That indeed he is! Thanks for watching.

Hi. Thanks so much for your feedback and thoughts. Yes, that 12-string sound is so special and has stood the test of time.

Indeed it would!

Can't argue with that! Thanks for the comment.

Glad to hear it! Such a talented man and so modest.

Hi. So glad this was helpful.. Hope you are in good spirits today, and wishing you the very best. Thanks also for the kind feedback.

Hi James. A much underrated album. I still play it. Just a shame about Acting Very Strange....

Hi James. Thanks for your comment. Yes, it is an amazing album that has really stood the test of time.

Many thanks for the feedback, appreciated.

That would be wonderful, wouldn't it, but sadly I don't think it will happen.

Indeed it is, and he is. Thanks, Larry.

I wasn't told off camera so I guess we will never know.....unless Tim spills the beans on The Album Years?

Hi. One of the great things about song lyrics is that they can mean different things to different people, which is often given as one of the reasons some artists don't like explaining their lyrics in too much detail. For me however I have always taken it as the first of your two suggested meanings. I can hear the raw honesty of a man realising/admitting he never stopped loving her...

Hi Ben. Not sure if it was 77, but like you I bought Geese at around that time. Thankfully I kept the vinyl when CDs became the fashion!

Very fair point, and I'm not far behind you, Charles! It's a "hook" many are guilty of using (me included) hence my first question. Maybe I should have resisted the temptation, but as a very small record charity we aren't well known and the Genesis reference helps with the way algorithms and search engines work for people to find both of us if they are not familiar with Ant's solo work or the work Make a Difference with Records does. Thanks for the feedback.

I know what you mean. The 12 string sound continued to be used on later albums after he left, and Geese would have been a great companion to Trespass. Thanks for your feedback!

Many thanks for taking the time to give the kind feedback, Lorraine.

Ant looks remarkably like the late, great Allan Holdsworth ❤

Absolutely agree!

Hi Robin. Sorry to disappoint on that front. Perhaps next time. He has so much material to cover and the main focus was the new release this time round.

@@thatsmyvinylanswer Sure, no worries. PP&P 3 would be ACE

You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed it and also discovered the new album.

50 years later The Golden Hour is as good as he's ever done!

@@larrypeterson7992 Hi Larry. yes there's some really good stuff on there - amazing to think most of it was lurking forgotten on hard drives until Anthony's engineer Jon unearthed it.

Genuine and warm person for sure.

@@MatthewMcVeagh they all are!

Isn't it funny after all this time we can all remember where we were and that feeling of being young and carefree!

Thanks very much, Julie, it's always great to get this kind of feedback. Interviews tend to work better if it's a conversation, and Ant was so engaging.

Indeed. He has an amazing knowledge of so many genres and albums.

Hi Stuart. Really appreciate the feedback, thank you. Happy hunting for the missing albums.

He's got a number of interviews, a long one with his Cherry Red label, and one on progcast and a few I cant remember. I remember a podcast that he did with some guy in Nova Scotia, but I cant remember what it was. I know he probably thinks his fanbase is by no means huge, but his example of realizing Debussy predated the Beatles is instructive. NOW people learn 'oh, here's what POP is', but in the future after the 'corporatization' of music, I suspect if there are people studying music, they aren't going to be going "look at the great hook of 'invisible touch', why, it must be about a woman screwing a guy over". In fact thats already happening on the internet. Thats why I'm glad he at least finally made some money, but the karma in the music business is that eventually people discover Rodriguez and Nick Drake even if it doesn't do much for them. I'm glad Tony Banks eventually came around to do classical albums because otherwise, sad to say, music history class is going to be "ok class, what year did Genesis sell out?" They got money and fame in exchange, but as the saying goes, what profit a man if he gains the world but loses his musical soul, or something like that:) He also gets some talk in on the Genesis album by album interviews on Trespass, but those are mostly about the politics around the band. He is in a different boat than the other members in that he STUDIED music. When Peter Gabriel keeps saying "we were more confident" or "we wanted a darker feel" then you realize that as great as his music is, your not going to get much detail out of him. Even Steve Howe admits he doesnt know how to explain what he does, and doesn't WANT to because it would likely make him forget how to DO it. So yeah, it would be great to see exactly what you are talking about. Long ago when I knew squat about him I was writing that "hey, he should have tried with Windham Hill, they were big in the eighties", and then later he talks all about Windham Hill. Too bad becaues in the eighties I was buying tons of Windham Hill stuff because they were an indy label with guys like William Ackerman and Michael Hedges who were by no means 'big'. Live from the Double Planet is a guitar lovers dream album. But for me the problem was that my brother had tons of prog albums but not his. Thats how a became a huge Strawbs fan. To be brutally honest, I did the new agey thing when I was in my twenties so now I like his poppy stuff best, which is ironic. Its always 'really good', but not quite 'great', which is also true of lots of Genesis stuff, so I know what he means by not having the commercial touch, and that thats nothing to be ashamed of. AND that he's got at least a few tracks that are every bit as good as Mike and The Mechanics so it really is partly 'luck'. Had a DJ loved one of his or Tony Banks tracks enough to do like Bohemian Rhapsody and play it over and over til the public finally said "fine, we'll pay attention", then maybe they would have been hits. Rhapsody is good, but no better, and weirder, than lots of prog stuff, it essentially IS prog. Sorry thats so rambling, I"m putting off going to work.

Indeed he is. He made me feel very welcome and gave up a lot of his time.

@@vinylforcharity4132 Thank you so much, i`ve gotta get "The Golden Hour" asap !!!

@@vinylforcharity4132 Did he make tea? Thats adorable at the end of his Edginton interview when it ends with "ok who'd like some tea". Tony may have stayed in Genesis and got rich, but between the two, I can always imagine them being like what was said about David Gilmour: "even if he was busking he'd be making music". Thats a pretty rare thing. I lasted two guitar lessons and then went with "ah the hell with this I'll just LISTEN". I'm glad it worked out to the point of Ant not having to busk and end up like Danny Kirwan.

Hi Mike. Thank you so much for your very helpful and detailed reply. It's great that people share these kind of suggestions.

Hi Mike. Many thanks for adding your thoughts and perspective. Much appreciated. There's no doubt that they fed off each other and built on each other's ideas, just as it should be. Sad that it ultimately became too crowded artistically only a few years after Ant's departure.

@@vinylforcharity4132 Yeah, thats a band. As Mike and Nick whatsisname said, its odd for people to stay in a band 'forever'. I think the most prescient comment of all came from Mike in the interviews: "if only we'd had a little chat". Or as Steve says "we were maybe bad talkers or bad listeners". Thats something I think MOST people should be able to appreciate and its a good lesson people should take away from learning about the band. Tony seems to have been the worst, but from all accounts has mellowed considerably, good for him. I think that was insecurity and maybe upbringing, and I know how it feels to have that monkey on my back.

Hi Jeff. Yes I think a few of us were in that boat! Glad you hung on to the album and didn't give it away when CD's became all the rage.

I think there is SOME value to the argument that haveing so much music so easily accessible and able to 'click through' that something is lost. Although I hated vinyl because I always scratched them and it would repeat one section over and over. I can remember the 'ka chunk' of flipping through the four sides of my brothers eight track machine.

@@mikearchibald744 Couldn't agree more Mike, the average attention span has greatly diminished since the advent of broadband internet.

I love Ant and his music BUT Im not so sure Im buying the " not being able to afford it "considering he was quite well off growing up .

@@badrogue66 His parents were well off but he was at boarding school. Which means his disposable income would be what his parents would decide to give him. And since he was at boarding school and his clothes, food, and board, were all provided, then I doubt that amounted to much. Of course there are different ages, he's talking about the early sixties, his first record was the FIRST beatles album. So that explains it better than "he's lying". Obviously at SOME point he was able to buy records, his memory is going back to the age when parents really thought kids didn't need money. Clearly if he was that bad off in the EIGHTIES that he had boarders and a new mortgage then he wasn't exactly born with a lifelong trust fund. But that would maybe be in his biography. He's got wood panelling here, thats hardly a gilded hall. The thing about 'family money' is it very much depends on the family. You even see some artists now saying they aren't leaving a cent to their kids. Some don't like how 'easy money' may affect their kids, some want to use money to control their kids. It goes all over the place depending on the person who has control. I've known people with 'family money', usually they are bumming off everybody else like in 'the importance of being earnest'.

Many thanks for the feedback, Daniel, much appreciated.

Yes, he is one of the most eloquent and engaging musicians I have had the pleasure of meeting.

Thanks so much for the feedback. We are also on X under @vinylforcharity if that helps. Or you can email us at [email protected]. We don't yet have a firm date for the auction.

Thanks so much for your comments. Much appreciated.

He is indeed. It makes life so much easier for an interviewer when it turns into a natural conversation because the musician has so much to offer on the topics.

Indeed he is. So generous with his time as well.