Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks both agree with Phil Collins when he said the Genesis Last Domino? tour would be their last.
Banks says “We’d always say never say never, but there comes a point. I haven’t toured myself since (the last Genesis reunion in) 2007, and thought, why not? It’s fun, it will get me off my (butt). But with the pandemic, it has extended things longer than intended, but it’s been great fun to do. We’ve having to do some stuff later because of COVID, but when we do the final show next year, that will be it.”
Rutherford adds, “I think there will be a lot of tears. It will be an emotional moment if you know it’s going to be our final song. Genesis has been all of my life, 50 or 60 years, and it will be something I miss. It’s been nice for the three of us to spend some reconnected time together. It makes you solidify things. There are things that that only the three of us understand because we lived it.”
And Banks sums it up, saying, “Ed Sheeran is playing four nights at Wembley Stadium (in 2022) and that’s a wonderful moment in his career. We hit that moment 35 years ago. So I’d say if you want to see Genesis, don’t put it off ‘til the next one. We’re not like the [Rolling] Stones.”
Genesis started their U.S. tour Monday in Chicago and they’ll be in Washington, D.C. Thursday night.
The final U.S. show is scheduled for December 16th in Boston, and should all go according to plan, they will wrap everything up on March 26th in London at the O2 arena. Locally they will play Madison Square Garden Dec 5 and 6 and Boston’s TD Garden Dec 15 and the final North American show Dec 16.
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