Saturday, October 16, 2021

Peter Gabriel - Rarities, Volume 2: Live in 1977 (A MIKE SOLOF GUEST POST)

First off, my apologies to Mike for having to wait a long time before posting this. Hopefully I'll be much faster next time. As you can see from the title, this is another Mike Solof guest post, continuing his long series of Peter Gabriel solo material.

As usual, Mike has included a PDF file that explains things in detail (and with pictures). But just so you know what you're getting, this album collects all the songs Peter Gabriel did in his first solo tour, in 1977. The vast majority of it relies on a soundboard bootleg from Cleveland. (I've gotta say the sound quality is good but not great, but it's the best available from that tour.) However, Mike rearranged the songs in the order of Gabriel's first solo album, simply called "Peter Gabriel." Then the songs that didn't appear on that album come after that.

There are a few songs done on the tour that weren't played at that Cleveland show. So Mike found the best sounding versions of them and added them to the end. The sound quality slowly declines, to the point that two of the songs didn't make the usual standards and so only appear as bonus tracks. The rest are certainly listenable though.

01 Here Comes the Flood [Piano Version] (Peter Gabriel)
02 Moribund the Burgermeister (Peter Gabriel)
03 Solisbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
04 talk (Peter Gabriel)
05 Modern Love (Peter Gabriel)
06 talk (Peter Gabriel)
07 Excuse Me (Peter Gabriel)
08 Humdrum (Peter Gabriel)
09 talk (Peter Gabriel)
10 Slowburn (Peter Gabriel)
11 Waiting for the Big One (Peter Gabriel)
12 Down the Dolce Vita (Peter Gabriel)
13 Here Comes the Flood [Band Version] (Peter Gabriel)
14 Back in N. Y. C. (Peter Gabriel)
15 On the Air (Peter Gabriel)
16 talk (Peter Gabriel)
17 A Song without Words [Early Version of Indigo] (Peter Gabriel)
18 Ain't That Peculiar (Peter Gabriel)
19 Why Don't We (Peter Gabriel)
20 All Day and All of the Night (Peter Gabriel)
21 I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Peter Gabriel)
22 White Shadow [Slow Version] (Peter Gabriel)

Animal Magic (Peter Gabriel)
D. I. Y. [Instrumental Version] (Peter Gabriel)

https://www.imagenetz.de/aNUVg

The cover was selected by Mike. Hopefully he can explain where and when it's from, 'cos I don't know.

2 comments:

  1. I have consulted a new research tool (even tho many have often accused me of being a TOOL, called the Inter-Net. It has helped me pinpoint the location of the photo as being taken somewhere on earth. After hours of staring at the image I have also finally noticed that Peter appears younger than he does today at present...so i feel safe in also saying that this picture was taken sometime in the past. I will double check my obliviously detailed notes to make sure. Be Right Back.

    Yup...It was taken somewhere at sometime. Whew...dodged a bullet on that one!!

    -The ever sarcastic and always unaware Mike "my expectations are setlow so that I am never ever disappointed" Solof

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