Archive for the 'Gabriel, Peter' Category
Latest vinyl finds Dec 20/08 – From Patti Smith Group and Dire Straits to Strawbs
I just bought another well-kept set of records through the local classifieds at one buck a piece. Although there are several genres, you will notice a rather progressive theme in that person’s collection. Both Strawbs and Wishbone Ash were new to me, but I like them for what they are. Finally I have a mint [...]
Read More..>>Exposure to Robert Fripp (1979)
Last week I picked up a near-mint LP copy of the original mix of Robert Fripp’s 1979 album, Exposure. I find listening to the album, whose main themes orbit suffering, a fascinating experience. Fripp (who is best known for fronting King Crimson) thought of the album as a third in a triology including the [...]
Read More..>>The story behind a song: Haunted by “The Rhythm of the Heat” (Peter Gabriel and Carl Jung)
Listen while you read:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-5KPdwUJC4
A 1982 live version of Rhythm of the Heat from YouTube
By haunted, I don’t mean in the halloween sense, but in the sense of losing your self entirely to the spirits, of losing your very soul. One of the most haunting and experiential songs I know of is Peter Gabriel’s “Rhythm [...]
Post-Gabriel Genesis: A Trick of the Tail (1976)
Listen while you read: “Dance on a volcano” (audio snippet)
I have been a fan of Genesis for some years. Just now memories are coming back of earlier days, when I was 13 (1982-83), listening to Genesis on 103 PhD, coming out of Buffalo (for many years when someone referred to a “PhD”, I thought [...]
Read More..>>Peter Gabriel sings in German – 3. Melt (ein deutsches album) (1980)
Listen while you read: Biko (audio snippet)
I was lucky enough to find one of Peter Gabriel’s lesser known albums at the local record store in Waterloo (“Orange Monkey”). After leaving the then well-known Genesis to pursue his solo career in the mid 1970s, Gabriel went on to create a number of interesting and somewhat [...]
