Apyuxjj.148 net.music utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!pyuxjj!rlr Thu Apr 15 16:32:06 1982 Peter Gabriel re: Peter Gabriel album Yes, there are three P.G. solo outings. The "melted face" one you mention is indeed the second one. The third album (on Mercury) has a b&w cover (again) of P.G. seemingly ripping shreds out of his own photo. (You have to see it.) I think that this is his best work to date. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, who has worked with a number of interesting new music artists (Ultravox, U2, Psychedelic Furs), the album has a lot more bite to it than the others, with interesting instrumentation and clever songwriting ("Intruder", "I Don't Remember", e.g.). Helping out on this record are Tony Levin (bass and stick; formerly of session work with Paul Simon, Lennon/Ono; now with King Crimson), Larry Fast (keys, synths, electronics; SYNERGY), and I think Phil Collins. "Games Without Frontiers," his big radio "hit" of 1980, is on this album, as well as "Biko" (a great song about Steve Biko's brutal treatment by the South Africans), "Intruder" (an incredibly haunting song about a prowler and/or peeping tom), and more. Despite my praise for this album, I still don't own it yet!! I guess I'm waiting to find it in the cutout bins like the first two albums. Mercury doesn't tend to keep records in print for a long time (look at all the great 10cc cutouts you find in cutout bins), but this one is still available at (yecch!) regular prices in regular stores. As far as naming/numbering these records, I either refer to I, II, and III, OR Atco, Atlantic, and Mercury (respective record labels). If a fourth album (probably to be called "Peter Gabriel") is released, it will probably be on the label he is now signed to, Geffen Records. No word on this yet.... I managed to see him perform live in Central Park at a surprise show in 1980, where Fast and Levin and two others put on a really great show!!! He came back for three encores, demanded by the crowd mainly because they expected to hear "Games Without Frontiers", which never happened. Instead the band played "D.I.Y" and "On the Air", followed by Peter alone on piano for a phenomenal rendition of "Here Comes the Flood", similar to the one he did on Robert Fripp's "Exposure" album (also a cutout bin fave). Gabriel never liked the way Bob Ezrin produced the version on "I". Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr (This was supposed to have been mailed to kennethr, but that sure didn't work!) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.