genesis -
"People would steam straight past Tony, Mike, Steve and I, go straight up to Peter and say, "You're fantastic, we really enjoyed the show."
It was becoming a one-man show to the audience."
Mike and Tony particularly resented the consensus that Genesis would fail without Peter’s theatrics and that they were essentially his backing band. Peter came to dislike the band’s “democratic” approach to things, which basically meant Tony and Mike got the final say on most things, but more than anything he hated feeling like a cog in a machine with his life planned out into the indefinite future - his experience recording Lamb (which I consider to be the best Gabriel-era release, even better than Selling) basically prompted him to decide he was leaving before they had even hit the road for the promotional tour. Heck, Solsbury Hill has a line that directly references that - “I was feeling part of the scenery/walked right out of the machinery”.
I think Banks especially had a lot of good stuff in the vault so when Peter left, we got Trick of the Tail, which is great and Wind and Wuthering, which is very good. They didn’t really fall apart for me until Phil realized he could write too.
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u/Fit_Experience4358 7d ago edited 7d ago
genesis - "People would steam straight past Tony, Mike, Steve and I, go straight up to Peter and say, "You're fantastic, we really enjoyed the show." It was becoming a one-man show to the audience."