Mike Rutherford
Mike Rutherford
Michael John Cloete Crawford "Mike" Rutherfordis an English musician. He is a founding member of Genesis and one of the band's only two original members...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth2 October 1950
polo hooked
I'm completely hooked on polo.
thinking gun names
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.
kids cds generations
I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.
moving communication leaving
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.
stories genesis
Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.
never-say-never
Nothing's planned. Never say never.
writing seventies originals
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
eye railroads madness
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
balance band gains
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.