Not an Adventure, Just a good time with the Wife!
I save my adventures for climbing.
And I'm JONESING to climb right now!
It's too bad I still have a month or 2 of Physical Therapy on my shoulder
till I am able to climb again.
Saw him on the "So" tour in 1986 in Mass. and in 2003 in D.C. (the D.C. show was awesome!).
Hoping to see him again this year, too...though it's a little difficult to wrap the mind around it being a "25th anniversary" of the first show...25 years...really?
""25th anniversary" of the first show...25 years...really? "
Actually Lila, I believe it's been 25 years since the SO album came out.
One of his first concerts after Genesis is this one back in 78. This concert was one of the first with Tony Levin on Bass guitar, but before David Rhodes on Guitar that joined him a bit later.
Cosmically yours bro, but man it's an hour and 42 minutes. It's interesting that vids used to be limited to something like 10 minutes in the old days (pre-enlightenment I spose).
25 years gone by...and the song still gives me goosebumps and reminds me to be a better human being.
I can still remember sitting in the high school library with tears rolling down my cheeks as I was reading the back story...transformative experience, that was.
Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams
Her honey belly pulls the seams
Curves are still upon the hinge
Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin
Moist as grass, ripe and heavy as the night
The sponge is full, well out of sight
All around the conversations
Icing on the warm flesh cake
Light creeps through her secret tunnels
Sucked into the open spaces
Burning out in sudden flashes
Draining blood from well-fed faces
Desires form in subtle whispers
Flex the muscles in denial
Up and down it's pristine cage
So the music, so the trial
Vows of sacrifice, headless chickens
Dance in circles, they the blessed
Man and wife, undressed by all
Their grafted trunks in heat possessed
Even as the soft skins tingle
They mingle with the homeless mother
Who loves the day but lives another
That once was hers
The worried father, long lost lover
Brushes ashes with his broom
Rehearses jokes to fly and hover
Bursting over the bride and groom
And the talk goes on
Memories crash on tireless waves
The lifeguards whom the winter saves
Silence falls the guillotine
All the doors are shut
Nervous hands grip tight the knife
In the darkness, till the cake is cut
Passed around, in little pieces
The body and the flesh
The family and the fishing-net
And another in the mesh
From what I've heard the, "SO, Back to Front Tour is going to have a lot of the original members of the band at that time.
I wonder if, Manu Katche is going to be the Drummer for the tour?
Just want you to know I booked tickets for the San Jose show...and I live on the east coast...all thanks to you Cosmic. Signed up for the facelift too, now if i just would hear if I have a campsite for the cleanup.
Sneak preview for you still waiting,Philly on Friday night, great show lasted about two hours, some new keyboard pieces, demos, really, followed by "the electric set" that rocked, followed by the whole So album, and ending with, well, you know...
No smoking in the auditorium.
Guess I'll have to get my fill of Hippy Lettuce before the show.
To bad I don't have any hippy butter left. I'd make some brownies
to bring into the show.
Band Members:
Tony Levin, BASS
Peter Gabriel Vocals, keyboards
David Rhodes, Guitar
Manu Katche, Drums
David Sancious,keyboards
Jennie Abrahamson,Backing vocals
Linnea olsson, backing Vocals
Setlist
1. Acoustic
1. OBUT
(with 'Tony Levin' only)
2. Come Talk to Me
3. Shock the Monkey
4. Family Snapshot
5. Retro
5. Digging in the Dirt
6. Secret World
7. The Family and the Fishing Net
8. No Self Control
9. Solsbury Hill
10. Washing of the Water
11. "So" in Remastered Version order
11. Red Rain
12. Sledgehammer
13. Don't Give Up
14. That Voice Again
15. Mercy Street
16. Big Time
17. We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)
18. This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)
19. In Your Eyes
20. Encore:
20. The Tower That Ate People
21. Biko
yeah, I like Peter Gabriel. Cosmic, I hope you enjoyed the concert.
Slight change of topic, actually, artist.
I saw a documentary the other night, Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night (1988), with Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raite, KD Lang, Jennifer Warnes, JD Souther, Tom Waits, and others. Fantastic. Oribson had one of the best voices.
Let us know!