Phil Collins loves the Alamo

Subject: Phil Collins loves the Alamo Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:36 pm

Quote :: Texas Monthly
Highlights From the Phil Collins/Alamo Press Conference

Phil Collins held a press conference on the grounds of the Alamo, accompanied by his unlikely pal Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson—who declared the occasional Genesis frontman and massively successful solo artist to be "normal" when introducing him—in which the two of them laid out some of the details of Collins' donation of his massive collection of Texas Revolution artifacts.

Collins declared early on in the conference that "I'm not really here to talk about music," and spent a substantial amount of time in front of a large crowd discussing his love of the Alamo and his history with it (which senior editor John Spong expertly chronicled for Texas Monthly in 2012). He talked about his first visit to the mission in 1973, while on tour with Genesis—each member, he said, was allowed to pick one place in America to take a day off; Peter Gabriel chose Hot Springs, while Collins wanted San Antonio—and how he began collecting.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/daily-post/highlights-phil-collinsalamo-press-conference