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Armando Gallo gives Steve Hackett fans an incredible Gift for 2016
Enjoy! (Also available via Vimeo HD: _ https://vimeo.com/149894446)
Enjoy! (Also available via Vimeo HD: _ https://vimeo.com/149894446)
Premonitions Box Set is here!
Click the Premonitions cover (artwork by Roger Dean) ~ to watch HD version on Vimeo! https://vimeo.com/140898131
Steve Hackett's: Surrender of Silence, Wolflight, Night Siren & At The Edge of Light solo albums...
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NEW "Analysis" video series:
Armando Gallo & Steve Hackett - I Know What I Like App!
Genesis' Photographer/Biographer Armando Gallo debuts his new
"I Know What I Like" App for Steve and Jo Hackett, in Florida....and you get to see the behind-the-scenes documenting footage.
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<====== Click Here to see HD video on Vimeo! ;-)
Armando says "To get your own copy of the new "I Know What I Like" App - the direct link to Apple Store is http://bit.ly/genesis-ipad-app
Lamb-inspired Artwork provided by Patrick Zoller Also available on Kindle - via ArmandoGallo.com !
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Thank you for supporting this new version of this iconic Genesis Book!
Armando Gallo & Steve Hackett - I Know What I Like App!
Genesis' Photographer/Biographer Armando Gallo debuts his new
"I Know What I Like" App for Steve and Jo Hackett, in Florida....and you get to see the behind-the-scenes documenting footage.
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<====== Click Here to see HD video on Vimeo! ;-)
Armando says "To get your own copy of the new "I Know What I Like" App - the direct link to Apple Store is http://bit.ly/genesis-ipad-app
Lamb-inspired Artwork provided by Patrick Zoller Also available on Kindle - via ArmandoGallo.com !
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Thank you for supporting this new version of this iconic Genesis Book!
Analysis:Steve Hackett's Genesis Revisited Soundcheck Interview - Fall 2013
Grammy Award Winning Mix Engineer/Producer Tom Lord-Alge joins AnalogMan.com's Mike Piera in interviewing Steve on FX Pedals and Guitars (of the past and present...and how they affected his art in composition/style).
*Filmed, edited and produced by Leigh ~ LileighWhite.com (formerly of CBS Television/AZ),
*Audio by MixPro's Jeff Lord-Alge
*Hi-Res Photography by Tom Lord-Alge, Image FX Treatments by Lileigh
*Vintage Equipment provided by Analog Mike Piera
<===== Click on Steve's picture to see his EQUIPMENT LIST !!
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Vimeo/Full Video: https://vimeo.com/89587842
YouTube/Full Video: http://youtu.be/bAMWYpbn4as
The Full Video split into 2 parts, for easier assignment of topic (Social Media):
YouTube/Part 1 Video:
http://youtu.be/VFf5aDzqtOA
YouTube/Part 2 Video
http://youtu.be/GsdiZXgOJk0
Grammy Award Winning Mix Engineer/Producer Tom Lord-Alge joins AnalogMan.com's Mike Piera in interviewing Steve on FX Pedals and Guitars (of the past and present...and how they affected his art in composition/style).
*Filmed, edited and produced by Leigh ~ LileighWhite.com (formerly of CBS Television/AZ),
*Audio by MixPro's Jeff Lord-Alge
*Hi-Res Photography by Tom Lord-Alge, Image FX Treatments by Lileigh
*Vintage Equipment provided by Analog Mike Piera
<===== Click on Steve's picture to see his EQUIPMENT LIST !!
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Vimeo/Full Video: https://vimeo.com/89587842
YouTube/Full Video: http://youtu.be/bAMWYpbn4as
The Full Video split into 2 parts, for easier assignment of topic (Social Media):
YouTube/Part 1 Video:
http://youtu.be/VFf5aDzqtOA
YouTube/Part 2 Video
http://youtu.be/GsdiZXgOJk0
A HUGE honor for Lil...as Steve Hackett dedicates his newly-added "LilyWhite Lilith" to the Genesis Revisited~Extended Tour setlist to her, in Ft. Lauderdale.
Once again, Steve, thank you for giving us the gift of THIS FANTASTIC SET OF WORLD TOURS!!!
<========= Click Here to See Video of Steve's very kind dedication of LilyWhite Lilith !!
Once again, Steve, thank you for giving us the gift of THIS FANTASTIC SET OF WORLD TOURS!!!
<========= Click Here to See Video of Steve's very kind dedication of LilyWhite Lilith !!
Genesis Revisited:Extended ..... concludes to Worldwide success !!
Photo & Artwork Courtesy
of our friend, the uber-talented
Jim Buntinx,
Belgium !!
of our friend, the uber-talented
Jim Buntinx,
Belgium !!
Artist Extraordinaire Jim Buntinx' Slideshow - Genesis: Revisited in Belgium !!
Spectral Mornings~Wolflight USA Tour
(Click on image for HD Vimeo clip!)
*courtesy ~ Tom Lord-Alge
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*Steve's Links for future concert date, available via Hackettsongs.com!
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Wolflight Tour-USA: Can-Utility and the Coastliners (link above) ~ filmed by/courtesy of Jeff Lord-Alge
Flashback ~
2013: Steve Hackett released his long-awaited Genesis Revisited II
Genesis Revisited II features reinterpretations of 17 classic Genesis tracks (dating from Nursery Cryme through to Wind & Wuthering) plus updated versions of 4 Hackett solo pieces - nearly 2.5 hours of music in total!
As well as Steve's regular band the album includes stunning performances by guests such as Steven Wilson, Mikael Akerfeldt, Steve Rothery, Nik Kershaw, John Wetton, Roine Stolt, Neal Morse, Francis Dunnery, Nick Beggs, Nad Sylvan, Jakko Jakszyk, Simon Collins, Djabe and many more including:
Roger King, Amanda Lehmann, Christine Townsend, Dave Kerzner, Dick Driver, Gary O'Toole, John Hackett, Phil Mulford, Rachel Ford, Roine Stolt, Nick Magnus, Jeremy Stacey, Conrad Keely, Nick Beggs, Rob Townsend, Lee Pomeroy.
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Watch Steve Hackett, Francis Dunnery, Dave Kerzner and friends play a wondrous medley of Genesis..and other artist's works..for charity, Winter 2012! (Video Below)
As well as Steve's regular band the album includes stunning performances by guests such as Steven Wilson, Mikael Akerfeldt, Steve Rothery, Nik Kershaw, John Wetton, Roine Stolt, Neal Morse, Francis Dunnery, Nick Beggs, Nad Sylvan, Jakko Jakszyk, Simon Collins, Djabe and many more including:
Roger King, Amanda Lehmann, Christine Townsend, Dave Kerzner, Dick Driver, Gary O'Toole, John Hackett, Phil Mulford, Rachel Ford, Roine Stolt, Nick Magnus, Jeremy Stacey, Conrad Keely, Nick Beggs, Rob Townsend, Lee Pomeroy.
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Watch Steve Hackett, Francis Dunnery, Dave Kerzner and friends play a wondrous medley of Genesis..and other artist's works..for charity, Winter 2012! (Video Below)
Peter Gabriel Celebrated 25th Anniversary of "So" Tour USA2012 / Europe2013... Eastern/Western Europe, Scandinavia & UK for 2014
<== Click on Pic for more details on Peter's past shows..
For those who attended the U.S. shows - so glad to have seen many of you there !!!
xoxo Lil
For those who attended the U.S. shows - so glad to have seen many of you there !!!
xoxo Lil
Gabriel's Grammy Award-Winning Producers/Mix Engineers Tom and Chris Lord-Alge
Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Mohegan Sun and Fairfax:
LiLeighWhite, Tom Lord-Alge and Peter Gabriel...
37 years in the making....
Meeting the artist who both made and minted us all. What a THRILL !!
I thanked him for "enriching our lives"..and meant every syllable of that statement.
I should have added that, with his extraordinary artistic & compositional talents - he has provided all of us a vibrant thread which has been woven through the tapestries of our respective, individual lives...... (but, my brain synapses were popping & frazzling left-and-right - while looking into HIS eyes - the "doorway to a thousand churches").
My deepest and most sincere gratitude to Richard Chapell..and, my esteemed & talented Analysis series collaborator - Tom Lord-Alge - for making this possible for me and for all who follow this website.
xoxo Lil
The Security Project
Jerry Marotta (Gabriel / McCartney), Trey Gunn (King Crimson),
and David Jameson (Beyond The Wall).....
Plays Live fans show major appreciation in the US, UK, Canada, Netherlands & Europe!
Jerry Marotta (Gabriel / McCartney), Trey Gunn (King Crimson),
and David Jameson (Beyond The Wall).....
Plays Live fans show major appreciation in the US, UK, Canada, Netherlands & Europe!
Gabriel Band's Jerry Marotta & King Crimson's Trey Gunn Team Up to TOUR "Security"!
Legendary Engineers/Producers Chris and Tom Lord-Alge feel the pull of the rope...
Legendary recording engineers Tom and Chris Lord-Alge, their brother Jeff Alge and Lil...outside the TMB concert at Tribeca PAC, in NYC - celebrating Chris' birthday.
Analysis: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway series (Shrine vs Archive)
Image courtesy of Genesis*Hipgnosis*Patrick Zoller
For Fanatical Lamb Fans ONLY!
(**Many videos on hiatus, but many with several featuring both Robert Ellis' & Armando Gallo's historic pictures of The Lamb still available for view!)
An side-by-side comparison & insightful look into the re-tracking of the Gabriel-era Genesis live performance at L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium, in 1975 - for the 1998 Archive 1 collection release.
This video series delineates how Genesis' editing guru - Nick Davis - collaborated with Peter Gabriel & his Real World Studios to fly-in partial-phrase replacements - utilizing the internal memory of a Sony 3348 Digital Tape deck (in an era just prior to the widespread advent of ProTools DAW computer-editing systems). Incredibly difficult and painstaking work - at The Farm, in Surrey. These newer vocal tracks were integrated into the ONLY multi-track recording made of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour. PG had partial laryngitis (his lower register), Steve Hackett was recovering from a severed, surgically re-attached tendon, in his left hand..so both re-tracked some their work, for the release of this "Live" recording. For Gabriel, this represented nearly 80% of his vocals - which Nick Davis expertly "sewed in" the 47-year-old voice into the already existing Live audio envelope, created in 1975 at the Shrine. Really impressive editing project...not to mention PG's challenge to sing in the same key/emotional range as his 25-yr-old self !
This analysis series is meant to show WHY he decided to re-track his vocal parts (due to the laryngitis)..and how it was meant to be the only way he & Genesis could give us fans a "Lamb Reunion", of a kind. It is for NON-COMMERCIAL and EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!
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NEW Series !!! Analysis: BankSynths Vintage Instrument Tour
Genesis, The Musical Box & Sonic Reality's vintage keyboards compared!
The definitive tour of the historic musician set-ups of Hackett, Collins, Banks and Rutherford continues...
~ an in-depth examination of the instruments used (and cleverly manipulated) by Tony Banks during the era of The Lamb and in the later 1970's....and those who collect his vintage equipment.
~ an in-depth examination of the instruments used (and cleverly manipulated) by Tony Banks during the era of The Lamb and in the later 1970's....and those who collect his vintage equipment.
** Have YOU figured out the special TLA audio puzzle that goes with the end credits of my newest TMB Vintage Instrument Tour - Part 3 (above)?
Write me and give me your best guess! ([email protected])
Write me and give me your best guess! ([email protected])
Analysis: Hackett vs TMB Vintage Instrument Tour
Second, an in-depth examination (by experts who know) of Steve Hackett's guitars and fx pedal arrays - during The Lamb.
<===== Click For Hackett's Vintage Instruments write-up
Click on the pic...to go to the intense and full written comparison of Genesis' Steve Hackett versus TMB's Francois Gagnon !
Analysis: The Musical Box Part 1
LONDON - April 2013:
TMB wrapped up it's highly-successful tour of LLDOB. An interview series with the musical director of TMB - Sebastien Lamothe...and a tour of their Genesis-accurate,vintage instruments and staging. <=== Click on image to view ALL Analysis: TMB videos ! |
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Steve Hackett joins The Musical Box for encores, in Zurich Switzerland....
Analysis: Steve Hackett series
Courtesy: Armando Gallo
For Fanatical Steve Hackett & Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Fans - an examination of the re-tracking and relaying of some of Steve Hackett's most well-known solos from the Live Shrine Auditorium Lamb show, in LA, in Jan,'75 - for the Archive Genesis release of 1998...and the Live Box Set -2007/Rainbow Theatre concert of 1973.
A series of e-mails from Mr.Hackett, himself, as well as Genesis Engineer/Producer Guru Nick Davis - form the basis of these side-by-side analyses.
Non-commercial and educational videos for the most ardent fan & recording-studio artist.
(click image to watch videos)
A series of e-mails from Mr.Hackett, himself, as well as Genesis Engineer/Producer Guru Nick Davis - form the basis of these side-by-side analyses.
Non-commercial and educational videos for the most ardent fan & recording-studio artist.
(click image to watch videos)
Analysis: King Crimson
Analysis: Tony Levin Part 4
<=== Click to watch HD Vimeo!
Link - Vimeo HD http://vimeo.com/31994002 A continuation of the Analysis series reaches out to the Master of the Bass (upright, strapped, Chapman Stick, etc) - Tony Levin. This "Part 4" is actually the first installment in what will be an extended series of interview segments with Tony..and his fellow King Crimson Ax-genius & vocalist - Adrian Belew (now touring with their respective trios: Stick Men & Adrian Belew Power Trio). This is first to be posted, in honor of Peter Gabriel's superb streaming 1-hr cyber-concert, Live from the Ed Sullivan Theatre (Letterman, NYC) - now available on CBS.com. Tony discusses both his collaboration with Dream Theatre's Mike Portnoy & John Petrucci, Dixie Dregs' Jordan Rudass...and his take on Gabriel's New Blood Orchestral re-imaginings of tunes on which he originally played. More installments coming after the holidays...enjoy! |
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Analysis: Supper's Ready (Rainbow Theatre - 1973) series
For the most avid early-Genesis fans, only!
This is the first installment of a NON-commercial, educational video series - assembled with the (direct informational insight) assistance of Genesis engineer & producing guru - Nick Davis...and guitarist Steve Hackett.
It details the superlative non-linear restoration of the famous 1973 Rainbow Theatre's concert version of "Supper's Ready" - and its upgrade to 5.1 Surround Sound by Nick Davis and Genesis - at their home recording studio of the Farm, in Surrey, in 2007...for the 2008 Live Box Set.
Peter Gabriel re-tracked vocal portions of Lover's Leap, Iknaton/Itsacon & Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man in 1997 at his Real World studios - which are delineated here.
Many thanks to Mr. Davis, Mr. Hackett., Mr. Jorge Monteiro and Misters. David Raphael and Jim Buntinx (conceptual artists) for making this informative video series possible.
All featured vids have now been re-edited with supportive non-linear audio music clips - to offer increased discernment of the superbly engineered 5.1 Surround upgrade and restoration!
Enjoy!
This is the first installment of a NON-commercial, educational video series - assembled with the (direct informational insight) assistance of Genesis engineer & producing guru - Nick Davis...and guitarist Steve Hackett.
It details the superlative non-linear restoration of the famous 1973 Rainbow Theatre's concert version of "Supper's Ready" - and its upgrade to 5.1 Surround Sound by Nick Davis and Genesis - at their home recording studio of the Farm, in Surrey, in 2007...for the 2008 Live Box Set.
Peter Gabriel re-tracked vocal portions of Lover's Leap, Iknaton/Itsacon & Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man in 1997 at his Real World studios - which are delineated here.
Many thanks to Mr. Davis, Mr. Hackett., Mr. Jorge Monteiro and Misters. David Raphael and Jim Buntinx (conceptual artists) for making this informative video series possible.
All featured vids have now been re-edited with supportive non-linear audio music clips - to offer increased discernment of the superbly engineered 5.1 Surround upgrade and restoration!
Enjoy!
Analysis: Supper's Ready (Italian subtitles)
For the devoted fans of Genesis in Italy! :
la sua è la prima rata di un non-commerciali, serie di video didattici - assemblato con la (diretta intuizione informativo) l'assistenza di ingegnere Genesi & guru produzione - Nick Davis ... e il chitarrista Steve Hackett.
E i dettagli del restauro superlativo non-lineare di versione da concerto del famoso 1973 Rainbow Theatre di "Supper's Ready" - e il suo aggiornamento del suono surround 5.1 mediante Nick Davis e Genesis - a loro studio di registrazione a casa della Fattoria, nel Surrey, nel 2007.
Peter Gabriel porzioni ri-tracciato vocale di Lover's Leap, Iknaton / Itsacon & garantito eterno dell'uomo Santuario nel 1997 presso i suoi studi Real World - che si delineano qui.
Molte grazie a Mr. Davis, il signor Hackett., il signor Jorge Monteiro e sigg. Davide Raffaello e Jim Buntinx (artisti concettuali) per fare questa serie di video informativi possibile.
Tutti i vids consigliati sono stati ri-editato con clip di supporto non-lineare audio di musica - per offrire una maggiore discernimento della superbamente progettata 5,1 aggiornamento Surround e il restauro!
Buon divertimento!
la sua è la prima rata di un non-commerciali, serie di video didattici - assemblato con la (diretta intuizione informativo) l'assistenza di ingegnere Genesi & guru produzione - Nick Davis ... e il chitarrista Steve Hackett.
E i dettagli del restauro superlativo non-lineare di versione da concerto del famoso 1973 Rainbow Theatre di "Supper's Ready" - e il suo aggiornamento del suono surround 5.1 mediante Nick Davis e Genesis - a loro studio di registrazione a casa della Fattoria, nel Surrey, nel 2007.
Peter Gabriel porzioni ri-tracciato vocale di Lover's Leap, Iknaton / Itsacon & garantito eterno dell'uomo Santuario nel 1997 presso i suoi studi Real World - che si delineano qui.
Molte grazie a Mr. Davis, il signor Hackett., il signor Jorge Monteiro e sigg. Davide Raffaello e Jim Buntinx (artisti concettuali) per fare questa serie di video informativi possibile.
Tutti i vids consigliati sono stati ri-editato con clip di supporto non-lineare audio di musica - per offrire una maggiore discernimento della superbamente progettata 5,1 aggiornamento Surround e il restauro!
Buon divertimento!
Analysis: Cinema Show / Tony Banks
(Repair for Live Box Set - 2007 / Rainbow Theatre - 1973)
Photo Courtesy: Dave Kerzner
A side-by side comparison of the Nick Davis-directed Tony Banks fly-in keyboard repairs on his live "Cinema Show" solo for the restored live Rainbow Theatre concert of 1973 (included on the Extras disk of Genesis' Live Box set 1973-2007).
Nick divulges (via personal e-mail exchange) how the 57-year-old Tony Banks attempted to play the ultra-fast fingering (of his 25-year-old self's speed, during a very exciting live performance)...but, could not keep up with himself on his trusty old ARP Pro-Soloist .
After a full day of attempts to duplicate the original speed ~ Nick finally had Tony play down an octave and more slowly, then sped the recording up (via ProTools Elastic Pitch feature), in order to match up & marry the samples - perfectly!This is a NON-commercial, educational video - presented as a historical documentary of the restoration process by the group and its extraordinarily talented sound engineer/archivists.
Nick divulges (via personal e-mail exchange) how the 57-year-old Tony Banks attempted to play the ultra-fast fingering (of his 25-year-old self's speed, during a very exciting live performance)...but, could not keep up with himself on his trusty old ARP Pro-Soloist .
After a full day of attempts to duplicate the original speed ~ Nick finally had Tony play down an octave and more slowly, then sped the recording up (via ProTools Elastic Pitch feature), in order to match up & marry the samples - perfectly!This is a NON-commercial, educational video - presented as a historical documentary of the restoration process by the group and its extraordinarily talented sound engineer/archivists.
Analysis: Rainbow Theatre Repairs / Genesis' Nick Davis
This NON-commercial, educational video is an examination of the magnificent restoration of the historic Rainbow Theatre 1973 concert.
Direct information from Genesis' editing Guru Nick Davis provides the foundation for this technical investigation into the painstaking, labor-intensive multi-year project of restoring the original and rare multi-track recordings of "The Lamb" and "The Rainbow"
Mr. Davis reveals how he deftly flew-in the required "repairs" from other Live performances, studio vocal, guitar and keyboard pick-ups and original album studio master tracks - at The Farm in Surrey.
Again, this is NOT an infomercial - rather an intensive fan video created by an admiring broadcast sound engineer (on her home Mac laptop's iMovie program - as evidenced by all the video glitches! LOL).
Nick Davis Photo Courtesy: Dave Kerzner.
Direct information from Genesis' editing Guru Nick Davis provides the foundation for this technical investigation into the painstaking, labor-intensive multi-year project of restoring the original and rare multi-track recordings of "The Lamb" and "The Rainbow"
Mr. Davis reveals how he deftly flew-in the required "repairs" from other Live performances, studio vocal, guitar and keyboard pick-ups and original album studio master tracks - at The Farm in Surrey.
Again, this is NOT an infomercial - rather an intensive fan video created by an admiring broadcast sound engineer (on her home Mac laptop's iMovie program - as evidenced by all the video glitches! LOL).
Nick Davis Photo Courtesy: Dave Kerzner.
Jerry Marotta's The Security Project celebrates Gabriel's 30 Years "Plays Live"
Jerry Marotta's incredibly insightful, FULL half-hour interview on PG's Plays-Live era, here!
Photo courtesy of Larry Fast
The Security Project:
Jerry Marotta, King Crimson's Trey Gunn with David Jameson, Josh Gleason and Fuzzbee Morse.
Members of Peter Gabriel's live "Security" band teamed up with King Crimson touch guitarist and the voice of Josh Gleason to reinterpret the pre-"So" material of Peter Gabriel.
<==(Click on Larry Fast's private collection photo for link to HD Vimeo version of Jerry's interview!)
YouTube versions - click below....
Progression Magazine: LiLeighWhite & Kurt Wildermuth review "The Security Project"
My Ghost Likes To Travel…
“Excuse me,” the woman said. “You were just at B. B. King’s, right?”
She meant B. B. King’s Blues Club & Grill, on W. 42nd St. in Manhattan. It was Saturday, August 11, 2012, and the Security Project had just been officially launched at the club. During their inaugural concert, drummer/percussionist Jerry Marotta, Warr touch-style guitarist Trey Gunn, singer Josh Gleason, guitarist/flutist/saxophonist/keyboardist Fuzzbee Morse, and keyboardist/programmer David Jameson had brought to life some of Peter Gabriel’s earliest solo recordings. Plus, as an encore, they served up “Fly on the Windshield”/“Broadway Melody of 74” and “Back in NYC.” This two-song dessert came, of course, from Gabriel’s final work with Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (here performed about a block away from Broadway, but by no means lying down—they could have just been getting started). But the woman was confused. “They didn’t do . . .”
“. . . his hits,” we offered.
The woman nodded. “Or any King Crimson.”
No, and those facts are essential to know if you’re going to appreciate what the Security Project does do.
Yes, Jerry Marotta played on the third Peter Gabriel (1980, often called Melt), so he could be concocting the eerie ear-candy of “Games without Frontiers” and the hypnotic, emphatic tribalism of “Biko.” He played on Security (1982), so he could be delivering the spiky electronic funk of “Shock the Monkey.” He played on Plays Live (1983)—which encapsulated those recordings and the first two self-titled albums (1977 and 1978, often called Car and Scratch)—so he could be throwing in “Solsbury Hill.” In fact, he played on Gabriel’s blockbuster recording So (1986), so he easily could be re-creating the grooves and big beats of “In Your Eyes,” “Sledgehammer,” and “Big Time.”
And yes, Trey Gunn, a guru of prog and fusion, has been a longtime associate of Robert Fripp (himself an associate of Gabriel, as musician and producer on some of those late-’70s albums). Gunn progressed from Fripp’s League of Crafty Guitarists to the Sunday All Over the World project to King Crimson, which Gunn was a member of from 1994 until 2003.
The Security Project, however, has a specific focus. It is not King Gabriel Crimson. This project is devoted to the lesser-known, often brooding yet ultimately uplifting compositions on the first four Gabriel albums. From Security, instead of “Shock,” they do “Rhythm of the Heat,” “I Have the Touch,” “San Jacinto,” and “The Family and the Fishing Net.” From the third album, instead of “Games” and “Biko,” they do “Not One of Us,” “No Self-Control,” and “I Don’t Remember.” “Solsbury Hill”? No way. From the first album, they do “Humdrum,” “Here Comes the Flood,” and—real catnip for the diehards—“Moribund the Burgermeister.” For the hits, you have your iPod. For an exploration of sounds and sentiments not necessarily meant to be commercial, you have the Security Project.
Peter Gabriel has always been an original. In Genesis, he was a costumed, grease-painted minstrel dowsing for magic musical waters. As a solo artist, he was mercurial from project to project, slowly moving into world music and geopolitics. Always a compulsive musical tinkerer, he became a leader in the emerging analog-to-digital technologies. Known for his eloquent wordplay, including delightfully playful euphemisms for sex, he introduced dream interpretation and sometimes painfully raw and intimate self-analysis in his lyrics. So without his magnetic presence with them onstage, how do likeminded musicians—some of them his peers—do justice to Gabriel’s aural and visual poetry?
In re-creating the sound and feel of the Plays Live era, Marotta has assembled a lineup that takes the assignment into the stratosphere. The Security Project is a spirited, spiritual immersion in the sounds of an artist in a particular phase of his career, performed by musicians of such skill and inspiration that their individual contributions become every bit as important as their source material.
Consider Jameson’s post-show comments on his use of a multicolored electronic stick called the Eigenharp Alpha in “San Jacinto”:
"I was using Native Instrument’s Reaktor soft synth to emulate a physical steam pipe to play that solo with my left hand while also playing a Moog (using G-Force
Minimonsta plugin) for the bass with my right hand.
I was also controlling the volume of the three marimba patterns, bringing them in and out as necessary, and was also playing the strings in the middle, and that sound was coming from an old fashioned analog string patch (similar to what was used in the day) from my Korg Kronos.
Everything, though, was under control of my MaxMSP environment, which was
handling MIDI routing, audio, and synth control routing, and even the
lights that were displayed on the Eigenharp."
Or consider that on “The Family and the Fishing Net,” Gunn is performing the “analog” version of the guitar effects created in the studio. As he explores symmetrical 8-note scales, a pitch shifter/harmonizer adds a harmonic tritone (an “evil”-sounding King Crimson interval) to every note he plays.
Thanks in part to such wizardry, you can close your eyes and think you’re listening to the real Peter Gabriel play the whimsical “Moribund,” the barking-and-biting “Intruder,” or the otherworldly “Here Comes the Flood.” Open your eyes, and you’re enjoying the treat of seeing Marotta looking like he’s having the time of his life navigating the music’s complex polyrhythms and genius syncopations. Jameson is executing the keyboard riffs and programming as reworked by himself and the original master of Gabriel’s synth sequences, Larry Fast. Morse is locking his guitar licks into the rhythms like a new waver circa 1978 and then shining on pyrotechnic solos. Gunn is absolutely not just resetting original bassist Tony Levin’s lines. He’s soloing fluidly, inventively, and at times (especially with his multi-harmonic finger-tapping techniques) outrageously. Often stealing the show, he coaxes out unerringly precise, deeply soulful textures and works them into uniquely reimagined inlaid designs. The charismatic Gleason is clearly loving his role as frontman. Gleason developed his chops over the past thirteen years as the lead singer of the Genesis tribute band The Waiting Room, and with a faux British accent perfectly in place he captures Gabriel’s inflections, rises, falls, and swoops.
The August 11 show opened with the immediately recognizable synthesizer patterned-beat of “Rhythm of the Heat,” a play on Carl Jung’s first experience of observing African dance rituals. Taking the stage, Marotta stepped behind a massive bass drum and started pounding out the tribal beat that so captivated Jung nearly 90 years ago. One by one, the Security Project members appeared on musical cue, layering their own rhythms on individual conga drums, set in their cardinal-point corners of the stage. As the pounding beats reached their crescendo, Gabriel’s familiar-but-bodiless voice floated out through the amplifiers, and Gleason took his place at center stage.
Self-effacingly, lovingly, these musicians’ musicians find their individual ways into the parts, and the parts of the parts, the timing and the layering. By bringing their extraordinary talents to bear, they appear to reinvent the music before your eyes and ears while serving and protecting the composer’s original structures. Despite a few missed musical cues (no doubt due to a scant few days of rehearsal time before this debut), the result so far is astonishingly slick. Over time, the players will no doubt perfect their collective groove. No, Peter Gabriel isn’t on the stage. He’s alive and well and getting ready for a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of So. When the Security Project is playing, though, Gabriel’s spirit inhabits the room.
“Excuse me,” the woman said. “You were just at B. B. King’s, right?”
She meant B. B. King’s Blues Club & Grill, on W. 42nd St. in Manhattan. It was Saturday, August 11, 2012, and the Security Project had just been officially launched at the club. During their inaugural concert, drummer/percussionist Jerry Marotta, Warr touch-style guitarist Trey Gunn, singer Josh Gleason, guitarist/flutist/saxophonist/keyboardist Fuzzbee Morse, and keyboardist/programmer David Jameson had brought to life some of Peter Gabriel’s earliest solo recordings. Plus, as an encore, they served up “Fly on the Windshield”/“Broadway Melody of 74” and “Back in NYC.” This two-song dessert came, of course, from Gabriel’s final work with Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (here performed about a block away from Broadway, but by no means lying down—they could have just been getting started). But the woman was confused. “They didn’t do . . .”
“. . . his hits,” we offered.
The woman nodded. “Or any King Crimson.”
No, and those facts are essential to know if you’re going to appreciate what the Security Project does do.
Yes, Jerry Marotta played on the third Peter Gabriel (1980, often called Melt), so he could be concocting the eerie ear-candy of “Games without Frontiers” and the hypnotic, emphatic tribalism of “Biko.” He played on Security (1982), so he could be delivering the spiky electronic funk of “Shock the Monkey.” He played on Plays Live (1983)—which encapsulated those recordings and the first two self-titled albums (1977 and 1978, often called Car and Scratch)—so he could be throwing in “Solsbury Hill.” In fact, he played on Gabriel’s blockbuster recording So (1986), so he easily could be re-creating the grooves and big beats of “In Your Eyes,” “Sledgehammer,” and “Big Time.”
And yes, Trey Gunn, a guru of prog and fusion, has been a longtime associate of Robert Fripp (himself an associate of Gabriel, as musician and producer on some of those late-’70s albums). Gunn progressed from Fripp’s League of Crafty Guitarists to the Sunday All Over the World project to King Crimson, which Gunn was a member of from 1994 until 2003.
The Security Project, however, has a specific focus. It is not King Gabriel Crimson. This project is devoted to the lesser-known, often brooding yet ultimately uplifting compositions on the first four Gabriel albums. From Security, instead of “Shock,” they do “Rhythm of the Heat,” “I Have the Touch,” “San Jacinto,” and “The Family and the Fishing Net.” From the third album, instead of “Games” and “Biko,” they do “Not One of Us,” “No Self-Control,” and “I Don’t Remember.” “Solsbury Hill”? No way. From the first album, they do “Humdrum,” “Here Comes the Flood,” and—real catnip for the diehards—“Moribund the Burgermeister.” For the hits, you have your iPod. For an exploration of sounds and sentiments not necessarily meant to be commercial, you have the Security Project.
Peter Gabriel has always been an original. In Genesis, he was a costumed, grease-painted minstrel dowsing for magic musical waters. As a solo artist, he was mercurial from project to project, slowly moving into world music and geopolitics. Always a compulsive musical tinkerer, he became a leader in the emerging analog-to-digital technologies. Known for his eloquent wordplay, including delightfully playful euphemisms for sex, he introduced dream interpretation and sometimes painfully raw and intimate self-analysis in his lyrics. So without his magnetic presence with them onstage, how do likeminded musicians—some of them his peers—do justice to Gabriel’s aural and visual poetry?
In re-creating the sound and feel of the Plays Live era, Marotta has assembled a lineup that takes the assignment into the stratosphere. The Security Project is a spirited, spiritual immersion in the sounds of an artist in a particular phase of his career, performed by musicians of such skill and inspiration that their individual contributions become every bit as important as their source material.
Consider Jameson’s post-show comments on his use of a multicolored electronic stick called the Eigenharp Alpha in “San Jacinto”:
"I was using Native Instrument’s Reaktor soft synth to emulate a physical steam pipe to play that solo with my left hand while also playing a Moog (using G-Force
Minimonsta plugin) for the bass with my right hand.
I was also controlling the volume of the three marimba patterns, bringing them in and out as necessary, and was also playing the strings in the middle, and that sound was coming from an old fashioned analog string patch (similar to what was used in the day) from my Korg Kronos.
Everything, though, was under control of my MaxMSP environment, which was
handling MIDI routing, audio, and synth control routing, and even the
lights that were displayed on the Eigenharp."
Or consider that on “The Family and the Fishing Net,” Gunn is performing the “analog” version of the guitar effects created in the studio. As he explores symmetrical 8-note scales, a pitch shifter/harmonizer adds a harmonic tritone (an “evil”-sounding King Crimson interval) to every note he plays.
Thanks in part to such wizardry, you can close your eyes and think you’re listening to the real Peter Gabriel play the whimsical “Moribund,” the barking-and-biting “Intruder,” or the otherworldly “Here Comes the Flood.” Open your eyes, and you’re enjoying the treat of seeing Marotta looking like he’s having the time of his life navigating the music’s complex polyrhythms and genius syncopations. Jameson is executing the keyboard riffs and programming as reworked by himself and the original master of Gabriel’s synth sequences, Larry Fast. Morse is locking his guitar licks into the rhythms like a new waver circa 1978 and then shining on pyrotechnic solos. Gunn is absolutely not just resetting original bassist Tony Levin’s lines. He’s soloing fluidly, inventively, and at times (especially with his multi-harmonic finger-tapping techniques) outrageously. Often stealing the show, he coaxes out unerringly precise, deeply soulful textures and works them into uniquely reimagined inlaid designs. The charismatic Gleason is clearly loving his role as frontman. Gleason developed his chops over the past thirteen years as the lead singer of the Genesis tribute band The Waiting Room, and with a faux British accent perfectly in place he captures Gabriel’s inflections, rises, falls, and swoops.
The August 11 show opened with the immediately recognizable synthesizer patterned-beat of “Rhythm of the Heat,” a play on Carl Jung’s first experience of observing African dance rituals. Taking the stage, Marotta stepped behind a massive bass drum and started pounding out the tribal beat that so captivated Jung nearly 90 years ago. One by one, the Security Project members appeared on musical cue, layering their own rhythms on individual conga drums, set in their cardinal-point corners of the stage. As the pounding beats reached their crescendo, Gabriel’s familiar-but-bodiless voice floated out through the amplifiers, and Gleason took his place at center stage.
Self-effacingly, lovingly, these musicians’ musicians find their individual ways into the parts, and the parts of the parts, the timing and the layering. By bringing their extraordinary talents to bear, they appear to reinvent the music before your eyes and ears while serving and protecting the composer’s original structures. Despite a few missed musical cues (no doubt due to a scant few days of rehearsal time before this debut), the result so far is astonishingly slick. Over time, the players will no doubt perfect their collective groove. No, Peter Gabriel isn’t on the stage. He’s alive and well and getting ready for a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of So. When the Security Project is playing, though, Gabriel’s spirit inhabits the room.
B.B. King's Blues Bar & Grill in New York City...
30th Anniversary celebration of Peter Gabriel "Plays Live"!
Click on "Watch on YouTube" (above) - to see video of that night's extraordinary performance!
<== Click on pic - to see Vimeo HD video of my interview with Jerry Marotta, Trey Gunn and Josh Gleason!
Former members of Peter Gabriel's band and King Crimson reunited for an incredible premiere show, performing music from Gabriel's Security (1982) and Plays Live (1983) albums, as well as a few sonic surprises.
The evening featured the same extra-instrumental lineup as Gabriel had on the infamous Security Tour: Jerry Marotta on drums; Trey Gunn on bass and Warr Guitar; Fuzzbee Morse on guitar, keyboards, saxophone, and flute; David Jameson on keyboards; and Josh Gleason on vocals.
Larry Fast provided original keyboard sounds, samples, and sequences.
<== Click on pic - to see Vimeo HD video of my interview with Jerry Marotta, Trey Gunn and Josh Gleason!
Former members of Peter Gabriel's band and King Crimson reunited for an incredible premiere show, performing music from Gabriel's Security (1982) and Plays Live (1983) albums, as well as a few sonic surprises.
The evening featured the same extra-instrumental lineup as Gabriel had on the infamous Security Tour: Jerry Marotta on drums; Trey Gunn on bass and Warr Guitar; Fuzzbee Morse on guitar, keyboards, saxophone, and flute; David Jameson on keyboards; and Josh Gleason on vocals.
Larry Fast provided original keyboard sounds, samples, and sequences.
Check out the Happy 51st B-Day Basement Rock n Roll Jam for Analog Mike Piera!
A few "slightly-talented" musicians show up at my "Analysis: The Musical Box" collaborator's house, last weekend, to help him celebrate another year passing by....Letterman Guitarist Sid McGinnis, The Band's Jim Weider, Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell jam in out...along with Mitch Colby and
Mike's band member's:
bass ~ Nick Sirianni
keys/acoustic ~ Chuck Mills
drums ~ Phil Faxlanger
Happy Birthday, Mike !
xoxo Lil
The Royal Palms Resort, Arizona
December 2011
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