{"id":974720,"date":"2020-01-28T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=944436"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:15:53","slug":"flashback-genesis-perform-an-epic-watcher-of-the-skies-in-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/flashback-genesis-perform-an-epic-watcher-of-the-skies-in-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Genesis Perform an Epic \u2018Watcher of the Skies\u2019 in 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phil Collins<\/a>, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks attended a Knicks\/Lakers game together<\/a> at Madison Square Garden last week, giving the rumors Genesis<\/a> is contemplating a reunion tour a tiny shred of credibility. It\u2019s quite possible the old friends were merely in town to celebrate Collins\u2019 69th birthday or to see LeBron James in person, but none of them have plans for the foreseeable future \u2014 so this could be one of the times where the rumor mill is onto something.<\/p>\n

The fan fiction version of this possible tour involves finding a way for Peter Gabriel<\/a> and guitarist Steve Hackett to be involved as well. That lineup of the band hasn\u2019t played together since a one-off reunion show in Milton Keynes, England back in 1982. That show was put together with minimal rehearsal and they didn\u2019t bother to film or even properly record the thing. Their last tour with Gabriel was the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway<\/em> run of 1974\/75. They played 104 shows on that one, but not a single one of them was professionally filmed and only tiny fragments have emerged over the years. \u201cIt\u2019s largely my fault,\u201d Gabriel told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> in 2011. \u201cI was a major film obsessive and I had dreams of trying to do things properly, so I wouldn\u2019t allow it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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To see a Peter Gabriel-era Genesis show in full, you need to go back to a set they filmed across two days at England\u2019s Shepperton Studios on October 30th and 31st of 1973. \u201cI was promised at the time that it wouldn\u2019t get seen anywhere if I didn\u2019t like it,\u201d Gabriel said in 2011. \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t like it, and it still got used.\u201d Here\u2019s footage of the opening number, \u201cWatcher of the Skies,\u201d from that show in Shepperton. (In the following years, everything from Star Wars<\/em> and Superman<\/em> to Alien<\/em> and Blade Runner<\/em> were also shot there.)<\/p>\n

The material from this period of Genesis is loved largely by prog aficionados. The mass public doesn\u2019t really know any of their music until \u201cFollow You Follow Me\u201d hit five years later. This was after Gabriel and Hackett left for solo careers and Collins brought the band to Top 40 radio and football stadiums with songs like \u201cInvisible Touch,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s All,\u201d \u201cLand of Confusion\u201d and \u201cI Can\u2019t Dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, tribute bands like the Musical Box have made a very good career out of recreating Gabriel-era Genesis shows. Hackett has spent the past few years staging Genesis Revisited shows all across the globe, playing to the biggest crowds he\u2019s faced in decades. There\u2019s an audience for this stuff, and a reunion tour by either incarnation of the band would be a huge event. The only issue now is whether or not the members have any interest in actually doing it.<\/p>\n

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Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks attended a Knicks\/Lakers game together at Madison Square Garden last week, giving the rumors Genesis is contemplating a reunion tour a tiny shred of credibility. It\u2019s quite possible the old friends were merely in town to celebrate Collins\u2019 69th birthday or to see LeBron James in person, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 17:17:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}