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learnteach) wrote2002-09-27 09:22 am
learnteach) wrote2002-09-27 09:22 am
uargh
I think it's fall.
I welcome the turning seasons, but gads, I'm tired. Work has kicked up a ruckus, and I'm tired.
BUT...
(9/25/02, 7 a.m. ET) -- Peter Gabriel held a press conference in New York City Tuesday (September 24) to launch his new album, Up, and to officially announce his forthcoming Growing Up > Live tour. Live tour.
Gabriel and his band played five songs from Up--"Darkness," "Growing Up," "No Way Out," "My Head Sounds Like That," and "More Than This"--along with two from 1986's So: "Mercy Street" and the set-closing "Sledgehammer." The band, which will also play the tour with Gabriel, featured guitarists David Rhodes and Richard Evans, bassist Tony Levin, keyboardist Rachel Z, drummer Ged Lynch, and Gabriel's daughter Melanie on backing vocals.
After the performance, Gabriel was asked about the theme of Up, and he said, "It's a sort of bunch of songs, really...It went on a long time, so there was quite a few different things that happened, and some of the stuff seemed to be irrelevant of what was going on, and others not. But I ended up realizing at the end that there were about four or five songs about death, and thought, 'Maybe that's a nice, cheerful subject for a pop record.' It hadn't really been covered much."
Keeping his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, Gabriel then added, "There's gonna be a lot of dead people, and it's a market that no one's really taking care of."
**********************
Well, there's a forward thinking musician. I've bought and listened to the album, and it sounds different than any of his earlier albums. Gone is the prog rocker? Well, gone is the glam part--the technical trickery is more hidden. The music is a lot closer to modern ambient/trance, with obvious afrocelt soundsystem influences in the drum, but the same Rhodes/Levin power on the strings, and Peter's plaintive voice puts forth his prose and poetry.
Like all his non-movie albums, there is no obvious theme. Or is there--Up, is growing up.
But listening for the first time, I realized: I want good headphones or a good stereo. Like the Toy Matinee album of (too long ago!) the producer/mixer has added levels of depth that close listening might reveal--or be revealed subliminally.
I'll listen to it more.
*********
I've gone off the rails, both in my appointments today, and in the diet, started to go off on Wednesday--didn't eat for half a day, then gobbled a burrito,lost my wallet, found my wallet (driving in traffic!) went to play practice, went and helped my brother pack for his trip, ate more carbs at midnight, slept 6, hit the appointments, lunch of sashimi, appointments, dinner of ...wow, 1/2 order fajitas and and 1/3 blooming onion, and slept 7 hours...need sleep, to be back on the diet, and probably water.
That's clear. Wonder what I weigh?
Off to the road!
I welcome the turning seasons, but gads, I'm tired. Work has kicked up a ruckus, and I'm tired.
BUT...
(9/25/02, 7 a.m. ET) -- Peter Gabriel held a press conference in New York City Tuesday (September 24) to launch his new album, Up, and to officially announce his forthcoming Growing Up > Live tour. Live tour.
Gabriel and his band played five songs from Up--"Darkness," "Growing Up," "No Way Out," "My Head Sounds Like That," and "More Than This"--along with two from 1986's So: "Mercy Street" and the set-closing "Sledgehammer." The band, which will also play the tour with Gabriel, featured guitarists David Rhodes and Richard Evans, bassist Tony Levin, keyboardist Rachel Z, drummer Ged Lynch, and Gabriel's daughter Melanie on backing vocals.
After the performance, Gabriel was asked about the theme of Up, and he said, "It's a sort of bunch of songs, really...It went on a long time, so there was quite a few different things that happened, and some of the stuff seemed to be irrelevant of what was going on, and others not. But I ended up realizing at the end that there were about four or five songs about death, and thought, 'Maybe that's a nice, cheerful subject for a pop record.' It hadn't really been covered much."
Keeping his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, Gabriel then added, "There's gonna be a lot of dead people, and it's a market that no one's really taking care of."
**********************
Well, there's a forward thinking musician. I've bought and listened to the album, and it sounds different than any of his earlier albums. Gone is the prog rocker? Well, gone is the glam part--the technical trickery is more hidden. The music is a lot closer to modern ambient/trance, with obvious afrocelt soundsystem influences in the drum, but the same Rhodes/Levin power on the strings, and Peter's plaintive voice puts forth his prose and poetry.
Like all his non-movie albums, there is no obvious theme. Or is there--Up, is growing up.
But listening for the first time, I realized: I want good headphones or a good stereo. Like the Toy Matinee album of (too long ago!) the producer/mixer has added levels of depth that close listening might reveal--or be revealed subliminally.
I'll listen to it more.
*********
I've gone off the rails, both in my appointments today, and in the diet, started to go off on Wednesday--didn't eat for half a day, then gobbled a burrito,lost my wallet, found my wallet (driving in traffic!) went to play practice, went and helped my brother pack for his trip, ate more carbs at midnight, slept 6, hit the appointments, lunch of sashimi, appointments, dinner of ...wow, 1/2 order fajitas and and 1/3 blooming onion, and slept 7 hours...need sleep, to be back on the diet, and probably water.
That's clear. Wonder what I weigh?
Off to the road!