Old Enough to Forget

There was a period of time (it was actually pretty short when you look back on it - but at the time it seemed like forever) when Mister Collins was pretty much everywhere. Either with Genesis, or solo, or behind the kit just being a drummer. I saw him with Robert Plant, and there was little fanfare made about it. He first started making inroads with his early solo career - come on, who hasn't played air drums to "In the Air Tonight"? But when Genesis took the world in 1983 with their self-titled monster, it seemed like everyone needed a little more Phil in their lives, and we got our Phil until we were all filled up. No Jacket Required is the album where he and Hugh Padgham fitted all the sonic pieces together and where Phil's now-patented gated-reverb drum-splat sound would practically define the '80s. The song where all of this sonic mayhem manifested itself on a grand scale was the earworm "Sussudio," a song that elicits a pretty strong reaction, bot...