Back to Front | Peter Gabriel | Talks at Google
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- Peter Gabriel stops by Google to discuss his recent work, including the new "Back to Front" tour, celebrating the 25th Anniversary of "So." From the latest at Witness to his thoughts about bringing back the original "So" band, Peter covers a wide variety of subjects. This talk was recorded on October 2nd, 2012.
Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album's biggest hit, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and the song is the most played music video in the history of the station.
More recently, Gabriel has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has also been involved in various humanitarian efforts. Gabriel has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards-winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, and in 2007 he was honored as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his "influence on generations of music makers." Gabriel was also awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2009, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.
Peter Gabriel manages to be so down to earth, insightful, and accessible to his fans even after decades of stardom. Bravo.
Accessible? where is he?
False modesty is what the ruling cheater class is all about . you catch more flies with sugar-coated lies .
"Some of you are going to die ! --- martyrs of course to the freedom AI will provide !" --- ( google The Knife - by early 'peter' 'gabriel' Genesis )
One of the best musicians in history. Great human been
Hes still being!
great human bean!
magicact Peter Gabriel gives very thoughtful interviews that you consider "boring and tame", meaning that he's not trying to 'entertain' you in an interview, but is answering the questions as thoughtfully and authentically as he can, which I'm very appreciative of him for making the effort to do so, rather than being very superficial and shallow as many so-called 'artists' tend to be when interviewed.
You lost respect for Peter Gabriel just because of an interview? hum interesting point of view. Peter Gabriel spent a lifetime pushing the boudaries of music he doesnt need to entertain me in a google interview to earn my respect. speaking of which, he doesnt need to earn your respect at all
filmneye yep, he’s old school and sounds real and comes across as genuine, which is a rarer phenomenon now.
Being a fan of this man for 50 years makes it feel like an old friend when watching interviews.....Peter was a big Beatles fan as was I.......it must have been an amazing feeling when he heard that John Lennon thought "Selling England By The Pound " was one of the best records he had heard!!
I love his music,but I love to hear him talk too,he's so soothing.
For how incredibly successful Peter has been, he has a remarkably humble demeanor. "Back to Front" is a fantastic tour.
Such a huge genius and yet so humble. Such an accessible human being yet so creative. For me he is a real role model as an artist.
Oh man. Watching and listening to this man made me almost cry at the end. He is so ahead of his time that I think a lot of people won't even yet appreciate his ideas or realise the potential they have. And also so admire his humanitarian work. And you could write multiple speeches about the impact his music has.
Was also a very touching moment, the guy second to last thanking Peter for his work.
He looks so awesome and his voice hasn't even changed...he still sounds great lots of love Peter
I love cd's. They will always be my favorite way to get music regardless of how obscure they get.
agreed
SuperStrik9 Seriously, not like, vinyl records?
I like to have them, put them onto my iTunes, put them in the car. They are great, I agree
What about my 8 Tracks?
A Master Showman. Takes fearless chances
Passion was his masterpiece
Agreed. A work of art. I just listened to it this morning and once last week. Regular rotation.
i count hearing So as a child as being one of the most formative moments in my entire life. we were visiting my uncle stephens house, it was the peak 80's and he had a black grand piano, deep pile white shag carpet and a CD PLAYER!!!! and what was this album on? who was peter gabriel? i didnt know but i knew i wanted in. and im still getting those feelings listening to it today 35 years later. im thankful to have heard this music
sometimes Peter Gabriel's gaze is so mortally wounded
peter gabriel, suffered with depression for a long time
@Peter Gabriel hi you have the best voice besides, Me. Just kidding. Have you ever thought of singing with Cindy Lauper?
I am so very happy that the last question got in there about "In Your Eyes." When I was a young man back in the 70's I burned out 4 vinyl copies each of The Lamb and Foxtrot and almost got evicted I played them so loud. I never imagined I would be listening to anything so often again, but In Your Eyes is Like time spent with god and I listen to it once or twice a day, this newer version. The character you create for me in that of the Hierophant. I have always called you my High Priest. Don't worry I know you are just a guy, but the character has been a blessing in my life. Thank You, Mr. Gabriel.
Pete is such cool grounded cat, great interviewee and a wonderful musician. Saw him in 2003 during his Up tour and his sense of humor is outstanding. The PA system shorted out during the show and he handled with humor referring to it as a "f-up." Unfortunately, where I live here in Minnesota, this market has only been a stop on the Up tour since I became a huge fan of him and Genesis in 1985. I wish my employer would invite him to speak at our organization. One thing I appreciate about him too is he is an open minded celebrity who when he gives his opinion he does so in a non-judgmental way with respect to others.
SUPPER'S READY!!!! PETER GENESIS FANS ARE STILL WAITING!!
Musical box
Peter Gabriel is my favourite artist. Can´t wait to see him live this year!
Great interview
Just seen this tour in Wembley UK. Brilliant. Best PG concert ever.
Wow...he got old! The voice and style so different. Pure excellence.
So why is this guy not knighted yet? I mean they gave it to others with less talent, less moral goodness
SO inspiring ! I'm a huge fan, he has a great impact on my music.
Shy,very cool heart warming Man .
Great Peter Gabriel!!!!!
My Idol...............
For you Peter Gabriel,all my love end my respect❤🌺
I will be a Peter Gabriel fan to the day I die and beyond !!!
Brian Olendorf beyond? Haha. Whatever
;-)
Wow---I've always gotten that from the song, In Your Eyes--to hear Peter actually explain that here validates what I felt--thank you for posting :)
@Peter Gabriel My first thought is that this is not the true Peter Gabriel but hello to you all the same :)
I liked when he mentioned that real tricorder project and then said "For those of you who don't know, a tricorder was a device on Star Trek..." and he laughed when he thought about his audience. I doubt that any person in that room didn't know about Star Trek's tricorders!
It was great to see this video and hear Peter talk candidly. I have to say that my favorite concert (and I have not seen him live) is Secret World live. I bought this DVD 3 times. Why? Because I would "lend" it to someone and never see them again. But with Manu and Paula, David and Tony, you can't go wrong. This copy is going nowhere!
Since I first listened to "The Lamb" back in '95/'96, and knowing of Peter's brief and unfinished involvement with movie making back in the mid-70's, the only way I could envision "The Lamb" was as a feature-length animation. It's very good to hear it's still a matter of interest creatively, and to know someone is working on a concept involving animation is very reassuring. I'm sure that, if it ever sees the light of day, whatever comes out of it is going to be awesome.
Thank God for Tony Stratton-Smith !! If it wasn't for him ? We probably would've never heard of Peter Gabriel or Genesis.
He backed that band & whole heartedly believed in their talent even though they never made money, and were in fact hundreds of thousands of British pounds in debt when Peter Gabriel left Genesis in '75. It never bothered the gregarious Strat; he believed in "his boys" & and we are all the richer for it.....
Bless your soul in heaven, Strat !!!
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SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL!!!
That was probably the greatest and most informative interview I've ever watched. Can't wait to see what Gabriel does next.
thank u p.g. great songs u make
That was an unaccompanied bass peddle solo by Michael Rutherford. This is "The Musical Box."
Saw the tour in Vegas in 2012, amazing.
Unique!
I was there waiting the very day his first album was released, at record town, back then, since then I have all his music , it's funny, my gf then, and still friend now, liked his later material, not the early, which I found strange, but he takes your head on a trip in his music, and that's what my head sounds like.
Just went to see this tour on Thursday and it was fucking great
Peter is forever!!
WOW! I love some of hi sold hits like 'Solsbury Hill'; to me he's an unsung icon, maybe not as flamboyant as David Bowie, but with his own weirdness, ever since that weird film 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'...
Magico peter
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Man, that interviewer has a real deep resonating bass voice. I mean don't know him or whether this guy can sing, but if he does, well )) that's sure as hell to be loud )) Anyways, respect to him: great job as the interviewer.
Falling down ❤❤
I love you PG...
I wish I was in that audience top ask a question. I would ask this: Why don't you play flute anymore?
Good question!
Around the 18:00 min mark, I liked the train theory lol. Peter is just a top bloke anyway.
Quando il maestro vorrà...potrà!!!
I was at the 86 tour Amnesty tour in 87,94 tour and twice in 2002 in 2 different towns.
Shake his hands in 2002 tour :)
Biutiful
Damn where Peter finds those cool long vests.
Eres numero uno...please gabriel....
Peter please put your music on Spotify
0:14 no one responded : im on my way im making it ? 😂
If I got to ask a question it would of been:- Peter, do you regret that the lamb tour was never professionally filmed, not even one full song from the original tour? Plus didn’t you ever discuss getting one of the full concerts filmed? To me that’s the biggest mistake ever in recorded music history.
Nice.
Thank you for mentioning Gabble. This needs to go to Android asap! Esp. since you were sittin' in the House there. ahem. heh-heh. Uh... yeah.
i would love to know which two songs were giving the band grief!
PG!!!!
I do the train thing too!
Sure, the 1986 concert was great, but the "Playtime 88" tour under the guise of the "security" LP was a religious experiences in the summer of '83 at Pine Knob in Michigan!
just look at his face in 1993, then in 2003, then now
Peter our Arcangelo...
Speaking of data, 10 years on and companies sell it and steal it and it's hard to get access to it.
I never knew he was in the area. Google is practically my neighbor.
PERN
Enjoyed this very much-thanks Google!
There are many things about Genesis that are amazing, but a few that particularly come to mind is that, OK, the band had a great start with Tony Banks and Rutherford somehow coming together with Peter Gabriel and Antony Phillips, which was crazy enough already. But then coming across Phil Collins who was not only an incredible drummer, but a good enough singer and performer to replace Gabriel when his left, and also before hand come up with the likes of Steve Hackett to replace Antony Phillips when he did, is just too much luck.
How did so many mega talented people come together in the same band? Which also begs the question how did all of these egos manage to put up with each other as long as they did? The obvious answer seems to me that they are all particular shy, and fundamentally insecure people, including most surprisingly even Phil Collins, and Tony Banks.
Another strange thing is that only Steve Hackett seems particularly satisfied with almost all of what the band produced. Most of the rest seemed more interested in getting a hit single, and appearing on Top of The Pops. Where they all still trying to impress their own mothers, or fathers? Grammar schools boys are rather strange people, after all. People who come from reasonably stable and comfortable family backgrounds, have great difficulty coming to terms with their own success. They always want more, even if they are not particularly interested in the money, which few of them are as they never really struggled for want of same as youths.
They also have a habit of looking a gift horse in the mouth as others within their own early acquaintance or families seemed to have achieved perfectly nice, happy and more contented lives for themselves, without having to prostitute themselves to the Music industry to make a living, put on a false front to fans or the public as a whole, get involved with accountants, promoters, or other aspects of a business, or possibly humiliate themselves before a live audience. You simply can't be in as deep into something as insidiously evil as the Music industry, without often getting the feeling you have in some ways sold your soul to the devil. You see it all in its most horrid, over time.
You may console yourself by repeatedly claiming to yourself and others, that it is all about the Music, which it may very well be, but they can be forgiven for often thinking that maybe it just was not worth it, and that they may have been better off, just becoming an accountant, doctor or an insurance broker, as at least their marriages may have lasted, their minds less deranged, and their kids been happier.
OK, they all wear it far better than people like Roger Waters, but you can often see the English Post Christian middle class cracks appearing in all of them.
Since you're disgusting the album "So". I got a personal story to share regarding it. I learned of this album's existence via a photograph in my math book in school. The photograph consisted of a stack of cassette tapes. Peter Gabriel "So" was at the top. At the time I only knew Peter Gabriel's name and the song "Sledgehammer" I would remember that and purchase it on CD first chance I got.🙂
Why play U2 as his intro music instead of PG or early Genesis?
He couldn’t be more less Silicon Valley type
...just saw him last night at the School of Life discussion. I was fine, until he talked about bringing Apes into a studio to play the piano. I struggled and am still struggling with this concept. Sometimes, you need to be careful of what you wish for.....I should have stayed with listening to his amazing music.....meeting and hearing the genius up close was amazingly disappointing. Somewhat like, finally meeting the girl that you have admired for years...to realise, the power of fascination is a power itself
True.....But. Weird ? i never said anything about being weird or making a judgement on what is or isnt weird. I merely was reflecting on what interests me and what does not about PG. Yes, stimuli is personal, very much so.
THIS IS ALSO THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCT 2 1982 GENESIS REUNION WHAT A COINCIDENCE HAHAHA
Brother Gabe
I SIMPLY CAN NOT WAIT FOR TWO OF THE GREATEST BANDS EVER.......
SMASHING PUMPKINS AND PETER GABRIEL......
I guess the real reason for this post is that I have been a truly huge fan since my first CD.
I would like to make it known to you that you have brought the will to live to me and mine.
I would like to say that I feel the major rock stars of my genereration have been the Smahing Pumpkins.
I want to express that your work and the work of the the Smashing Pumkins, would define the "sound" of the 90's"
PLEASE GET TOGETHER WITH THE SMAHING PUMKINKS. Or so I think.
Well It has been some time since this was a relevant post. I speak here of knowing some dark things. Peter Gabriel....... you seem quite withdrawn and almost depressed in this video. I would only guess because it is where I seem to have found myself right now. Kids in my time were liststening to snoop-doggy dog or Dr Dre on the school bus ride home. When asked "who are you listening to" I responded "Peter Gabriel".
I was like 13 at the time. You were simply my favorite music.
You are still my favorite music.
I just wanted to let you know that your music has inspired me always.
Games Without Frontiers was the first song I can rember on the radio; and that song led me to my first CD ever.
16 Golden Greats.
Since this CD you have been my favorite artist of all time.
I have introced you to every different crowd I know.
It does not matter the crowds I have been involved with........we all seem to love you.
o___O
I _think_ I agree with you....if I had _any idea_ what you were saying. But, I'm a *_massive_* fan of both Gabriel _and_ the Pumpkins.....so I suppose I agree with your comment...? lol..
Why didn't he put it on CD to begin with then as he could of , Dire Straits did with the massive hit album: Brothers in Arms + the hit album: Once upon a time-Simple minds which came out in 85 as well- So it had been done before and were very successful on digital format
I had the album on Cassette, My dad said at the time in mid 80's he wanted it on CD or as they sometimes called it then Compact Disc lol
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Nick Park is the animator in question
Is he not bringing this tour to the US?
"So" is his last great album, wasn't much impressed by subsequent work, except for soundtracks. His work up to that point is spectacular, he is a true genius.
Us is a masterpiece.
Yeagar Chillax US is fantastic. My favorite of his later work.
Hmm, that was a good interview actually.
Does anybody know if there is going to be a DVD of this tour, i can't find anything on the net ?
The concert film is coming out soon and I assume there will be a dvd released at some point in the not so distant future.
Blu Ray and extended dvd is coming out June 24, 2014. Saw the show 10/2/12 at HP Pavilion in San Jose. Great show. I don't think he's a boring interviewer. The man is brilliant and a genius and is down to earth and low key. How 'bout that?
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God, how socially awkward is the staff at Google?
kingoftomatoes They're all virgins, that's why.
+Will Scarlett seems like
Will Scarlett being a virgin doesn’t make you socially awkward because you’re coming across very well. 😀
see you know
Lib virgins. How awful.
Does anyone know if what he says at 2:59 (about the last track on a vinyl) is true?
It is true. Record needles have more room/time to vibrate in the long, slow grooves at the beginning of a record than they do at the end, where that part of the record is spinning more quickly
Imagine spinning a small object around you at the end of a long string (like a big metal washer or something). It will make a sound as it moves through the air. Now shorten the string significantly, and spin it again. The pitch of the sound will be higher, because the washer will be spinning around you more quickly and the sound vibrations it makes as it moves through the air will be smaller/shorter. It's the same concept with the record needle.
Does that make sense?
the ghostwriter Very interesting! Anyway, nothing is really perfect but I still prefere the vinyl sound...
the ghostwriter I could be wrong, of course, but it seems to me a vinyl record spins at a constant speed of 33 1/3 rpm. It doesn't get any faster near the end...
At the start of the record the needle covers more of the groove per second than at the end, so more and more music has to fit in less and less inches of groove as it nears the end of the record. I imagine that music at the start of the groove is therefore recorded more detailed than near the end.
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The (physical) groove becomes more compressed near the end
Does anyone has seen his collaboration with nusrat fateh ali khan?
Have you seen his collaboration with nusrat fateh ali khan?
these talks are funny bc the format was like 10-15 years ahead of its time. the content is so old tho
U should've had the real fans in the audience..
it is bizarre. Was the audience instructed not bring to up Genesis?
@@WintersWar I think so.. sometimes I feel like PG doesn't want to mention anything about Genesis.
hehe, I can't believe I'm the first one to like this comment after a month! Love it. :)
Kinda disappointed no one asked about his new album.
The Smithsonian is a good place to look for old software and hardware tech when resurrecting 26 year old sounds Pete. They collect all that stuff to help with obsolescence issues.
Comwntariios ,,????,,,,,,,NO 1. ..
in Greece? filming? for the borowed money?
Peter Gabriel: "Back to Front", Talks at Google
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