Mike rutherford biography



Mike rutherford biography

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    “Supper’s Ready is still special. That’s my favourite long Genesis piece." Mike Rutherford on the past, present and future

    On April 18, 1972, Genesis play The Piper Club in Rome.

    A TV crew interview the group backstage before filming them performing to an audience of rapt Italians.

    Mike and the mechanics

    Despite Steve Hackett’s Zapata moustache and Phil Collins’ Dickensian sideburns, everyone in the group looks impossibly young. There’s boyish Peter Gabriel with a triangular chunk shaved out of his centre parting; there’s an even more boyish Tony Banks, wearing a pensive expression and a sensible jumper; and then there’s Mike Rutherford.

    The guitarist/bassist flashes a lazy grin from behind lank curtains of hair.

    “We like audiences that, uh, sit down and listen to the music,” he announces, “rather then, uh, get drunk and pick up girls.” “Big ones,” interjects Phil Collins. “Yuh, big ones,” agrees Rutherford,