On 07-03-97 ALEX DEREVINSKIY wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 -> 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 
 
 AD> Exactly...  when I first got a tape of Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, I 
 AD> KNEW it was Gabriel, but it sounded too much like Phil.  (Lamb was my 
 AD> 4th Genesis album, I believe, after, in order of purchase, Abacab, 
 AD> Invisible Touch and We Can't Dance).  You're not alone on that one, 
 
        Yes, our experiences are similar though it appears that 
        we are travelling through time pointed in different 
        directions. That's not so strange really. In some 
        cultures people do not conceptually march forward towards 
        the future, the stop carefully backwards away from the 
        past. Then there are others for whom time does not exist 
        as an axis along which one travels in any direction, but 
        a set of cycles, or a single unity. My personal opinion 
        is that things do not happen and then end, rather, things 
        happen and then they have happened forever; similarly 
        once something exists it exists forever, life everlasting 
        if you will. So, basically, Gabriel never left Genesis, 
        and they are getting more and more progressive, according 
        to my convoluted philosophy. 
 
        Hey, Zappa keeps putting out albums. I can't be totally 
        wrong. 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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