Talk:Mike Rutherford

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is it just me or is this article incredibly opinionated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.193.133.22 (talk • contribs)

Place of Birth?
IMDB lists his place of birth as Portsmouth not Guildford. Can anyone confirm?

(Taz&amp;dev 19:48, 15 September 2007 (UTC))

An Amando Gallo book that I had listed it as Liverpool, which ties in with living near Chester / Hoylake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.8.49.203 (talk) 14:26, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Mike's own book, 'The Living Years' says that he was born in a rented house in Chertsey. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndaisley (talk • contribs) 15:04, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

12 String
I don't have the source on hand at the moment, but while it might seem otherwise, duel 12 string parts were not common in early (or late) Genesis music. I don't recall Hackett ever playing one in Genesis either although Banks played on a few songs. For example, In Can Utility and the Coastliners Rutherford tuned his twelve string in such a way that some of the string pairs were not tuned to octaves but were instead tuned to other intervals. This gave the impression that there were two separate parts. The same technique was used for other songs ( in the studio) as well. Songs such as The Cinema Show ( which indeed did also have multiple 12 string parts,) For Absent Friends, and even parts of Suppers Ready i.e. the section leading into Apocalypse in 9/8 --68.167.223.30 (talk) 16:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Where did you get this information from? Steve and Mike played 12-string guitars together a fair bit in Genesis and since Steve wrote much of "Can-Utility and the Coastliners", I have no reason to believe that he and Mike wouldn't have played 12-strings together. Your recollection of Steve not playing 12-string guitar at all is false, because he did play one, and nobody else has publicly said such a thing to negate it. There are clearly two 12-string guitar parts on "Can-Utility and the Coastliners" in each channel, so my hunch is that Steve played one and Mike played the other - like I said, it's just my hunch, so it may not be correct. Furthermore, Steve was credited with playing 12-string guitar on "Nursery Cryme", "Foxtrot", "A Trick of the Tail", "Wind and Wuthering" and "Seconds Out" in addition to electric guitar and again, nobody has refuted it. The source that you referred to may not be correct and remember: don't believe everything you read. 61.69.217.3 (talk) 00:38, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

All sorts of nice video online now, which probably did not exist back in 2010 or even 2018. Plenty of evidence here of SH playing 12-string (and 36 guitar strings working together!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVyfj7-mHqs — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndaisley (talk • contribs) 10:27, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Notable Instruments
'Rickenbacker' is not a notable instrument. The only valid reason for simply stating 'Rickenbacker' would be that MR played each and every single instrument they ever made, each of them notably so.

Now, which particular Rickenbacker guitars that MR played are notable?

Orphaned references in Mike Rutherford
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