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In the mid-1960s, Banks attended Charterhouse School in England, a "public school" (what Americans would call a private high school), at which he met Peter Gabriel, and the two formed an amateur band. At the time Banks, who was classically trained on the piano, played only that instrument and had little interest in other keyboard instruments. Eventually Banks and Gabriel became acquainted with Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford, who were a year behind them at Charterhouse and had their own band, and the two bands merged. They did some demo tapes which caught the interest of pop singer Johnathan King, who signed them to a contract. It was King who suggested the name "Genesis" to the band.

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  • In the mid-1960s, Banks attended Charterhouse School in England, a "public school" (what Americans would call a private high school), at which he met Peter Gabriel, and the two formed an amateur band. At the time Banks, who was classically trained on the piano, played only that instrument and had little interest in other keyboard instruments. Eventually Banks and Gabriel became acquainted with Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford, who were a year behind them at Charterhouse and had their own band, and the two bands merged. They did some demo tapes which caught the interest of pop singer Johnathan King, who signed them to a contract. It was King who suggested the name "Genesis" to the band.
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  • In the mid-1960s, Banks attended Charterhouse School in England, a "public school" (what Americans would call a private high school), at which he met Peter Gabriel, and the two formed an amateur band. At the time Banks, who was classically trained on the piano, played only that instrument and had little interest in other keyboard instruments. Eventually Banks and Gabriel became acquainted with Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford, who were a year behind them at Charterhouse and had their own band, and the two bands merged. They did some demo tapes which caught the interest of pop singer Johnathan King, who signed them to a contract. It was King who suggested the name "Genesis" to the band. Genesis recorded their first album, From Genesis to Revelation, in 1968. It was in the sessions for this album where Banks was introduced to the Hammond organ, which at first he couldn't figure out what to do with. However, he rapidly became acquainted with the instrument and began to explore its possibilities. In contrast to most rock and jazz Hammond players who prefer the B-3 model, Banks went for an L-122 spinet model. An atypical feature of the L-122 was that, unlike most tone wheel Hammond models, the L-122 has a self-starting motor. Banks explored the possibilities of that during the sessions for the band's second album, Trespass, where during some solos he turned the motor switch off and on to achieve pitch bend effects.
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