It has been established for several years as Phil Collins will not return to the drum set, as he spent the final Origin Tour several years ago and sing from a sitting position and let his son handle percussion. But in a new interview with Mojo Magazine, Collins makes it clear that he has no inclination to return to a recording studio in any capacity due to physical limitations that have removed the desire to create new music.
“I always think that I should go down to the studio and see what happens. But I’m not hungry after that anymore, “he tells the newspaper, before he pauses and adds:” The thing is that I have been ill, I mean, very ill … “The author says that Collin’s voice” tails “before he draws up More about their condition.
A back injury in 2007 caused Collins to undergo serious nerve injury, and after a back surgery he was then described as suffering by “drip foot”, a condition that makes it difficult to walk. He suffered another head injury in 2017. His son Nic played drums when Genesis made a last tour which ended in 2022.
Peter GabrielWho preceded Collins as a frontman for Genesis, says he went to see his former bandmates bend out as a band three years ago, in their final performance at the O2 Arena in London. “Phil was not in such a great shape as he used to be, but they did a good job,” Gabriel told Mojo. “Me Going was a drawing of passage, really. I had been part of the creation of Genesis, so I wanted to be there in the end. “
Collins has a project to talk about with the British newspaper, but it is a retrospective. The just published cover story about Genesis includes interviews with all the group’s “Classic Lineup” members-Colins, Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett talk about a lavish new boxed set as a memory 50th anniversary for “The Lamb Lies down on Broadway. “It was the last of the group to have been recorded with Gabriel as frontman before he quit the group and was replaced by Collins in the role of the main singer.
In 2021, Collins told the world that he would not drum on the group’s farewell tour and told an interviewer, “I can hardly hold a stick with this hand. I am a little physically challenged a bit, which is very frustrating. “In a documentary filmed after Genesis’ final shows that just came out last year,” Phil Collins: drummer, “he said:” It’s still a bit sinking on a bit. I’ve spent my entire life playing drums. Being able to do that is a shock. … If I wake up one day and I can keep a couple of drumsticks, then I get a crack on it. But I just feel that I have used my air environments.
Collins last released an album, The Covers Collection “Going Back” 2010. His last album with original material, “Testify” was released in 2002.
Collins looks back on Gabriel’s departure 50 years ago and his errors about how it might be possible for Genesis to continue, before the insight had frontman himself. “I honestly thought we could just continue and be an instrumental group,” Collins says about the transition period. “Of course, the others didn’t!”
Genesis became the rare band that actually became more successful after the loss of a completed singer and visionary: “People often suggest that we planned to become more commercial. We didn’t. We just couldn’t write here singles before … ”
The members of Genesis have apparently not been the most emotionally demonstrative musicians over the years. Physical shows of affection among the remaining members were apparently unknown, over the years … until the final show, when it was at least a Modicum of a PDA among the very reserved British.
Although Collins had previously left immediately after the show on every other night of the farewell tour, after the last gig at O2, Collins admits that he stayed “and we all had some drinks and a curry. When I was to leave, Tony Banks hugged me, And I don’t think he had ever done it before. I remember how sweet it was.
Banks laugh when they hear about Collin’s love for that moment. “Well, I’m an oppressed public schoolboy,” he tells the magazine. “We didn’t make much hugs, so it’s not a natural gesture. A few years after he left the group, Pete (Gabriel) met me and gave me a hug but it was like a sideways hug, as if he couldn’t really commit. “Banks turn to the subject Collins and say,” I’m not completely comfortable with it, but it’s nice if Phil remembers it once. “
