A Flower? (Peter Gabriel's Greatest Costume)
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Topic: A Flower? (Peter Gabriel's Greatest Costume)
Posted By: progistoomainstream
Subject: A Flower? (Peter Gabriel's Greatest Costume)
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 21:56
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What is Peter Gabriel's Greates Costume? For me it is a tie between The Flower (worn during willow farm) and the Magog (worn later in appocolypse in 9/8) ------------- 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: October 15 2011 at 22:01
No? Going to go with the Flower as well. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: October 16 2011 at 13:29
Thats so Pete  . My favourite costume would probably have to be..... Batwings. ------------- 
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Horizons wrote:Posted By: sideburndude...
Date Posted: October 16 2011 at 13:38
THE SLIPPERMAN. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: October 16 2011 at 13:52
Rael :
 ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 16 2011 at 14:04
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 01:43
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 16:11
| The classic Rael look is my favorite. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 16:35
I was watching this past weekend a 6 part VH1 Classic Rock series on Rock and the part on Art/psych rock was pretty good, I don't recall if I had seen it before. Anyhow the part on Genesis had Phil talking about PG costumes and the Fox one.....apperantly PG did not advise the group on this one and the rest of the guys were like ...."Wowww really dude!! And now the comedians come out next...!" It was pretty funny how Phil said it. But they all knew PG had something special going with the costumes, as Phil explained, early on they were pretty boring on stage to look at.
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Posted By: Crumbler
Date Posted: October 22 2011 at 16:18
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Does anyone know the story behind the reverse mohawk hair thing ? In looking at some shows on you tube, it looked it appeared sometime in early 1973 or late '72 and predated the costumes. It got to be somewhat freaky with the pasty white face - haha. Did he ever state publicly what he was going for with that look? |
Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: October 22 2011 at 16:45
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I've always liked Britannia And the flower too
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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: October 22 2011 at 16:52
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Easily the creepiest is the old man during The Musical Box, especially at the end (10:12): |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: October 22 2011 at 18:26
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Cool video. Peter sure was (is?) a unique guy! Does this song live prove that you don't need a bass guitar in a song?  ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: October 22 2011 at 18:27
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Don't both songs have bass on them? I'm pretty sure Rutherford played bass live. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 22 2011 at 21:57
| I also like the foxhead and the dress of Jill (Peter's wife) best. |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 12:33
The video for "The Musical Box" appeared to have Rutherford playing some sort of guitar; no bass. At least that's my uneducated read of it. I only brought it up because I saw a performance by The Cars on The Colbert Report recently and there was no bass player there either. (Benjamin Orr having died some years ago.) It seems that as long as there are two guitars and keyboards bass isn't necessarily needed. Live, anyway. I dunno; it was just a random thought. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 12:36
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Bass pedals were used when two guitars were needed. Also Emerson filled in on synth bass when Lake played lead. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 12:37
Ah i understand thanks.  ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 12:39
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 13:14
I didn't see any bass pedals, but perhaps I missed them. Did Rutherford play them along with the guitar? ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 13:18
I think so. Maybe in this instance they weren't used and Banks provided the bass. Seems you are right. No bass in this song besides Hackett's bassy strumming.( when he's not doing a blistering solo)
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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 17:15
According to wikipedia: In the earlier years of Genesis he used to play http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_Taurus" rel="nofollow - Moog Taurus bass pedal synthesiser. So maybe it's there but we can't see it. The sound quality doesn't really help it stand out either.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 23 2011 at 17:19
Yeah I know he plays bass pedals, but not in this song. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: April 01 2012 at 03:58
You call (10:12) creepy? OK.
I like Magog better. I find it to be his most impressive outfit ever. The mask looks like a geometric helmet.
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 01 2012 at 07:51
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He was brilliant in many of his costumes, but if I have to choose I would also say that the Slipperman with its balls blowing up with compressed air was probably his most accomplished one.
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