{"id":41805,"date":"2023-01-24T19:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/01\/24\/no-gorilla-needed-just-phil-doing-his-thing\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:06:07","slug":"no-gorilla-needed-just-phil-doing-his-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/01\/no-gorilla-needed-just-phil-doing-his-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"No gorilla needed. Just Phil doing his thing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes when you get, used to listening to great albums from back in the 80s and 90s you get used to hearing the epic songs and standout singles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they are this good however you maybe don\u2019t fully appreciating how good they were back in the day and that they (for the lost part) would have been performed live at most point and you missed out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phil Collins is one of these artists where I have never actively looked back at live performances thinking that the album version of these great songs was enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stumbled over this live performance of Phil performing \u201cin the air tonight\u201d at Knebworth in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazing band, amazing vocal and epic drumming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somehow the song feels more special seeing and listening to it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This is definitely worth 7 minutes of your life. (6min 33sec to be exact the extra 27secs are for saying (wow\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight (Live Knebworth 1990)\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d6s4gVavO-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you get, used to listening to great albums from back in the 80s and 90s you get used to hearing the epic songs and standout singles. When they are this good however you maybe don\u2019t fully appreciating how good they were back in the day and that they (for the lost part) would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/01\/no-gorilla-needed-just-phil-doing-his-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No gorilla needed. Just Phil doing his thing.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,232,250,333,394],"class_list":["post-41805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-randomness","tag-in-the-air-tonight","tag-knebworth-90","tag-live-music","tag-phil-collins","tag-smlp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_0885.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}