THE MECHANICS OF GENESIS
The more things change the more things change. Take Genesis. Started out with only a mellotron and a young man who dressed like a dahlia, and what happens? God blesses them with extremely expensive equipment, extremely long-and-involved songs about extremely weird creatures, and all of a sudden people with loonpants and Lord Of The Rings paperbacks mouth their names with reverence and they’re Progressive.
THE MECHANICS OF GENESIS
Sylvie Simmons
The more things change the more things change. Take Genesis. Started out with only a mellotron and a young man who dressed like a dahlia, and what happens? God blesses them with extremely expensive equipment, extremely long-and-involved songs about extremely weird creatures, and all of a sudden people with loonpants and Lord Of The Rings paperbacks mouth their names with reverence and they’re Progressive.
And then what happens? The band gets smaller, the songs get shorter, the hits get bigger and Genesis takes over the entire world as we know it! Phil Collins in the charts five times in one year— by himself, with Band Aid, with Philip Bailey, Marilyn Martin and Genesis! And twice on Miami Vice\ And movies— movies for chrissakes—and the ones he’s not in Tony Banks writes the soundtrack music for! And the dahlia toddles off and has hits of his own which they play alongside Mike Rutherford’s Mechanics on the radio!
And they’re still, to quote the guitar player, younger than the Rolling Stones!