I can’t still believe that Phill Collins sounded SO GOOD in live performances and playing the drums AT THE SAME time. Without losing breathing or missing the tone. It’s like listening to him in a studio version. It’s unreal.
Say what you will about Clapton, he's generous and shares the limelight with other performers in concerts. He recognises that a performance is a team effort and everyone works better together if they get a chance to shine.
my father heard this live version of the song long ago, he wanted me to find it on the internet, he said it was the best performance ever, he loved the drums. i wasnt able to find it before he passed. he was so right about how amazing it is.
This version is hands down the best. Idk what was going on but the energy between his ad libbing and Clapton just going along for the ride was fantastic.
You say...the not much is so perfeect on the song. Listen to all versions of this song without the guitar played like that, you will see that the guitar of Clapton does a great job, givi0n so much to the song. What is much? Much is to get the song great
No English dictionary has a proper word to describe my boy Phil's performance here.... "Beyond epic" does not even come close. As I have said so many times before, the time period where Phil sported the mullet, was arguably the one where most of his stunning performances had occurred. Already off the charts, during those particular times his performances were almost inhumane. The greatest drummer and a male singer with the greatest voice range of all times, bar none.
You locked it America1st! Your reply was, 'nuf said❣️ Just sad how too many people write Phil off, without seeing the depth of his gifted, talented, soulful, sincere, pulled up from the very center of his being, masterful expressions in both song, drums, as well as generally "all in" from gut to heart, to us❣️
This song is the despair sadness and anger of a man who has done everything he thought she wanted him to do and she is still not satisfied she still left took his kids and started another life without him
Phil Collins is one of those very few artists that no TV or Radio/CD player can do his music justice, watching him Live is something every music fan specially Phil Collins fan should experience, i had been listening to his music for more than 20 years before i finally saw him perform live and that was when i realized the magnitude of greatness in him, FUCKING AMAZING from the moment he stepped on stage till we were in the car talking about the show, at least once go see him live people
WOW!!! Now this is MUSIC! I love it when the singer actually plays an instrument while singing. Usually, it's a piano or a guitar, I imagine it must be so much more challenging being the lead singer while beating the snot out of a set of drums! Dammit that was good!!!
Wasn’t Nathan East on bass too? I should think so, since this was right after Eric Clapton put out the August LP, on which Phil, Greg and Nathan were the core accompanists.
agreed - but turn it around a moment, too. Even if you _are_ phil collins.... think about it: You are playing your most iconic song ever, and you've got Eric Clapton backing you on guitars. Eric. Fucking. Clapton. A bigger legend in guitar than even you are in drums.... and he is helping you make what is literally the most incredible version of your top song in front of 40,000 people. My god - to have that moment in retrospect... :)
This Song Is Eternal Eric Clapton - Iconic bad ass blues guitarist Phil Collins - Legendary drummer & lead singer to the immortal group Genesis Live performance of In The Air Tonight from 1981-Priceless
Phil Collins, Ringo Starr, Don Henley, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Levon Helm, Roger Taylor, Peter Criss, Eric Carr, Stewart Copeland. It's alright, we've all had our first time watching a rock video.
This is not fair. I was born in 1988 - I missed all of this. I'm seriously mad right now! Amazing music, makes me even more sick of the crap that they call music now.
Eeboo, there is no need to feel jealous. I am 69 y/o and lived through that time. The music on this recording is as good as it ever was live. If you are young this can be as an exciting time for you as it was for me in the 60's. I and some of my friends were working to seek God and change the world to be a better place. You can do that now except listen to the old great music and not the new junk. I can't finish my thought so I will write a comment on what I just wrote.
To me, this is perhaps the most PROFOUND song I have ever heard.. It is so haunting, almost religious and sacred, intense, guitar power chords, heavy drums. The beginning chords themselves have an emotional effect, perfectly circular. The pause with backwards sound, then silence.. The echoes on some of the words.. He does this on Jimmy Fallon show with The Roots, he does some great vocal variations. He said on Jimmy Fallon, this song will long outlive him..
My parents had this whole concert on VHS and like half of my childhood was watching/listening to this concert and other absolute gems and I love that I can easily revisit and also realize that once, forever ago, I was actually pretty cool lol
Oh yeah I forgot that back in those days there were no TH-cam or internet to listen to songs over and over. So rare to hear those good songs again. And maybe the only way to hear In The Air Tonight back then was attending his concerts :P
Not another one. I am a fucking millennial and I've listened to this since the late 80s. What's with the millennial bashing? Just let people enjoy the music.
Wow! Holy Shit! Didn't know about this one with Eric Clapton. Clapton's guitar complement so well the pain and agony of Collin's song, and the drum fill omfg...
I have to say this is the first time I have ever heard Eric Clapton give sincere props to another musician. With an offhand remark about the song, of course.
Very possibly the best version of this song Ive ever heard. Happy 2025
For real
1981: "Wow, this song is amazing!"
2019: "Wow, this song is amazing!"
3050: "Wow, this song is amazing!"
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Loo
2022: "Wow, this song is amazing!"
2022 and still amazing!
2024 - still AMAZING
I can't believe it took me 34 years to hear this version from 1986. Mr. Collins delivering epic vocals over even more epic drums...
And I was there the night it was recorded
Imo, Phil never did it so aggressively again like he did in 1985 and 1986.
ikr wow!
ahem clapton. ftfy.
Got you beat...37 years...even counting the 2 years since OP made the comment I still win 😊
I can’t still believe that Phill Collins sounded SO GOOD in live performances and playing the drums AT THE SAME time. Without losing breathing or missing the tone. It’s like listening to him in a studio version. It’s unreal.
eric clapton, greg phillanganes, nathan east and phil collins. oh my.
Eric never afraid to take a backseat for certain moments
Say what you will about Clapton, he's generous and shares the limelight with other performers in concerts. He recognises that a performance is a team effort and everyone works better together if they get a chance to shine.
@@zoe-janesutherland4359You will never be a woman 😊
The drums smoked a cigarette after that.
Best drum sound I've ever heard! Beautifully smoked I may add!
😂
I smoked a cigarette for that cigarette 🚬
How old are you?
Thank you for this 👍 😂
Manda fuori di testa . Phil è il più grande di tutti
It's hard to beat Phil Collins and Eric Clapton together... awesome!!
@Thomas Pelley Behind the Sun was the other collaboration. Both Great Albums
And both are firm lifelong friends, a fact of which I have always loved. Phil, Eric and Queen still make me feel proud to be English.
Live aid too
... Traveling Wilburys !
@@lynseycstormster4689 Your 'tribe' extends beyond Engerland then? Freddie was Indian (born in Zanzibar) I am impressed...
In my opinion, this is Phil's best live performance of In the Air Tonight.
Most angriest and clearest vocals after the drums kicks in from all the perfomances in my opinion
I agree. And I was there that night in Birmingham, too
Check out Clapton Live at Montreax. That's the best In The Air Tonight recorded live, hands down.
this or from the No ticket required concert video
OHHHHH HE GETS ALOT BETTER........
damn phil.. lead vocals and drums.. you fking beast
Yes a musician from Englang.
SizzlinMind You from Cuba mang ?
Yes! Best vocals, baddest drummer AND plays the piano!! Awesome, Awesome musician!!
PLUS, he wrote the song!
they are all fking beasts!
Clapton, Collins and fucking Greg Phillinganes. This rendition of In the Air Tonight might be the best one we are able to watch.
Saw him minus Clapton @ Live Aid Philadelphia 1986. A most memorable performance after jetting over on the Concorde from UK. What a memory!!
Incredible. I bet you have so many great stories. How was the concord?
Best live performance of any song ever. Period.
Lucky Bastards in the audience ❤
my father heard this live version of the song long ago, he wanted me to find it on the internet, he said it was the best performance ever, he loved the drums. i wasnt able to find it before he passed. he was so right about how amazing it is.
Wow. I'm glad you tracked it down and I hope somehow he knows and enjoys your hearing it now.
God bless it’s a song that always makes me think of my old man and I’m lucky he’s still here. X
Phil was waiting for that moment all his life.
And that is how you make songs that will last throughout the ages.
Hes a fxxking legend man ffs that song has to be up there with the best ever of all time man
Say what you will about Phil Collins and Eric Clapton, those two are legends
Actually 30 years ago, 1986... One of the best versions of this song, in my opinion.
I like to pretend i was being born while this performance was happening lol (born in 86)
Daryl's better...😁
It's funny, but I LOVE being older - so much wealth of music from groups from my past for me to hear and love (like this), or rehear and relove.
1984 and forward.
Phil is the best
Goosebumps through most of the end part reminiscent of my past life.
This Is the reason why we cannot accept today's music. Because we have been raised with Eric Clapton and Phil Collins
Without a doubt the most amazing performance of Phil I’ve ever seen. Watching someone do when every fiber of them was made to do.
This version is hands down the best. Idk what was going on but the energy between his ad libbing and Clapton just going along for the ride was fantastic.
First time I heard this song was as a kid and digging up a blank VHS tape and it had this performance on it. Blew my mind.
One of the best versions ever. Clapton has some great riffs!
You say...the not much is so perfeect on the song. Listen to all versions of this song without the guitar played like that, you will see that the guitar of Clapton does a great job, givi0n so much to the song. What is much? Much is to get the song great
This version captures the raw anger that inspired the song. In the album track it's more of a cold blank anger. In this live version it's raw power.
No English dictionary has a proper word to describe my boy Phil's performance here.... "Beyond epic" does not even come close. As I have said so many times before, the time period where Phil sported the mullet, was arguably the one where most of his stunning performances had occurred. Already off the charts, during those particular times his performances were almost inhumane. The greatest drummer and a male singer with the greatest voice range of all times, bar none.
AmericaFirst amen to that
"my boy" oh shut up
Amen to that
You locked it America1st!
Your reply was, 'nuf said❣️
Just sad how too many people write Phil off, without seeing the depth of his gifted, talented, soulful, sincere, pulled up from the very center of his being, masterful expressions in both song, drums, as well as generally "all in" from gut to heart, to us❣️
He's amazing but he's not the greatest drummer at all
There are a lot of live versions of 'in the air tonight', but this is absolutely the most amazing one..
Goosebumps everywhere!!! Damm what a legend! I wish I was born a decade ago!
The ultimate version.
The drums killed it and just blows my mind everytime...
Yes Carlito, the best version of that song you will ever hear.....peace to ya.
Darren AM th-cam.com/video/IeDMnyQzS88/w-d-xo.html&feature=share
This song is the despair sadness and anger of a man who has done everything he thought she wanted him to do and she is still not satisfied she still left took his kids and started another life without him
That drum break is the heaviest thing in the universe.
I've been waiting for this moment all my life...
+daweadlX oh Lord...oh Lord.
+Marz5004 me too.
Keith Walker ohh Lord ohh Lord
You understand that 'this moment...." of yours actually happened 20 years ago right?
SMACK68 who?
You know you're a fucking musical god when Eric Clapton is on stage playing a solo and you're the highlight of it
Word
Eses dois ..astros so gravava juntos nos anos 80... hoje nao canta juntos mais
I remember Miami Vice was aired with this song way back in the 80s Dam I miss the 80sWANTED time machine to take me back to the 1980s
He made Miami Vice what it was.....a winning 1985 TV show.
gaskan666 the 2nd half of the first episode Crockett and tubbs looking like there about to go bust some ass and this playing was great
I remember that Phil acted in Miami Vice.
@@Stefan- I do not remember his acting in it but sure loved his music played on that show. To me it made the show better, much better.
They were in a speed boat racing towards the drug smugglers house!
i am Kurdish and i love you Eric vlapton
Phil Collins is one of those very few artists that no TV or Radio/CD player can do his music justice, watching him Live is something every music fan specially Phil Collins fan should experience, i had been listening to his music for more than 20 years before i finally saw him perform live and that was when i realized the magnitude of greatness in him, FUCKING AMAZING from the moment he stepped on stage till we were in the car talking about the show, at least once go see him live people
I went to see genesis in Leeds many years ago absolutely brilliant
Yes most definitely, he is a LIVE performer.
Third row seats for that tour, felt the music. Fond memories.
Someone should have called the police because Phil Collins murdered those drums... Amazing!!!
LMAO!!! He had a big kit. He was a serial killer!!! Awesome!!!
Hahahaha, good one.
Come on... I love The Police but I doubt Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland would have been able to do much!
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and then Sting shows up.... and the National Guard is called. (my two favorite's from that era).
I can't even imagine what it must have felt like to see this live. What a gift of time.
It saddens me that today youth will never know true music, just the emotionless crap they have today😪
Amazing that he actually did this one better 20 years later.
That man was a divine beast. Singing while drumming...that drum set never stood a chance...
OMG every time I hear this my heart pounds. If those drum need a cigarette!
Lucky drums!
Holy shit. How am I just finding this now in 2019?
Welcome to 1981
No kidding
Great show
Me too....and I’m a huge Phil fan!
right?!
Wenn ich gute Musik höre fange ich an zu weinen ich heule mir gerade die Seele aus meinem Körper
This is the best version damn
WOW!!! Now this is MUSIC! I love it when the singer actually plays an instrument while singing. Usually, it's a piano or a guitar, I imagine it must be so much more challenging being the lead singer while beating the snot out of a set of drums! Dammit that was good!!!
Hands down the absolute best version of this song.
The subtle guitar playing by Clapton towards the end is so perfect
Takes me back to the Miami Vice days
That is pure talent on the stage.Eric Clapton ,Phil Collins.The keyboard guy to.
Greg Phillinganes on keys with pure talent as well, just ask Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Toto, Steely Dan, etc etc etc
Wasn’t Nathan East on bass too? I should think so, since this was right after Eric Clapton put out the August LP, on which Phil, Greg and Nathan were the core accompanists.
What a line up!
Wow nice one bitch
God damn. What a line up!
Man, this is a bad*ss song!!! Even all these years later!!! Very haunting. And what an AMAZING performance here!!!
Clapton and Collins= Epic Moment
"In the air tonight" & "Every breath you take"... The best songs of the eighties.
its called giving your 100%
december 2024
I
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Every
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It would be so cool to be at an Eric Clapton concert and have Phil Collins sing this song. Just to see him play the drums would be awesome.
agreed - but turn it around a moment, too. Even if you _are_ phil collins.... think about it: You are playing your most iconic song ever, and you've got Eric Clapton backing you on guitars. Eric. Fucking. Clapton. A bigger legend in guitar than even you are in drums.... and he is helping you make what is literally the most incredible version of your top song in front of 40,000 people. My god - to have that moment in retrospect... :)
Arguably the best (live)-version of this beauty.
+Stefan Baan I agree it's the best.
les britichs sont au top pour la musique
100% the best in my opinion, second to me is the first farewell tour
It’s the best version no doubt about
It
That was hardcore from the legendary Phil Collins.
This song was top of the UK hit parade the day my husband's father died. He cries whenever he hears it.
This Song Is Eternal
Eric Clapton - Iconic bad ass blues guitarist
Phil Collins - Legendary drummer & lead singer to the immortal group Genesis
Live performance of In The Air Tonight from 1981-Priceless
Tonight, ight, ight, igh, igh, igh, igh, igh. OH LORD!
For me, that is the best version of this song
Sherif Ismail
Remember seeing this done at RAH bloody awesome
Didn't know a singer could sing and play drums simultaneously!!!OMG, what a talent!!! The drums in this song are too awesome for words!!!!
Phil Collins, Ringo Starr, Don Henley, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Levon Helm, Roger Taylor, Peter Criss, Eric Carr, Stewart Copeland.
It's alright, we've all had our first time watching a rock video.
And Karen Carpenter..
Not easy at all, especially for a drummer like Phil, with his amazing vocal range.
Wait till you hear The Warning 😉
Phil Collins, un grandissimo cantante e batterista!!!!!! Bellissima questa canzone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Phil Collins, Michael Bolton, Steve Perry, Freddie Mercury were among the most divine voices during the 80s
Can't forget Don Henley
This is not fair. I was born in 1988 - I missed all of this. I'm seriously mad right now! Amazing music, makes me even more sick of the crap that they call music now.
Happy Birthday Phil!
Eeboo, there is no need to feel jealous. I am 69 y/o and lived through that time. The music on this recording is as good as it ever was live. If you are young this can be as an exciting time for you as it was for me in the 60's. I and some of my friends were working to seek God and change the world to be a better place. You can do that now except listen to the old great music and not the new junk. I can't finish my thought so I will write a comment on what I just wrote.
Clapton is low-key genius in this!
sublime
To me, this is perhaps the most PROFOUND song I have ever heard.. It is so haunting, almost religious and sacred, intense, guitar power chords, heavy drums. The beginning chords themselves have an emotional effect, perfectly circular. The pause with backwards sound, then silence.. The echoes on some of the words.. He does this on Jimmy Fallon show with The Roots, he does some great vocal variations. He said on Jimmy Fallon, this song will long outlive him..
Nice comment
Clapton and Collins. Great collaboration...
Love you both...
Same here
I grew up with this version on vhs then dvd it is simply a musical masterpiece Phil on drums and Eric on guitar what more could you ask for ❤
Epic Clapton & Thrill Collins
My parents had this whole concert on VHS and like half of my childhood was watching/listening to this concert and other absolute gems and I love that I can easily revisit and also realize that once, forever ago, I was actually pretty cool lol
You should have actually been there ;)
phil collins - one of the musicians ever, ever, wow man
you should hear him play the piano it's bad ass
Couldn't agree more,even though I know you meant to say the greatest....LOL
Oh yeah I forgot that back in those days there were no TH-cam or internet to listen to songs over and over. So rare to hear those good songs again. And maybe the only way to hear In The Air Tonight back then was attending his concerts :P
Eric and Phil jammin' TOGETHER. Where was I? Oh DAMN, I missed it.
yes, where are you :D
Marko Milosevic I sure did miss something special. Wow!
Star Baby was in 1985 ....
This was in 1986 in England but saw it here in New York and it was ASSUME......
Hey....your still a
Star Baby
Best tune combination Eric is best singer guitarist, phil is just amazing singer and drummer.
The best version of this song, The drums are incredible!
Wow! Go Phil! Belt it out! Folks, it doesn't get any better than this. Such talent on stage here.....
Millennials take note. This is called a musician.
Okay boomer
Alex K. ...nope, not a boomer, sorry.
Not another one. I am a fucking millennial and I've listened to this since the late 80s. What's with the millennial bashing? Just let people enjoy the music.
That was incredible!!! Phil Collins is a Legend in every aspect of the word!!!
Probably the best version live I've ever heard
Try Perkins Palace 1981 :)
@@Alexis1981arg agree
That may be true,but you can't deny the fact that music in the 50's-60's, was 10 times better than what we have today.
Wow! Holy Shit! Didn't know about this one with Eric Clapton. Clapton's guitar complement so well the pain and agony of Collin's song, and the drum fill omfg...
The G.O.A.T
Does not get any better than Eric Clapton and Phil Collins!
I remember it well. I was sitting in the front row with my mate Jeff having ridden up to Birmingham on my 750 Kawasaki. What a night, what a band
no matter how many times I hear this I still get chills I...such an awesome song
The guy on the organ was just groovin in his own space warp...love it!
The best live version of the song, period. Wicked good!
Best version ever... with Clapton at the guitar
legendary.
I have to say this is the first time I have ever heard Eric Clapton give sincere props to another musician. With an offhand remark about the song, of course.