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Gabriel: Odds better for Genesis reunion
By Jim Welte - MP3.com
November 11, 2005 at 04:50:00 PM | more stories by this author

Longtime holdout says he's ready to have "conversation" about getting back with prog rock band he left in 1975.

First Phil, now Peter.

Less than a week after Phil Collins said he's "open" to the idea of Genesis reunion, onetime front man Peter Gabriel appears ready to consider the idea as well.

Gabriel, who left the progressive rock band in 1975 to start a solo career, told Rolling Stone that a reunion may be in the works. "The odds [of a Genesis reunion] are better now than before," Gabriel said. "We're going to have the conversation."

In Tel Aviv earlier this week for the first stop of what he's calling his First Final Farewell Tour, Collins told the Associated Press, "I'm open for it. If it doesn't happen, it won't be because we don't want to. It will just be because there are too many things in the way."

And just last month, guitarist Steve Hackett told the Chicago Sun-Times that he received a phone call from Genesis management.

"There's a movement to put us all together again," Hackett told the paper. "I do think it will happen."

Genesis formed as a progressive rock group in 1967, and Collins joined as drummer in 1971.

Collins took over as singer after Gabriel quit the group, with Genesis morphing into more of a pop rock act with Collins at the helm. Collins left the band in 1996 to pursue his solo career full-time--as he'd already scored megahits with "Against All Odds" and "In the Air Tonight."

The band continued on through a series of lineup changes for a few more years, eventually disbanding in 1998.

If all this amounts to more than just PR chatter, the band members would have to make up more than three decades of practice time, Gabriel told Rolling Stone. The band's only appearance together since Gabriel left in May 1975 was at a one-off reunion concert.

"When we got back together in 1982, I don't think we rehearsed," Gabriel said. "To really do it properly, we'd have to take more time. It's quite a commitment."

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i like it
Posted 05/30/2009 10:31am
very clearly expressed information
Posted 05/23/2009 11:47am
I don't know about the greatest in rock history, Led Zeppelin comes to mind for that spot, but I'd be stoked and buying tix to this for sure.
Posted 11/14/2005 1:41pm
this would be one the greatest reuion in rock history! this is what every Genesis fan dreams about. We can only hope that they would take it on tour and not be a one shot deal.
Posted 11/12/2005 7:10pm
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