{"id":149383,"date":"2025-06-01T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149383\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:59:09","slug":"the-band-phil-collins-said-inspired-his-genesis-drumming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149383\/","title":{"rendered":"The band Phil Collins said inspired his Genesis drumming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Phil<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ TIDAL)<\/p>\n

Sun 1 June 2025 11:00, UK <\/p>\n

Though he\u2019s played more songs from his days with the prog-rock group Genesis<\/a> across the setlists at his solo shows, Phil Collins has actually played a song first made famous by The Supremes at more separate concerts. In fact, his cover of \u2018You Can\u2019t Hurry Love\u2019 is second only to his own \u2018In the Air Tonight\u2019 in total number of concert performances at any of his solo shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whether in the studio or on the stage, Collins has frequently supplemented his songs with covers from a wide range of writers and artists. He\u2019s sung songs by Irving Berlin (\u2018Always\u2019), Philip Bailey (\u2018Easy Lover\u2019), Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions (\u2018People Get Ready\u2019) and Cyndi Lauper (\u2018True Colours\u2019), among many others. And it\u2019s not just in covering other artists where he has shown the breadth and scope of his tastes, interests and influences.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019s drawn on influences from all over the cultural map, too. His 1982 album and tours were each named after one of Groucho Marx\u2019s most famous, and funniest, musical moments (\u2018Hello, I Must Be Going\u2019), and it isn\u2019t hard to guess how he got from a life-long love of Motown and songs like The Temptations\u2019 \u2018I Wish It Would Rain\u2019 to his own 1989 composition \u2018I Wish It Would Rain Down\u2019 (and it\u2019s also no wonder that his fellow culture vulture Eric Clapton features so heavily on the song and in the video).<\/p>\n

Though he was first inspired to get into music in the first place by a deep and abiding love of The Beatles<\/a>\u2014growing up as a teen in London in the 1960s, Collins was the perfect age to be swept up on a wave of Beatlemania\u2014you don\u2019t hear much of the Liverpool quartets sound turn up in Collins\u2019 songs. <\/p>\n

But when it came to the making of some of his earliest albums whilst drumming with Genesis, another groups influence did make its way into Collins\u2019 playing. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we recorded Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, and Nursery Cryme, the Mahavishnu Orchestra with Billy Cobham were very much in vogue\u201d, Collins has said. \u201cTheir style of playing odd time signatures and complex rhythmic figures influenced our music. Personally speaking, I feel I was trying to do a little too much on those early albums. I was trying to prove to people that I could play. In doing so I wasn\u2019t necessarily playing what the music required.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever you think of the Mahavishnu Orchestra with Billy Cobham, it is clear that each of the band\u2019s members were virtuosos, able to test the outer limits of their instruments. Cobham, especially, on the drums, keeping the beat smooth and steady and providing an anchor for the rest of the group to wander away from but with which they could always bring themselves back to. <\/p>\n

Phil Collins might now think that he was taking too much from Cobham\u2019s playing on those early albums, but if you\u2019re going to borrow from anyone, you might as well borrow from one of the best.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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