Intervista BBC del 9 novembre

[Salmacis62]

Trascrizione:

"The first question is not part of the broadcast but is most
likely 'Why a reunion?' or something like that.

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PHIL: Because we fancied it. It quite easy, it's quite simple. There
are no other agendas here apart from the fact that we get on great.
We've continued to stay in touch with each other throughout the
periods when we weren't actually working together. I haven't been in
a band for quite a while now. There is a part of me that misses
sharing the responsibility... I just try to do as much as I can...
different things. One thing keeps the other thing fresh, the other
thing fresh and makes it exciting to go to work everyday. And this
is something we've been talking about because it's good fun to do it.

INTERVIEWER: It's a nice stage to be in, where you can just do what
you like to do. It's not that you have to get this back together to
pay a tax bill which so often seems to be the way?

PHIL COLLINS: Oh, you heard? Oh, damn!

TONY: It never really occurred to me. I didn't think about it like
that. It was something that... Ever since Phil left then we did the
Calling all Stations tour with a different singer and everything,
which was a lot of fun for us. Ever since then I've sort of felt
that we probably would... there was a good chance that we might get
back together. Phil has always said that he, in every interview he
ever did, said `I like to do it, I like to do it'. Mike and I have
often talked about it and said wouldn't it be fun to do it? It was a
matter of just getting the time when everybody is available, really.
I've been available more time than the others, I think.

PHIL: Seasonal! Seasonal, your job, you know!

TONY: That's right... Gardening, you know. I have to sort of...
Garden's gonna be terríble next year, it's a big problem actually.
June, terrible month for touring.
[...]
May rehearsals, what can I do? I can't plant my potatoes and
stuff... It'll be alright, I will survive it. It's an entertaining
thing to do and when we played out for a couple of weeks out in the
States, from every point of view - both from a musical point of view
and from a sort of friendship point of view, it was great fun to do
and I think that makes it really worth doing.

INTERVIEWER: This [...] stage, you met up in New York and... you
jammed for two weeks? What kind of process was that?

MIKE: We played the old songs, really. We had a setlist and just
went through them with Darryl and Chester ... It was nice to get
that five piece unit back together again. It was a bit of `look-
see', really, to see how it felt sort of thing. And it felt great!
Darren and Chester are playing great. [It has always worked ...
live ]. And it's been a big part of our career, live performances.
We were always a good live band and it's fun to do.

INTERVIEWER: I was on the message boards for your fans last night.
They were all discussing which tracks you are going to be playing.
There was a lot of chats about `Are there going to be Medleys?'.
(General laughter)

TONY: It is interesting... There is a thing about medleys, like they
are a bad thing! I think you've got to do some medleys. You've got
an awful lot of albums and in order to visit the best bits of some
of the songs we will do the odd medley, particularly in the
instrumental area (yeah, area). Maybe not quite as many as the last
tour. But the trouble is that if you don't do a medley then you are
doing the whole of the song and it's a song that a person doesn't
want to hear, then they are going to have to sit through that until
they get a song that they do want to hear, whereas if it is a
medley, at least you get a little bit of a song that you wanted to
hear.

INTERVIEWER: How far back will you be going?

PHIL: [...] (General laughter) (The rest of this jolly banter seems
to be edited out.)

PHIL: We had a funny little medley last time we went out on tour. We
did, like, 16 bars of Follow You, Follow Me, 16 bars of That's All,
16 bars of... and I think that kind of frustrated some people, and I
thinking retrospect it wasn't... it didn't really do what we wanted
it to do, so we're going to fix that anyway. The question has reared
its head more times than one can imagine considering all the other
question one could ask. This medley-thing sort of keeps coming back
to haunt us, but there's definitely going to be a couple in there,
but they're going to be in bigger chunks, you know.

INTERVIEWER: How far back will you be going in the Genesis back
catalogue?

TONY: The earliest piece we are doing at the moment is from Selling
England by the Pound, which is '72 I suppose. A couple of little
bits from that. They're both medley bits actually. Sorry to say!

PHIL: They're quite long, though.

TONY: They're quite long, they are long bits and they are the best
bits of the relevant songs, I think. [... perhaps]. And then there's
bits and pieces really from every album after that, Lamb, A Trick of
the Tail... everything is represented. You can't do everything and
you can't please everybody. There are certain fans out there who
just want to hear stuff from the Peter Gabriel era and other who
perhaps just want to hear just the later hits. You just have to try
and play something of a balance right across. All I can say is that
we like the songs we're playing. Hopefully some other fans will too.

PHIL COLLINS: There is a stigma with medleys, actually... I was just
thinking it through, bringing it back to medleys. It feels a
bit `show business', you know, doing a medley of... you know, going
from one very smoothly to another, whereas we actually don't do it
for that reason. We just do it to try to give people a bit of a
taste of a lot of material. There is a lot of it. I think their
interpretation of that is that we're kind of `Vegas', you know, `A
little bit of this, a little bit of that. Don't forget this, we're
here all week, don't forget your waitress', that kind of thing.

INTERVIEWER: Tony mentioned the Peter Gabriel era there... How close
was Peter Gabriel to being on this tour?

MIKE: Some of the things that I've heard people say is a bit like...
when Peter turned it down. There was a chat about doing the Lamb,
that's how it really came in... performance of the Lamb with the
five of us, the original five, obviously Steve Hackett too, and
doing a performance and a few shows of that. That's kind of how we
started that conversation with Peter.

PHIL: Maybe we might still will have it.

MIKE: Yeah, exactly. Hopefully it will happen. We're up for it! A
bit like this. It sort of feels like there is no reason not to in a
funny way, if you can get it right and it feels right. But Pete
couldn't really decide. [We thought ... before he did decide]. So we
thought, `in the mean time'...

PHIL: Before one of us dies...

...let's do this. This whole thing should be fun to do. We always
have fun on the road and fun being together. And this is not a long
haul so it should be fun.

INTERVIEWER: Do you think he could be tempted do come on for a quick
performance one night?

TONY: I've no idea. If he's there and he wants to do it, he's...
he's welcome. (General laughter)

MIKE: That's not very inviting, is it! If he insists...

PHIL: [...]

PHIL: I don't know what he'd do, though. These things kind of...
what would he do? It's not like, you know, `Come on Eric, plug in
and jam along to this song' kind of thing. It's not really like
that. I know that some people will see Genesis getting back together
again: `Damn! They haven't got Peter and Steve with them'. That is
still a possibility. I would like to say a probability, but I thing
we have to be realistic and say it's a possibility. It's nothing to
do with, `OK, in that case let's just do it with the three of us'.
There are two different entities here and one was possible – which
is the one we're doing – and one was very hard to pin down, which is
why it may happen in a couple of years.

INTERVIEWER: I was very intrigued at the press conference... you
said you are playing at each other's weddings still, quite recently.

PHIL: Yeah, we're basically a Wedding Band, really. We played at
Peter Gabriel's wedding and then we played at my wedding, actually.
We played `Throwing it all Away', remember that?

[MIKE: ... without the chorus]

TONY: Poor choice of song, I thought actually! Very poor. (General
laughter)

PHIL: Yes, as it turned out, but...

INTERVIEWER: What did Peter Gabriel ask for? What Genesis did he
request at his own wedding?

TONY: I didn't take part in it, because it always starts with In
Your Eyes and always ends up with In the Air Tonight. It's beyond
me, so I can't... I went for a walk, actually.

PHIL: Yes, In the Air got too many chords for him, that's the
trouble.

TONY: I like both of those songs, don't get me wrong.

PHIL: At my 50th birthday, we actually all got up and did In Your
Eyes but we didn't do In the Air. [We managed to get away from that,
In the Air.] I think that, the interesting... what bounces out of
all this meaningless drivel is the fact that we're all good friends
still. We all actually do see each other quite a lot. So this isn't
like we decided to get together like... one got the impression from
Live8 with the Floyd. A couple of the guys hadn't, which is the
truth, they hadn't spoken with each other for years, they didn't
like each other. Our situation is very different. We actually have
been seeing each other quite regularly for the last... since we
started playing together but we just haven't had the opportunity to
play together until now.

INTERVIEWER: Is there going to be another album?

TONY: We have no plans at the moment. We never say never. The idea
of writing is always fun, you know. But then you start the machine
going. Once you written it, you got an album, you got to promote
it... and it's a question whether you want to go back into that
treadmill again, really. But the idea of writing the odd song... it
might be fun."

[SQUONK64]

fermo restando che si capisce tutto, trovo che parlino in modo assurdo...costruzioni grammaticali che mi sembrano inventate...è un inglese molto free...interessante cmq l'intervista...

[Dalex_61]

Inutile dire che l'intervista è interessantissima (grazie Salmacis!) e che personalmente sono soprattutto felice per l'apertura di Tony ad un eventuale nuovo album. Quanto alla riunion a cinque è Phil il più ottimista e credo dipenda dal fatto che ha sempre avuto il ruolo di "grande mediatore" nel gruppo. Si leggono anche conferme sul peso non trascurabile dei brani più schiettamente progressivi nella scaletta. Bene, bene... [:p]

[AGGROVIGLIATO]

FORSE SONO L'UNICO A NON CONOSCERE L'INGLESE........chi ha voglia di fare un breve riassunto ?
thank yuo !