{"id":2445120,"date":"2019-06-09T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=846022"},"modified":"2019-06-09T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:34:07","slug":"watch-phil-collins-reunite-with-genesis-guitarist-mike-rutherford-onstage-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-phil-collins-reunite-with-genesis-guitarist-mike-rutherford-onstage-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Phil Collins Reunite With Genesis Guitarist Mike Rutherford Onstage in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Genesis<\/a> took a tiny step towards a possible reunion at a Phil Collins<\/a> solo concert in Berlin on Friday when guitarist Mike Rutherford came onstage to perform the band\u2019s 1978 hit \u201cFollow You Follow Me.\u201d It was the first time they\u2019ve played together since the end of the 2007 Genesis reunion tour, though it wasn\u2019t a huge surprise since Rutherford\u2019s band Mike + The Mechanics were opening for Collins and the two of them remain very close.<\/p>\n

Collins essentially retired in 2010 after a cascading series of physical ailments made it impossible for him to play drums or even stand on his own for long periods of time. But he returned to the road in 2017 for the Not Dead Yet<\/em> comeback tour in which he sits down for the vast majority of the show and his teenage son Nic recreates his drum parts with amazing precision. Rutherford, meanwhile, has been touring heavily with a reconstituted lineup of Mike + The Mechanics since 2011. This year alone they have done 57 concerts across Europe.<\/p>\n

Collins and Rutherford have been asked many times about the possibility of a Genesis reunion and they never rule it out. \u201cI always say, \u2018Never say never,’\u201d Rutherford told Rolling Stone<\/em> earlier this year.<\/a> \u201cLook, if you asked me two or three years ago when Phil was retired, I would have said, \u2018No.\u2019 But there\u2019s no plans. Let\u2019s establish that\u2026But never say never. The fact that he\u2019s back on the road is quite interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phil Collins had more to say about the possibility when Rolling Stone<\/em> spoke to him in August 2018.<\/em><\/a> \u201cIf we did anything I think it would have to be with Nic on drums because I don\u2019t think I\u2019m capable of it,\u201d he said. \u201cI think [Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford\u2019s] opinion of Nic is high enough for them to take him onboard as part of the band\u2026I\u2019m saying this to you. I haven\u2019t really said it to Tony and Mike. I did mention to Tony very quietly if we did anything again it would be with Nic on drums. He kind of didn\u2019t say no. But I\u2019m not sure if he heard me or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

The discussions always center around a reunion of the post-Peter Gabriel lineup. They haven\u2019t played with Gabriel since a one-off show in 1982<\/a> and even though 1970s-era guitarist Steve Hackett is very active on the road playing Genesis songs and always says he\u2019s open to it, the odds of it happening are still quite slim. \u201cIf Phil was drumming it might be a different story, but he\u2019s not drumming,\u201d Rutherford said.<\/a> \u201cPeople love the idea, but they haven\u2019t thought it out as to what we\u2019d do. You never know, but that\u2019s a harder one, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Genesis took a tiny step towards a possible reunion at a Phil Collins solo concert in Berlin on Friday when guitarist Mike Rutherford came onstage to perform the band\u2019s 1978 hit \u201cFollow You Follow Me.\u201d It was the first time they\u2019ve played together since the end of the 2007 Genesis reunion tour, though it wasn\u2019t […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445120","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 13:56:14","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}