Drummer reacts to "Sledgehammer" & "Biko" & "Come Talk To Me" by Peter Gabriel (Spotlight)
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- Well, for the month of July it is Peter Gabriel time.... Every Thursday we will be listening to a few songs by him at 11AM EST... All chosen by Patreon members!! Thank you so much to our alpha patron Barry and all of our Discordia members for voting on the songs. Enjoy the video and at the end you'll find out how I really felt about these three!
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Peter was the first musician to raise awareness of the Aparthied state in South Africa. He wrote the song Biko in 1980, no-one in the west was even aware of the atrocities being carried out against South Africans back then. Steven Biko galvanized the people to stand up against an occupying regime and it was thanks to his steadfast courage that a massive groundswell of resistance took hold and the world finally noticed and the governing regime was deposed. Stephen Biko was arrested and beaten to death by Police before he was even incarcerated. Official cause of death: 'he had fallen out of a window'
Peter Gabriel's political activism inspired many other artists to use concert venues as a means of raising awareness and support regarding Human Rights Abuses and freeing those who have been tortured and imprisoned for daring to speak out against violent atrocities..
Sentences I've never heard before: "Is that a turkey doing kung fu?" 🤣
😂😂😂
The poetic genius of Biko is incredible. Peter put an entire story and movement into 12 lines of verse. The fact the the drums never move from the initial pattern is brilliant. Still brings me to tears. Thank you, Lee.
I read somewhere that Phil Collins came up with the drum beat. I hope that's true.
The Sledgehammer video is ALL stop motion.... every frame separately shot. And he even had to keep his mouth in the right place for the words... Can you imagine what this was like when it came out..!! And the suit at the end was a litteral light suit of tiny light bulbs.....
The world music come from PETER.... He was one of the promoters of WOMAD... the wolrd music and dance festive in the UK... In fact... Genesis got back together with him to get him money because he poured so much into it.....!!
Peter was the first artist with a name to highlight the injustices of apartheid. And Biko was something else when bought that album. Peter always teaches me something. He is the best kind of human being.
And I was lucky enough to get to see that basic band on the anniversary SO tour.... It was awesome.
Beautiful! Thanks ❤
Playing for change version of Biko is outstanding.
"you can blow out a candle but you can't put out a FIRE!! "
Thank you, Peter
That is such a powerful line. Thank you for quoting it.❤
It’s incredible at the end of PG concerts when he closes with this song and the band leaves the stage and the audience carries on the chant on their own. Transcendent.
"once the flame begin to catch, the wind will blow it higher." One of my favorite quotes.
"It is better to die for an idea that will live than live for an idea that will die"
My favorite line from Steven Biko. His death definitely lit the fires of anti-apartheid around the world and Peter Gabriel was one of the torch bearers.
The words to Biko helped my daughter answer a question in the ACT exam. They asked the date that Stephen Biko was killed
That’s an amazing tidbit thank you for that lol
Steve Biko was a huge figure in South African history . Worth looking into
"Come Talk To Me" You MUST MUST MUST watch his "Secret World" concert video someday. It opens with this song, and the visuals, theatrics and music make it an experience you will love and never forget. You've seen what Peter can do with genesis. Now see what he can do when you turn him lose on his own.
"Secret World Live" One of the best concert videos you'll see.
Manu is a frigging machine on drums
Come Talk to Me... he's amazing
His song "Solsbury Hill" is all about leaving Genesis and going solo.
I saw Peter Gabriel during the Secret World Live tour. The band played Biko as their last song, the musicians leaving the stage one by one until only the drummer was left. It was extremely powerful. I highly recommend that anyone who has a chance to see Peter Gabriel live do so.
Peter Gabriel is just on a different level.
His LP "So" was one of the most played from the 80's. It was EVERYWHERE!
The Playing for Change-Song Around the World version of Biko is incredible.
BIKO moved me when it came out. I had NO idea of what was going on in other parts of the world at that time. It opened my eyes.
Same here.
Indeed. I went to see the Biko movie that came out around the same time as the song. Being the only 2 blonde people in a theater in downtown Oakland brought home the struggles going on in S. Africa at the time
Peter had been involved and was attracted to the percussive uniqueness of African music as can be heard in the album Security. I don't think he's ever come back.
Martin Scorsese got Peter to do the soundtrack for Last Temptation of Christ. He used only instruments available in North Africa and the MIddle East at the time that Christ was walking the Earth, and created a symphonic masterpiece. There's an album called Passion which combines the soundtrack of that movie with other compilations he gathered at the time that might be worth a listen.
"Sledgehammer" one of the best songs & videos of the late 80's. "Biko" one of the most powerful tributes & protest songs ever.
Peter Gabriel ends every one of his live performances with this song. I’ve seen him twice, 40 years apart, and this is such an emotional way to end the night.
I imagine that Mandela and Biko were personal friends.
What makes the Sledgehammer video so amazing is the incredibly meticulous stop-motion animation. If it were done today, it would just be a bunch of lazy, cheesy, no-brainer CGI.
Not if Peter Gabriel would make it, I think. CGI is a tool and a tool is as good as the one who knows how to use it.
The crowd loved Peter Gabriel he could fall on his back into the crowd and they would carry him above their heads
Come talk To Me still gives me chills. It was so intensely dramatic in concert in the video The Secret Worlds Live, it was mind blowing when I saw it live on that tour. Saw him on the last tour, also fantastic. Peter's solo work is very different from Genesis, but no less progressive. The sledgehammer video is definitely stop motion. It wasn't a kung fu turkey, it was a dancing chicken.
A Triple header of Peter Gabriel....NOICE!!! Excellent reaction man....He wrote this for his daughter who he was losing touch with....this theme can easily play out in our of our lives...so reach out to you r kids everyday
More fun like Sledgehammer is the video for Big Time.
look up "Real World". That was Gabriel's mobile state-of-the-art music studio, he travelled to Pakistan, Egypt, India and recorded many musicians and published the tapes. It's all amazing stuff
1986...Amnesty International...Peter Gabrial was a rock God to this 16 year old with her 2 besties on a gorgous evening...it was broadcasted live on tv and there is tons of footage all over the internet...
I still think the amnesty international concert was way better...I adore Peter, but Biko was low energy feeling compared to the show I will never forget...
Nice reaction. Yes you are correct, putting pictures together is exactly what it is. It's called Stop Motion animation and without computers this was a major undertaking. Every frame must be manipulated and shot individually.
Oh I get it brother that’s a feat right there I just watched. Especially for 86. A lot of love and passion went into the making of that video. And the song rocks too!
@@L33ReactsCheck out Digging in the Dirt from the same album, the stop motion is as good and twice as creepy. Gabriel is as much an artist as any musician out there, never a wrong step.
@@spooley It is a cool video and song, but I have to correct you. Digging in the Dirt is not from the same album that Sledgehammer is on. Sledgehammer is on "So", Digging in the Dirt is on "Us".
@@L33Reacts Stop-motion animation was being done as early as 1900's (meaning 1900 - 1910) and was even crazier than anything seen in this Gabriel video, just FYI. What Gabriel did here wasn't innovative - it was actually a *throwback* to what stop-motion pioneers were doing 80 years before him. Much of what he did here was just recreating what George Meliis did in 1902.
@@neonpark1874 Ah, gotcha. Suggest anyone who doesn't have the DVD called Play with all his videos to that point should grab one. Prices are starting to creep up because the Solsbury Hill "cabbage" version is on it and seems to keep getting pulled off the web.
I was 16 in 1986 and a Genesis/Gabriel obsessive. Saw him live - my first-ever gig 😊
I was also 16 when I was introduced to early genesis in 1977, which is also when his first solo album. And for the history of it, it was also when Robert Fripp and Peter Gabriel, met Tony Levin who would for the next 40 years play with Peter andKing Crimson! The stars aligned
@@janewells5970 Brilliant. Yes, PG1 is an amazing piece of work. I mean, from Genesis to that. I love his later stuff but PG1-3 are the ones closest to my heart now.
@@mattleppard1964 me too for particularly scratch, but they’re all phenomenal. And even when they started getting a little more commercial, I cheered it on because it was his way of reaching the masses
Lovely version of 'Biko'. Always glad to spot Tony Levin onstage.
That was absolutely some stop-motion animation in the 'Sledgehammer' vid.
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He transformed many times in consciousness, so creative with different cultures.
He's amazing
Saw Gabriel several times. One time he did San Jacinto while wearing fluorescent war paint. Already would have looked hella cool under the black light and pals and I were tripping.
So many decades listening to this song....and still I cry every time I hear it.
This was phenomenal. Peter is a monster talent and world influencer. One of his songs on a more personal level that I love is Digging In the Dirt.
The reason that Bantu Stephen Biko died in South African police custody is because he was tortured by them.
You have to watch Peter and Paula on Shaking The Tree. Paula does a verse solo, and the whole band is choreographed in a cute dance around the round stage. I think it's the best video Peter ever made.
I’ve actually done it, Charles! It’s in my Peter Gabriel playlist
Peter gabriel is pure magic ❤
God we were so spoiled with choice of amazing music! The options of greatness was so vast , but we were kids we had our camps , but even still we knew who was great. The first videos all stop action- no computer. Music had a lot to do with awareness that stopped Apartheid, many musicians worked with African musicians to focus the world attention
Big team musicians !! Tony Levin, Manu Katche, Richie havens, david sancious and Paula Cole ( listen to hush hush hush with peter gabriel) in come talk to me, and Youssou N' dour in Biko....
Peter Gabriel is my favorite artist
And , of course, "Solsbury Hill" is an absolute classic. Always gets the volume up!
Three amazing songs. Biko was on another level of greatness
look up 'Red Rain' By Peter Gabriel very emotional song.
If you remember of discord, we voted for the song by Peter that will be played every Thursday in the month of July.Red Rain is definitely one of them.
Peter's sneaky, if you re-read Sledgehammer's lyrics and watch the video again you may notice the entire song is about sex.
Oh kiddo..
You did it again!
I haven't played Biko in 30 years.
Oh Jesus.....
This was the "Art Rock" genre; Gabriel, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, etc..
Then, came the Cars.......
Every song on his "Melt" album is next level
I highly recommend Peter's "Wallflower" as well. An anti-political prisoner masterpiece.
partially inspired by two albums, "Passion" and "Passion origins" or something. He traveled for a few years in Africa with the coolest mobile van recording studio. "Real World" music
Hey, it's Peter Gabriel!
Those dancing chickens ...
Yep, and it leads to many jokers who reenact it every time roast chicken is on the menu. Like Chaplin and his forked potatoes dancing 😊
How'd I miss this???
Peter Gabriel is AWESOME!!
GREAT PICKS❤
-We can see a classic scene with the song 'Biko', on the TV show "Miami Vice" in the 1980's, (in last scene of the episode: 'Evan')
Not in Genesis anymore, but still and always as wonderfully theatrical as ever!!! ❤
June 26th 1993 Toronto Canada, an experience I will never forget!!
Lee, that stage show on "Come Talk To Me" is top tier, I was fortunate to see him live and he absolutely blew my mind. A true showman and unbelievable musician.
I saw that tour also and it was amazing outstanding
A show against apartheid.
Lay your hand on me, live from Athens
He certainly lead the "world music" movement with his record company (Real World) and his music festival (Womad) back in the 80's. As far as growth, i'd say The Beatles (from Love Me Do to Sgt. Pepper's in five years) or Joni (from The Circle Game to The Jungle Line in five years) did grow reaaaalllly quick. Peter G. presented Joni with an award back in the early 90's right after they collaborated on My Secret Place, and talked about her influence, notably her foray into african and brazilian percussions in the mid-70's.
Stop-motion animation was being done as early as 1900's (meaning 1900 - 1910) and was even crazier than anything seen in this Gabriel video, just FYI. What Gabriel did here wasn't innovative - it was actually a throwback to what stop-motion pioneers were doing 80 years before him. Much of what he did here was just recreating what filmmaker, George Meliies did in 1902.
And it was used in movies until the 80ies. One of the last movies I know about is Clash of the Titans from 1981 with the work of Ray Harryhausen who was one of the grandmasters of this techniques. I always saw Sledgehammer also as a hommage to previous movie makers.
Tony Levin on Bass!
I'll see him in person in a couple of months when the BEAT tour (1980's focused King Crimson with Levin, Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, and Danny Carey) comes to Los Angeles.
I can clearly remember finding this album after trick of the tail. I was so happy that Peter was back out there. When I got home with it I was just blown away!
Oops, that's what happens when you're oaf. Of course I was thinking about the first untitled , not the compilation here.
Great reactions! Peter is an impressive human!
Before CGI we had stop animation. This song and video won many awards including #1 VIDEO of the Decade, and tied with the Eurythmics for song of the decade with their SWEET DREAMS. MTV had a show on New Years, 1989, and celebrated the best of the decade.
Check out his other hits Salsbury road, BIGTIME, When You're Falling.
plus, of course his biggest balad, IN YOUR EYES written for Rosanna Arquette (actress/model was in Pulp Fiction as the pierce faced wife).
Claymation was big in the mid eighties. I believe Zappa did a bunch of Claymation videos during that time period.
Primus does a lot of great claymation videos. Primus might have the best videos made across a music catalog.
Hooray for PG! One of my 6 “musical geniuses.” Great stuff! This man is an artist like no other! Thx! Would love to see you do Growing Up, No Self Control, and Lay Your Hands on Me. If you end up doing Steam, please do the album version as the video version is missing about 45 seconds of the song. Saw him live on the So and Us tours. Amazing shows! As far as post Abacab Genesis, don’t overlook Home By the Sea & Second Home By The Sea (must be listened to together) and Mama. Both great songs from the Genesis album.
You should do "Don't give up"
Both Paula & Peter are amazing
(Steven?) Biko was a figure in South Africa that was part of the Anti-Apartheid movement. I believe he was beaten to death in prison by apartheid authorities but google it for yourself. I find the whole thing depressing since it seems to be an example of one form of human brutality and injustice replaced by another.
That time was also a massively inspiring aspect of the human will to overcome evil
The US cop show, Miami Vice was huge in SA: one episode played in SA during Apartheid times got to the end, and the censors hadn't played it that far: 'Biko' boomed into the households of SA. Love SA - beautiful country: always remember: the ANC did not 'win' - it was the ordinary Bokke that decided enough was enough and ended Apartheid.
About xhosa look here: ruclips.net/video/n-4U2hfMpnk/видео.html
There is also a movie about Biko with Denzel Washington and Kevin Kline. At first sight I thought it was a good idea to make a movie like that about Biko's actions and death. But when I saw it a second time I was disappointed because I then found out that half of the movie is not about that topic but turns into a heroic epic about a white journalist bringing his book about Biko out of South Africa.
"Come talk to me" is about communication difficulties between him and one of his daughters.
It’s called Stop Motion Animation and it’s one of the OLDEST methods- at least 5 decades before 1986 - if you knew, why did you have to look it up?
No one had done this on MTV before:
I assume you know creative people are always looking for new and/or different ways to do things - NO drugs required.
Digging in the dirt from Secret world video is nuts check it out. Saw this tour in philly
You're dead on when you say this video looks like pictures strung together since a lot of it is stop motion animation. I can't imagine how much time it took to film!
@L33Reacts Great reaction as usual, Lee.
Peter Gabriel has always been my favourite artist of all time. Interesting fact if you haven't been told already is Come Talk to Me, he wrote about his daughter, Melanie. He felt they were growing apart.
Interesting though is many years later Melanie started touring with her dad and they sing that song together and you can see it in Peter Gabriel's Growing up tour, I think. You should give it a watch.
Keep up the great work 👍
You rock man. Thank you so much 😊 Peter is an amazing artist. And no I didn’t know that… thank you for sharing that
@L33Reacts just to make you jealous lol, I saw Peter's Secret World live tour here in Australia back in 94. And on a side note I saw Steve Hackett a couple of years back. He was doing Genesis Revisted tour and he did the entire Selling England by the Pound album plus all of Three Sides Live.
Enjoyed these PG tracks a lot. Thanks Lee.
Hopefully you watch the Sledgehammer video again, to catch all the great visual stuff you missed looking away
His album "So" is special to me. ❤
Yes Lee, Peter is a man of the world. Justice is precious, the fight is worth it. 💙
Thank you, Barry! It was grand. Biko was a wonderful honoring.
I loved dancing to Sledgehammer in 1986.
Thank you, Lee!
Props to Paula for not breaking out in laughter when he's hanging off the line practically in her face. Brilliant staging.
The Slegehammer video is brilliant, but it's almost a shame to react to because it would be great to hear more reaction to the music.
Biko is, of course, one of the few songs that seriously made a difference in making the world a better place. You picked a great version to react to. He always end his show with Biko, and the line - the rest is up to you - then leaving the stage - Peter first, then the band, drummer last - leaving the audience to continue the song.
"Is that a turkey doing kung fu?"
No. It's a chicken dancing. Now it's two.😁
Great tracks
WOOHOO LEE❤️ HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE I love secret world tour!🌹 NG! LOVE PETER! I do not look e the irritating sledge hammer video. It totally distracts and steals this great song. THANKS ALL AND YOUR PATREON MEMBERS FOR GREAT MUSIC
I appreciate your comment and while it may be a distraction for some, it was an amazing way to get mainstream listeners interested in Peter Gabriel and all the fantastic work that he has accomplished!
@@janewells5970 I agree with the absolute art! Of it!
@@janewells5970 I keep thinking how much I appreciate the way you worded your assertive comment to me. I think it's so impotent how we speak to each other and I wanted you to know it almost brings me to tears how non confrontational you are in this world. Beautiful example of communicsting. Thank you. 🫂
@@leeannies-tears369 ❤️
Peter gabriel, manu katche, david rhodes, paula cole, tony levin....shot in Modena, Italy, 1993
Hope you'll play the video version of "Shock The Monkey"
It did make the list! I’m sure Lee will play it in the next two Thursdays
One of me and TARJA'S very favorite artists !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ☮☮💘💘💥💥
It's been a while. This used to pop up every hour or son on MTV (or VH1) Great stop action animation.
Loved the animation! So cool what people can come up with some passion and effort.
You should make time to watch the movie "Cry Freedom"
That was called stop action/motion animation. That was 2 dead chickens dancing.
React to his songs Big Time and Steam please.
While the sentiment is felt in my heart, I was never a big fan of the song, Biko, musically speaking.
Top 10 as far as creativity for videos.
The dancing turkeys reminded me of a scene from a movie called "Erasurehead," a movie by David Lynch. The movie was like a nightmare. I cannot explain the connection however. ruclips.net/video/JamnCWXNsPs/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Eraserhead
All single frame live animation before CGI.
You're missing out on some good songs if you don't go past Abacab, just saying...
And now for Palestine? - Oops …
LAME. He is not at all a good singer.
'Good singer' is a very subjective opinion! Curious who you DO find is a good singer? What is your criteria? Tone, pitch, clarity?
To many, PG is an excellent singer. Rougher tone, but his pitch is excellent. I liken him to Bryan Adams - more of a gravelly tone, but still quality pitch & dynamics.
That’s just like your opinion, man.
He doesn't have the greatest voice, but he is a great artist and his song writing makes up for not having a perfect voice. Compared to, for example, Greg Lake, I love Lake's voice but would prefer to listen to Peter's songs.
Google "Claymation"