Genesis- A Trick of the Tail 50th- Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford

In his AllMusic.com review about Genesis’ January 1976 release A Trick of the Tail, Stephen Thomas Erlwine writes “…the band decided not to pursue the stylish, jagged post-modernism of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway…and instead returned to the English eccentricity of Selling England by the Pound  for its next effort. A Trick of the Tail  in almost every respect feels like a truer sequel…”.

Already the progressive rock band’s seventh (!) studio album, but the first without performance artist frontman Peter Gabriel presenting an enormous risk, Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford and drafted drummer/vocalist Phil Collins are here In the Studio  in my classic rock interview marking the miraculous golden anniversary of powerfully dynamic songs “Dance on a Volcano”,”Squonk”, “Robbery, Assault, and Battery”, and the languid “Ripples”. –Redbeard