What people said about daved’s jam Solsbury Hill

17 Comments (since 14 May 2015)

5 years, 8 months ago

psyclopstrees

can't argue with that

5 years, 8 months ago

philipnareike

Wonderful song

5 years, 8 months ago

debutch

Good for you Dave. I remember feeling angry at Peter Gabriel for leaving Genesis when they were at their peak but in retrospect, he done the right thing.

5 years, 8 months ago

debutch

...just a bit of trivia. I was watching the 2 hour 'Genesis story' on TV a few months ago and at the end, all 5 originalmembers were together for an interview. Rutherford & Banks were making several candid cutting remarks about the Gabriel situation before he left the band. NOthing unusual about that, you may say but they were saying these things in his presence and the band hadn't even reformed or anything! Pretty rude, eh? Peter was too much the gent to say F*** you. He just shrugged it off...

5 years, 8 months ago

ian38018

I was at that wonderful Apollo gig too - regretfully Mr Fripp was not - unless he was doing his Dusty Rhodes thing from off-stage: http://therockandrollknife.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/peter-gabriel.html

5 years, 8 months ago

daved

@ian38018 Jeez I have - for aeons now - believed that I saw Fripp with Gabriel. Damn! Are you sure????

5 years, 8 months ago

daved

@debutch Gabriel is a gent for sure. I have not met him personally, but I have met Phil a few times over the years, and he's actually alright for being (a) a drummer and (b) being Englishy LOL

5 years, 8 months ago

daved

Oddly enough, I was more a fan of Genesis than Gabriel, & I tried to keep the allegiance with Genesis alive post Gabriel. I got into Weather Report &c; soon after - so I was familiar with Chester - & when Genesis started going pop, I kinda forgave Phil simply because of Brand X. It took me quite a few years to revisit Peter Gabriel albums with the proper mindset. I can't even recall how many time I saw him live, but one other incident sticks in my mind - the Milgram speech: we do what we're told

5 years, 8 months ago

daved

Music aside, the main thing was that he had the audacity to quit (a) something he created from scratch, (b) something so full of promise, and (c) something just about to be massively successful. To an impressionable young chap, this was bewildering - and many a long chat into the night ensued until I finally "got it".

5 years, 8 months ago

ian38018

@daved I am sure of very little these days (old age, you know), so I could well be mistaken. My urecollection is that Sid McGuinness played guitar this night.

5 years, 8 months ago

debutch

Yeh, in his shoes,I doubt if I would've done what Gabriel did. Full credit for his nerve and his ambition. Although I'm not over-keen on Collins' records, I think he's OK, ...a regular guy. I can relate to him being the only ex-grammar school boy working among ex-public school boys....(though in my case, I was a working class cockney in a grammar school full of middle-classes boys )

5 years, 8 months ago

daved

@ian38018 Tell me about it :( Wonder where I got the Fripp idea from? I'm getting more addled by the day.

5 years, 8 months ago

daved

@debutch Ohh I agree totally - The Phil Collins Years were terrible - he was on everything, everywhere all the time, and it was rotten. I do not miss all that. Jeezo, no, no, no sirreeebobcats. Good drummer though, and Brand X were good.

5 years, 8 months ago

daved

@debutch By Englishy, I hasten to state, I meant that Collins (in Genesis and as a solo artist), sang without an Amercianised voice - and when he spoke, he said things like "Blimey", and called lemonade, "pop". You don't get more Englishy than THAT.

5 years, 8 months ago

debutch

Most English don't even say "blimey" these days! ( I still do lol!)

5 years, 8 months ago

ian38018

@daved RF played in Gabriel's band on the US leg of the 1977 tour - but from sidestage or even from behind a screen! He was billed as Dusty Rhoads. By the time of the UK leg, Fripp was recording Heroes with DB, I think. Busy Man.

5 years, 8 months ago

azche24

i am completely with @daved about the Phil Collins thing. Always hated his plagiarism and loved his drumming, to me Genesis as a band seems a little overrated looking backwards, but millions of sold albums do not lie :-)