{"id":804872,"date":"2020-03-04T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=961986"},"modified":"2020-03-04T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:54:56","slug":"flashback-genesis-play-the-carpet-crawlers-on-their-2007-reunion-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-genesis-play-the-carpet-crawlers-on-their-2007-reunion-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Genesis Play \u2018The Carpet Crawlers\u2019 on Their 2007 Reunion Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Phil Collins<\/a>\u2013led incarnation of Genesis<\/a> announced a reunion tour<\/a> this morning. So far it\u2019s just 10 arena dates in the United Kingdom and Ireland, but that\u2019s almost certainly merely the first leg. The band hasn\u2019t toured in any capacity since 2007 and can easily fill stadiums and arenas all across globe. Nothing is certain, but 2021 will probably be a very good year for Genesis fans.<\/p>\n

The lineup this time is the 1978\u20131993 and 2007 incarnation of the band, minus touring drummer Chester Thompson. In his place is Phil\u2019s teenage son Nic. He\u2019s been playing in his dad\u2019s solo group for years now and is more than ready for the job. Phil and Nic will be joined by founding keyboardist Tony Banks, founding guitarist-bassist Mike Rutherford, and touring guitarist Daryl Strummer, who has been with the band since 1978 and also plays in Phil\u2019s solo group. Collins basically hasn\u2019t played a concert of any kind without him in 43 years.<\/p>\n

After Genesis started scoring massive radio hits like \u201cLand of Confusion,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s All,\u201d and \u201cI Can\u2019t Dance,\u201d they shied away from playing songs from their Seventies catalog, outside of a lone medley each night where they\u2019d mash together as many vintage tunes as possible. That changed on the 2007 tour where they broke out prog-era gems like \u201cRipples,\u201d \u201cIn the Cage,\u201d and \u201cI Know What I Like.\u201d The show ended with an emotional rendition of the 1974 Lamb Lies Down on Broadway<\/em> classic \u201cThe Carpet Crawlers.\u201d Here\u2019s video of them playing the song that year in front of an enormous audience at Rome\u2019s Circus Maximus.<\/p>\n

The group has yet to talk about what sort of songs they\u2019re going to do this time. The big Eighties and early Nineties hits are basically a given, but we\u2019d love to also hear things like \u201cThe Knife,\u201d \u201cWatcher of the Skies,\u201d \u201cFly on a Windshield\/Broadway Melody of 1974,\u201d and \u201cDancing With the Moonlight Knight.\u201d All 23 minutes of \u201cSupper\u2019s Ready\u201d would be heavenly for prog fans, but we\u2019ll probably have to wait until the day that Peter Gabriel finally fulfills his destiny and returns to the band he started all those decades ago.<\/p>\n

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The Phil Collins\u2013led incarnation of Genesis announced a reunion tour this morning. So far it\u2019s just 10 arena dates in the United Kingdom and Ireland, but that\u2019s almost certainly merely the first leg. The band hasn\u2019t toured in any capacity since 2007 and can easily fill stadiums and arenas all across globe. Nothing is certain, […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 00:40:06","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}