Winter of 1982 was my first Peter Gabriel concert, in support of his fourth album. Ottawa Civic Centre, only six thousand seats. We heard the onstage drone of the elephant hunting sticks. Over the roar of the crowd, we heard the heartbeat drumming out. My buddy and I strained to discern from where the drumming came. Then way up in the rafters, four storeys high, we saw the band. They had entered the auditorium through an archway and they marched, single file, with various large drums strapped to their chests. Poom-poom... Poom-poom... Poom-poom... "The Rhythm of the Heat". It took them fifteen minutes to wind their way down through the audience. Not one person touched the band members, it seemed. Six thousand cheering fans, nobody on the stage and we were already entranced by this entrance. Finally the band climbed onto the stage. Peter stood on a small platform. The white ceiling of the Civic Centre was less than sixty feet above the stage, I'd reckon. Peter at last opened the song with his primal yell, the gong sample shook the arena. A floodlight beneath the artist's feet burst upward, shining eerily upon him. And up above, his shadow was briefly cast against the ceiling, like a giant cloud-god in the sky above the African plain. I have never seen video footage, pro or bootleg, from Gabriel's 1982 Winter tour. That show remains one of the most mysterious and emotional nights of my life.

@@OronOfMontreal That's a heck of a description. Thanks for that! I have seen bootleg footage somewhere on KZfaq of the 82 leg of the tour. I'll search it up and post the link here.

@@OronOfMontreal kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hcumrbhqnp6lhoU.html

I wish I could Have gone back in time

I got to see the Secret World tour with nosebleed seats and it was amazing. And with how amazing that was, it was topped by his next tour 10 years later for his Up album.

There a lot of input from monstah musicians from around the world on tLToC... BTW, unless you have true hi-quality HiFi/studio monitoring and you listen to the 24/96 HD version, you cannot hear everything on the OST!!!

Likewise!

It’s all my pleasure!! I love him now

Oh wow. Can’t wait

_"That's not an easy song to appreciate since it's a bit odd"_ I had no issue enjoying it from the 1st time I listened to it... I have severe issues enjoying Don't give up : totally depressing, Peter forgot to eat his Xanax pill again when he wrote this. Sorry, I'm not interested in just hugging and with lukewarm women. Actually, the women who stick with the wrongful views about love in love songs all end making a mess of their lives and so do all those who write these BS, and it's exactly Pete Gab's case... Actually, some of the few who did realistic love songs were Frank Zappa and Gainsbourg... Gainsbourg's "Je t'aime moi non plus", either with Brigitte Bardot or Jane Birkin is monumental. Banned from airing in many countries despite not being in domestic language! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qt-VqLmq0rbQlp8.html The first n°1 banned hit single in the UK The Bardot version added a huge scandal and was withdrawn from release for 19 years despite having already been aired a few times... Just look at Gainsbourg's face? He had them all! Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Adjani, etc etc... The only one who resisted was Whitney Houston, which is sad for her : when you're able to write the best love song ever while the girl singing it is not even a singer, imagine what could have happened with the voice of Whitney! But one thing for sure : Gainsbourg only got the inspiration to write a song for a woman if he was in an intimate relationship with her... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_t%27aime..._moi_non_plus kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j8toatGQ1NWVfas.html Then another one, the HOTTEST LOVE SONG EVER, again by Gainsbourg... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpibhpd0zc27oWg.html Note : the real video-clips are blocked for non adults while there is nothing X in, at worst you see some titties and suggestive postures. Has YT hired religious morons?

Nope, because there is King Crimson, Magma, Zappa, Yes, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Frankfurter Ensemble Modern...

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I will second the Athens 87 live version of Lay Your Hands On Me. Vintage Peter Gabriel.

This live version from 2016 in Edmonton may interest you it has extended "SOULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL" particularly the last one before the instrumental ending! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aNpjqZarrra5g6M.html

@@Triplecenturies : Voodoo music here in the 2nd part with the percs, no surprise

That is a completely valid point, and conversely, if Phil had not decided to stay with Genesis when he went solo there would not have been anything like Genesis. It makes you realize just how much the stars aligned for this band

@@swirll360 What Phil brought into the band early on, besides his skills as a drummer, was being able to arrange their music much better than they could on their own. For example, Steve was talking about writing the notes for 'Los Endos' as four straight-forward quarter notes. Phil's the one who suggested drawing them out. Using his skills as a drummer and being able to play around with the rhythm probably benefited Genesis enormously. He was also great at matching up bits of their music to make them sound great. I'm convince that if Collins hadn't become a drummer, he would have made a great producer.

@@RubesGoodBrainCoffee Yes, yes and yes. I'm also sure that there were times when Steve made important contributions to song structure as well, that's just the nature of collaborative songwriting bands. Early Genesis records gave songwriting credits to the entire band, it was only after Peter left did they list individual members songwriting credits. When they did that it was clear to me that Tony and Mike were or became the chief songwriters with occasional credits to other members. But yes Phil turned out to be equally as important to the success of Genesis as Peter was in the early days of the band.

Yeah, I agree. I bought New Blood. Listened to it once and passed it on. The friend I gave it to listened to it once and gave it away. Forgettable I think. Might have been better if they were all new songs, but the orchestra didn't do any justice to those well loved older songs. Also, kinda feel Gabriel sold out after the 4th album by giving his albums names. In the 70s he gave an interview where he stated that he regarded each album as a new edition - like a magazine with the logo in the same position but with a different cover. I suppose the call of bigger sales in the USA was too big to ignore.

In 1977 Peter Gabriel recorded vocals to "Strawberry Fields Forever" for a tribute album to The Beatles. It was a 3-record album full of famous musicians singing to orchestral arrangements of the Fab Four's music. Title: "All This and World War Two". Gabriel's contribution was in turns beautiful, creepy and threatening, from the way he used his voice. When you do something This well, there is no need to repeat it. "New Blood", in rehashing a decades-old idea, waters it down and renders it anemic. And it also delayed Gabriel's next real album by another few years. It has been 18+ years since "Up". I hope Peter lives forever but does he really think that he will?

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I meant the studio version, that the orchestra is basing itself off of

@@Kimobubby Ryan, on the studio album, the orchestra was all synths and sampler. This was one of the first albums to employ digital sampling, which had only existed about a year. Here's his genius: He used this futuristic, cutting edge First World technology, the sort of stuff that for 40 years had been destabilizing and dehumanizing people, in order to reach into the most ancient African rhythms, which represent the very beating heart of humanity, and he melded past and future to create something as yet unheard for 1982. Here's the documentary about the making of peter gabriel IV... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qcmdjKpitdyVj4U.html

Ryan, if you did your Journey with Marillion it would complete me. They're my second favorite band behind Genesis. And similarly to Genesis, they were harder and grittier with their first singer (4 albums) and changed a bit with their second singer (14 albums). Other than the very early days with some personnel changes and then Fish leaving in 1989, they've had no line-up changes and are still going strong. And just like Genesis, fans have the Gabriel/Collins singer argument with Marillion's Fish/Hogarth.

@@MattLathrum that's exactly right but there is one member that has produced time after time and thats Steve Rothery.

Understood. But I wouldn’t know that :((

That’s fair

@@Kimobubby I always try to be fair and respectful it's just the way I was raised and it also might be because I have relatives in Hamilton and Toronto even though I'm from New Jersey (smiles)

Or is it the dark haired one?

@@scottrogers2995 the dark haired lady 👍

Dark hair, Melanie Gabriel.

Very cool !

Just the one with dark hair, Melanie Gabriel.

@@shyshift Melanie is the youngest and has toured several times with him. The blond is the older sister and normally more involved in graphic arts and media projects than performing. Both girls are his daughters

@@Jfhelwig the blonde is Anna,the baby that came during the recording of the Lamb and Peter was worried she wouldn’t survive her first week.