Then There War the First Album Without Steve Hackett
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Is it fair to say that half of Genesis is here?
Two thirds (Two thirds)
Two thirds?
Isn't there a new guitar player?
Ah, yeah, well, you see, the first three of us from the group
There's me, Tony and Mike here
But, uh, that's the real group
Okay, Phil Collins is speaking now and Mike Rutherford is here as well
Alright, there's another two guys; Chester and Daroll
That Chester is the other drummer
And Daroll's the guitarist that replaced Steve
But they're kind of permanent temporary members
Okay, and then there were three, came out two-three weeks ago, I guess
Depends on where you were actually
Some places it came out yesterday evening
Oh, really?
Yeah
You found that so being around?
America's such a big place
You can't really have it all coming out in the same day
We're just tryna get into the places that we're playing
Because it's nice for people to know the songs before we play 'em
Yeah
'Cause, uh, they're not the kind of things thay you can-
Well, some of the songs aren't the kind of things
That you can just take it on one go
So it's good if they know the album before they see us
You played Philadelphia about a year ago at the Spectrum, yes?
Yeah
And it was in late, late last year that Steve Hackett left the band
Or at least my, uh-
I ascertained that that's when he left, yes?
He left while we were mixing the live album
Okay
Which was in fact the August-July, July-August, something like that
And, uh
Then we went into rehearsal, as you know, to, to make this new album
With just the three of us
So he's not on the album here, like, he'd left by then
Did he leave on his own volition, or
Or do you feel free to talk about it or more?
Yeah, sure, it's not a sort of, uh
One of those, you know, touchy subjects, he, uh-
Okay, well, as you know, things happened before, things like that-
Yeah, we already said that, we're getting, uh
We're getting all heads in it now, so it probably upsets us less
He just wanted to get more of his material out, you know
This sort of creators (???) became more important than
Working with the band
And the minute you start getting that sort of feelings from someone
You get a strange atmosphere, it, it was just the best decision-
It was his decision
But, I mean, no one wanted to, tension was building up
So it was quite good
And one of the problems is, I mean, there's the three of us
All writing for the new album, then there were three
We had far too much material anyway
So it was four of us who was even, uh, more of a problem
That was one of the things