Would have to be an idiot not to agree with this, my problem is not with his drumming, I recently had a discussion with a member who said he was only an average drummer not able to play with Yes. He played us the demo on the way to a gig before it had drums on it. Man, what an education to see all those people in their prime. I mean to be keep in the background in their importance in the bands. Theyre just sitting there like, Impress me. It really annoyed them that they reached event status as opposed to just playing to fans. They have a game plan that was a whole lot different scenario than anything Weather Report had experienced. I think try get hold of the album. Bruno Primas Forum Resident Location: Wisconsin I never liked the idea of re-recording old favourites but Im getting a little bit intrested now. And I think its a fantastic opportunity that his son gets to play with him because his son drummed backstage when he was five. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7_vNpVXubA, What happened from there? I called Joe and was like, I just got this message from Wayne saying not to come to the studio. Some of his hits are cheesy. In the meantime, they had brought in [drummer] Narada Michael Walden. Id always wanted to teach myself. Really cold of Phil to not reach out after 10yrs. Alan White studied a bit of piano, but he is mainly self-taught as a drummer. Chester Thompson. How did you grow as a drummer during your time in Weather Report? Chester Thompson sheds some light on relationship with Phil Collins And then I ended up doing Phils Motown thing and that didnt go well. From Jazz (Weather Report), to Rock (Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention), to Pop (Genesis/Phil Collins) to Gospel (Ron Kenoly), Chester Thompson has surpassed the boundaries of musical genres. Daryl and I came back. He might have been. He made Frank laugh and a big part of those days was humor. It was perfect timing and what a fun tour. Weird. It became my second instrument, but its still for my pleasure. IN THIS 2014 INTERVIEW, PHIL COLLINS DESCRIBES HOW HE RECRUITED THE AMERICAN DRUMMER CHESTER THOMPSON TO PLAY DRUMS WITH GENESIS, REPLACING PHIL AS THE PRIMA. I played every weekend from eighth grade until I graduated high school. Was he demanding? Ill get back to you. Sure enough, he got back and said, You were right. Id say we agree on his drummingskills. I was there just a week and I actually ran across them in Sydney. Again, I think its fantastic that hes playing with his son. And Id known Daryl for years. But he still had that American stuff; it was a big part of his background, and we just hit it off immediately. Yeah. It was quite an adjustment for me. I don't think he's bnasty, seems a nice chap, but he said too many stupid things and then contradicted himself depending in the way the market went, He said Prog is crap when Prog was unpopular and harrased by Punk, Discoor New Wave, but when his boring pop became part of the past he changed and said he always was a proghead. You did well enough that he hired you. I guess he is as close as you can get being a Genesis member without being one. Phil Ehart: owner of the name "Kansas", who also worked as their manager sometimes, he is not one of the main composers in the band. You have four guys with British accents [Collins, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Steve Hackett], and there was tour management and a couple of other guys, all with British accents. It started with some frat parties. Im always looking for the new thing, the next thing to me. He got a film-editing machine and wanted to really dig in and learn how to use it, which he did. Phil was very shocked and surprised and annoyed that I didnt say that his stuff was more fun. Pat Mastelotto: I don`t know about his status with King Crimson. If you were in Franks band, you had to be willing to be silly. Drummers are kept in the background because DRUMS CAN'T MOVE AROUND THE SCENARIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chester Thompson Unfiltered:On Drumming With Genesis & Phil Collins Jeff Porcaro: a great drummer but not a main composer in Toto. He was smelling the money. The studio had tanks in the studio since they dealt with it all the time. At the same time, it was a little weird investing that much time in something you were never going to be a part of. In fact, we wound up doing a tour opening for them. Phil Collins Takes The Drum Quiz | The Jonathan Ross Show 4.1M views 6 years ago IN THE AIR TONIGHT-PHIL COLLINS-THIS SONG MADE ME JUMP OFF THE COUCH!! Not at all. [Alarza] Lee Collins was the bass player on the session. In 2017, Collins revealed that he was a type-2 diabetic, undergoing treatment with a hyperbaric chamber after the condition caused obsesses on his foot which became infected. [Laughs]. Yeah. His marriage was falling apart. But doing it was really fun. That was that. It was pretty valuable stuff. Oh, boy. Again, as humans, we adapt. I did not write this, but it always makes me laugh. Great drummer. Oh, goodness. It turned out he was Ben E. Kings musical director. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. If you did your part, it was fun. And goodness, the emails I get! They were starting rehearsals the next week for a new tour and that happened to be my favorite band at the time. I also had an older brother in the military. I don't think he was ever going to be on board with expanding it to additional legs. I know people were caravanning from here to see it, but it was still a little too raw at that point. That is the reason he left the drums to Chester and Bruford. Most of the drummers have musical studies, to make arrangements you need to read and write music, even if you don't make the arrangements, you need to read music in order to understand the new arrangements that bands do after every tour in old songs. The difference being I wasnt so much into the English drummers, like Keith Moon, and he was. He's probably one of the nicest, most down-to-earth guys in music (and that should be a good thing). I dont know when he slept. I think the first song that really stuck in my head was On the Sunny Side of the Street. I have no idea whose version it was. And theyd never had an American in their ranks. [1] Thompson has performed with his jazz group, the Chester Thompson Trio, since 2011. He got it. I am reminded of this Amazon review of "Dance Into the Light" (which, incidently, has the funniest Phil Collins album cover). He was brilliant. That was incredible! I hadnt done that. I said to those guys, I dont care if you use another drummer on parts of the album. Oh, my goodness! Lee Kerslake: he sings backing vocals but again not the main composer in Uriah Heep. Carl Palmer: again great drummer but not a main composer in ELP or Asia. We started playing the whole deal, the real stuff in the book. World of Genesis - Chester Thompson Biography But he just enjoyed being around us since we were so lively and fun. He had proven to be really close friends with those guys and I never related culturally, so there was always this gap between us. I just basically kept my mouth shut and my eyes open. This is before they had their own studio. After Invisible Touch, I remember their conversations where they agreed to take five years off. But Im over it now. It was an incredibly difficult piece of music that we actually nailed in the studio. We crossed paths several times [after that] and there were never any weird vibes about it or anything. It was really cool. Still love to practice. Chester just says 'maybe' he wouldn't want to play the same Genesis songs yet again on a new tour, but IMO he doesn't give a definite no. A lot of well-known names. I was okay one-on-one, but they speak much, much faster than we do. First thing out of his mouth was, Would you come back to the band? It was perfect timing. With that said, I love all of the Genesis albums from 1972-1977, including A Trick of the Tail and Seconds Out which both have Phil Collins on lead vocals. Hed then go off to a studio and work on whatever he had in the can. I was like, Man, Ive got to have some time with my family. And its fine. I had no idea. Phil and I, from the very first rehearsal when he sat down and we started jamming together, we just locked, he said. What I don't like is MUZAK (Elevator music), and that's Phil's field. Show more 8:40. But she once gave me a letter that I wrote in fourth grade that pretty much outlined my whole career. Basically, Alphonso left during the Christmas break [of 1975]. I have a big MS Word file with interviews about the "Union" album of YES. I think he got a little annoyed since I had done an interview and they asked which I enjoyed [Genesis or Collins solo] more. That was my first real, name person I worked with. I started playing clubs at 13. He actually double-tracked all that stuff. Listen Renaissance, Marillion, Pendragon Barclay James Harvest, Moody Blues, Procol Harum, The Strawbs, etc are full of ballads, and nobody ever made a problem. No, I'm not a big fan of Collins, and no, I don't have any of his solo albums. It was kind of like asking your buddy to come cover your band because suddenly youre doing something different. Bill Bruford, Neil Peart, Phil Ehart (even producer), Ginger Baker, Keith Moon, Jeff Porcaro, Carl Palmer, Mike Portnoy, Mick Fleetwood (The band uses his name ), John Bonham, Carmine Appice, Stewart Copeland, Cozzy Powell, Lars Ulrich, Lee Kerslake, Don Henley, Pat Mastelotto, Terry Bozzio, Roger Taylor, Billy Cobham. That's pretty much the zest of it. And I grew up with that Motown stuff, so I think maybe I took it for granted. But what a great tour and what a great band. note: They chose instead to record with drummers Nir Zidkyahu and Nick DVirgilio. Also note that Onion Head didn't do much writting on the good Genesis LPs like: Foxtrot, Trespass, Selling England, Lamb, Nursery, Trick of the tail, EWnd and Wuthering. So I continue quite off topic!Actually I havent heard Hacketts Genesis revisited - is it good? I cant scroll fast enough to the good parts! So, he had to be at the front of the stage. The difference being I wasnt so much into the English drummers, like Keith Moon, and he was. He told me that I sounded like crap and all that. We were playing touch football one day and Napoleon had the ball and was running past Tom, and Tom reached out and tagged him. During that particular run, there was none, ever. After a year with him, I spent some time in Boston with a keyboard player named Webster Lewis, who was phenomenal. He turned around and stared at me. I enjoyed it though. Phil Collins: A Nasty Man? - Progressive Rock Music Forum - Page 5 If you want the gig, its yours.. Its one of those What Will You Be letters. They went over all the details in soundcheck and we rehearsed the day before. His name was Birdlegs [James Youman]. The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History Man, what a phenomenal singer and piano player. Im just not going to do that.. And at the end of the show, he just went off. They said to me, Youre playing it wrong. But the manager had gone out of his way to call me before we took the Christmas break since they were so happy with the tracks wed done. At one point, we discussed it and it was like, If we dont really need to be there, you guys are fine to go and do what youre doing. [Laughs]. Phil helped survive Genesis. He didnt know all the tunes, but obviously he was pretty familiar with the whole prog-rock thing. Well appreciated, keep up enjoying Phil Collins! Its an interesting gig musically speaking. Say It Right, Aug 16, 2018 #152 The_Windmill likes this. It was the biggest adjustment Ive ever had to make, musically and culturally. How much did you know about his music before the audition? He is an actor, known for The Who's Tommy, the Amazing Journey (1993), Genesis: Man on the Corner (1982) and Phil Collins: Sussudio (1985). We went up to New York to record. But the next thing I know, they started having meetings. Do you recall first hearing In the Air Tonight? I read it and just wept because most of it had happened by that point. For lack of a better word, they are really, really British. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. He also has composed good music, not only elevator music, as you say. But it got very political and it just got ugly. Basically, after the first day, I was like, The only way this is going to work is if you give me a list of which tunes you want to go over the next day Ill have them ready.. Yeah. They limit the amount of times you can access their site. First of all, I arrived in California straight out of the hood in Baltimore. But I had let him know on the last Genesis tour that I was going to take a break from doing his tours since I thought he was going to keep doing the same every-year-in-between thing. It scared the pants off me. Oh, my goodness. I knew it was in the works. I interviewed Chester years ago for Percussive Notes, and he's a great guy, we actually spent an entire day together. The guy had a great feel, but he wasnt a real reader. Santana had actually asked me to play in his band right before the call came from Phil. I believe I saw him on that same clinic tour 84-85 in NJ. He hung out with the band after the shows and stuff. IvanI think we have reached the end of our discussion wether Phil is nasty or not. In my opinion, everyone has to sell out a little bit to survive. Chester Thompson on His Years With Genesis, Frank Zappa, and Weather Report He spent 30 years in Genesis as a touring drummer, but he had a falling out with Phil Collins in 2010 and they haven't spoken since www.yahoo.com 1975 Slingerland Stage Band, Poplar/Mahogany, White Marine Pearl (20,12,13,14, plus 16 Premier) He made the comment at his press conference to announce his Not Dead Yet European comeback tour, which kicks off with a five-night residency at London's Royal Albert Hall in June 2017. That's All. Rolling Stone suspended its policy on Genesis not being cool enough to report on for a long interview with Chester Thompson. Did they audition you? During that same conversation, I said to him, As a matter of fact, I need to take a break from doing both. First, a great interview. They were really nice, cool people to work with. I was just thinking, What in the heck is going on here?, I imagine one day you guys will speak again. I recall someone asking Chester if he could swing with his snare tilted so steeply. I don't think Phil Collins can be fully blamed for the change of direction. There was no getting around it. I was playing with adults. Unfortunately, they never had enough of his clear vocals to release it, or anything. Ralph and I had to watch each other like hawks and really listen carefully. Keith Moon, John Bonham: great drummers, yes, key members, because their band never sounded the same without them, butthey weren`tthe main composers in their bands. Its going very well. But hed get more comfortable with it and be really involved with putting it together. According to what Chester said in an interview, he had offered his services as a drummer, but Mike and Tony were looking to make a fresh start and looked for different musicians to play with the band. Goodness. By the time they reached out to me, they allowed 10 days for rehearsal and it was a two-and-a-halfhour show. This means nothing at all, it's almost a tradition. And even though Im not doing it anymore, Im glad that he decided to go back to work. Chester Thompson Drum cam - Inside Out (live 1990) - YouTube Do you talk to Daryl still? I still remember that. When you heard he was going solo, did you think it would work out for him? Ive crossed paths with Joe many times since and he even apologized at one point for the way it all went down, but I didnt have a problem with it. When I was 13 and able to go on my own, I pretty much went every other week. He had seen what turned out to be my last Weather Report concert, but he was very familiar with the Zappa stuff. I always thought he was a pretty good friend to me. Man, it was fun. Did they talk to you about being a part of that? Exactly as described! It was never a competition where I thought it should be me. Theres quite a music community here in Nashville, man. Her parents are now in her band. Even though [guitarist] Daryl [Stuermer] and I werent technically in [Genesis], we toured as the band. Im still pretty good friends with the only two that are left, Ruth and Anita. Chester Thompson on His Years With Genesis, Frank Zappa, and Weather Report He spent 30 years in Genesis as a touring drummer, but he had a falling out with Phil Collins in 2010 and they haven't spoken since. Drummer reacts to Phil Collins, Chester Thompson & Luis Conte - YouTube How was the 2007 Genesis tour? No, the frontman is the most important man in most of the cases and in live acts, but remember, there's rock without guitar or keyboards, but there's no rock without drums or Bass (Except in a few and veryrarecases). Phil Collins & Genesis Studio Rehearsals for Knebworth in 1978 Chester Thompson - Wikipedia They felt that was pretty interesting, but it was the only way we got through it. Napoleon Murphy Brock was auditioning at the same time for vocals and saxophone. Alphonso and I had a real swing thing between us, real 16th, triplet bass feel, which is really the core of the whole funk thing. How much did you know about prog-rock bands like Yes, King Crimson It was not fun. Im pretty excited about this project with them. And then it got to be a little more honest. The 2021 tour is billed as "The Last Domino?" named after the song "Domino" which . No. It is an impressing line up. He was very cool in a clinic I saw with him and saw Genesis a few times live with Chester boogaloon them through. I certainly never dreamed it would go on and on like it did. And so the horns would make a mistake and hed turn around and look at me. Some info from Hugh Fielders book:In 1965 Ant Phillips formed the band Anon with Richard Macphail, Rivers Job, Rob Tyrrell & Mike Rutherford. Right. Why didn't Chester Thompson get the drum gig after Collins quit Genesis I think it's best to keep this stuff to yourself, don't air grievances in public., especially not the press. There was a short tour coming up and he reached out to me. I dont think hes holding a grudge. I was taking lessons from a friend of my brothers who was a jazz player by choice. But there was always a second kit near him, and. I got back to L.A. and I called them up and said, When are we going back in the studio? They were like, Well, you dont need to go back in. I was like, Whats going on here?. I also think that he is underrated, because he likes ballads, and not many people who likes Prog Music likes ballads. We learned how to deal with it. For me, I thought it was fifth or sixth grade. Im constantly writing, constantly trying new stuff. I called Frank immediately and he wasnt happy about it, but he knew that my background was more jazz and stuff. We always opened and usually left afterwards, though Carlos sometimes came out with Bob and I stayed to watch two or three times. That's pretty much the zest of it. JavaScript is disabled. Whens the tour? And Tony Smiths eye lighted up like Id rarely seen.

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