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Genesis: Giants Stadium, New Jersey

Deborah Frost, Newsday, 4 June 1992

"DRUMMER SENSITIVE to acoustic music" read the want ad Genesis once placed in an English music paper. Its ironies
have never been more apparent or more frightening than at Giants Stadium, where Phil Collins, the child actor-turned-drummer who passed the audition and eventually took over the group, showed up with 42 truckloads of technology to demonstrate just how numb Genesis has become in the intervening 21 years.

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