMAZING musician, quite quirky, and is still producing great music (I/O most recently.) The guitarist who replaced Philips, Steve Hackett, is astonishingly great. His first solo album featured themes derived from the tarot; the song “Shadow of the Heirophant” is very noteworthy (by “Shadow”, the implication/message is “reverse”.) Hackett departed in the 1970s but has gone on to be the shining light of performing earlier Genesis classics; worth looking up public performances his group has done recently. Phil Collins is/was world-class as a drummer (he’s quite ill now), yet became, almost by accident, additionally the lead singer after Gabriel departed; Collins has gone on to be one of the most noteworthy and successful singers in all of rock. Tony Banks is an extremely talented keyboardist and composer, really the core of Genesis, and has in later years written several quite excellent symphonies! Mike Rutherford, bass & guitars, shares with Banks a core position in Genesis, and has also branched out in interesting directions with his solo-career group “Mike and the Mechanics.” There’s a lot of excellent music to explore in Genesis and its various spin-offs!
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Re: Silent Records, Geometry and the Horse,
Date: 2025-03-31 09:09 pm (UTC)There’s a LOT to explore in that music space. The earliest guitarist for Genesis was Anthony Philips, who suffered from stage-fright, dropped out, but who has many excellent solo albums (Private Parts and Pieces 3 is a particular favorite.) The initial lead singer Peter Gabriel is an AMAZING musician, quite quirky, and is still producing great music (I/O most recently.) The guitarist who replaced Philips, Steve Hackett, is astonishingly great. His first solo album featured themes derived from the tarot; the song “Shadow of the Heirophant” is very noteworthy (by “Shadow”, the implication/message is “reverse”.) Hackett departed in the 1970s but has gone on to be the shining light of performing earlier Genesis classics; worth looking up public performances his group has done recently. Phil Collins is/was world-class as a drummer (he’s quite ill now), yet became, almost by accident, additionally the lead singer after Gabriel departed; Collins has gone on to be one of the most noteworthy and successful singers in all of rock. Tony Banks is an extremely talented keyboardist and composer, really the core of Genesis, and has in later years written several quite excellent symphonies! Mike Rutherford, bass & guitars, shares with Banks a core position in Genesis, and has also branched out in interesting directions with his solo-career group “Mike and the Mechanics.” There’s a lot of excellent music to explore in Genesis and its various spin-offs!