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Ryler Walker falls foul of Genesis fan over his failure to be born in Godalming
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RyleY Walker FFS.
His comments (the Walker guy – who he?, not the reader) were complete tosh, though.
It left me thinking I’m glad he wasn’t batting for my side.
Particularly the bit about Invisible Touch.
He likes Genesis. That should be enough to disqualify him from writing about music. OOAA.
I delivered Britvic to Plymouth Guildhall back in the day, so I am better qualified than you are to identify as a fan of any of the following bands if you were born after 1991:
*insert endless list of bands that performed at the venue between 1972 and 1978*
The guy who wrote to Mojo is obviously a complete spanner of the first order. I can only assume that the editorial team wet themselves when they read it and said, “Look at this cretin – this berk HAS to get on the letters page. What a total pillock he’s made himself look.” And they’d have been right.
True enough, but the original comments re: Invisible Touch were so shite.
Has anyone got them to hand?
I have just gone to YouTube and listened to The Brazilian, to the best of my knowledge for the first time ever. To be honest, having been told that the track ‘straight fucking goes’ and sounds like its guitar solos are played by someone who’s ‘head is on fire’ I expected something a bit more thrilling.
That’s the one.
“Jealous of” … 1980s / Genesis / Wall Street / Porsches.
What a f****** spanner, even for a dodger.
I think that’s funny. Don’t you detect just a smidge of irony in his words? Nigel from Copenhagen obviously didn’t.
Don’t suppose anyone knows what his opinion is about Huey Lewis And The News by any chance?
Who? Ryley, or the pillock who delivered bog rolls?
Do I detect an American Psycho reference….? 🙂
You do indeed. Have I shown you my new business card?
I feel the need to stick up for old Ryles here…I’m no fan of Genesis, Collins’s voice is real chalk on blackboard stuff, but surely we all have blind spots that threaten to mark us out as civilians? This being a safe space, we can mention them if we wish without being jeered at. My oft-expressed enthusiasm for Spooky Tooth is generally met with polite silence, after all, and I’m OK with that.
Loved their heavy duty version of the walrus song that was on one of the 99p Island jobbies!
Yes, me too! I once arrived at Middle Earth in the middle of the night to hear them bashing out a cover of Yesterday which was absolutely epic. Substances may have been sampled, mind you…
Nowt wrong with a blast of Spooky Tooth/Freedom/Tractor
It’s been mentioned on here before, but when a certain D. Hepworth reviewed the Genesis back catalogue in Q, back in the 80s, when it was first released on CD, there wasn’t a lorra love on display for the ‘classic-era’ line-up. In fact, DH seemed to take delight sprinkling one and two star ratings to albums deemed by some (me) as seminal. The only album to get the coveted five stars? Why, Invisible Touch, of course. I haven’t trusted his judgement since.
I have just bought the latest issue of “Prog” magazine because it’s got Genesis on the front cover. I don’t know why I did that! [Sits there going ‘wibble’.]
Let me guess @the-simmo-kid
There were 4 copies of the magazine left when you bought yours?
Even worse: the shop I go to stocks just three copies of Prog every month. I suspect the extra copy came from somebody who has a mail subscription and slipped their copy onto the pile when nobody was looking!