Phil Collins has one reason why he did not like Pink Floyd.
As one of the highest-paid musicians, Collins surely has his favorite bands and musicians who became his inspiration in expanding his career with the Genesis and as a soloist.
But he also has dislikes, and it included Pink Floyd.
In his past interview with John Edginton (via Rock and Roll Garage), the drummer thought Genesis was in the same box as other progressive rock bands. However, Pink Floyd was once not part of it.
"I was a big early Yes fan, less so. Even though I like the guys in the band I didn't relate to a lot of their music after the first two or three albums. Jethro Tull, ELP not for me, musically. Floyd, I was never a big (Pink) Floyd fan," Collins revealed, as quoted by Far Out Magazine. "I probably become more of a Floyd fan in later years than I was at the time, even though I saw them at the Marquee with Arnold Layne. I was aware of what they were doing."
Still, he insisted that he was not a fan since he was in a band that was being put in the same area as other rock bands except with Pink Floyd.
Phil Collins' Feelings Toward Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Collins also spoke about his changed feeling toward Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He told Ken CK when Genesis was in Cleveland, Ohio in 1953 that he was once a fan of the ELP.
"They were good then, they were then. But I don't like them so much now. They got too much like ELP for my liking. I don't like ELP. I don't like the way they are, as people... Emerson's alright. I don't like Carl Palmer's drumming, I don't like the music. It's much too neurotic," he said.
He added that he liked the new rock and roll, and ELP was too "on one level."
Collins applied the new rock and roll to Genesis as the band became a more pop-oriented sound after he stood on vocals. Fans also noticed how they became less theatrical.
His interview resurfaced months after he announced his retirement as he sparked worries during his show with Mike Rutherford and Rony Banks in Berlin, Germany. The drummer has been struggling with spinal injury that led to his vertebrae crushing his spinal cord.
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