Drummer reacts to "Shock the Monkey" & "Modern Love" & "Lay Your Hands On Me" by Peter Gabriel

[@davidmckenzie420]

Peter was/is brilliant.

[@ndlouder]

Why no comments on Manu Katches brilliant drumming, especially on "Lay Your Hands On Me". Saw this concert twice on the same tour, at Worcester Mass, and later at Madison Square Garden. The part when he falls into the audience, is one of the most emotional and memorable things I have ever seen from an artist in my life anywhere.

[@doriwiljt]

Agree. I saw it live a few times and tears came each time.

[@stephanieharding9764]

If you watch interviews with him, he is so modest and down to earth. A musical genius IMHO.

[@marckusel5602]

I saw PG mid 80s, they passed him down from the upper section of Long Beach Arena all the way to rhe stage while he sang "Lay your hands on me" I had a religious experience. Amazing!

[@franckb8279]

Think Lay your hands on me is the best song Peter has ever done. Peter is a genius.

[@L33Reacts]

That shit is like a religious experience man I still play it every day LOL since this video at least

[@mikeholmes5308]

Saw Gabriel in concert last year... yeah, he's an amazing showman for sure.

[@L33Reacts]

One of the best. I love his work so much

[@kirbywilliamson2942]

Saw him with Bowie , and the Tubes , and I can’t be sure , but during the song Lay Your Hands On Me , I believe I saw the first example of crowd surfing . It was incredible , and the crowd was very supportive .

[@tonys2899]

Great reaction! I saw Lay Your Hands on me live that tour, was an incredible moment. Even older In the late 90s he would use a clear bubble he was inside and walk around the crowd. Also, in the early 80s lipsink contests were popular, so i learned Shock the Monkey in German (Peter released the album in versions where he sang in German and also French) Schockt den Affen!!!!" Quick funny story: for the contest, my buddy sang the first part of the song dressed as a scientist while i jumped around stage in a gurrilla suite. Then we put spaghetti strainers on our heads connected by wires and switch brains midway through the song and i sang the 2nd half as a gorilla. On way home from show (in early 80s), someone had to pee so we pulled off road in a snow storm. Car got stuck in ditch. Cell phones didnt exist yet. So I had to walk home IN THE GORILLA SUITE to call a tow truck at 1am. People were slowing down passing me thinking they saw bigfoot! 😂😂😂

[@corawheeler9355]

Great songs .. great videos ... thanks all who requested these.

[@Kpiz316]

Saw Peter live 6 times, 3 of them being very memorable concerts. ‘77 @ Central Park, he forgot the words to Salisbury Hill, stopped the song started again, did the same thing a second time, threw the mic down dropped the F bomb, started all over a third time and finally got it right. ‘83 @ Stony Brook University, I was sitting 20th row in a end seat with an isle behind me. He used a cordless headset for the entire show. Doing Lay Your Hands on Me, disappeared but you can still hear him singing. Suddenly, I feel a tap on my shoulder, it was Peter, he stretched out his arms and said “Lay your hands on Me”. He was sweaty as hell. ‘03 @ Jones Beach, him and his daughter Melanie sang Games without Frontiers riding around the stage on segways. He was always on the cutting edge with innovation. Just amazing!

[@midnightrambler7716]

I had a similar experience at a show in Toronto in Maple Leaf Gardens around 1981. Second time I had seen him after 1978 at same venue. In the 81 show a bunch of people in fluorescent crossing guard type uniforms climbed thru the audience and we thought it was some kind of roadie gimmick. One of them with a buzz cut accidentally kicked me in the head. I didn’t realize till they got on stage that the only guy with a buzz cut was Gabriel and I had not recognized him with his new ‘do! Tony Levin was bald and the rest I don’t recall. But it was def Gabriel who gave me the boot! 😂

[@rk41gator]

So much percussion in his work. So much drama. No wonder he got on with Phil Collins. Peter has said he almost always starts with rhythm as he writes. Such a showman. A genius. I never saw him in concert until last year. So glad I went. This last song is from his most recent album and tour which was as creative and entertaining and spiritual as you might expect. His voice is even better. No disappointment!

[@ShiverHinge]

This was fantastic, Lee. 80s-90s prescience for sure. His involvement with Laurie Anderson was a great cross pollination of the times to investigate as well. Panopticon: originally a radial prison design with a central control point. Art, commerce, finance, culture all being watched and guided by a central control? Or do we give ourselves too much credit?...

[@robertkelsow-geall7395]

Laurie Andetson is another artist Lee should know about. Oh superman, Language is a science etc. Great music.

[@angielofton6372]

Shock the Monkey and Lay Your Hands On Me are from the same album and it was great moment in time. I was at concert where he was wearing a headset mic, he was one of the pioneers of using those in concert, and he was singing the whole time he was being passed in the audience. The audience passed him all the way to the back of the arena and then all the way tothe front and placed him back on to the stage. It was unlike any moment I had ever experienced at a rock concert, so spiritual. I’ve seen him lots of time and I always see Tony Levin with him.

[@jimralston7562]

It was 1978, me and my Bud saw Peter at the old Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh. Our seats in Row U. During one song Peter suddenly left the stage. The band played on. My buddy taps me in the shoulder, I look over and a man is lying face up across his seat and 4 others. It's Peter! He sits up, the spotlight turns on him. He pulls out a wireless mike and finishes the song right there. Next to us. Last September I took my son to see Peter and the IO tour. I told him that story. It was an amazing show - but no audience surfing lol.

[@janewells5970]

@@jimralston7562 wow! What an incredible concert memory! ❤️

[@dannygriffith6185]

Peter Gabriel is beyond mere brilliance. He's truly transcendental......OM.....

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Love the Salvador Dali influence in his last video. Incredibly creative🔥

[@lewismaddox4132]

When I saw him at The Forum in LA they didn't take his shirt, but he was missing a shoe.

[@janewells5970]

Everything Peter creates is thoughtful and powerful! Tony Levin ruled 80’s bass lines!

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Another great live performance song of Peter's is "I Can't Remember." It makes an interesting comparison to the studio track from the melty-face album.

[@dandare42]

Tony plays bass on all of these. Right from 1977 to the present day. He's not using his signature chapman stick sound on "Modern Love" but it's still unmistakably Levin. Peter knows to stick by a good thing when he gets it. David Rhodes is also the guitarist on the last three and singing harmony on "Lay Your Hands On Me." Started with PG in 1979. Saw him in Toronto last September and he recounted how he recorded his first LP in the city and first met Tony there ("back when we both had hair and I weighed about 30 fewer pounds" he said). I/O is a real stunner but worth the 20+ year wait between studio albums of all new material :D

[@maraboo72]

In 1987, he performed in a football stadium 200 m away from my home. Of course, I was there. I would never forgive me if not. The whole concert was great - self evident - but "Lay Your Hands On Me" is the song I remember best. Wonderful. Every time I see this video from Athens it reminds me to Laurie Anderson and his work with her on "This Is The Picture/Excellent Birds". 2 geniusses together. Both of them did their own version of this cooperation. Very interesting. Laurie Anderson is an artist you should know if you do not yet. For me she is on the same artist level as Peter. I like esp. her performance "Home Of The Brave".

[@robertkelsow-geall7395]

I thought I've seen all Gabriel videos but nope. Never saw the live LYHOM video. Amazing.

[@L33Reacts]

That was absolutely stunning.

[@Alix777.]

I can hear the distant remembrance of "The Lamb" when listening to "Modern Love", mostly because of the way Peter sing. Which will gradually disappear on the next albums. But the most genesiesque song on the album is "Moribund the Burgermeister".

[@bigmike4436]

Saw him front row in 1982. He was like a shaman.

[@mannycalavera6011]

Lay your hands on me - my favorite music from Peter . And maybe The Rhythm Of The Heat.

[@L33Reacts]

That is my favorite of his now too, other then sledgehammer

[@loisrogers9042]

"Shock the Monkey" was my 1st introduction to Peter Gabriel. Love the beats!

[@SonomaBill1]

perfect assessment. "world music w/ a hint of industrial/grunge". waaaay ahead of his time. 1982 when the album version of 'Lay Your Hands On Me' was released.

[@g.e.5723]

The opening second of Shock zoomed me right back to the 80s. What a drag!

[@j.k.1963]

Lay Your Hands on Me was from the album "4" (1982) as was Shock The Monkey! Panopticom from I/O (2023)... Peter was, is and will always be as timeless as Kate Bush is. Indeed I/O was presented as single songs (bright Side mixes), one by one, each full moon of last year. Every new moon a dark side mix of those tracks would be released as well.

[@Alix777.]

"4" also named "Security", I don't know why but it fits the album so well

[@deanzaZZR]

I had never seen the Modern Love vid. haha!

[@moo5743]

Try the studio version of "Lay Your Hands On Me"

[@rk41gator]

He started in the late '60s when he had 'Trespass' under his belt. Amazing talent. Peter Gabriel has been cutting-edge forever.

[@thruppence-ys9zp]

Gotta work this morning :P but I'll try to take a break to catch some of this

[@michaelbaucom4019]

Along with the Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel had the best music videos

[@janewells5970]

I totally agree but his live performances are awesome! Sometimes difficult to pick which one to present to Lee!

[@webkahmik]

Bit of pH trivia for ye. Hammill on backing vocals on 'Shock the Monkey'.

[@fredoostermeijer8224]

Firth if Fidth was mainly a Tony Banks composition! But Peter is brilliant as well!

[@2407paul]

Great reaction,in Modern Love you clearly hear the Alice Cooper kind of approach, Bob Ezrin on both the producer

[@Kpiz316]

Most of Peter’s band on this album was Alice Coopers band.

[@genegarrett3372]

I saw this ( the third one) on TV at some point in my memory

[@leeannies-tears369]

He Is So Amazing. His sever world concert is so artistic, theatrical! Also. Just so great. He is....

[@ChrisAddotta5373]

He's literally Yodeling during the Lay Your hands on Me me me me me part. Love it. Peter is an amazing singer. Yodeling is really just when you go from Head voice to Chest voice back and forth. And mister Tony Levin is kick ass as well!!

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Peter, darling❤️

[@johnmavroudis2054]

Wonderful music from one of the true artists of contemporary music, PETER GABRIEL. You REALLY need to check out his BRILLIANT early days with GENESIS and watch their great song "THE MUSICAL BOX" performed live on "THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL"... truly outstanding performance by Gabriel and GENESIS. Yes. He's been this brilliant for DECADES. Cheers! P.S. It's ATHENS, GREECE... NOT Athens, GA.

[@janewells5970]

We love Peter! Lee has reacted to all of these! You can watch them all on his YT page! Check them out and don’t forget to leave a 👍

[@johnmavroudis2054]

@@janewells5970 Actually, no. He hasn't. He reacted to the STUDIO version of this song. I'm directing him to a GENESIS LIVE version with the band at the glorious beginning of their powers with Gabriel in costume and Hackett blazing away. "THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL" version is amazing... and he, apparently, has NOT seen it, yet. Cheers!

[@therealtwiggyleaf]

Thanks for your video. I'm glad you liked "Lay Your Hands on Me" which is my favourite song from my favourite Peter Gabriel album. 😎😎❤❤👍👍

[@courtneywallace871]

Great songs, but you can’t go wrong with PG. Yeah, he’s always been extremely theatrical, going back to the early days with Genesis. Just one of the things that makes him so great. Yes, PG is a genius.

[@davemiller7972]

The 2023 tour was amazing - he hit the high notes perfectly. Saw the Detroit show.

[@johncollier9280]

My house is covered with classic posters thanks to decades workin' in record stores 'n amassin' an incredible collection. One o' my favorites is Peter Gabriel-Shock The Monkey displayed above my fridge.

[@doriwiljt]

I love Peter. I saw this live show a couple times in Philly. It was insanely amazing. The audience is ready for him. I wonder if the people still have pieces of his white jacket.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Amazing stuff. All great songs. I wonder which artist were second in the poll.

[@JohnTWilliamsFilms]

I just noticed the Frank Frazetta poster behind you. Awesome!

[@L33Reacts]

Love me some frazetta! Glad you noticed it :)

[@capt.k6554]

Brings me back to my college days!!

[@ignatzmuskrat3000]

Tony wrote Firth of Fifth but Pete did write Lover's Leap in Suppers Ready. An equally significant contribution to their legacy.

[@ashulman2008]

Saw Peter do this in the 80s. It was fantastic

[@shemanic1]

"Shock the Monkey" is a great groove, lyrically flowing & one I love to spin. The Videos are memorable classics. Welcome to our crazy world.

[@markjohnson4217]

His third album ( with the melting face) released in 1980 was the game changer. The songs were extreme, the production was crazy. Thunderous gated drums exploded out of the speakers for the first time, he was screaming vocals through distortion boxes, blenders, or while hanging upside down. glass cutters, slabs of marble, pieces of plywood , all were employed in tbe mad arsenal. Tony's chapman stick was at the fore front and Robert Fripp 's guitar parts were like burning shrapnel and mangled bits of metal. It was so shocking at the time, that the record company ran away screaming into the night and Peter switched to Charisma. The album was about 15 or 20 years ahead of its time and DID end up influencing tbe next phase of performing and producing in a BIG way. His following album 'Security' came out in 1983, and it just happened to coincide with the industry moving into an exclusively digital playback medium. Compact discs were tbe new 'miracle' and everyone was buying CD players for their home stereo. My friend had a four way stereo, Bang and Olfsen, surround sound speaker system, and he said there is something I HAD to hear. The opening track, Rhythm of the Heat literally spread around me like a landscape and there were dancing,breathing forms in the shadows, blood, spears, incantations and the most terrifying drum, percussion tracks ever recorded. It left me completely stunned and it instantly changed my whole perception of music. Those two albums were both before SO, his more commercial offering in 86 with Sledgehammer, In Your Eyes, Don't Give Up, etc... and many fans feel that his peak was 'Melt' and 'Security' and that SO was simply a very good quality pop album. But SO was also a work of genius like the others, although more accessible, the detail and textures and eclectic creativity remained.

[@greenbluemonkey]

His last concert last year was amazing. Played Panopticom among other songs. Tony Levin still kickin with him

[@thomashartmann2891]

The concert is 1987 but the song is from the Security album released in 1982.

[@Linda-y9h]

Peter the Great!!! ❤😊

[@jamessomers8808]

Yeah, there’s always something visual that needs to be observed with this man. I mean, the song sounds good on the radio, but the video brings you into the mind of the creator.

[@MattLathrum]

Peter released music in the 2000s, outside of his solo brand of albums. He did soundtracks such as Ovo, Rabbit Proof Fence, and individual songs for different movies such as Wall-E. He also did a double-album of covers where he sang covers of artists' songs on one album and they sang covers of his songs on the other (Scratch My Back / And I'll Scratch Yours).

[@Upe-f9c]

If you have any interest in music you just have to appreciate Peter Gabriel.

[@realbser1956]

Oooh, what could the 4th song possibly be?

[@laurencaulton103]

I had this is a 12 inch single. Great dance music. I want my MTV!

[@axolotl8694]

he was ridiculously young when he co-founded Genesis... age 19 in 1969. so he did Panopticom (based on a warping of philosopher Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon) at age 73. to produce good, new, relevant music at that age... damn. if I can still feed myself at 73 I'll be happy.

[@Johan-ew3ot]

Saw Peter do the crowd surf in Philly on the So tour..talk about jaw drop to the floor.. it was like when I saw Jesus at a grateful Dead concert

[@428chase]

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[@ericvincentcarbone3471]

Dude. I saw that concert in L.A. AT the Forum & they almost tore him apart during Lay your hands on me. My friend pulled him out of the audience & let him back to the stage. Check out a live version of BIKO.

[@ignatzmuskrat3000]

Demi-god of Synergy, Larry Fast, is all over this record. The pre-history tribal vibe of Shock the Monkey pervades this album as drums without cymbals set the atmosphere. Synergy driven samples and percussive sounds with low throbbing drums seals the union as exemplified in The Family and the Fishing Net. 🤯

[@ignatzmuskrat3000]

I saw The Jesus Lizard in 2015? and saw their singer, David Yow, crowd surf thru the audience but ended up in the 22nd row just a few seats to my left. 😂 He had to walk back to the stage.

[@ignatzmuskrat3000]

Tony Levin is still on tour with Adrian Belew and Steve Vai doing versions of King Crimson songs from the trilogy of albums in a band called Beat. It's the Beat Tour! In a town near you but at very high prices! 😮

[@rodneygriffin7666]

They say no one plays good music these days. Listen to this.

[@thomashartmann2891]

This is from 1982. So not music from today.

[@hansmolders1066]

David Byrne saw Gabriel and knew what to do

[@lucasnavajas4166]

It’s been another tricky day for you 😂

[@L33Reacts]

Bro the this ain’t no social crisis this is just another tricky day for you and then Jon’s bass will not get out of my head lol

[@silvertube52]

Firth of Fifth was primarily written by Tony Banks. I think Peter only contributed lyrics.

[@donrumgay5200]

Shock the Monkey was the first song i ever heard on CD…..

[@17cgrg]

Firth if Fidth is a Tony Banks composition (Though the song is credited to the entire band, most of the music was composed by keyboardist Tony Banks, with a prominent solo by guitarist Steve Hackett based on the flute melody composed by Banks. Banks had written the bulk of the song by 1972, presenting it as a candidate for the album Foxtrot (1972), but it was rejected. He redesigned the piece, which the group accepted as a candidate for Selling England by the Pound. Banks, who worked on the lyrics with Mike Rutherford, later dismissed them, saying they were "one of the worst sets of lyrics [I have] been involved with) wikipedia

[@kathyrams]

On two occasions I got to pass Peter Gabriel during his stage dives.

[@robabiera733]

Oh yeah! Early 80's! Check out the video for "Change" by Tears For Fears!

[@162berto]

It’s not at all a 180* from the last two They’re all in the same vein All are funky as hell and meld to together the music, movement( dance) and performance Art!!! The videos and the live performance all had the same elements One led to the other There are incredible live tv performances shot in Europe in the early 80’s that are mind blowing innovative in taking Performance Art Dance and his music as a way to perform a live show The tv live show performance Are crazy because we’re talking about music artist tv variety show spot Which usually meant a band say Blonde showing up instruments in hand and running through their sons But Peter’s introduced by the host and he give not just a live music performance but Something you’d see at NYC’s MOMA ( Museum of Modern Art ) which since he was part of Genesis was jarring since ( this will sound insane to you ) in 1980 to cool intelligent young people Genesis was in the category of dinosaur Rock or cool if your 13 because there’s a 💩 load of new music coming out of everywhere by Artist your own or close to your age you’re willing to ditch everything from the 70’s because that’s your big Brother or Sister’s music and this new stuff is yours And here comes Peter Gabriel from Genesis no F-ing less Bringing some new 💩 some of these younger artists hadn’t thought of and he’s doing it on some Italian prime time Variety show🎼🔥🎼🔥

[@ChrisAddotta5373]

Have you done any Early Genesis? Can't remember. The Lamb? Dude, check out The Revenge of the Giant Hogweed from the 1971 album Nursery Cryme.

[@gpxo11]

Might want to check out Genesis' original lead guitarist Steve Hackett and his solo career-very ethereal progressive sound-might want to listen on own time as his music might not be to everyone's taste. Recommend the albums Voyage of the Acolyte, Please Don't Touch and Defector. Singing lead on the song Narnia on Please Don't Touch is Kansas vocalist Steve Walsh.

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Shake those hands!

[@blitztim6416]

I was a big fan of Peter’s. Saw him in ‘77 at the Roxy in Hollywood. Great show. He had Robert Fripp in the shadows. And Tony Levin on the stick. Peter came by our table and we helped him climb a railing during one song. Yes Peter is a true artist. I stopped following him after he got super popular. Concerts too large. Try the song ‘San Jacinto’.

[@IZZY_EDIBLE]

Do GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS!

[@rk41gator]

What if they dropped him? They did once and he broke his ankle or leg. Decided not to do that blank anymore.

[@ricktiberio]

Check out Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At.

[@NABIL7]

Please, react to Peter Gabriel - Intruder and No self control.

[@theconstantflow]

oh come on... he did NOT write "Firth of fifth"... So what are you talking about?? He contributed to it, as the others did (Steve!!!) , but it is Tonys baby. Peter has his own beautiful babys, let Tony have his.

[@johntarnowski9086]

Beatles vibe? I don't hear it. You might be high, I know I am.

[@ccollins2890]

Isn't it great that most vids in the 80s didn't bother to make sense or correlate to the lyrics? Totally a Gen-X vibe. Whatever. (kidding)

[@MrWishud]

Sorry but "Shock the Monkey" is so not a funny song if you get the lyrical connection to animal laboratory testing. Yeah, we had some good drugs but we also cared and protested. As well as being an awesome song like most of PG's stuff.