So what's so bad about Phil Collins anyway? - Part 3 of 3
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Track:Domino: In The Glow Of The Night / The Last Domino
I'm quite surprised we haven't had any comments from the anti-Phil brigade, complaining he stole the Oscar for best song from Randy Newman (with When She Loved Me) and the like. Actually that Tarzan soundtrack under whelmed me when I first heard it, and then I kept borrowing it from my daughter and it ended up on the iPod. A couple of really nice themes stretched out to a full soundtrack (but aren't a lot like that?).But we can't have a few Phil Collins posts without a large helping of Genesis.Here is the second half of Suppers Ready, from probably my favourite Genesis tour in 1976. This was the first tour without Gabriel, and so Phil takes the lead singing duties with lighting effects making up for the lack of red dress and fox head mask. But the thing that makes it special, is Bill Bruford. Bill's drumming is always superb, and precise, and full of percussive creativity. To have Bill and Phil drumming together - Bill spot on the beat, Phil looser, oscillating around the beat, but with just enough intersection in their approach to make it really interesting - just marvellous! I saw one of the nights (or the only night?) at the Hammersmith Odeon - still remember it like it was yesterday, including me and my mates changing in to our Trick of the Tail T-shirts in the street just after we'd bought them in the foyer.Then much later from "Live at Wembley" - Domino Parts I and II with Phil in fine voice, minus the beard, but with a dodgy hair do. Daryl and Chester make up the regular live line up of the period. Notice that they use exactly the same stage positioning and lighting effects for Phil in part 2 to echo Suppers Ready all those years ago.
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