Stage Fright Be Damned
Join us for a new Mild Mannered Supermen Listening Party as we dive into Anthony Phillips' 1977 debut solo album, The Geese & the Ghost — a beautiful, pastoral, deeply atmospheric record that feels like a lost branch of early Genesis.
After leaving Genesis in 1970, Phillips spent years developing material that would eventually become The Geese & the Ghost, an album filled with 12-string guitars, orchestral textures, English folk influences, progressive rock arrangements, and unmistakable echoes of the band's earliest sound.
In this episode, we listen through the album together and react in real time, exploring the compositions, performances, production, and the connection between Anthony Phillips' solo work and the musical world Genesis was creating in the early 1970s.
We also discuss the contributions of familiar Genesis-related musicians, including Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins, and why The Geese & the Ghost remains such a fascinating record for fans of Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, and the pastoral side of progressive rock.
If you're a fan of Genesis, Anthony Phillips, Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel, progressive rock, British folk rock, or classic 1970s prog, this is an album worth discovering.
Pour a drink, put on the record, and listen along with us.
Album: The Geese & the Ghost
Artist: Anthony Phillips
Released: 1977
Episode: Mild Mannered Supermen Listening Party
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