Peter Gabriel

[Algernon Moncrieff]

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1. weird

Just listened to SO an hour ago .

[Algernon Moncrieff]

4. The NSA called and let me know

I figured you'd enjoy the videos after a good So listening

[NYC_SKP]

2. And, sometime earlier...

[Algernon Moncrieff]

3. Many people don't think about Peter's days with Genesis

Thanks for posting!

[KMOD]

5. I can't find a cecent Peter Gabriel/Genesis Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

but I like this song, so

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6. Have you heard the orchestrated versions?

From his 2011 release New Blood. Available as orchestra and Peter or just instrumentals.

These are live versions.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. I Don't Remember, I Can't Recall

That song FLIPPED ME OUT! Tony Levin's fretless bass work on that song just may be the best bass part ever on a rock song.

Fantastic song, fantastic production, fantastic musicianship. AND(!) when we saw them, it was even better live.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

11. A link to the video of the studio version.

[GreatGazoo]

8. My first day working for an entertanment lawyer

Lawyer came in at 10AM, said hello, went into his office and says "Get Peter Gabriel on the phone."

(what ?!)

After 30 seconds he sees that the light for the outgoing line on his phone is still not lit. I am going through options in my head, call his agency, call my friend at Capitol Records.... So the lawyer adds:

"... it's in the Rolodex."

Okay, yeah. Massive Rolodex, like 12 inches in diameter, full of cards. Spin, spin, "Robin Gibb", "Barry Gibb", "David Geffen", ..."Peter Gabriel 011-47-456..."

I dial. They answer: "Peter Gabriel" I ask "Is Peter Gabriel in for Neil Lawyerguy?" "This IS Peter Gabriel." "Oh, okay, one sec"

And I tell Niel that PG is on hold. He picks up and tries to get the rights for "Sledgehammer" to use on that TV show. Gabriel wasn't having it.

"No. No interested"

Lawyer: "How about for a wheelbarrow full of money? (nothing) ...two wheelbarrows...? (click)

All before coffee. It was a wild job.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

12. That is a great story

Thanks for posting!

[lovemydog]

9. The version of Don't Give Up

made me cry a little. The good kind of tears. Thank you Algernon Moncrieff.

That song always gets to me.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

10. I always think of Oakland when I hear the song

I'm from Oakland, and there are two parts of the song that, to me, connect the song:

Drove the night toward my home
The place that I was born, on the lakeside
As daylight broke, I saw the earth
The trees had burned down to the ground

I think of this because of the fires in 1991, and my one-time home near Lake Merritt (OK - technically, I wasn't born by the lake; I was born at MacArthur & Broadway)

In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail

Again I think of Oakland, as well as other places, like Flint, MI and many one-time steel towns in Pennsylvania.

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13. Fun thread. :)