Sunday, April 27, 2025

Peter Gabriel - Rock Werchter Festival, Werchter, Belgium, 7-3-1983

I'm posting this album due to a screw-up. When I downloaded this bootleg, I thought it was going to be the next album in my series of Peter Gabriel BBC albums. But then I took a listen to it and heard a DJ at various points talking in a foreign language. I then did a little more research and decided this wasn't a BBC concert after all. And while it is an FM radio broadcast, the sound quality isn't great. However, I noticed that Gabriel's vocals were quite low in the mix, and that's something I could easily fix. So I decided to go through with the fixing and post this, even though it's not the best concert bootleg from his 1983 tour.

I'm not going to say a lot because I'm not that keen on this concert, due to the sound quality being only good instead of great. Perhaps at some later point I'll post a better sounding one from this tour (and one that includes "Games without Frontiers," one of my favorite songs from him). Three of the songs here have "[Edit]" in them because they had a DJ talking over part of the track. As I usually, do I used the UVR5 program to get rid of the talking. And, as mentioned above, I also used UVR5 to boost the lead vocals relative to everything else.

Note that Gabriel also released a live album from the same tour, called "Plays Live." Although I'd also note that it was criticized for its sound quality, and it's taken from multiple concerts.

01 Across the River [Edit] (Peter Gabriel)
02 Intruder (Peter Gabriel)
03 talk (Peter Gabriel)
04 Not One of Us (Peter Gabriel)
05 talk (Peter Gabriel)
06 The Family and the Fishing Net (Peter Gabriel)
07 Humdrum (Peter Gabriel)
08 talk (Peter Gabriel)
09 Shock the Monkey [Edit] (Peter Gabriel)
10 talk (Peter Gabriel)
11 We Do What We're Told [Milgram's 37] (Peter Gabriel)
12 talk (Peter Gabriel)
13 Family Snapshot (Peter Gabriel)
14 talk (Peter Gabriel)
15 Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
16 San Jacinto (Peter Gabriel)
17 On the Air (Peter Gabriel)
18 Biko [Edit] (Peter Gabriel) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1GrvbUv5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/UN354tZAT6BIipC/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the Palais des Sports, in Paris, France, on July 1st, 1983. He wore the same facial make-up for the whole tour, so he almost certainly looked just like this at this concert just a couple of days later.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you! I saw GP in December 1982, on the Security tour, which was great. Then I caught him in 1983 for one of his shows in Berkeley, Calif, and he was equally great. Fortunately, he played Games Without Frontiers in Berkeley! Fortunately I have audio copies of both those shows. I didn't get to seem him again until 2012, and he was still phenomenal. Keep the PG boots coming.

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