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Mike Rutherford

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Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.


— Mike Rutherford


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Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.


— Mike Rutherford


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I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.


— Mike Rutherford


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I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.


— Mike Rutherford


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I'm completely hooked on polo.


— Mike Rutherford


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Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.


— Mike Rutherford


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When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.


— Mike Rutherford


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When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.


— Mike Rutherford


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In 2009 Philip Beresford compiler of the Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rutherford's fortune at £30 million from past touring activity future touring income and the Genesis back catalogue plus other smaller company assets and accumulated earnings making him one of the 50 richest residents of Surrey. Bass/guitar playing
Rutherford's bass playing involved the bass with high treble use of a pick and a fuzz box in songs like "The Knife" and "The Return of the Giant Hogweed". For the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and Trick of the Tail tours he incorporated a Rickenbacker 12-string hollow-body guitar and a 6-string bass custom-built by Microfrets in two different double-necks.

He is a founding member of Genesis initially as a bassist and backup vocalist. Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950 in Guildford Surrey) is an English musician. He also formed Mike + The Mechanics in 1985.

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