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On this day, February 6, 1957, 801 Live drummer Simon Phillips was born. [View all]
Simon Phillips (drummer)
Phillips in 2017
Background information
Born: 6 February 1957 (age 68); London, England, United Kingdom
Origin: Los Angeles, California, United States
Associated acts: Protocol, Big Country, Toto, Hiromi Trio, The Who, Judas Priest, Gary Boyle, Derek Sherinian, Michael Schenker Group, 801, Asia, Nik Kershaw, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Phillips Saisse Palladino, Toyah, Joe Satriani, Jon Lord, Gary Moore, Andy Timmons, Greg Howe, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins, David Gilmour, Ph.D.
Website: simon-phillips.com
Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is a US-based English jazz, pop and rock drummer,[1] songwriter, and record producer. He worked with rock bands during the 1970s and 1980s and was the drummer for the band Toto from 1992 to 2014.
Phillips worked as a session drummer for Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, Bernie Marsden, Jon Lord, Nik Kershaw, Mike Oldfield, Judas Priest, Mike Rutherford, Tears for Fears, 10cc and The Who. He was the drummer for The Who during the band's American reunion tour in 1989. He became the drummer for the band Toto in 1992 after the death of Jeff Porcaro.
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Career
Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in a dixieland band led by his father, Sid Phillips for 4 years. After his father's death, he started playing pop and rock and found work in a production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. He worked as a session musician for cast members, and this led to other session work. Beginning in the 1970s, he worked with Jeff Beck, Gil Evans, Stanley Clarke, Peter Gabriel, Pete Townshend, and Frank Zappa.
Phillips was the drummer in the Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno supergroup 801 on their 1976 album 801 Live. He replaced Judas Priest drummer Alan Moore to record on the band's Sin After Sin album (1977). That same year, Phillips played on Evita. Around 1978, British guitarist Gary Boyle made an album called "The Dancer" featuring Simon Phillips.
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Phillips in 2017
Background information
Born: 6 February 1957 (age 68); London, England, United Kingdom
Origin: Los Angeles, California, United States
Associated acts: Protocol, Big Country, Toto, Hiromi Trio, The Who, Judas Priest, Gary Boyle, Derek Sherinian, Michael Schenker Group, 801, Asia, Nik Kershaw, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Phillips Saisse Palladino, Toyah, Joe Satriani, Jon Lord, Gary Moore, Andy Timmons, Greg Howe, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins, David Gilmour, Ph.D.
Website: simon-phillips.com
Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is a US-based English jazz, pop and rock drummer,[1] songwriter, and record producer. He worked with rock bands during the 1970s and 1980s and was the drummer for the band Toto from 1992 to 2014.
Phillips worked as a session drummer for Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, Bernie Marsden, Jon Lord, Nik Kershaw, Mike Oldfield, Judas Priest, Mike Rutherford, Tears for Fears, 10cc and The Who. He was the drummer for The Who during the band's American reunion tour in 1989. He became the drummer for the band Toto in 1992 after the death of Jeff Porcaro.
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Career
Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in a dixieland band led by his father, Sid Phillips for 4 years. After his father's death, he started playing pop and rock and found work in a production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. He worked as a session musician for cast members, and this led to other session work. Beginning in the 1970s, he worked with Jeff Beck, Gil Evans, Stanley Clarke, Peter Gabriel, Pete Townshend, and Frank Zappa.
Phillips was the drummer in the Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno supergroup 801 on their 1976 album 801 Live. He replaced Judas Priest drummer Alan Moore to record on the band's Sin After Sin album (1977). That same year, Phillips played on Evita. Around 1978, British guitarist Gary Boyle made an album called "The Dancer" featuring Simon Phillips.
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Phil Manzanera
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Music career
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Solo work and collaborations (1975–2001)
As a writer, producer and solo artist, Phil Manzanera has worked with many of the luminaries of modern music, such as Steve Winwood, David Gilmour, John Cale, Godley & Creme, Nico and John Wetton. He has co-written material with many artists, including Brian Eno, Tim Finn, Robert Wyatt and Gilmour. Manzanera co-wrote Pink Floyd's single "One Slip" from their 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason album.
Manzanera's first solo album Diamond Head (1975) featured an all-star line-up of session contributors, including most of the former and current members of Roxy Music, except Bryan Ferry. Brian Eno co-wrote and sang on two tracks ("Big Day" and "Miss Shapiro" ), Paul Thompson, Eddie Jobson and Andy Mackay all contributed, and Roxy's occasional tour bassist John Wetton (ex Family, and then a member of King Crimson) played bass and duetted on vocals (with Doreen Chanter on "Same Time Next Year" ). Robert Wyatt co-wrote and sang (in Spanish) on "Frontera", and the members of Manzanera's pre-Roxy group Quiet Sun featured on the instrumental tracks. Concurrent with the recording of Diamond Head, Manzanera reunited Quiet Sun (who had not been able to make any professional recordings) and used the studio time to quickly record a full LP of Quiet Sun material, released by EG Records under the title Mainstream.
Reworked versions of two tracks from Mainstream featured on Manzanera's next major collaboration, the critically acclaimed concert recording 801 Live, which was recorded at a 1976 London show performed by the "special occasion" band 801. The group comprised Manzanera, with Eno on vocals, synth and treatments, Quiet Sun bassist Bill McCormick, Curved Air keyboardist Francis Monkman, 19-year-old drumming prodigy Simon Phillips, and slide guitarist Lloyd Watson, who had previously performed as a solo support act for Roxy Music. The LP featured an eclectic mix of Manzanera, Quiet Sun and Eno originals, alongside distinctive cover versions of two well-known tracks, The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" and The Kinks' "You Really Got Me". The album also broke new ground in live concert recording, being one of the first live LPs to use the "direct injection" (DI) method of recording, in which the signals from the various electric instruments were fed directly into the recording console, enabling a dramatic improvement in fidelity over the earlier method of placing microphones near the various instrument amplifiers.
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Music career
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Solo work and collaborations (1975–2001)
As a writer, producer and solo artist, Phil Manzanera has worked with many of the luminaries of modern music, such as Steve Winwood, David Gilmour, John Cale, Godley & Creme, Nico and John Wetton. He has co-written material with many artists, including Brian Eno, Tim Finn, Robert Wyatt and Gilmour. Manzanera co-wrote Pink Floyd's single "One Slip" from their 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason album.
Manzanera's first solo album Diamond Head (1975) featured an all-star line-up of session contributors, including most of the former and current members of Roxy Music, except Bryan Ferry. Brian Eno co-wrote and sang on two tracks ("Big Day" and "Miss Shapiro" ), Paul Thompson, Eddie Jobson and Andy Mackay all contributed, and Roxy's occasional tour bassist John Wetton (ex Family, and then a member of King Crimson) played bass and duetted on vocals (with Doreen Chanter on "Same Time Next Year" ). Robert Wyatt co-wrote and sang (in Spanish) on "Frontera", and the members of Manzanera's pre-Roxy group Quiet Sun featured on the instrumental tracks. Concurrent with the recording of Diamond Head, Manzanera reunited Quiet Sun (who had not been able to make any professional recordings) and used the studio time to quickly record a full LP of Quiet Sun material, released by EG Records under the title Mainstream.
Reworked versions of two tracks from Mainstream featured on Manzanera's next major collaboration, the critically acclaimed concert recording 801 Live, which was recorded at a 1976 London show performed by the "special occasion" band 801. The group comprised Manzanera, with Eno on vocals, synth and treatments, Quiet Sun bassist Bill McCormick, Curved Air keyboardist Francis Monkman, 19-year-old drumming prodigy Simon Phillips, and slide guitarist Lloyd Watson, who had previously performed as a solo support act for Roxy Music. The LP featured an eclectic mix of Manzanera, Quiet Sun and Eno originals, alongside distinctive cover versions of two well-known tracks, The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" and The Kinks' "You Really Got Me". The album also broke new ground in live concert recording, being one of the first live LPs to use the "direct injection" (DI) method of recording, in which the signals from the various electric instruments were fed directly into the recording console, enabling a dramatic improvement in fidelity over the earlier method of placing microphones near the various instrument amplifiers.
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My favorite song, from my favorite album. I think this way outdoes the original:
801 - Tomorrow Never Knows
175,144 views • Nov 11, 2012
mybikemybike
429 subscribers
801 was an experimental rock group that formed in 1976, featuring Brian Eno. The group was formed to perform three live concerts, the first of which featured a rearrangement of Lennon's "Tomorrow Never Knows."
175,144 views • Nov 11, 2012
mybikemybike
429 subscribers
801 was an experimental rock group that formed in 1976, featuring Brian Eno. The group was formed to perform three live concerts, the first of which featured a rearrangement of Lennon's "Tomorrow Never Knows."
Toto - Africa (2013) [HD] (With CC)
364,135 views Sep 28, 2020
Gerald Chen
8.19K subscribers
This 35th Anniversary Tour - Live In Poland release captures Toto's European tour that hit 29 cities staging successful concerts in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland.
Recorded on June 25, 2013 in Lodz, Poland, the offering captures the band in the midst of a standing-room-only European tour. The two-hour-plus performance features Toto's hit stocked repertoire alongside other favorites.
Credits:
Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals
David Paich - Keyboards, Lead Vocals
Steve Porcaro - Keyboards
Joseph Williams - Lead Vocals
Simon Phillips - Drums
Nathan East - Bass
Mabvuto Carpenter - Backing Vocals
Amy Keys - Backing Vocals
Gerald's YouTube Playlists:
https://www.youtube.com/user/geraldchen1/playlists
364,135 views Sep 28, 2020
Gerald Chen
8.19K subscribers
This 35th Anniversary Tour - Live In Poland release captures Toto's European tour that hit 29 cities staging successful concerts in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland.
Recorded on June 25, 2013 in Lodz, Poland, the offering captures the band in the midst of a standing-room-only European tour. The two-hour-plus performance features Toto's hit stocked repertoire alongside other favorites.
Credits:
Steve Lukather - Guitars, Vocals
David Paich - Keyboards, Lead Vocals
Steve Porcaro - Keyboards
Joseph Williams - Lead Vocals
Simon Phillips - Drums
Nathan East - Bass
Mabvuto Carpenter - Backing Vocals
Amy Keys - Backing Vocals
Gerald's YouTube Playlists:
https://www.youtube.com/user/geraldchen1/playlists
Fri Jan 31, 2025: On this day, January 31, 1951, Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams was born. Oh, you mean Phil Manzanera.
Tue Feb 6, 2024: On this day, February 6, 1957, 801 Live drummer Simon Phillips was born.
Mon Feb 6, 2023: On this day, February 6, 1957, 801 Live drummer Simon Phillips was born.
Tue Jan 31, 2023: On this day, January 31, 1951, Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams was born. Oh, you mean Phil Manzanera.
Sun Feb 6, 2022: On this day, February 6, 1957, 801 Live drummer Simon Phillips was born.
Hat tip, This Day in Rock, which is now defunct
1957 - Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips, English drummer who has worked with Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Mike Oldfield, Judas Priest, Mike Rutherford, Tears for Fears, 10cc and The Who. He became the drummer for the band Toto in 1992 after the death of Jeff Porcaro.
Simon Phillips, English drummer who has worked with Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Mike Oldfield, Judas Priest, Mike Rutherford, Tears for Fears, 10cc and The Who. He became the drummer for the band Toto in 1992 after the death of Jeff Porcaro.
Mon Jan 31, 2022: Happy 71st birthday, Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams. You know him as Phil Manzanera.
Sun Jan 31, 2021: Happy 70th birthday, Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams. You know him as Phil Manzanera.
Fri Jan 31, 2020: Happy 69th birthday, Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams. You know him as Phil Manzanera.
Wed Jan 31, 2018: Happy 67th birthday, Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams. You know him as Phil Manzanera.
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