Peter Gabriel's First Show (Part 1)

05-Mar-1977
Capitol Theatre
Passaic NJ
USA

Category:

Music

Tags:

• genesis
• live
• flood
• mozo
• sledgehammer
• solsbury
• rael

[maradei]

How can this be the 1st show playing On The Air from the 2nd album if Im not mistaken?? I will say it does sound like Fripp though for sure...just part of the setlist??

[derneueuntergang]

@maradei Some songs from the 2nd album were written 1976/77.

[rocker70sman]

Are those the pictures from the same show?

[derneueuntergang]

@rocker70sman no no. but approx. from the same year.

[mrbulkyc1]

I was at his first show was at the Academy of Music, NYC he didnt perform any songs from second album.He was very short of material ( he covered Aint that peculiar)his encore was Back in NYC.It was not a great show.He was very nervous.He wore a grey hoodie.The band from the second album (Bottom Line show)were the dudes from the Rockaplast video.I was standing at the bar,a short man on my right side,says excuse me steps in front of me,walks onstage, plays Here Comes the Flood...Robert Fripp

[cathoderoy]

The first show Gabriel did with this line up was at The Roxy, there's a WAY better quality recording of it that's been around for decades, I've heard it many, many times...Fripp was called "Dusty Rhodes", I met him at a signing, and offered him a drawing I spent all night on, in order to get into a sold out Frippertronics show...he said he couldn't do it, and he proceeded to scribble on it with his magic marker...I asked him to sign it, and he signed it "Dusty Rhodes"...I won a ticket, anyway.

[TopherBrink]

This is actually Peter's seventh show ever: Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 15 March 1977. If you need proof, listen at 1:52 to the accidental tap on the microphone in the line "they were getting older" -- this exactly matches the same tap on the PRRP Special Edition release of the boot from this show. I am fairly sure that the band was Steve Hunter, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Larry Fast, Phil Aaberg, Alan Schwartzberg, and Jimmy Maelen.

[filmneye]

@Slacktest I'll try to get it up soon. Thanks for the reminder.

[Slacktest]

@filmneye Please let us know when you do. TY

[cathoderoy]

I love Larry Fast's sample and hold synth panning back and forth across the stage...it's obviously a board recording, and great quality.

[tacomadc]

@treborolyat Poor television! The progressive crowd wasn't ready for new wave music, and there was still a lot of hostility at that time.

[filmneye]

@cathoderoy I have a bootleg tape rcdg of the full concert PG performed @The Roxy in LA where Robert Fripp is introduced as "Dusty Rhodes." I've been meaning to get it digitized & uploaded onto YouTube. It's a fairly decent rcdg. & it has most, if not all, of PG's eccentric intros to his songs. I'll get it uploaded here fairly soon.

[2006bauhaus]

Great upload, interesting comments. Thanks!

[54herve]

j ai vu ce spectacle a paris!! fete de l huma!! un pot pourri de son premier album solo!! plus un back sur the lamb!! 2 morceaux je crois!!

[vigovinie1]

This is awesome. Period.