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Thu Apr 15 16:32:06 1982
Peter Gabriel
re: Peter Gabriel album
Yes, there are three P.G. solo outings. The "melted face" one you
mention is indeed the second one. The third album (on Mercury) has a b&w cover
(again) of P.G. seemingly ripping shreds out of his own photo. (You have to see
it.) I think that this is his best work to date. Produced by Steve Lillywhite,
who has worked with a number of interesting new music artists (Ultravox, U2,
Psychedelic Furs), the album has a lot more bite to it than the others, with
interesting instrumentation and clever songwriting ("Intruder", "I Don't
Remember", e.g.). Helping out on this record are Tony Levin (bass and stick;
formerly of session work with Paul Simon, Lennon/Ono; now with King Crimson),
Larry Fast (keys, synths, electronics; SYNERGY), and I think Phil Collins.
"Games Without Frontiers," his big radio "hit" of 1980, is on this album, as
well as "Biko" (a great song about Steve Biko's brutal treatment by the South
Africans), "Intruder" (an incredibly haunting song about a prowler and/or
peeping tom), and more.
Despite my praise for this album, I still don't own it yet!! I guess
I'm waiting to find it in the cutout bins like the first two albums. Mercury
doesn't tend to keep records in print for a long time (look at all the great
10cc cutouts you find in cutout bins), but this one is still available at
(yecch!) regular prices in regular stores. As far as naming/numbering these
records, I either refer to I, II, and III, OR Atco, Atlantic, and Mercury
(respective record labels). If a fourth album (probably to be called
"Peter Gabriel") is released, it will probably be on the label he is now
signed to, Geffen Records. No word on this yet....
I managed to see him perform live in Central Park at a surprise show
in 1980, where Fast and Levin and two others put on a really great show!!!
He came back for three encores, demanded by the crowd mainly because they
expected to hear "Games Without Frontiers", which never happened. Instead
the band played "D.I.Y" and "On the Air", followed by Peter alone on piano
for a phenomenal rendition of "Here Comes the Flood", similar to the one
he did on Robert Fripp's "Exposure" album (also a cutout bin fave). Gabriel
never liked the way Bob Ezrin produced the version on "I".
Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr
(This was supposed to have been mailed to kennethr, but that sure didn't work!)
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