Wow... what a golden comment this is. 👍👍

Yes- or perhaps….?….in another way could that be the moment where it all started to go wrong….? What I mean has to do with the whole PG>PC transition in the band and the consequent downward trend in the quality of songwriting….. 🤷‍♂️ I should say that I really DO like Duke - but, unfortunately, not much else has grabbed me after SH left…. I also just want to echo what others have observed- that Steve is a remarkably thoughtful and articulate man who does not seem to suffer from an over-inflated ego but instead is able to objectively reflect on his and his fellow band members strengths, skills in songwriting and performance as well as “blind-spots” and characterological challenges that interfere with optimal songwriting and performance of the band as a whole. His analysis of giving credit to his bandmates when that is due but also being able to specifically and dispassionately address problems is laudable.

Nah, Pete walked away because he needed to explore his own ideas to the max. If you want to blame somebody for the collapse of classic Genesis blame Tony Banks. It was either Tony's way or no way! Just ask Pete and Steve 😂 Imagine how great an album "And Then There Were Four..." would have been!!!

Post gabriel.. Genesis would have ground to a halt if it were not for Phil Collins becoming lead singer....all the anti Collins camp need to take stock... you can't change history.. it was as good as was going to be.. Yes and Pink Floyd changed in the 80s.. they never got any flack.. Remember if banks and Rutherford were not 100 % on board with 80s Genesis.. the band would have folded.. 80s Genesis especially invisible touch got many fans to explore the whole catalogue and most Genesis fans including me will always prefer gabriel/hackett in the line up even up to wind and wuthering.. you could not do trick or wuthering in 1983...would never work...Phil Collins has actually, over time become an underrated musician ... he is better known for But seriously and Tarzan?? He will never win..but he is brilliant and one of the most talented singer song writer of all time... 3rd most successful musician behind Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson..

I wouldn't call Steve Hackett an under-rated guitarist. He's a genius guitarist. Everyone knows that 😁

@@keithf_ but he never gets mentioned in the conversation of top guitarists. Mainly because most people haven’t heard of him which is a real shame.

Ryan Carlo Yes I know what you mean. Personally I have 4 guitar heroes :- David Gilmour Steve Hackett Andy Latimer Steve Rothery All are brilliant musicians, but perhaps only David Gilmour is a household name

@@keithf_ I would throw Robert Fripp into that list as well but apart from that I would agree they are fantastic guitarists and that is a spot on list.

Ryan Carlo Cheers Ryan

Exactly right. I was privileged to sit with Steve Hackett for about 15 minutes in his Orlando hotel lobby after seeing him the night before. I'm nobody but a fan and he sat there and told stories for 15 straight minutes and answered all my questions. What a guy. I find Banks to be a egocentric bore.

She’s so well presented, I was wondering if that was Steve’s wife?

She’s very sweet & supportive.

apparently she was planning on joining the Cruise to the Edge this year. It got postponed, sadly.

How many mums of that age know what a mellotron is

@@kevinsturges6957 I wondered the same thing. Props!

It's 2022 and I just saw then few weeks ago in an amazing spectacle in Auckland, New Zealand.

lol i thought it was his ex wife

Really? I never bothered to read that, but I wonder if its a self defense mechanism because they always get so much shit for everything post 1980 (ok, after mama anyway).

Mike seems to be very harsh on himself and his music. I think was very important to Genesis’ evolving sound if a little bit abrasive

@@liesandvideotape Yeah, I wrote something similar somewhere else. You can't tell if its that self deprecating thing the british are very good at, or whether he's really quite a humble guy. I mean, he essentially wrote their first biggest single on his own, and Mama sees Phil get all the credit for the drum sound when it was Mike. Apocalypse in 9 8 is still one of my favourite pieces of music, and that was mike and tony with phil adding to it later. Its interesting that most of the guys solo work includes one another-except for Tony. Anyway, the most interesting thing I find about mikes interviews is when he talks about 'tuning' and how he really doesn't understand it and used to tune his guitars weird. That kind of experimentation is something I really enjoy, I often don't even bother tuning instruments. I hate the idea that 'its supposed to sound like this'. The hell with that. I live it when Mike or the guy who played bass for Captain Beefheart will now say that there is no way in hell they can recreate the sound because they have no idea how they did it. Meanwhile at concerts some bands have a sound thats identical for decades.

He's right, every band NEEDS one. In prog I always imagine hell would be being in a band in the seventies with Jon Anderson on vocals, roger waters on bass, ritchie blackmore on guitar, tony banks on keyboards and ginger baker on drums. It would be like a game of 'king of the mountain'! I wonder if any would survive.

@@mikearchibald744 Add Fripp into the mix, and the band would fall apart quicker than it came into existence

@@MarceloKatayama Or make the best album ever heard!:)

They did not "oust" him

He left the band of his own accord, he wasn't ousted.

@@robbiedominic2558 Any Genesis video will attract SWARMS of Steve-tards...

Or just work on a new album together!

@@johnmavroudis2054 That'd be amazing!!!!

What would be brilliant is Peter collaborating with Steve to record Déja Vu, the song that he started with Genesis during the Selling England by the Pound period and was completed by Steve on his first Genesis Revisited album.

@@briane5706 That WOULD be awesome!

Great idea!

Youthful looks seem to run the family.

That was some talent for peter gabriel. I remember reading liner notes and thinking "there is no way somebody is singing the line 'supernatural aenesthetist' in a song! But he did!

Nope, it’s worse. It’s a picture of Tony...

@@PinoRomeo You're talking about the image at the beginning of the video. But the *thumbnail*, in other words, the clickable image that KZfaq generated from grabbing a random frame from the video, is that of Phil Collins, which you can see at 2:51.

@@OrchestrationOnline I don't see how he can't win. Using Phil's image as context of what is being talked about in the video. Steve doesn't necessarily need to be on the thumbnail.

Nobody ever speaks about Mike in Genesis vids. It's hard to say what was he doing in the band at all. From When in Rome documentary Id say he is the one keeping the band together, sort of an informal boss.

mistie710 He talks about Mike in very complimentary terms in another clip from this documentary kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f6mHpN2H296teIE.html

Now I can't unsee it! 😵‍💫

Yep. Who else could write a lyric like that? Ranks right up there with "Freddy on a chainsaw lost his feet".

His mother.

somethingyettocome Kim poor is Brazilian

Thanx. It s obvious actually, but I was temporarily confused...Thank you!