Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
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Artist: Peter GabrielEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
Published: 1994
CD Release Date: 1994-09-13
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Come Talk to Me
- Steam
- Across the River
- Slow Marimbas
- Shaking the Tree
- Red Rain
- Blood of Eden
- Kiss That Frog
- Washing of the Water
- Solsbury Hill
- Digging in the Dirt
- Sledgehammer
- Secret World
- Don't Give Up
- In Your Eyes
Free Music Notes for Secret World Live
Free Music Review: One of my favorite Live CDs of all time
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember one night, I was visiting my mother's house for a vacation back in 1995. I didn't have a lot of cable channels at my house, so I was surprised that while channel surfing on of all places, a concert was broadcast on the Disney Channel. It was a live concert of Billy Joel being broadcast. Turns out that back in the day, Disney didn't have commercials and at night aired entertainment geared to adults.
I checked the guide to see what was coming up, and there was a concert by someone I'd not really listened to before, Peter Gabriel. (I didn't follow Geneses, only knew Phil Collins had replaced someone)
Well, this concert blew me away. The rich tones, the "World Beat" of the music, and a great gravely voice with some staging worthing of a Broadway production. I could not believe my good fortune that I'd stumbled across someone new. Well, part way through the show I heard Solsbury Hill, which sounded familiar but this rendition was really fascinating. When the concert closed with In Your Eyes, I almost wanted to get up and cheer.
I spoke with a friend of mine about this show, and told him it was some guy named Peter Gabriel, and his band and female singer put on one of the best shows I'd ever seen. I told him it was going to be on again, and if I could figure out how to get my mother's old "Beta Max" recorder to work and if I could find a tape for it, I'd record it for him.
He looked at me with a blank stare, and said, "Your kidding me, right? You don't know Peter Gabriel? The name doesn't ring a bell to you?" No I responded. He looked at me and said "He's the former lead singer of Geneses." I told him I didn't really follow them. He said "Don't you recall a few months back I asked you if you wanted to grab a date and go to a concert with me and my girlfriend?" I shrugged and told him I had a vague recollection. He said "do you remember the name of the guy?" Not really I said. "Peter Gabriel, you idiot. I told you you would really like him but because you didn't know his music you passed. And afterwards how me and my girlfriend were raving about the show." Boy did I feel stupid.
Well the show was aired on Disney a couple of more times while I was visiting, but I never was able to get the Beta Max working. I did buy the CD and listened to it probably two or three times a day while driving.
I now regret not listening to my friend and now accept almost every offer to go see someone new afraid I'll miss a show as great as this one. (In twelve years, I've only found 2 other shows I've been more impressed with).
I'm sorry to hear that the DVD isn't the exact same show on the CD or the one Disney aired. But that shouldn't stop you from buying the DVD or this great CD.
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Out-of-print in the US! An aural postcard of Gabriel's 1993-1994 "Us World Tour", SECRET WORLD LIVE is demonstrative of this studio perfectionist's ability to produce singular, textured works in any setting. He has always surrounded himself with first-class players who shared his vision of incorporating world music into the Western pop vocabulary (guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin and drummer Manu Katche have been with Gabriel thebetter part of ten years). To expand the music's breadth, for the "Us" tour he added noted jazz violinist Shankar and vocalist Paula Cole to the band and restructured the songs toreflect the more celebratory aspects of live performances. This mix provides SECRET WORLD LIVE with its world-beat meets new age jazz meets English art-soul sound. Created in the wake of U2's extravagant "Zoo TV", the "Us" shows were also multi-media blow outs, thematically connected to Gabriel's then-current explorations of psychotherapy. In fact, the second half of the album incorporates previous hits--the sexually charged "Sledgehammer", the elegiac "Don't Give Up" (with Cole playing Kate Bush's part), and the anthemic "In YourEyes"--into a song-cycle that explores the consequences of the inner fears of youth and love's ability to insulate one from that pain. It all makes Gabriel's SECRET WORLD LIVE addup to a musical stew that is equal parts William Gibson, Carl Jung and Fela Kuti.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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