Product Description
Scarce Top Quality Actual 1983 Japanese First Pressing! Still In Top Condition & Complete With Obi! Includes 4-Page Insert & Lyrics In English On Obi Insert. Labels Are Clean. Lovingly Preserved For Over 41 Years, This Is A Wonderful Double Live Recording Of Peter Gabriel In Concert!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Light shelf wear.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautiful packaging. It is no coincidence that all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
The Rhythm Of The Heat
I Have The Touch
Not One Of Us
Family Snapshot
Side 2:
D.I.Y.
The Family And The Fishing Net
Intruder
I Go Swimming
Side 3:
San Jacinto
Solsbury Hill
No Self Control
I Don’t Remember
Side 4:
Shock The Monkey
Humdrum
On The Air
Biko
AMG –
Well worth owning, for anyone enamored of Gabriel's voice or songs. And the band -- Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta, David Rhodes & Larry Fast -- is in excellent form as well. Although he had thrived on live performance as a member of Genesis, Peter Gabriel waited until he was four albums and six years deep into his solo career — with the hit album Security and the Top 40 “Shock the Monkey” chalked up to his credit — before he took the plunge into concert recording with this album. Released as a double-LP, this is a fine summing up of the artist’s early solo years. Most of his biggest hits and key album tracks are represented in tight, inspired performances — the notes concede that some of what is here was sweetened after the fact in the studio, but the immediacy of the stage performances wasn’t lost in the process, and that emotional edge and intimacy give songs such as “Solsbury Hill,” “I Don’t Remember,” and “Shock the Monkey” a sharper, deeper resonance than their studio renditions, fine as those are. It’s that side of the performance that makes this release well worth owning, for anyone enamored of Gabriel’s voice or songs. And the band — Tony Levin (bass, stick, backing vocals), Jerry Marotta (drums, vocals), David Rhodes (guitar, vocals), and Larry Fast (keyboards) — is in excellent form as well. This is a suitable capstone to the first phase of Gabriel’s solo career.