Peter Gabriel- Lay Your Hands on Me REACTION AND REVIEW
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In live performances of this song Peter would walk to the front of the stage, turn around, spread his arms and fall backwards onto the up stretched arms of the crowd. Then surf as the chorus ran an extended version. Magical.
@@SteveRogers-mk2fj Live, in 82', he would walk into the Audience. In 86'-87's So World Tour, his Dive, then trusted Surf, came from Above Stage. Thematically, Peter's "Penetration" into the Crowd, arrived within the Entrance of his Band Mates in 78's PG 2 Tour, as Peter on Stage, along with his Teddy Bear, "Requested" more Friends. These Friends, were to enter the Stage from Back, to, and within the Audience Themselves. These "Monk Robed" Band Members, also like Peter, holding large 8 to 9 inch Hand-held Lights, in search to Themselves, towards the intended Audience of Peter and said Teddy, all to the beginning intensity of Frippertronics about to introduce us to Gabriel's Mozo's Scream.
@semchen9 Could you please inform me what all this has to do with music? Just a tad curious!
I was just going to write the same thing! Saw him the in 82 too. Unbelievable show! Great reaction!
@gl2700 In 82, then in Tandem, their Entrance was announced back and INTO the Crowd towards Stage. Pete, in now Monkey-Face. Harkening to his 10 year older Face of a 'Watcher of the Skies',...revisiting.
@@Owlstretchingtime78 to Pete's then own Musings (Fanzines, Books), much was written to the Sources of his Creations, and to it's Gestations. - in 79', Peter, (much was then written about this) Peter began his road with Analysis, Personal Psychological Analysis. As earlier with Genesis, he would Play among and within, First Person and Second Person Perspectives.
This was the first album I purchased on CD back in 1984.
I immediately needed a new stereo system.
A spiritual experience live! I was overwhelmed.
Hi JP. DP from UK, with Friday On My Mind. This is the early 80s, when so many new keyboards (like the Fairlight) came into use. What i like about this track, and the album in general, is the imaginative use that Peter and the band make of these instruments. As you say, it's an industrial sound, but there is warmth, and I would add, they make it interesting and exciting.
My goodness, but I love this album! So glad you came back to it!
This is the track in Peter's concerts during which he would do a leap of faith backward stage dive into the audience and they would 'lay their hands on him' baring him aloft.
My favourite lines:
Working in gardens, thornless roses,
Fat men play with their garden hoses.
“September 5, 1982: When released on CD in October 1984 it becomes the first full-digital DDD release. It was recorded on Sony's Mobile One digital studio and mixed to a Sony PCM-1610.”
This is my 2nd fav Peter Gabriel album of all time !
I picked up this album when it was new. I only went back as far as ...And Then There Were Three with Genesis, so I really didn't know the Gabriel era of that band. I had his first solo album, but I now believe I needed his 2nd and 3rd to understand what I had with his 4th, "Security". It struck me as very stuck on a theme as far as the mood, sounds and tempo. The Rhythm of the Heat was a killer opener, but many of the other songs, this one included, had such a slow buildup that my then-18-year-old taste lacked the patience to enjoy. I'm happy to have matured, and now the songs I didn't get into back then are now my absolute favorites. San Jacinto is probably the greatest example of that. I ho-hummed it in 82 and now it's like candy to me and the climax knocks my socks off.
I do think I would have understood the journey Peter was taking better if I had caught Scratch and Melt before Security. All is good now, though, and this is my favorite of his solo LPs.
Great reaction, btw. I can't tell what is making that bass sound, either. I agree it sounds very synthy.
Totally understand what you mean about not being able to fully appreciate it when you were younger. I was super snotty when I was younger with my music lol
Before I watch it, I guess I was not the only one wanting you to do a reaction to the live performance (I already seen that some spoiled the end of the act)
. Anyway, I get myself a beverage and come back to watch your reaction right away.
I've been listening to this song for over 35 years, and when you pointed out the line _"..no more miracles, loaves and fishes, been so busy with the washing of the dishes..."_ it took me back to "Solsbury Hill" when Gabriel alluded to his notoriety while in Genesis with the line _"..turning water into wine.."_ . I've always missed it. Amazing.
At last! My favorite song from Peter.
I love this track, it's very special and haunting
A great track. The chorus "Lay your hands on me!" is someone asking to be healed, wanting to believe in the mystical, the holy mythology in the face of a mundane existence (washing the dishes, watering the garden).
Good explanation!
JP! This album (and this song in partic) changed my life when I first heard it in '82 -- I actually saw P.G. live on the tour for this album, opening for Bowie in his Serious Moonlight (Lets Dance) tour. Jesus what a show. This was my intro to Gabriel, as I'd never been a big Genesis fan. I'd heard "Games without Frontiers" on the radio and liked it, but hadn't pursued this until now. Been an epic P.G. fan ever since.
So--about the Meaning: P.G. 3 (melty face) is all about various forms of hard-core alienation: "I Don't Remember", "Family Snapshot", "Not One of Us", "Intruder", etc. P.G 4/Security is all about finding various ways of breaking through that hard-core alienation, into various ecstatic states beyond. "I Have the Touch" is hopefully easiest to see in this regard, vs the PG 3 songs. But so is "San Jocinto" and "Rhythm of the Heat." That kind of move beyond alienation isn't easy and it can be extremely scary-intense, as in most of these songs ("Kiss of Life" is maybe the least scary, though it has its own insane intensity). But without the scary intensity you don't get the ecstasy. (The Family and the Fishing Net is a partial exception and in some ways belongs on PG 3, I think, but you can judge for yourself).
Anyway, probably the best use of drumming I've ever heard in a rock album, full stop. And no surprise to learn that Gabriel composed these songs *around* the percussion, which habit he then passed on to Kate Bush (The Dreaming was made under the direct influence of this album).
Thats a great way of connecting his works/themes between albums matro. ty for the insight on that :)
@@JustJP well, ty for listening to this album, and digging on this song. You have excellent taste, always.
In the Eighties this has had to be heard over LOUDspeakers. I had a tube amp and the hood was glowing. A nightmare for my parents.
Lol! But a dream for you
One of my fav PG Songs ever
The loaves and fishes reference, to me, is in part a call back to his earlier writing themes in Genesis, where he took on grand religious and spiritual themes, expressing a need to be more grounded and healed.
The song is about a marriage that has grown distant and cold. There's a spark of passion still alive, but it's faint, and it's been dwindling for years. He's singing from a perspective of desperation.
A terrific record - every track is a banger! Can I recommend The Week That Was' self titled album which could be Security part 2.
Great song I love it, I love the live versions too. The next song Wallflower is just magical and emotional.
5:03 - Better than Phil's fill
The lyrics strike me as coming from a ne'er-do-well on a pathological fringe between hope and darkness who reaches a ritualistic shouting for help in places where no one really sees him and where the laying of hands will not only be his salvation, but theirs as well.
Yes it seems like an internal burning up process, living in a superficial surrounding: wanting human warmth. Like the song about needing contact, earlier on the album.
But this has a brooding quality
I really miss Jerry Marotta's drums on Gabriel's later albums. This was the last album that he played on (apart from a guest appearance on So, on the first track, Red Rain), before Manu Katche took over. Marotta had a much heavier, primal sound that really worked to build the atmosphere, especially on this track. This was the album that introduced me to Peter Gabriel, and this track epitomises the sound of that whole album. If you haven't seen Peter's iconic crowd-surfing during this track - he did it through this album tour and the So tour at least - you should definitely check it out.
Do the live vid version Athens 1987...to experience that as an audience member was one of the high points of my career as a 'punter'.
As many will remark, checkout the live performance. It's very unique and demonstrates how serious Peter is to authenticity when he gets an idea.
When I hear this, I hear what Genesis may have been.
I've always heard this song as a companion to "Lead a Normal Life" and Phil Collins' "Take Me Home", songs based on Peter and Phil really liking "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest". I thought "lay your hands" was about psychoanalyis, but I could be wrong.
If you enjoy PG3 and PG4, the Birdy soundtrack, which recycles the master tapes from those album, is worth a listen, although honestly, it is a fantastic film (Nic Cage, Matthew Modine, Alan Parker directing). Also, I love how Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel bring in these mumble-rap elements alongside Fairlight samples. Some of the bass on PG4 is Lee Sklar, I think, though he is uncredited.
Dark, difficult to dance to, but I do like it.
It's a jam. Leave it as it am.
I love how PG called himself a sound designer or something, a tinkerer, rather than a musician. In the early 80s you could distinguish which bands use Yamahas, Casios or Rolands by the factory settings they used. Technics were always a bit more sophisticated, being mostly based on samples of real intruments.
The new lot never even tried. The ok boomers at least knew they had to put in the grind. They were at best used to Moogs, and Moogs weren't anywhere near reliable. Or Prophets, for that matter. Before that, synths were only ready to play if you couldn't see the keys through the 1/4 jack cables. Before that, and they made brilliant sounds, the... Mellotron...
The 80s were good, but most ppl forgot to personalise the settings and make their mark. 8bit DOS rubbish was the result. Most, not quite all. You can tell within the intro who put in the graft.
The lack of a single cymbal or hi-hat on this album makes the sound of this album so special with the drumming, I'm surprised it hasn't been used more
He started that with his 3rd album…. introduced brilliantly by the opening track “INTRUDER”… But, yeah… what a fantastic follow up to a fantastic album. 3 and 4 (Security) were his best two albums.
EPIC.
Jim! Hope you're doing well :)
Jerry Marotta sounds 100 % like Phil on this track. I always wondered if it was really him.
I miss the JustJP intro. Please bring it back. The cold open is not doing it. Need the theme intro!
This album scared me when I bought it in high school. Not having heard his previous work, it was spooky as a teenager. I’m glad at 57 to slap it on the turntable occasionally
@@JoelAAK Ditto to Both. In 82' I had just left University, and then moved to Berkeley, CA. (Here in the Bay Area since then).PG4, the Security Album, wafted through my be Sony Walkman, as I walked through it's Streets, me also in Communion with Gabriel's Odd, Stop/Start Movements, the also Odd Fairlight Sonic Programs, introducing me to Alien, yet Familiar, Sonic Sounds and Textures.
@@semchen9right there with you. Thanks for articulating the vibe so well
@@JoelAAK On the West Coast, was, am still in Bed, lights still off, when I opened my Phone to Justin's then Live Read of Lay Your Hands on me. I am still ebbing within the Fauna of 'The Dream', Pete also was mining. Language, is of a Flow, which can hit certain Notes and Inflections rich in Arched-Brow Appreciations.
I hear ya, tis only a button press away. Sometimes I just don't lol :)
To glean what Peter is intoning here, one must be aware that he had been reading many of Carl Jung's Books, to that of the shared power of the Dream (Rhythm of the Heat) and to the Power of The Collective Unconscious, and to how to Plummet, and to Mine it for "Subterranean" Information for Personal, and as well as for Societal/Collective Healing. -- to this, See to his later 2002 Up Song, Darkness.
I did not know this. Explains a lot as to my reaction when I heard this in my teens. Tx!
It reminds me of XTC “Travels in Nihilon”, which is absolutely ferocious
@@JoelAAK XTC had by 82', a Reverent Following. Drums and Wires (79'), and Black Sea (80'), both Share the Tribal Drumming, and quirky First Person Lyrics, which Haunts much within Security.
That’s why I called out the resemblance. Terry Chambers of XTC was totally exploring the possibilities. It all came together when XTC contributed “English Roundabout” to Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD compilation.
@JoelAAK Great Catch !
Yes, "Lay Your Hands on Me" retains the cold, industrial sound of PG3, but I prefer the organic sound of his third album. Here, it sounds more synthetic overall. It's good but not great for me. On the other hand, the next track, "Wallflower", is one of my two favourite tracks on the album, along with "San Jacinto"!
@@a.k.1740 Thank Peter's meanderings, He, in 81', with Hand-Held Microphone, as he sailed, and lingered, among the Denizens along the Amazon River, and of other World Locales, of Sounds and Textures, he would Feed, and to later Feed Us, into, and out towards us, of he's then Recently purchased Fairlight.
You please react to The Barry Williams show by Peter Gabriel , please 😊
This album was a mixed bag for me back then, I loved PG3 and wished for more. Nope, got sleepy parts and loud interesting stuff which made it a rare play in my car’s newfangled cassette player. I think listening track by track is a good thing or I’d zzzzzzz off.
I liked this better than I thought I would.
Please try The Tower That Ate People another of my favorite songs.
One of the reasons the drums seem to punch through so much is because Peter didn't want Jerry Marota (drummer) to use any cymbals on this entire album! As one of the founders of Prog Rock (with Genesis) Peter is one of the most most respected musicians in the world. His catalog of music is vast including Film scoring for Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ", and others films. Being the founder of WOMAD, Peter Gabriel has done more to incorporate world beat music and instrumentation than any other artist I know.
The "no cymbals" rule actually began with his previous album (PG3/Melt). It does continue with this album, though I think maybe the very last track (Tree Of Life) has a cymbal or two? I might be wrong; I'll wait for JP to cover it!
Given a choice between having to listen to this gash again or pissing myself at a bus stop … 👀
I choose to download my local bus app and drink 2 litres of water … 🙄
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Inspired! 😆
@ 😆 cheers Owl 🦉 ✊
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wise words :)
@@jfergs.3302 😀 cheers 🍻
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You’re like one of those commenters that has to make a big show about announcing that you’re leaving… rather than just leaving.
I wish I was Jesaiah, to give of myself like that. Alas, can't bring myself to believe in a supreme being. Not a choice, mind you, I just can't. I wish I could.
I do try to give all I can and live up to such a standard, values I made my own, but it's tough if you don't believe in a supreme being that has your back. Especiaĺly when you see world leaders who make it their business to exploit every resource they can find, alive or inorganic or even just theoretical, for their own materialistic gain.
what an amazing album. No cymbals.
Same with his previous album:
Stunning track and great analysis. Try to take the time to watch him perform it live, back in '87. It's like a religious experience. ruclips.net/video/LL_9gASkB_w/видео.html
I also love this clip from Jerry Marotta, the drummer on the track, playing the drum part live more recently. It's very hypnotic - ruclips.net/video/Z1VoIDGN64I/видео.html
@@DougGrant-f8s Security Project. I miss his Drumming, but alas, he left Pete's Band, cuz, "I always got the Girls" - Jerry's Claim.
Done ! Yesssssss ! I am pleased you liked it and enjoy you first words about it. To me, it's one of my favorite track from P.G. (some of others are also in this very album).
Pleaaaaaaaaase, do a react of the live performance video (from Athens concert, POV captation, the So tour... You'll find it. You could watch Manu, not at it's very best but yet, fighting if I remerber it well against his kit going loose
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This ain't Bon Jovi.
Thank god
@@stevenaustin8274 'I have suffered for my anger'.