{"id":2786,"date":"2009-04-06T17:29:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=380"},"modified":"2009-04-06T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:29:48","slug":"on-stage-with-peter-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/04\/on-stage-with-peter-gabriel\/","title":{"rendered":"On Stage with Peter Gabriel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful footage from Tony Levin, one of my favourite bass players, from a camera mounted on his bass guitar at one of Peter Gabriel&#8217;s concerts. Gabriel inspired me hugely as a young songwriter and budding producer. A remarkable singer-songwriter, innovator and champion of world music, with Genesis, he was renowned for his dramatic live energy and love of costume. These days Uncle Peter looks more like he&#8217;s wandered in out of the garden shed for a gentle potter through the back catalogue, but I still love him to bits, and his oeuvre is well worth checking out in depth. <em>Biko<\/em> is the classic, <em>Sledgehammer<\/em> was the Big Hit, <em>Don&#8217;t Give Up<\/em> with Kate Bush the heart-wrencher.<\/p>\n<p>The music in this video is totally dominated by the bass &#8211; you can pretty easily make out the song, but this recording is not a candidate for a live bootleg. But I love these unusual, fly-on-wall recordings, and this is a great one.<\/p>\n<p><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-F-NPlyAxa0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-F-NPlyAxa0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBassCam view of Sledgehammer in Monterrey, Mexico from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TonyLevin100\">Tony Levin&#8217;s Road Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ianshepherd\">Ian Shepherd<\/a> for the steer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful footage from Tony Levin, one of my favourite bass players, from a camera mounted on his bass guitar at one of Peter Gabriel&#8217;s concerts. Gabriel inspired me hugely as a young songwriter and budding producer. A remarkable singer-songwriter, innovator and champion of world music, with Genesis, he was renowned for his dramatic live energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[605,800,640],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bass","tag-live","tag-performance","tag-stage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}