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Old 29-12-2002, 6:36 PM   #1
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Genesis to reform?

The return of the Giant Hogweeds........Rumour has it than Genesis are to reform, Phil Collins is happy to participate if its all organised for him. They are keen to perform new material, as they feel that just ploughing out the old stuff will not be acceptable to modern fans.

I, for one would be happy to go and see them, just for old times sake..........Gabriel back on vocals......no cant hurry love crap...................get em out by Friday.
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I would find it quite acceptable to see Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Chester Thomson, Steve Hackett and whoever.
New material may be interesting, but I hope they don't repeat 1974 when they played the whole of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway cold to everyone except the band.
I'm happy if they play all the old songs for three hours with state of the art sound / lighting.

( JOHN PEBBLE OF STYX ENTERPRISES )
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Old 30-12-2002, 1:23 AM   #3
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Personally, I'm bored to death with Phil Collins. The others are cool.
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Old 30-12-2002, 4:18 PM   #4
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couldnt agree more, hes best sat behind the drums, let gabriel do the singing.
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Old 30-12-2002, 5:03 PM   #5
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couldnt agree more, hes best sat
on his yacht, away from everyone
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Old 30-12-2002, 5:20 PM   #6
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Can't believe we're all in agreement on the fact that Phil Collins sucks. Why don't we fill his drum kit with gun powder a la Keith Moon? I've all ways found him mediocre, if not boring. Seems a good enough reason to blow him up.
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Old 30-12-2002, 5:21 PM   #7
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Yeah, just one problem Gambit. I have all his solo CDs up to that one with Another Day In Paradise On It. His stuff was good until that point (although I regret that last CD now)
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Old 30-12-2002, 5:34 PM   #8
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OK, then you're off the board on the blow-up-Phil-Collins plot. Just me an Karkus. Unless he owns some of his ****e too and I have to go it alone, which I will.

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Old 30-12-2002, 5:47 PM   #9
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Well IMO bands are just not the same when they reform and then I'm sure that the people who liked them in the first place wish that they hadn't because their memories of a once great band are then spoilt.
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Old 30-12-2002, 5:52 PM   #10
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Well IMO bands are just not the same when they reform and then I'm sure that the people who liked them in the first place wish that they hadn't because their memories of a once great band are then spoilt.
Well of course they won't be the same, I'm gonna blow their drummer up. Often hampers a bands performance, an exploding drummer, don't you know. Except for The Who, who are an obvious exception.
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Old 30-12-2002, 5:54 PM   #11
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Well of course they won't be the same, I'm gonna blow their drummer up. Often hampers a bands performance, an exploding drummer, don't you know. Except for The Who, who are an obvious exception.
Well good luck. Just make sure you save his head to hang at the city gates
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Well good luck. Just make sure you save his head to hang at the city gates
Wise words- all must know his reign of boredom has ended!
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Old 30-12-2002, 7:45 PM   #13
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Re: Genesis to reform?

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They are keen to perform new material, as they feel that just ploughing out the old stuff will not be acceptable to modern fans.
That's not true. Most of the Genesis fans here were too young to have seen them live first time around and would probably prefer to see them them perform the songs they know.
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Also, who are Genesis kidding thinking that they're going to get a new fanbase from new material? Can you really see today's single-buying teenieboppers going for some pension-drawing dudes? If anything, people will go for the old stuff simply because it's well known and therefore acceptable. Anything new will be ignored by the TOTP lot and seen as uncool.
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Old 31-12-2002, 1:40 PM   #15
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With the exception of Peter Gabriel, the rest of them don't have it in them to come up with decent new material anyway. And if it's left to PG to pen new songs then he may as well just employ the rest of them as a backing band for a Peter Gabriel tour. Which would be pointless. Any new material they could come up with would just be cardigan and slippers middle of the road "dad" music, and have very little in common with the imaginitive, cutting edge stuff they banged out as Genesis first time round when they were at the forefront of a musical movement rather than being a bunch of old men who quite fancy trying to recapture a bit of the former glory of their youth.
Whatever happens, Phil Collins will kill the whole thing off with the fact that everything he touches these days turns into a load of boring old guff that all sounds the same. He seems to suck the life and soul out of any musical project he's involved with.

Stick to a greatest hits package, leave Phil at home tied up in the wardrobe, do a string of stadium gigs, collect the paycheck and retire quietly.
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turn my back for a few hours and its almost turned into an REM thread

Do I own any PC albums ? Im really not sure, had a quick check of my CDs............none there, but I have a sneaking suspiscion theres his first solo album on vinyl kicking around somewhere obviously if I do find the offending item, I will dispose of it immediately.

Should we blow him up? Well thats a bit of a room 101 question, if it was purely because of his music then, I would have to vote No.
But, there are other reasons.
'Fat wallet Phil' was rumoured to be an investor in the forestry business and was supposedly making money out of the fast growing conifers that have ruined large tracts of the Scottish highlands, while, simultaneously carping on about the demise of the rainforests. This hypocracy, would be reason enough to get involved in Captain 'Guy Fawkes' Gambits plot Bwahh ha ha.

On a slight thread deviation, just seen one of the Sunday magazines, inside is a picture of a bomb blast. Bang (no pun intenteded) in the centre of the picture is the head of the suicide bomber, upright on the ground, just like the scene in Alien, I couldnt stop looking at it, surreal.
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On a slight thread deviation, just seen one of the Sunday magazines, inside is a picture of a bomb blast. Bang (no pun intenteded) in the centre of the picture is the head of the suicide bomber, upright on the ground, just like the scene in Alien, I couldnt stop looking at it, surreal.
Got a scanner? Scan it. I wanna see that!!
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Old 31-12-2002, 3:11 PM   #18
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SG, your definitely asking daft questions now, surely you mean Scanners the film.........otherwise, I would assume you were talking about some sort of techno wizardry, that I am as yet without, though I do have a printer, which makes a rather nice table decoration

Im popping round to my mates house soon, he has the picture, I will find out name and date of the magazine for now. Then see if I can get it scanned later this week.
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Ah yes, I forgot you live with technology from decades previous

That'd be fab mate
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Old 31-12-2002, 7:20 PM   #20
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This hypocracy, would be reason enough to get involved in Captain 'Guy Fawkes' Gambits plot Bwahh ha ha.
That reminds me, we might as well blow up the Coral too, scouse pirates that they are. Ha ha ha ha ha
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Old 31-12-2002, 8:44 PM   #21
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hoist up the main sail and set the jib................arghhh somebody shhtop me.
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