Great video on Phil Collins the drummer

Great video — thanks for sharing.  I too grew up mostly with the later Genesis stuff, but especially as a drummer I’m now looking forward into delving deeper into their earlier music. 

Phil was famous as a great drummer long before he started singing lead in Genesis. I started following Genesis back in 1972 when Phil had joined the band for 'Nursery Cryme'. For the next several years during the 70's, he was far from under-rated - Phil Collins was generally considered the best drummer in progressive rock, a very drummer-intensive genre indeed (Bill Bruford was right up there, too, in fact on part of the 'Trick of the Tail' tour, Phil and Bill were both together). In addition to his brilliant work with Genesis, where he often did background singing to Peter's lead, he also had a jazz-fusion side project called Brand X, which is well worth checking out if you want to hear some of Phil's best. It's a shame that people who know him only from being a pop star don't know about his drumming career... 

He had/has a unique voice as well. I think "Mama" was one of his best vocal performances.

If you want to travel back in time and experience Peter Gabriel led Genesis, Steve Hackett is still touring.