Dancing with the Moonlight Knight (session) (audio only)

[dayvenkirq]

there is something wrong with the video. it stops at 1:31

[frcjt]

Incredibly beautiful!! Where can this be found?

[Progfan82]

Thanks for this treasure!. A fan from Mexico

[petergabriel99]

Beautiful document....Thanks

[wigenesis]

I love Genesis, I really do...

[tmbarden]

This is Gabriel. This is how he writes songs. He calls them Gabrielisms. He writes the music first and hums along. Once he has the rhythm, then he writes the lyrics. I saw him say this in an interview. This is totally Gabriel.  He does this hum singing in parts of the Passion CD and especially on the song "While the Earth Sleeps."

[sandro28grizz]

@tmbarden The song was most likely written by Tony Banks, not Gabriel. Banks and Mike Rutherford wrote most of the early Genesis stuff, and Steve Hackett wrote his fair share too.

[tmbarden]

@sandro28grizz

This is totally Gabriel's voice, Banks never sang and did nothing but play the organ. This is Gabriel sitting at a piano and humming and there is no doubt that that is his voice towards the end of this recording. This is no way Banks.

[fontinau]

@sandro28grizz "The song was most likely written by Tony Banks, not Gabriel."

Doubt it. Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel each have their own distinctive melodic style, and this sounds like Gabriel's. (Banks tends to write longer phrases; classic four bar melodies, or various permutations thereof. Gabriel tends to build melodies out of lots of short, contrasting phrases. You can hear the two styles next to each other in "Shepherd", where each sings of them a part written in his respective style.)

[h8erslut]

@tmbarden Cool. I read that this was also how Marvin Gaye wrote songs, by fleshing out a melody as he played the music.

[MrPapaBill]

Bullshit !

You fliks are easily taken in.

This is definitely not Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks or anyone connected with Genesis. It does not even sound like Gabriel and is more likely an amateur fake; made up by some nerdy students in their bedsit.

[SRNF]

this is i have the session tapes you can buy them on itunes i think.

[hogweed89]

@MrPapaBill I think this is really gabriel composing Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, it is confermed by a person like Mario Giammietti, don't know if you know him but he knows Genesis, he talked with one by one of them a lot of times in the years, and he wrote books about Genesis...this tape comes from a bootleg called "in the beginning"

[FESTEN7]

Its breathtaking!!!!!!!!

[Phorquieu]

Thanks for this... You've done a service for fans of the band, and for up-and-coming artists, as well.

[3orchidsrising]

Beautiful song.

[heimdallhinfrode]

Some are asking whether this is Peter and Tony working together. I think it's just Peter, for several reasons. For one, the piano playing is nowhere near up to Tony's standard, even for just a composing session. Most importantly, it's too intuitive for two people. At the very least, if there were two, they would mutter things like "again" or "how about" etc. but nobody says a word. This is Peter alone, absorbed in his own ideas, his hands and his voice responding immediately. My 2c.

[lusich94]

¡Thanks "lies112"! ¡Muchas gracias! ¡Ojalà aparezcan màs adelante videos de estas sesiones o del "Gènesis prehistòrico"... si es que los hubiere. Nadie debe verse privado de estas "joyas" que ya son mito e historia de "nuestra" ( digo asì porque ya son patrimonio de la humanidad) mùsica contemporànea mundial. Gracias, de nuevo.

[alessio67forzaviola]

favoloso!!! ho i bordoni sulla pelle!!!

[Squonk06]

Sounds like Gabrielese to me. It's weird to hear how this song developed throughout this session. Or didn't develop (when did the rest of it come in?). But I know what this is. This is EXACTLY how I write my own songs, which is weird because Peter Gabriel is my idol and I had no idea he worked through a concept the same way I do.

[jhonnyboy82]

sTO PIANGENDO! GRANDI!!!

[elipper]

Actually, sounds like JUST Peter - his piano style is just like on Here Comes the Flood. So, he wrote this whole thing!

[sturmtheest]

i think is Tony Banks playing..

[giputti]

....come nasce un capolavoro!!!!più interessante di qualsiasi versione live!!!

[ponkine]

Awesome!

How I wish this was included on the 1970-1975 boxset

[slubberdegullions]

i can't tell if there are lyrics or is it just gabrielese? i'm leaning towards gabrielese.

anyways, it's fascinating.

[rael7894]

gabrielese... lol

[nimpo46]

what's this gabrielese...?

i'm assuming jumbled letters to represent the sounds of words

haha that's brillaint

[kyokasurimono]

HISTORIC!!

[birrachockinbrest]

thankyou very much

[whistler8]

now this is interesting!

[PaulHartXYZ]

THANK YOU.

"Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" is one of my favorite songs of all time.

It's really interesting to hear Peter and Tony working this song out in the studio.

[oheuaki]

loved it

[filousmn87]

*speechless* sounds like there was just Peter (and Tony@Piano?). Amazing!

[jaimetito199]

amazing