Gabriel in Turin
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Topic: Gabriel in Turin
Posted By: Titan
Subject: Gabriel in Turin
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 16:59
| Gabriel was performing at the opening ceremonial ZOH Turin the song "Imagine" (Lennon). I think it was wonderful, better than original IMO. What do you think ? |
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Posted By: Mlaen
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 17:22
 This song CANNOT be performed better than original. |
Titan wrote:Posted By: Titan
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 17:24
| Did you hear that ? |
Posted By: Mlaen
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 17:37
| I heard it. It was good and quite enjoyable but nothing special. (Don't get me wrong, I love early Genesis and Peter Gabriel.) |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 18:15
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He recorded Strawberry Fileds also in the late 70's for a movie called All This and World War II.
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"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 23:36
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I'm watching it right now. It's amazing, but I don't think it quite beats the original.
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Posted By: KeleCableII
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 00:17
| I think it beats the original somewhat because of the crowd. As I said in the topic I posted on the lounge (I suppose I should've posted it here, oh well), Gabriel sitting there at his piano, some orchestra members in the back ground, the audience full of lights and all of the athletes from around the world swaying back and forth. The sight was really beautiful, brought a tear to my eyes. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 03:08
| I didn't like it, to tell you the truth. It didn't touch me... |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 04:13
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As I've said in another topic regarding this...it was a simple
performance,without anything special...enjoyable in its own way...of
course,it doesn't win over Lennon's original and classic performance
and I don't think that was the purpose;Gabriel
did a normal act and nothing more...there is nothing (too) special into
this 3 minutes performance other than the one that he played an
immortal piece and transmited through music (while Yoko did through
words) the message of piece....
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 17:59
I really didn't care much for it, but its good Gabriel got a great worldwide showcase! 
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Posted By: Seyo
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 00:15
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Horrible! It seems Gabriel is following the Collins' path... His performance was nothing special - a job done. It is all artificial and fake to me I used to love Gabriel a lot! And the song "Imagine" never did mean much to me, apart from being a good poetry, I always hated that performance, a pitiful hippie utopia... Now I sound like an old-fart punk, but I am always an iconoclast |
Posted By: transend
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 00:37
| I love PG, but his curious choice of singing the first part of each verse an octave down, really made the song sound weird, and in the end it did not connect to me the way it SHOULD have...odd. Great opening ceremony though, by the way.. |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 02:28
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exactly how I felt I also liked how they announced him as "former lead singer of Genesis" as if people would know him by that and not his solo career. Whenever I talk about Genesis to friends I'm always like yaknow Peter Gabriel, then they know what I'm talking about not the other way around. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 12:20
| sucked |
Posted By: akiko
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 12:36
| I thought it was bland. I just came here from Tony Levin's website ( http://www.tonylevin.com - www.tonylevin.com ) and he mentions that it was NOT him on bass, but maybe David Rhodes, the guitarrist. Also there's a funny story about how he didn' get to play at the Olympics. I couldn't tell who the drummer was. |
Posted By: Titan
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 21:08
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here you can see this performance: http://www.amicidipeter.com/video/imagine.mpg |
Posted By: Titan
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 21:23
happy birthday Peter !!! 
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Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 22:31
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I thought it was great for what it was. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |