Anthony Phillips and Nursery Cryme

So there I was,enjoying my recently purchased Genesis Box 70-75,and the last disc I listened to was the one that contains extra tracks.Despite classics such as Twilight Alehouse and more obscure things like the wonderfull BBC Nightride's Pacidy(truly one of the most touching things I ever heard by the band) ,something left me deeply intricated.A series of related pieces named 'Genesis Plays Jackson',apparently made as a soundtrack for a documentary of the painter Michael Jackson in 1969.Thing is,the minute it starts,The Fountain of Salmacis' intro is played by the band,and later on,an almost COMPLETE instumental execution of The Musical Box.Interesting as it is,I wonder if Anthony Phillps shouldn't be getting some writting credits in Nursery Cryme,since he apparently wrote the best material in the album.And there's also excerpts from The Lamb....

The band were certainly working on many of the tracks that were eventually recorded as Nursery Cryme before Phillips' stage fright got too much for him. Musical Box definitely has piles of Phillips footprints all over it, even though it was Hackett who recorded the final version.

I suspect that when he left, all parties decided that would be that - Genesis because they needed to move on, and Phillips because he felt awful about leaving his schoolfriends in the first place.

Originally posted by Gustavo Froes So there I was,enjoying my recently purchased Genesis Box 70-75,and the last disc I listened to was the one that contains extra tracks.Despite classics such as Twilight Alehouse and more obscure things like the wonderfull BBC Nightride's Pacidy(truly one of the most touching things I ever heard by the band) ,something left me deeply intricated.A series of related pieces named 'Genesis Plays Jackson',apparently made as a soundtrack for a documentary of the painter Michael Jackson in 1969.Thing is,the minute it starts,The Fountain of Salmacis' intro is played by the band,and later on,an almost COMPLETE instumental execution of The Musical Box.Interesting as it is,I wonder if Anthony Phillps shouldn't be getting some writting credits in Nursery Cryme,since he apparently wrote the best material in the album.And there's also excerpts from The Lamb....