I played every weekend from eighth grade until I graduated high school. And the tour was that way too. Its just that on tour, Daryl and I both would sometimes get dragged to a media thing. My first drum lessons were in jazz. I didnt know, but he did step back for quite a while. 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. They had some really nice material they were promoting at the time [from their album One]. Chester was very cool in this article. The guy was brilliant, amazing. I dont know if they were connected owner-wise, but there was a whole circuit of those theaters. most great drummers won't ever do that, because they live for their drums. Phil Collins offers health update ahead of Genesis reunion - MusicRadar Its going very well. When I worked with him, the core of the group was Napoleon on saxophone and singing, Bruce Fowler on trombone, Tom Fowler on bass, [percussionist] Ruth Underwood, George ,and Frank. "And so the horns would make a mistake and hed turn around and look at me! If Phil made a compilation of 70's albums I wouldn't think he's running out of money (In first place nobody will acept to do a Prog Genesis album with him), I would think hre wants MORE money, and he's trying to recapture Prog' fanbase. I certainly never dreamed it would go on and on like it did. After that, I went back to Baltimore to a community college for a couple of years. Man, what an education to see all those people in their prime. It didnt surprise me. Before one tour, we sat there and listened to all the previous tours and everything we did. You can tell he is play acting. most great drummers won't ever do that, because they live for their drums. Influenced by the likes of Max Roach, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, and Tony Williams along with the popular music . note: Collins did a four-city tour in June and July 2010 to promote his Motown covers record Going Back.]. There was no getting around it. Come the day of the show, Peter was wherever he was at the moment, which wasnt where he said hed be the day before. 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. I have no memory of that whatsoever. Billy Cobham: a very good drummer who shimnes mostly as soloist. Still his guitarplay wasvery important to the music even if his composing didnt reach the albums. And Ill never forget. Im just not going to do that.. We did it at Ike Turners studio, Bolic Sound. It was this whole haunting thing that was really cool. You didnt finish the tour, though. Chester Thompson Interview | Drummerworld Forum Are there any salient quotes or paragraphs detailing why they fell out? You must log in or register to reply here. We went up to New York to record. Genesis Reunion 2020 - Phil Collins and Chester Thompson - Facebook Not at all. All rights reserved. I wasnt enough of a diplomat to just say, Oh, everything is wonderful. The Genesis stuff was more musically challenging and interesting to me. It was quite an adjustment for me. The very first tour was a tour of England. They are phenomenal musicians. 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. Later on he became tourmanager for Genesis. Yeah. I was seriously intimidated. Part of that was no matter how well I prepared, he always made some pretty intense changes. We played songs and that was that. It was this huge frame of all their albums. I said to those guys, I dont care if you use another drummer on parts of the album. I was never going to be a full partner, but theres no denying it was a band. Genesis' The Last Domino? Has Phil talked to you at all in the past 10 years? They assumed we were starting a new band like they did. So, he had to be at the front of the stage. I go down there and jam with the band. Chester Thompson was born on 11 December 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. I actually kind of felt bad for him, he was trying to impart what it takes to be a working drummer (discussing things like getting no sleep with Zappa, his approach to odd times, prepping for touring, being versed in many styles, reading etc..) part of the audience was peppering him with Genesis questions like "what is Phil Collins like?," and the other half just wanted to hear some blazing solo.. odd crowd. I cant do that.. I think it's best to keep this stuff to yourself, don't air grievances in public., especially not the press. Phil Collins had to hire Chester Thompson and Bill Bruford. We normally had a lot of eye contact at shows. At one point on that show, I was supposed to play a backbeat to go into the last tune. One day, he got pretty frustrated with me and literally cussed me out in front of everybody. I was playing in the San Francisco production of The Wiz back then. Ive heard lots of audiences tapes, but its pouring rain and none of them sound great. And then it got to be a little more honest. They did some concerts and demos and then the real story started with Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel joining Ant and Mike 1967. That was amazing. Did you watch Bobs show a lot? 1; 2; 3; . I never liked the idea of re-recording old favourites but Im getting a little bit intrested now. But they asked Daryl and I to come to this little room on the side. I started playing clubs at 13. They all put in something that made their music special. PHIL COLLINS on HIS DRUMMING PHILOSOPHY , DRUMMING STYLE & DRUMMING WITH CHESTER THOMPSON JOHN EDGINTON DOCUMENTARIES 23.2K subscribers Subscribe 2.3K 148K views 1 year ago NEW YORK PHIL. Its amazing what you can get used to. For lack of a better word, they are really, really British. He only truly related to drums. Unfortunately, they gave him the credit and didnt put my name on there. Playing that stuff from the Seventies was full of charge. Basically, I had to jump right into the deep end. Chester Thompson sheds some light on relationship with Phil Collins What I can't still understand is the almost in memorian picture of him in Live 73. Chester Thompson: Schlagzeug; Leland Sklar: Bass; Brad Cole: Keyboards; Produktion. Yes, please explain the secret to bypassing the RS paywall. Chester Thompson Interview: Drummer on Genesis, Phil Collins, Zappa I was asked by Genesis's manager if I would go and photograph the band at a secret location in Surrey (which may have been Mike Rutherford's studio) and take some pictures while they rehearsed ahead of the Knebworth show in 1978. Chester Thompson - IMDb . No. They hadnt been renamed R&B. He isn't the main cause of downfall for Genesis, so shut up about that. I only wonder what your reaction would be if (a big if!) He was pretty disappointed. Whats going on? He said, Didnt you quit the band? I said, No, what are you talking about? Didnt you quit with Alphonso? I go, Alphonso quit? At one point, he toured with us. The vocalist is the frontman, he/she has to move around face the audience, etc and a drummer is normally attached to his kit. I think he was playing a very deep Pearl snare, and it was setup similarly to the live MAMA tour snare, the whole kit was just a smaller version. The way my life has gone down, I cant say that I planned any of it. Just listen to Brand X andlive Genesis. Im constantly writing, constantly trying new stuff. In fact, most of the names of the drummers appear almost always at the end of the credits in the album covers. So, youre a freelance drummer hoping to get re-upped for a gig with a guy who has hired you again and again over more than two decades, and you dont send a holiday card? Y'know, it's funny, but when I see the name Chester Thompson . . I was never in a teenage band. 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.. I imagine it was frustrating. Can anyone speculate as to why Chester Thompson won't be - Reddit It got awkward. The peak of Genesis on a commercial level was the Invisible Touch period. After 20 years, it was enough. Ralph Humphrey was very helpful that whole time because I had been getting into odd times, but not at the level Frank was doing it. Long story short: Collins turned up in a bad mood for the 2010 "Going Back" tour and griped at Thompson because Thompson hadn't prepared the Motown drum parts in enough detail. You couldnt be less than what you were supposed to be. [Laughs] Umm I didnt really think it was going to be the end. Tell me about recording One Size Fits All. Basically, he tried to come up with stuff the band couldnt play, and we always managed to pull it off. Good read! At the same time, there are artists Id love to play with as well. I believe I saw him on that same clinic tour 84-85 in NJ. Drummers are not really "musicians", because they don`t play "musical notes", so let`s keep them in the background. !11, Prog Bands, Artists and Genres Appreciation, Piano, Programming, Orchestration, Fender Rhodes, Fortepiano, Keyboards, Keyboards, Programming, Orchestration, Engineer, Keyboards, Mixing, Orchestration, Engineer, Programming, Guitar, Orchestration, ?, Main Performer, Harmonica, Percussion, Vocals, Producer, Vocals (Background). Chester Thompson. 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. Boy, we got in rehearsal and it was like oil and water. When Chester Thompson joined Genesis as a drummer for the Wind and Wuthering tour in 1977, he had every reason to think it would be a short-term gig. It was just there. Youve played Take Me Home hundreds of times. But I did wind up coming back in 1999. He was a guitarist that was comic relief, almost. [Alarza] Lee Collins was the bass player on the session. Then it got weird because they got comfortable with two drummers playing. It was a different situation in Chicago. He was happy. But after reading the (excellent) interview, I have to say I'm quite surprised at how Chester was treated by the guys through the years. Later that year, he also cancelled two gigs after falling in his hotel room and hitting his head, a result of the drop foot mentioned above. No. But I was fortunate. But at this point in my life, Im not owed anything. How did you grow as a drummer during your time in Weather Report? It really was. They were really nice, cool people to work with. How were the Phil solo tours? It was a big part of his background, and we just hit it off immediately., One of his biggest problems on his first Genesis tour was trying to understand his English bandmates speech. Former touring drummer Chester Thompson and Collins had a falling out and have not spoken in years. This version mainly shows the American drummer Chester Thompson playing on this amazing performance. Her parents are now in her band. Much of the show is just you playing drums, but during a lot of the instrumental breaks, Phil would come back and play along with you. He was brilliant. I think try get hold of the album. Genesis' Reunion Tour: 8 Questions We Have - Rolling Stone Show more 8:40. Hes just turned into this monster musician. That was Ralph Humphrey on drums. 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. Affiliate programs and When I was old enough to get my own transistor radio, that was huge. You did four sold-out nights at Wembley Stadium. [Laughs] Its interesting, I probably absorbed more of their culture than they did anything I grew up with because I was really uncomfortable. Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948) is an American drummer best known for his tenures with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Weather Report, Santana, the progressive rock band Genesis and Phil Collins as a solo artist. The keyboard player, Brad Cole, lives in Nashville. I was playing with adults. Carmine Appice, Cozy Powell: composers as soloists, mainly. I was pretty well into music and so I started going to every single show. Yeah. Theres quite a music community here in Nashville, man. Phil Collins on lead vocals. We didnt do a lot of shows, but at the very last show [at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 1st, 2010], he wasnt the happiest hed ever been. I wonder something, this guy was never a Genesis member, he was describe as a "Musical friend of the band", what the hell is he doing here? Obviously it's not definitive, but the Chester Thompson Wiki page does have some information on it. Phil Collins lost ability to drum on 2007 Genesis reunion tour I still remember that. How about if I come in and play some percussion along with Alex [Acua]? But it was uncomfortable. Steve and I always stayed pretty good friends. 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. We did most of the tracking up at Caribou Ranch in Colorado. Bill Graham and I could just never agree on the money. He played beautifully on that ballad Cannon Ball. I had already tracked most of Black Market. Exactly. Watch Chester Thompson's blistering drumming for Phil Collins Im just really enjoying life. Thanks guys and gals for more than one million views and almost 6000 likes. But he deserves more respect. When it happened, we got together in New York for two weeks to just play and see if they wanted to do it. That aint me., Despite thoseearly troubles, Thompson recalled that he hit it off immediately with Collins, which made their regular drum duets easy to perform. This edition features drummer Chester Thompson. 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. In my opinion, everyone has to sell out a little bit to survive. How was the 2007 Genesis tour? What did you study? 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. Bill knew that world. They brought in Bill Bruford for that one tour [in 1976], but it was a fairly short tour. But Im over it now. It was really awesome. I read it and just wept because most of it had happened by that point. He was a member from the beginning, when they did there really masterful work, but no one seems to mention that. But they set up mics around the stage where he said he was going to be. How about pop music? ), Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service. They had promised him membership in the band. What was the first music you remember hearing as a child that really struck you? We were out there hitting it together and theres something about that. None of that. When Phil Collins moved from the drum kit to the front of the stage in 1976, Genesis hired former Yes drummer Bill Bruford to join them on tour. note: They chose instead to record with drummers Nir Zidkyahu and Nick DVirgilio. Basically, Phil flipped at Chester during the Going Back tour, for not playing exactly what he wanted to play, and they haven't spoken since. Peter Criss (Even lead vocals), Keith Moon, Carmine Appice, Roger Taylor (Much better backing vocalist than anybody else and even lead a couple of times). Phil Collins open to Genesis reunion with son, Nic, on drums I grew up in Baltimore and it was back in the days of AM radio. Phil Collins, Robert Colby . Had they said, Were going to change the feel a bit, I would have been fine with that. Part of me is not disappointed that Im not playing those same tunes again after 30 years. I did not write this, but it always makes me laugh. Hed then go off to a studio and work on whatever he had in the can. I cant be gone the whole time. This new thing Ive been working on with my friends in L.A., its [bassist] Pee Wee Hill and [keyboardist] Michiko Hill, his wife. I thougfh the consensus was that Collins was not the only reason, but just a small part of Genesis's evolving intoa pop band? Probably not. Basically, Alphonso left during the Christmas break [of 1975]. Music education. Don Henley: another drummer who is lead singer, and main writter with guitarist Glen Frey, and he also sings ballads without being "hated" as Collins is. They felt that was pretty interesting, but it was the only way we got through it. There were all these conversations going back and forth that Id try to track. The drum instructor left and Id gotten to know the head of the department. -Ballads in Prog Rock are underrated, because Prog Rock is not "romantic". It was a lot. He could really play. It started with some frat parties. And then he added the drums and it was like, Forget about it. We were all in the car going to the first show in Japan. The guys work ethic he just worked. But Chester, Ralph Humphries, Chad, Terry and Ruth made for a great conversation. The worst thing you could do in Weather Report was play the exact same thing you played the night before. In my mind, these guys were almost hippies compared to what I was used to. 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 By Andy Greene February 4, 2021 "Culturally, we were on. We just did a short tour of Canada and that was that. He was part of a band in Milwaukee that played a place that was the place to stop and jam when you were on tour. I wish I could afford my son. That is when we actually had soul music stations. 153K views, 2.9K likes, 787 loves, 221 comments, 2.6K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Genesis Reunion 2020: Phil Collins and Chester Thompson Genesis The Last Domino Tour . We were playing touch football one day and Napoleon had the ball and was running past Tom, and Tom reached out and tagged him. We always opened and usually left afterwards, though Carlos sometimes came out with Bob and I stayed to watch two or three times. Ive never not played jazz. During that particular run, there was none, ever. I mean to be keep in the background in their importance in the bands. What was he like? And Phil and I had a lot of the same roots. You knew it at five years old. Who did you see after that? I was kind of surprised that Daryl wasnt doing it, either. Id always be checking out the rhythm section because some of them brought their own rhythm section. I also think he made a very significant positive contribution to Genesis' heyday. Except the horrible version of Your Own Special Way (Already horrible) because Paul Carrack sounds as Elmer Fudd , the mediocre Bossa Nova version of I Know What I like and the hard to swallow Waiting Room Only, the rest of the album (8 more tracks) is outstanding. I called Frank immediately and he wasnt happy about it, but he knew that my background was more jazz and stuff. It took me a while to get over it, but I really wish him well. Great drummer. So they took some time off. When you heard he was going solo, did you think it would work out for him? That was my introduction to that. And Id been doing it long enough at that point that I didnt have any expectations beyond knowing, Im here to do what he did [on the records]. When we played together, it was like he was the guy and Im there as the backup, to support him. 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 know people were caravanning from here to see it, but it was still a little too raw at that point. Thanks for sharing. Yeah. I got to play some really cool stuff. But I understand a totally different thing from your quotes, but again it's only my opinion. You could hear that it was something special. When Phil called, the first thing he said was, Theres no audition. It just turned out to be a one-off, but fortunately we recorded and videotaped it. Basically, I literally transcribed everything Phil played on those early prog-rock albums. most great drummers won't ever do that, because they live for their drums. Frank was doing time within time. Hed teach me how to play along with albums and where to put the fill and how to sing along with the melody and not get lost in the solos and how to make it swing. Soon after that, I wound up touring with [jazz organist] Jack McDuff. The studio had tanks in the studio since they dealt with it all the time. Chester Thompson on Decade-Long Rift with Crab Apple Phil Collins Everybody had a say. They were starting rehearsals the next week for a new tour and that happened to be my favorite band at the time.
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