I like that tiny detail from Tony's career, showing his endearing naivety as a young artist. During Genesis' first US tour a band bus stopped at a rugged highway bar full of truckers and rough motorbike men. Tony... hoped to get his customary English cup of tea. Of course he never got one and was lucky to escape unharmed from that really no-go place (at least for a well-mannered Englishman).

John, you’re the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks a lot.

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES

7 күн бұрын

My pleasure!

Thankssss for all compositions songs mr tony banks :❤❤❤❤😊

And thank you Mr. Edginton for all of your excellent videos on the band which is probably the best of all time.

Great interview. I could listen all day to Tony speaking about Genesis! I always love his friendly little digs at Phil's size 😂 Seems he slips one in in every interview I hear him do (at the very end in this one) 😅😅

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES

5 күн бұрын

Thanks.Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks!

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES

5 күн бұрын

Your generosity is very welcome and truly helps me to dive back into those tapes and dig out more gold !

I think tony is spot on with his idea that you continue to have a soft spot for the music that was big in your life at the age of 11 or 12. I was very lucky that genesis' current stuff when i was that age was 'live' and 'selling England' so thats the genesis i continue to respect and love and any other music they made that resembled this version ( trick of the tail and much of wind + wuthering and also voyage of the acolyte ) held me too. I saw the Lamb live at the age of 13 and it was obvious there were difficulties. KZread has rekindled this respect as its now miraculously possible to hear virtually every live show of this era and hear the music develop. Remember in the 70s for a kid there was only the album and maybe one piece in melody maker a year plus live reviews. It was all such a mystery so you had to 'make your own fun' with your own 12 string guitar and drum kit! Thanks for a great interview and thanks to tony for his openness and generosity.

@mikearchibald744

5 күн бұрын

While there may be something to that, this is also the guy who says at the end "I don't know why people do the things they do". If you look at youtube there is regularly a resurgence of interest in progressive rock and early genesis. I more agree with Steve Hackett, they had five young guys who were producing music at a time when music was SO important they were total and complete asshats to one another, their wives and girlfriends, even their children and even SICK children. Say what you want, but thats 'dedication'. And that kind of thing is obvious in progressive rock, from Deep Purple to Yes. In Genesis its a bit more interesting because they had no 'natural' leader the way Yes did with Jon Anderson or Ritchie Blackmore in DP. They did later with Tony, but the songwriters were always duking it out. I wouldnt say that was the best way to produce music, but the music speaks for itself. There is a youtube with concert screw up outtakes, one of which is Domino where the keyboard cuts out, and you see just how boring the rest of the music is. Compare that to Battle with Epping Forest where every instrument is doing a Captain Beefheart and playing its own individual line, while also merging and diverging with other instruments at various places. Yeah, it would kind of suck to be IN a band and have people ONLY talk about your stuff in the band and not your solo stuff, but its still better than the alternative. I love Strawbs as much as Genesis, musically, but none had big success and they are pretty marginally remembered.

The cage is phenomenal , Genesis with all live versions upgrade tremendously . This was originally a live band !

Best interview i've seen with Tony Banks. Often get the impression he's kind of the bad guy, especially with Steve Hackett. Great watch.

@IThinkYouLookLarvely

6 күн бұрын

I agree, there's a bit of ignorance with fans that only go on Facebook pages and comment on him being a bad guy (and not smiling in photos as if they should look like The Osmonds). He's very English and introverted and that's often taken the wrong way, so he's not "gonna blow smoke up people's asses" but you can tell he really respects the quality Steve added by watching these longer interviews.

@thelantern9075

4 күн бұрын

Honesty and intelligence can confuse and turn a lot of people off. Tony seems like a good guy, maybe a bit stiff, but so what.

And I've met Phil and shook his hand and had a jacket signed, lovely geez. And I was intimidated by Tony's intelligence. Now, I'd love to met him and have a long chinny! Cool, cool dude

@WintersWar

7 күн бұрын

Meeting the men from Genesis would star strike me. no other famous people would, except them.

@jipangoo

6 күн бұрын

I met him in a restaurant in Perth. Lovely guy

@jipangoo

6 күн бұрын

Phil. Not Banks I don't like Tony Banks

@michaelkatz4675

5 күн бұрын

@@jipangoo😂your name should be jinga poo 💩 you are out of your mind insane

Great work John. These interviews on your channel are absolutely fascinating. Many thanks.

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES

5 күн бұрын

Hi Steve. Thank you so much for your support and appreciation! Very helpful indeed to me. I’m humbled by your words.

**If you love this stuff PLEASE CONSIDER HITTING THE "$ SUPERTHANKS $" button ! (It's under the video. ) Any small donation helps with my work - retrieving, editing & uploading my unique and original content. Thank you for your support ! John **

What a truly humble man

I found myself wishing this hadn't been quite so edited, as the deeper and more anecdotal Tony waxes, the better. I don't want to miss anything the Genesis guys are willing to tell us.

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES

5 күн бұрын

You’re lucky to have this at all. Blocked by a copyright strike. Hence the cuts.

You are da man John!!! As always this just is flippin great.

Interesting 💕🎶✌️

What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend John also happy first weekend of summer ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

Brilliant stuff, John. I could listen to Tony talk for hours and hours. Cheers!

Thank you again John

Screw the press, the fans are with you ! You never went to the crossroads ,! Well done.

@halcyon289

4 күн бұрын

Apart from the arsehole fans who criticise the post Gabriel , the post Hackett and post Collins albums . That lot actually never wanted the band to progress .

Incredible interview. John asked the perfect questions that got Tony to share a number of key stories. A very insightful video!

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES

4 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

Tony Banks and Ben Shapiro: the reason KZread has X0.75 play speed 😅

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES

7 күн бұрын

Very droll. Thanks for your sneer

@mattwuxx3888

6 күн бұрын

Maybe you should investigate speeding up your brain. Shapiro I can understand he operates at x1.75 on a normal day. But if you can't grasp what Tony's saying at any point in this interview at standard speed, you may have a diction-based auditory barrier that could very well end up with you being injured by a car at a stoplight. Look into it, seriously.

@GustavoJacob

6 күн бұрын

For Shapiro you only need the mute button.

@quaid667

6 күн бұрын

I'd love to see a video of Jordan Peterson trying to dissect The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

@amitraam1270

6 күн бұрын

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES I wasn't sneering, I was admitting my English is not good enough for these two fast thinkers.

Lots of people lament the leaving of Steve however, personally I think if we are to look at Steve's output after Genesis then Genesis would not have evolved to where they did. Steve stayed in the real prog rock, prog rock vein whereas Genesis left that which in my opinion led to the betterment and obvious longevity of the band. I've seen Steve many times in concert and his music is great but had he stayed in Genesis I'm not sure they would have gone where they needed to go. Steve was just a bit old fashioned.

@bernab

6 күн бұрын

But, to be honest....at the time of Cured(Steve Hackett) vs Abacab(Genesis), I prefer Abacab. I love the previous albums before Cured. The one of the Doll in Japan was interesting. But i think, one moment that would be good for Genesis the returning of Steve Hackett was 1997. But at that time, Genesis was Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. And they were used to work the two of them...plus Phil Collins, but he was not there anymore. Steve Hackett was closer musically to Tony Banks. But from group dynamics....is normal that Tony(the lead instrument) needed Mike(an ally, a bassist and a rhythm guitarist, and someone who complements him but is not a soloist) and Phil(who was the singer, a great singer, and a great drummer), and no need someone else (Peter was both an ally and an "enemy", he was very close to Tony , but they were creative rivals).

@eyetalic

5 күн бұрын

So then how do you square with the fact that they badly imitated Steve on all the albums after? Meanwhile, Steve’s first solo album went gold…

@joaod.andradecosme5869

4 күн бұрын

If Tony and Mike reform the band with Steve Hackett and Chester Thompson (as full member) would be great. And the band creating expansive moods with big guitar solos. Ray Wilson was a good choice for singing.

As much criticism as …and then there were three gets, that was the blueprint of what was to come as it still contains those progressive elements i.e undertow, burning rope, the lady lies. Idk… they never really lost the progressive side, just crafted it better into pop songs than the contemporaries.

@santibanks

6 күн бұрын

I guess the thing with the ATTW3 record is that it appears to be slightly overlooked in the discography by the guys themselves. Even FYFM which was their biggest hit at that point was not played on the Abacab tour, only to be added on the 82 leg of that tour. And then only played on select nights on the Mama and IT tour. If you look at Archives #2 which represents the Collins years, ATTW3 is the only record that has 3 songs represented with live recordings. Simply because none of that material actually was released live, with the exception of FYFM on 3SL. Have to say that personally I don't like the sound of the record that much. I preferred that material live much better.

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Did you do a full-length solo interview with Peter?

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES

3 күн бұрын

Yes. A very memorable one. Unfortunately I never had possession of even a poor resolution copy. ):

@CommuneRecords

3 күн бұрын

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Damn - hope it will surface one day. I definitely would be interested to hear him in the same intimate style as we see Tony in here.

No one in the universe goes for a pee in F of F

@michaelkatz4675

5 күн бұрын

Lol😂

So. many. cuts. I'd love to hear most of the edited parts...

@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES

5 күн бұрын

It’s cut for a very good reason. It was originally blocked by a copyright strike as this interview was filmed for the documentary Sum of the Parts. I cut all the sections used for the documentary and uploaded it again. If you want to see the cut bits check out the doc.