I will never forget sitting in the front row of The Royal Oak theater in 78 as a 19 year old, mouthing the words to the Lamb with Peter. Thinks I died and gone to heaven. Have a pic of me shaking his hands.
It's almost surreal watching this again after 46 years. I saw it live back in 78 when I was 18, still a college student in Germany. I never missed a Rockpalast gig.
@alanvaytsmanHouston Toyota Center October 21st. Fantastic performance. Saw him here (with my hero Tony Levin). Also caught the Summer 2003 concert. Amazing sound and lighting performance. Week before Sting My Songs 2023. My year is complete.
I saw this tour in Chicago at the Uptown theater - fantastic. The band made its entrance literally crawling over the audience. Utterly unique, and a superb performance from start to finish. For the encore Gabriel even came out dressed as Rael!
Amazing show, amazing band, amazing Gabriel. Peter Gabriel - voc/piano Tony Levin - voc/bass Jerry Marotta - drums/voc Sid McGuiness - guit/voc Larry Fast - keyb Timmy Capello - keyb/sax 01 Intro 02 On The Air 03 Moribund The Burgermeister 04 Perspective 05 Here Comes The Flood 06 White Shadow 07 Waiting For The Big One 08 Humdrum 09 I Don’t Remember 10 Solsbury Hill 11 Modern Love 12 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Brings back great memories of the 1st time seeing PG (on a college tour in 1978). The band walked out to the stage through the crowd ~ Peter walked right by me!
I dont know about negative comments. Must be people with serious mental problems. That said, Waiting for the big one is incredible. PG shaking hands and kissing with the crowd with no security, the change of instruments. Legend. Period
I saw this tour in Geneva, Switzerland. Big emotion and great memories to see this after so long ! The whole group was scattered within the audience, and when the "On Presuming to be Modern" Synergy theme was played at the beginning, they all lit up one by one their flashlights then headed towards the stage...never saw anything like that before ! And during Timmy Capello's intro to "waiting for the big one", PG managed to run real quick to the back of the hall, then made his way back through the audience again, and I was one of the lucky ones to shake hands with him. It was also the first time I saw a wireless microphone, and to have him singing right in front of me and hearing his voice coming from the P.A., that was completely surreal !
2:44 On The Air 7:05 Moribund the Burgermeister 12:29 Perspective 16:39 Here Comes the Flood 20:30 White Shadow 25:23 Waiting for the Big One 33:10 Humdrum 37:10 I Don't Remember 42:35 Solsbury Hill 47:46 Modern Love 53:30 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
I wish they would clean this stuff up and release it officially as audio and/or DVD. There's lots of old farts like me that would pay money for this. It's an amazing show, raw and full of power. The Rockpalast shows were great.
Us "old farts" still rule the music world. Kids today are being sold a bill of goods. They don't have music. They have brainwashing Sonic diarrhea. It's very sad.
WDR cleaned this up a little (as much as possible, I assume) and rebroadcast it at 1080p. It's amazing, of course. I have it posted on my channel, if anyone feels like revisiting.
I'm honored and lucky to say I've met and interviewed three of the men on that stage: Larry Fast, Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta. I can report that besides being great musicians, they are genuinely nice people.
Rockpalast was a great thing in the seventies.An hour or more of quality live music on TV, every month or so. Many great bands and artists.I saw this live on TV when it was broadcasted. I think it was the NDR,because we could watch this in Holland as well I was a teenager, Genesis fan and so excited to see PG live on German TV. Time has passed so quickly. Humdrum was the highlight for me. Priceless footage of an era gone forever.
I was 7 then...But because of my elder brother Genesis "The lamb lies down on Broadway"" came into my brain.And I still get homesick when i hear "Salisbury Hill"- I had to leave my hometown at the Age of 12.... and still I´m hoping that someone/something takes me home. It`s just Music for life. Always present and never leaving you.Classic. Thanxxx!
I love the backstage scene. Nice to include that with the concert. This band is kick ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And of course, they are with Peter Gabriel. Only the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Electronics are always upgraded with Peter and so are various image-styles of music. He seems to acquire the world of music.
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This show is a major landmark of Peter Gabriel's career. Not insofar as being measured by massive audiences or say, a large, 2 CD setlist, as would be the case of the bootlegged Geneseso Music Hall's show in New York a few days after PG's Rockpalast appearance, tracing back to the Scratch tour back when in 1978. The real gem here is twofold: (a) On top of a somehow compact, but nonetheless complete and beautifully arranged 11-song setlist, one gets the chance to view and listen Peter Gabriel and his PG II band playing rarely heard live renditions of Moribund the Burgermeister, White Shadow, Waiting for the Big One and Modern Love. Watching and listening the band interchanging roles in instrument playing on Waiting for the Big One, and Peter playing the drums at the end of it is a truly remarkable experience, despite the show having taken place in real life short of 36 years ago! And (b) The show recorded live at German TV's Rockpalast has an excellent sound quality! Yes, minor imperfections occur, alas not due to the sound quality per se, but to technical glitches that went on almost subtledly, like Sid McGinnis's guitar accidentally being unplugged by Peter, or his mike not working well at times, although those imperfections should rather be accounted for as an invaluable evidence of real-life musicians playing real-life instruments and making incredibly good, live music in a world not then yet as technically assited as it definitely is now. So no makeup here, no digital enhancements, no overdubs nor cuts. This is the real Peter Gabriel at the prime of his time and in his purest form. This is an excellent live recording of songs spanning over four albums that arguably contain Gabriel's best works: Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and PG's I, II and III. Kudos to brainphreak for uploading this here!
This is such an interesting time period for him...his solo career was struggling and he was trying to find his feet as a solo performer. Absolutely one of the best live performers of all time...and my favorite!
I grew up listening to Genesis and Peter Gabriel in his solo career, but one of my FAVORITE songs is In The Wilderness. Amazing that he was only 19 years old at that time. The guy is a genius, straight up.
I was 20 and listening to PG when no one else did (would) and I loved that music so much. I still do. The thing is, his music still holds up. It still sounds as great now as it did then. Not many bands can say that. He was so innovative, pushing the envelope so hard, not following anyone's lead, out there on the bleeding edge, alone and not really caring if anyone got it. That's why he left Genesis, to do this important stuff. We'll never know how much he influenced pop music by standing on the sidelines doing what he does best. Watching and listening to this video makes my heart pound.
You pretty much said everything I wanted to. I can't really discribe why I consider PG a genius and a true artist. It's those unintangable qualites beyond musicanship. The willingness to be different.
I’m getting excited! Seeing this for the first time. The 2nd song scares me “i will find out” Was there any other band doing this kind of stuff? Talking Heads Not yet.
I was fortunate enough to have an older brother who had early Genesis and Gabriel amongst other classics in his record collection. Now I have my own vinyl collection, said bands included, that I can't wait to pass on to my daughter.This is quality art that withstands the test of time.
I saw the Amsterdam concert of this tour in the Jaap Edenhal. The first concert I went to alone. I was 13 and it was AWSOME! The Shirts opened for them, also great.
I was incredibly fortunate to see Peter on Thanksgiving 1982 at The Ritz in NYC, during his Security tour. The connection with him and New York was so powerful as they yelled for him to play "Back in NYC". His response was "Im sorry, but that part of my life is in the past". Chills ran up our spines. Real PG fans were/are truly transfixed on his musical accomplishments from the Genesis era to his amazing solo albums. Few entertainers have been able to captivate an audience as this man.
I enjoyed watching this so much! Loved seeing Peter Gabriel being theatrical again. Brought me back to when I used to see him live in the late 70's early 80's. This was an amazing show.
This was 1 of the songs I played at my brother Patrick's funeral. He and I seen this tour in the states and everyone of his tours together until he passed away from suicide in 1993. I still miss you my brother and I will see you one day again. this is just as I remember that tour I didn't drink or smoke back then and was a complete nerd my brother turned me on to the best music back then (he was 6 years older than me and though my musical horizons needed expanding past hard rock &heavy metal) on the other hand was the coolest guy in the room always, even at this concert musicians included.
Hip hop creative? let me put it like that: hahahahahahahaaahahaha... an entire genre that consists in cut pieces of music made by other people, put together as a background soundtrack in order to cover up the fact that the lyrics are just horrendous, preposterous and stupid... yeah, very very creative
I just happened upon this fantastic concert!!! Bravo Peter and band ❤ How cool that Tony has been with him for so long 💞 What an intimate show, i feel like I was there 😁
I first became aware of Peter Gabriel before I knew he had been in Genesis. That was not until 1991 when I started getting into Prog Rock but I heard of Gabriel in 1986 with the So album. Became a fan and was surprised when I found out he had been a Prog Rocker but in retrospect while So was Peters most Commercial album it still was artsy and exploratory on a few songs. While Genesis turned to Simplistic Slick Pop (after Peter and Steve left) Peter has never lost the creative experimentatal Rock sound of early Genesis in the music he has done as a Solo Artist as this great Concert shows and he remains a great Stage Performer, Singer, Instrumentalist and Songwriter. A Legend.
Great upload! Thanks so much. It's the first time I can hear/see a live version of a song I love at most, and I judge to be shamefully underrated and forgotten, "Moribund the Burgermeister". And there is "Modern love", too!
Ah, I remember him like this as if it were yesterday. Genesis with Gabriel and all this early solo work really had an musical impact on me. They stand the test of time for sure! Definitely a man musically way ahead of his time. It shows, only 5 dislikes.
This ist a show in the year, when I was 18. Genesis was the music of my new born interest. Great show, strong feelings - Peter solo, Peter in a team - always was present in my life since then. He and his men are culture.... and grandmasters of music, who will be named "Classic" in near future - like Beethoven, Mozart, Holst, Wagne, Debussy and other today........
I was lucky enough to see him twice on this tour..@ The Capitol Theater ..Pissaic N.J., and The Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Md... I was 22 at the time, and PG was one of my favorites, and still is today !
Peter Gabriel - voc/piano Tony Levin - voc/bass Jerry Marotta - drums/voc Sid McGuiness - guit/voc Larry Fast - keyb Timmy Capello - keyb/sax 0:00 Introduction 1:16 On The Air 7:06 Moribund The Burgermeister 12:29 Perspective 16:39 Here Comes The Flood 20:29 White Shadow 25:22 Waiting For The Big One 32:01 (introducing the band) 33:12 Humdrum 37:13 I Don't Remember 42:35 Solsbury Hill 47:45 Modern Love 53:31 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
I saw Gabriel on his first solo tour on April 9, 1977 at the Roxy in LA. An intimate nightclub venue with, as I recall, less than 500 people. Robert Fripp (aka Dusty Rhodes) on guitar (love him!!) played in the shadows. LOL. We were part of the drunken audience that is mentioned on some of the bootleg recordings. Heh! What can I say? We loved "alcohol". It was great to hear Gabriel perform "Back in NY City" from my favorite album "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway". Gabriel came out into the audience and walked around on the tables. He kicked a drink over into my boyfriend's lap. He didn't wash those pants for several months! Love Gabriel, and he became a humanitarian as well as a genius musician.
+Dusty Rhodes Great story! My friends practically worship the guy, too. He did a similar thing in Berkeley, where Peter left the stage to the band as they jammed and a couple of minutes later a spotlight from near the stage blasted up into the balcony where Gabriel appeared with a cordless microphone. He sang as he walked down the steps toward the front balcony rows, near my friend and I. He shook hands with his fans as he moved. As Gabriel extended his hand to my friend, my friend attemped to hand him a joint. Gabriel looked at him like he was nuts! Of course, my friend WAS NUTS to do that! Ha Ha! I"ve laughed at him for 37 years over that dumb move. He still kicks himself over that one.
+Greg Crabtree I was one of the audience members who shook hands with Peter at that Berkeley Community Theater show. I was in a middle seat in the lower level under the balcony and he actually walked down my row of seats on his final way back to the stage. More than anything I remember how soft has hand was. What a great talent. I wish I'd seen him before he left Genesis.
I saw him in 1978 at Stonybrook University gymnasium and during Waiting for the Big One he showed up in the last row of the bleachers singing in the crowd, then stepped over each row of seats on the floor, straight up the middle to where we were sitting, I helped him over my chair, kissed him on the cheek and my friend Tony shook his hand and said, "God Bless you Peter" we were in awe.The next week we saw him at the Palladium in NYC and were waiting for him in the staircase! So much fun!!! I taped the Palladium show. This brought back all the memories. Thanks!
Peter Gabriel ist einer der Größten Musiker .Seine Art , seine Ausdrucksweise ist unbeschreiblich !Ich bin ein großer Genesis - Fan , aber abseits , also nach seiner Genesis - Zeit -enorm !!
I remember hearing tracks off this album when it was first released and immediately going out to buy it. Played it over and over and still have the vinyl copy in great shape. This is a great concert video and excellent performance by Gabriel!! He and Steve Hackett both proved there is life after Genesis!!
This video is most excellent footage. Clear and Close. No impediments. Nothing like seeing Peter Gabriel and his fellow musicians through the years. Always a step in a different direction. He mostly definitely keeps his music and performances fresh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep this great videos of whom ever you may have, keep them coming. Thank You
The music that played at the beginning, before and during the band's entrance, was from the album Cords, by Larry Fast, recording under the name Synergy. Larry Fast was PG's keyboard player for his first five albums. His Synergy albums are all outstanding.
@@RetaliationGrotesque You're right. I just checked the liner notes for PG2 in an old book I think I bought at one of his shows. It doesn't tell me what songs Fripp played guitar on but he used Fripptronics on "exposure" . Like I said I was only going by 40 or so years of memory. What's your favourite three albums by pg IYO ?
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Watching this and then Bowie's 1978 Musikladen performance is a great back to back, thought another Bowie video from Japan later in 78 also has 'Warsaw', which I love. Being a big synth fan, both these artists had keyboard players who were first users of the Prophet-5. Always ahead of their time.
I saw both of Peter Gabrriel's first two solo tours, including this one. I distinctly recall the band walking towards the state in those white uniforms, with the searchlights, and begin their performance with "On The Air." Thanks for the memories; it sounds as great today as it did forty years ago.
Here we see a musician who took the best of the new wave and the best of the sixties and was able to create something rather refreshing. Not many musicians could do this at the time.
Absolutely superb, brilliant musicians peforming a kind of surreal art punk progressive classical...oh you get it, thank the Gods for PG...watch it often and loud..thats my pg tips for today :)
Sid McGuiness, who went on to David Letterman's band. Levin, of course, best known for not only collaborating with Gabriel but King Crimson. Awesome line-up.
I was born 30 years too late. I wish I was around for Peter Gabriel era Genesis and then Peter's early solo career. Just seen him in London - best gig I have ever been too! :)
Wow, this was Gabriel’s response to the energy that was in punk at the time. I’m a big fan of early Genesis and almost everything of PG’s except for the most recent stuff. Fantastic to see this. Saw him at Selhurst Park (London ) one hot summer’s evening in 1983 - he and the band were awesome, but some of this energy had dissipated by then.
Perhaps because this incredible heirloom by "brainphreak" is what actually captures the moment so authentically and demonstrates the command of The Peter Gabriel Band and Peter's superb punky performance...This video puts you in it :)
I watched this concert live on tv in 1978 - 20 years later I bought a DVD and I ENJOYED IT, but the quality wasn't so good like here. Thank you for your upload!
I saw this tour in 1978 in the States...one of the best concerts I'd ever seen. That is, until a few years later when Pete surpassed it when I saw the Security tour.
1978 - With the lights in the Montreal Forum on & people bouncing a giant beach ball, toilet paper rolls tossed to appear like meteors, Peter Gabriel nonchalantly walked up onto the Stage, sat down at the piano and sang a song I hadn’t heard since my youth called, Me & my teddy bear. it blew my mind & we made a connection right away…as he finished, the lights went down and from the dark emerged the band from the crowd with flashlights and made their way onto the stage…the show was amazing!
Absolutely fantastic! Including a very early "version" of I DON'T REMEMBER! WHITE SHADOW rocked! And THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY for an en core?! Incredible!
Thanks for the kind person who uploaded this video ! Sensational ! I am a Hungarian fan of Gabriel and Genesis. I saw his concert in Budapest in September, 1987 in a football stadion.
Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals - Tony Levin.
Drums, Backing Vocals - Jerry Marotta.
Guitar, Backing Vocals - Sid McGinnis.
Keyboards, Saxophone - Tim Cappello.
Keyboards, Synth - Larry Fast.
Vocals, Piano - Peter Gabriel.
Sid went on to play with David Letterman and Paul Shaffer in the world's most dangerous band forever
I will never forget sitting in the front row of The Royal Oak theater in 78 as a 19 year old, mouthing the words to the Lamb with Peter. Thinks I died and gone to heaven. Have a pic of me shaking his hands.
I was there too as a 20 year old, but not in the front row!! It was a fantastic concert!!
It's almost surreal watching this again after 46 years.
I saw it live back in 78 when I was 18, still a college student in Germany.
I never missed a Rockpalast gig.
Gabriel was so ahead of his time. An original. Never an imitator. Helped bring in new wave and world music separetly. Genius. Mad props to the man!
People are not ahead of time.. only people who are behind the times say that old cliche.
@@morbidmanmusic No, he's right. Peter's albums were always ahead of the time. Listen to his fourth album from 1982.
@alanvaytsmanHouston Toyota Center October 21st. Fantastic performance. Saw him here (with my hero Tony Levin). Also caught
the Summer 2003 concert. Amazing sound and lighting performance.
Week before Sting My Songs 2023. My year is complete.
@@morbidmanmusicTime is relative... Back to the drawing board with your tired and inaccurate quaintness.😊
@@modulusquantum6455Tony Levin would be MONSTER to see again. Peter would be epic without saying.
I saw this tour in Chicago at the Uptown theater - fantastic. The band made its entrance literally crawling over the audience. Utterly unique, and a superb performance from start to finish. For the encore Gabriel even came out dressed as Rael!
I was there (Chicago). Great show, eh?
You gotta be kidding me. Good luck getting this much energy out of every top 40 artist added together in 2023
The guy playing sax is Tim Cappello - aka the shirtless muscle man sax player in The Lost Boys. You're welcome.
That is a band loving the music. What a thrilling performance.
Amazing show, amazing band, amazing Gabriel.
Peter Gabriel - voc/piano
Tony Levin - voc/bass
Jerry Marotta - drums/voc
Sid McGuiness - guit/voc
Larry Fast - keyb
Timmy Capello - keyb/sax
01 Intro
02 On The Air
03 Moribund The Burgermeister
04 Perspective
05 Here Comes The Flood
06 White Shadow
07 Waiting For The Big One
08 Humdrum
09 I Don’t Remember
10 Solsbury Hill
11 Modern Love
12 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Thanks for crediting the musicians ❣️
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Brings back great memories of the 1st time seeing PG (on a college tour in 1978). The band walked out to the stage through the crowd ~ Peter walked right by me!
In my humble opinion, the most impressive artist of our time.
Maybe the most creative
I’d say the most underrated
Alex Block totally agree
He's not that good.
@@alexblock3091 Fee Waybill had more talent in his Quay sunglasses. Capt. Beefheart, Zappa, Alice Cooper, The Flock, all have more creativity.
I dont know about negative comments. Must be people with serious mental problems. That said, Waiting for the big one is incredible. PG shaking hands and kissing with the crowd with no security, the change of instruments. Legend. Period
He's a monster of awesomeness...real legend ❤❤❤
I saw this tour in Geneva, Switzerland. Big emotion and great memories to see this after so long ! The whole group was scattered within the audience, and when the "On Presuming to be Modern" Synergy theme was played at the beginning, they all lit up one by one their flashlights then headed towards the stage...never saw anything like that before ! And during Timmy Capello's intro to "waiting for the big one", PG managed to run real quick to the back of the hall, then made his way back through the audience again, and I was one of the lucky ones to shake hands with him. It was also the first time I saw a wireless microphone, and to have him singing right in front of me and hearing his voice coming from the P.A., that was completely surreal !
My understanding was Gabriel was one of the first to use wireless IEM In Ear Monitoring systems.
2:44 On The Air
7:05 Moribund the Burgermeister
12:29 Perspective
16:39 Here Comes the Flood
20:30 White Shadow
25:23 Waiting for the Big One
33:10 Humdrum
37:10 I Don't Remember
42:35 Solsbury Hill
47:46 Modern Love
53:30 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
woah i don't remember played this early, gez
Excellent performance from Lamb...Long live the Progfather
What? Peter playing a Genesis song? First time I see that!
In the early days, Peter Gabriel was in Genesis. He'd actually preformed quite a few Genesis songs when he was part of the band. ;)
Yeah no shit! I meant he never plays any Genesis songs anymore. This is the first show where I see him do it.
I wish they would clean this stuff up and release it officially as audio and/or DVD. There's lots of old farts like me that would pay money for this. It's an amazing show, raw and full of power. The Rockpalast shows were great.
Young farts like me would love it too!
Us "old farts" still rule the music world. Kids today are being sold a bill of goods. They don't have music. They have brainwashing Sonic diarrhea. It's very sad.
@@alexno.335 serious question: Do you listen to the current mainstream music?
@@Eleventhearlofmars that depends what you define as mainstream
WDR cleaned this up a little (as much as possible, I assume) and rebroadcast it at 1080p. It's amazing, of course. I have it posted on my channel, if anyone feels like revisiting.
I'm honored and lucky to say I've met and interviewed three of the men on that stage: Larry Fast, Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta. I can report that besides being great musicians, they are genuinely nice people.
Rockpalast was a great thing in the seventies.An hour or more of quality live music on TV, every month or so. Many great bands and artists.I saw this live on TV when it was broadcasted. I think it was the NDR,because we could watch this in Holland as well I was a teenager, Genesis fan and so excited to see PG live on German TV. Time has passed so quickly. Humdrum was the highlight for me. Priceless footage of an era gone forever.
BenMolen ich habe den Ausdruck, das die Holländer für die beste Musik sich begeistern. Weil sie so gut englisch ???
I was 7 then...But because of my elder brother Genesis "The lamb lies down on Broadway"" came into my brain.And I still get homesick when i hear "Salisbury Hill"-
I had to leave my hometown at the Age of 12....
and still I´m hoping that someone/something takes me home.
It`s just Music for life. Always present and never leaving you.Classic.
Thanxxx!
What a great singer he used to be - full of grit, anger and power with such a great timbre in his voice. And what a performer...
Thank god for Rockpalast and RUclips. This is priceless.
I don't care if they look like crossing guards, the musicianship on this is SICK. Thank you a million times over for this Brainphreak!!!
I love the backstage scene. Nice to include that with the concert. This band is kick ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And of course, they are with Peter Gabriel. Only the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Electronics are always upgraded with Peter and so are various image-styles of music. He seems to acquire the world of music.
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This show is a major landmark of Peter Gabriel's career. Not insofar as being measured by massive audiences or say, a large, 2 CD setlist, as would be the case of the bootlegged Geneseso Music Hall's show in New York a few days after PG's Rockpalast appearance, tracing back to the Scratch tour back when in 1978. The real gem here is twofold: (a) On top of a somehow compact, but nonetheless complete and beautifully arranged 11-song setlist, one gets the chance to view and listen Peter Gabriel and his PG II band playing rarely heard live renditions of Moribund the Burgermeister, White Shadow, Waiting for the Big One and Modern Love. Watching and listening the band interchanging roles in instrument playing on Waiting for the Big One, and Peter playing the drums at the end of it is a truly remarkable experience, despite the show having taken place in real life short of 36 years ago! And (b) The show recorded live at German TV's Rockpalast has an excellent sound quality! Yes, minor imperfections occur, alas not due to the sound quality per se, but to technical glitches that went on almost subtledly, like Sid McGinnis's guitar accidentally being unplugged by Peter, or his mike not working well at times, although those imperfections should rather be accounted for as an invaluable evidence of real-life musicians playing real-life instruments and making incredibly good, live music in a world not then yet as technically assited as it definitely is now. So no makeup here, no digital enhancements, no overdubs nor cuts. This is the real Peter Gabriel at the prime of his time and in his purest form. This is an excellent live recording of songs spanning over four albums that arguably contain Gabriel's best works: Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and PG's I, II and III. Kudos to brainphreak for uploading this here!
This concert is truly a gift.
This is such an interesting time period for him...his solo career was struggling and he was trying to find his feet as a solo performer. Absolutely one of the best live performers of all time...and my favorite!
There was always magic in the air when PG took to the stage. Awesome upload. Danke.
Brilliant. What a find. Slap bang in the middle of Punk - there was Gabriel doing his thing!
This is just fantastic to watch back!
When music was theater too! Thank you for this great post! 👍
I grew up listening to Genesis and Peter Gabriel in his solo career, but one of my FAVORITE songs is In The Wilderness. Amazing that he was only 19 years old at that time. The guy is a genius, straight up.
I was 20 and listening to PG when no one else did (would) and I loved that music so much. I still do. The thing is, his music still holds up. It still sounds as great now as it did then. Not many bands can say that. He was so innovative, pushing the envelope so hard, not following anyone's lead, out there on the bleeding edge, alone and not really caring if anyone got it. That's why he left Genesis, to do this important stuff. We'll never know how much he influenced pop music by standing on the sidelines doing what he does best. Watching and listening to this video makes my heart pound.
You pretty much said everything I wanted to. I can't really discribe why I consider PG a genius and a true artist. It's those unintangable qualites beyond musicanship. The willingness to be different.
Peter was in Genesis when I was in High School. I learned what music could be from them.
I’m getting excited! Seeing this for the first time. The 2nd song scares me “i will find out” Was there any other band doing this kind of stuff? Talking Heads
Not yet.
I believe everything written here! He’s still entertaing audiences with the same spirit in his heart, audience/fans come first!
Best Peter Gabriel Concert that was professional filmed.
What a Band!!!! Great work on the video, looks great. A must for any gabriel´s fan.
I was fortunate enough to have an older brother who had early Genesis and Gabriel amongst other classics in his record collection. Now I have my own vinyl collection, said bands included, that I can't wait to pass on to my daughter.This is quality art that withstands the test of time.
I saw the Amsterdam concert of this tour in the Jaap Edenhal. The first concert I went to alone. I was 13 and it was AWSOME! The Shirts opened for them, also great.
I was incredibly fortunate to see Peter on Thanksgiving 1982 at The Ritz in NYC, during his Security tour. The connection with him and New York was so powerful as they yelled for him to play "Back in NYC". His response was "Im sorry, but that part of my life is in the past". Chills ran up our spines. Real PG fans were/are truly transfixed on his musical accomplishments from the Genesis era to his amazing solo albums. Few entertainers have been able to captivate an audience as this man.
hey! i was there!
Phantastic singer full of charisma.
I love the raw energy of early solo Gabriel. This show s amazing! Especially The Lamb Lies Down...It's visceral!
brilliant video this.......
I enjoyed watching this so much! Loved seeing Peter Gabriel being theatrical again. Brought me back to when I used to see him live in the late 70's early 80's. This was an amazing show.
This was 1 of the songs I played at my brother Patrick's funeral. He and I seen this tour in the states and everyone of his tours together until he passed away from suicide in 1993. I still miss you my brother and I will see you one day again. this is just as I remember that tour I didn't drink or smoke back then and was a complete nerd my brother turned me on to the best music back then (he was 6 years older than me and though my musical horizons needed expanding past hard rock &heavy metal) on the other hand was the coolest guy in the room always, even at this concert musicians included.
Just FANTASTIC!! I can say that my wife and I did PG three times in concert. More than any other band. PG is simply amazing!
Great great artist
Thanks for the show...
The guitarist is killing it dude!!
I love to watch Peter and his band! Very animated! Peter's presence on stage is awesome!
This is back in the day when people were not afraid of express themselves and be creative!
Martin Moretto you need to listen to more hip hop
Yer damn right, Martin.
Hip hop creative? let me put it like that:
hahahahahahahaaahahaha...
an entire genre that consists in cut pieces of music made by other people, put together as a background soundtrack in order to cover up the fact that the lyrics are just horrendous, preposterous and stupid...
yeah, very very creative
Louis Reyna what? That’s extremely backwards mate
Ok Boomer
I just happened upon this fantastic concert!!! Bravo Peter and band ❤ How cool that Tony has been with him for so long 💞 What an intimate show, i feel like I was there 😁
We forget sometimes that Peter originally wanted to be a drummer in a band.
Great show this, thanks for posting.
J'en avais déjà entendu parler voir même il serais en quelque sorte la raison pourquoi Phil Collins serait aussi bon....
Fantastic, saw PG on this tour at the London Hammersmith Odeon December 1978
I first became aware of Peter Gabriel before I knew he had been in Genesis. That was not until 1991 when I started getting into Prog Rock but I heard of Gabriel in 1986 with the So album. Became a fan and was surprised when I found out he had been a Prog Rocker but in retrospect while So was Peters most Commercial album it still was artsy and exploratory on a few songs. While Genesis turned to Simplistic Slick Pop (after Peter and Steve left) Peter has never lost the creative experimentatal Rock sound of early Genesis in the music he has done as a Solo Artist as this great Concert shows and he remains a great Stage Performer,
Singer, Instrumentalist and Songwriter. A Legend.
great. perfect songwriting @ perfomance. evergreen. thnks 4 posting.
Great upload! Thanks so much. It's the first time I can hear/see a live version of a song I love at most, and I judge to be shamefully underrated and forgotten, "Moribund the Burgermeister".
And there is "Modern love", too!
Great work....great band at that time....a very charismatic voice..Peter Gabriel....a true artist...!!!
Ah, I remember him like this as if it were yesterday. Genesis with Gabriel and all this early solo work really had an musical impact on me. They stand the test of time for sure! Definitely a man musically way ahead of his time. It shows, only 5 dislikes.
This ist a show in the year, when I was 18. Genesis was the music of my new born interest. Great show, strong feelings - Peter solo, Peter in a team - always was present in my life since then. He and his men are culture.... and grandmasters of music, who will be named "Classic" in near future - like Beethoven, Mozart, Holst, Wagne, Debussy and other today........
I was lucky enough to see him twice on this tour..@ The Capitol Theater ..Pissaic N.J., and The Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Md... I was 22 at the time, and PG was one of my favorites, and still is today !
Tim, I was at that show too. Didn't the crowd boo Television off the stage to get PG on quicker?
Peter Gabriel - voc/piano
Tony Levin - voc/bass
Jerry Marotta - drums/voc
Sid McGuiness - guit/voc
Larry Fast - keyb
Timmy Capello - keyb/sax
0:00 Introduction
1:16 On The Air
7:06 Moribund The Burgermeister
12:29 Perspective
16:39 Here Comes The Flood
20:29 White Shadow
25:22 Waiting For The Big One
32:01 (introducing the band)
33:12 Humdrum
37:13 I Don't Remember
42:35 Solsbury Hill
47:45 Modern Love
53:31 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
***** No, that's Timmy Capello
Tim Capello! Thanks, I was wondering who that was. His hip shaking makes total sense now.
Thank You!
Actually, Peter Gabriel and Tony Levin on drums on Waiting for the BIg One, and Jerry Marrota, on bass.
That Tim Cappello sure is a creep!
I saw Gabriel on his first solo tour on April 9, 1977 at the Roxy in LA. An intimate nightclub venue with, as I recall, less than 500 people. Robert Fripp (aka Dusty Rhodes) on guitar (love him!!) played in the shadows. LOL. We were part of the drunken audience that is mentioned on some of the bootleg recordings. Heh! What can I say? We loved "alcohol". It was great to hear Gabriel perform "Back in NY City" from my favorite album "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway". Gabriel came out into the audience and walked around on the tables. He kicked a drink over into my boyfriend's lap. He didn't wash those pants for several months! Love Gabriel, and he became a humanitarian as well as a genius musician.
+Dusty Rhodes Great story! My friends practically worship the guy, too. He did a similar thing in Berkeley, where Peter left the stage to the band as they jammed and a couple of minutes later a spotlight from near the stage blasted up into the balcony where Gabriel appeared with a cordless microphone. He sang as he walked down the steps toward the front balcony rows, near my friend and I. He shook hands with his fans as he moved. As Gabriel extended his hand to my friend, my friend attemped to hand him a joint. Gabriel looked at him like he was nuts! Of course, my friend WAS NUTS to do that! Ha Ha! I"ve laughed at him for 37 years over that dumb move. He still kicks himself over that one.
+Greg Crabtree
I was one of the audience members who shook hands with Peter at that Berkeley Community Theater show. I was in a middle seat in the lower level under the balcony and he actually walked down my row of seats on his final way back to the stage. More than anything I remember how soft has hand was. What a great talent. I wish I'd seen him before he left Genesis.
I saw him in 1978 at Stonybrook University gymnasium and during Waiting for the Big One he showed up in the last row of the bleachers singing in the crowd, then stepped over each row of seats on the floor, straight up the middle to where we were sitting, I helped him over my chair, kissed him on the cheek and my friend Tony shook his hand and said, "God Bless you Peter" we were in awe.The next week we saw him at the Palladium in NYC and were waiting for him in the staircase! So much fun!!! I taped the Palladium show. This brought back all the memories. Thanks!
+Charlie DeMore He took the gloves of I take it :)
Peter Gabriel ist einer der Größten Musiker .Seine Art , seine Ausdrucksweise ist unbeschreiblich !Ich bin ein großer Genesis - Fan , aber abseits , also nach seiner Genesis - Zeit -enorm !!
Such unbelievable energy! Great artist! (and adorable)
I remember hearing tracks off this album when it was first released and immediately going out to buy it. Played it over and over and still have the vinyl copy in great shape. This is a great concert video and excellent performance by Gabriel!! He and Steve Hackett both proved there is life after Genesis!!
Going to see Steve Hackett Foxtrot Live next April. Joy.
Peter genio assoluto ,grazie per la pubblicazione
you don't know how happy this recording made me today! thanks for posting. cheers
Seen PG 5x live. Always amazing experiences, and all unique. A lot of bands you see em 5x you seen pretty well the same concert 5x.
This video is most excellent footage. Clear and Close. No impediments. Nothing like seeing Peter Gabriel and his fellow musicians through the years. Always a step in a different direction. He mostly definitely keeps his music and performances fresh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep this great videos of whom ever you may have, keep them coming. Thank You
From this to the growing up tour. What a fabulous progression.
The music that played at the beginning, before and during the band's entrance, was from the album Cords, by Larry Fast, recording under the name Synergy. Larry Fast was PG's keyboard player for his first five albums. His Synergy albums are all outstanding.
Wasn't Robert Fripp the keyboardist for pg2 ?
I'm just going by memory. I haven't seen PG for about 33 years.
Gabriel came up with all the titles for the songs on Fast's Cords album.
@@billyx67 no, fripp played guitar "- electric guitar on 1, 3, 5, 10; acoustic guitar on 5; Frippertronics on 8"
@@RetaliationGrotesque You're right. I just checked the liner notes for PG2 in an old book I think I bought at one of his shows. It doesn't tell me what songs Fripp played guitar on but he used Fripptronics on "exposure" . Like I said I was only going by 40 or so years of memory. What's your favourite three albums by pg IYO ?
A great set and a great historical record. I love it!
I was in the Barcelona show in 1978, it was such an epìc concertthat I never forget it.
Pero se sabe que no tuvo bastante éxito en España
Thank you so much. This is classic footage.
I love"White Shadow". Great concert!!!
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Watching this and then Bowie's 1978 Musikladen performance is a great back to back, thought another Bowie video from Japan later in 78 also has 'Warsaw', which I love. Being a big synth fan, both these artists had keyboard players who were first users of the Prophet-5. Always ahead of their time.
'Waiting for the Big One' holds such a classic performance. Peter on drums, drummer Jerry Marotta on bass and bassist Tony Levin on keys! What a band!
I saw both of Peter Gabrriel's first two solo tours, including this one. I distinctly recall the band walking towards the state in those white uniforms, with the searchlights, and begin their performance with "On The Air." Thanks for the memories; it sounds as great today as it did forty years ago.
The best moment of the art rock in this planet................
Here we see a musician who took the best of the new wave and the best of the sixties and was able to create something rather refreshing. Not many musicians could do this at the time.
Absolutely superb, brilliant musicians peforming a kind of surreal art punk progressive classical...oh you get it, thank the Gods for PG...watch it often and loud..thats my pg tips for today :)
Them Germans Got a good line up. Rockpalast Man...
Beast of a show!
Sid McGuiness, who went on to David Letterman's band. Levin, of course, best known for not only collaborating with Gabriel but King Crimson. Awesome line-up.
I absolutely love McGuiness’ tone. Boldly dry and clear, an ensemble sound and a rarity today.
Seen this tour it was great can’t wait for 2023 tour Gabriel is so intense truly one of Englands greatest prophets of sound ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
what a perfect show, pure entertainment! punk prog ahead of the times. :)
I was born 30 years too late. I wish I was around for Peter Gabriel era Genesis and then Peter's early solo career. Just seen him in London - best gig I have ever been too! :)
Peter is amazing, a true inspiration! Fulfilling on so many levels.
My favorite male singer of all time.
Wow, this was Gabriel’s response to the energy that was in punk at the time. I’m a big fan of early Genesis and almost everything of PG’s except for the most recent stuff. Fantastic to see this. Saw him at Selhurst Park (London ) one hot summer’s evening in 1983 - he and the band were awesome, but some of this energy had dissipated by then.
Saw this tour at the Berkeley community theater in the bay area.
It was the best! I remember when they came out of the audience when the show opened.🙂
Perhaps because this incredible heirloom by "brainphreak" is what actually captures the moment so authentically and demonstrates the command of The Peter Gabriel Band and Peter's superb punky performance...This video puts you in it :)
I watched this concert live on tv in 1978 - 20 years later I bought a DVD and I ENJOYED IT, but the quality wasn't so good like here. Thank you for your upload!
My first of many conserts with That great man.😀
+Ragnar Tollefsen - Me too. Im happy to say Ive never missed a tour. Just got tickets for Madison Square Garden on June 27th !!!
I wish it was me,but here in Norway there is so smal conserts place, so it's hard to get rikets. But he Wright great lyrics. 😀😀😀😀😨
+Ragnar Tollefsen he sure does. he's amazing
Wow what an amazing performer!
I saw this tour in 1978 in the States...one of the best concerts I'd ever seen. That is, until a few years later when Pete surpassed it when I saw the Security tour.
1978 - With the lights in the Montreal Forum on & people bouncing a giant beach ball, toilet paper rolls tossed to appear like meteors, Peter Gabriel nonchalantly walked up onto the Stage, sat down at the piano and sang a song I hadn’t heard since my youth called, Me & my teddy bear. it blew my mind & we made a connection right away…as he finished, the lights went down and from the dark emerged the band from the crowd with flashlights and made their way onto the stage…the show was amazing!
Thanks for posting this. It's so good!
Nice to see Pete as a drummer for a few moments. I think that's what he originally wanted to be.
is vocals are very good live. Interesting and unique musician. I grew up with him on the radio but never made the effort until now. Good stuff
Absolutely fantastic! Including a very early "version" of I DON'T REMEMBER!
WHITE SHADOW rocked!
And THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY for an en core?!
Incredible!
I love Peter Gabriel, it was my first show in 1979 and i'm from 64
Wow thank you!!! I love this era of PG. Sid's solo in white shadow is downright haunting!
What a great find!
Wow, saw this tour 38 years ago in Pittsburgh at The Stanley Theatre. Thanks!
Thanks for the kind person who uploaded this video !
Sensational !
I am a Hungarian fan of Gabriel and Genesis.
I saw his concert in Budapest in September, 1987 in a football stadion.
Fabulous concert ! I saw them twice in 1977 and 1978 in Geneva ! Great !