On 06-25-97 ROBBIE WILSON wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 RW>  Well Genesis has always been Tony's band, even before they were 
 RW> called  Genesis (-: 
 
        "L'etat, c'est moi!" Hey, Banks even looks a little bit 
        like Louis XIV, not as much as Pat Moraz does, of course. 
 
 RW>  They 
 RW>  asked `old boy` Jonathan King to produce the first album `From 
 RW> Genesis To Revolution` 
 
        This was when they we're very influenced by the student 
        riots in Paris '68? I'm sorry, even I can't resist a good 
        spelling flame. ;-) 
 
 RW> and, due to a lack of name, JK told Decca that the band 
 RW> was called `Genesis`. 
 
        Stupid git should have checked to see if there weren't 
        already a band by that name, eh? 
 
 RW>  I agree with you on this wholeheartedly. Ray Wilson is not Peter 
 RW>  Gabriel, just as Phil Collins wasn't. 
 
        Actually, just after Gabriel left, Collins *was* Gabriel, 
        and what's more, he was able to continue being Gabriel 
        long after Gabriel couldn't anymore. Gabriel went on to 
        do commercial pop whereas Collins and Genesis went on to 
        do two more, three if you count the live one, prog 
        albums. 
 
        Part of the reason Collins was so convincingly Gabriel 
        after Gabriel left was because to some extent he had been 
        Gabriel all along. Their voices are so similar that a lot 
        of the vocals Collins had been doing, especially 
        harmonies and such, were assumed by many (well, maybe 
        just me) to be Gabriel multitracked. In retrospect, and 
        we can hear it very clearly on the albums now so it must 
        have been there all along, Collins' voice is all over 
        those "Gabriel era" albums. 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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