Phil Collins and Craig Blundell of Steven Wilson and Frost*. According to Jason Bonham, his father "respected Phil Collins’ drumming very much" and one of his favorite songs was Genesis' "Turn It On Again", which he used to love playing with him. "Modern Drummer" readers voted for Collins every year between 1987 and 1991 as Pop/Mainstream Rock drummer of the year. In 2000, he was voted as Big Band drummer of the year. In 2012, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Collins is a left-handed drummer, and uses Gretsch drums, Noble & Cooley solid snare drums, Remo heads, Sabian cymbals
Testify (Phil Collins album) are derived from demos Collins made in his bedroom studio and finished off with the help of producers Rob Cavallo and James Sanger, engineer Allen Sides, guitarist Tim Pierce, and bassist Paul Bushnell. Phil worked extensively with computers during production, work that can be seen throughout the album. After Phil made "Dance into the Light" without any drum machine, he returned to the device for "Testify". The album begins with an up-tempo "Wake Up Call". It was based on a 16-bar doodle Phil wrote, and only began to formalise when he brought it into studio. The title track, the longest