Peter Gabriel - No Self Control - First Time Listen

[@jonnykhatru]

What a showman eh. This is one of my favourite songs. Phil's drums on the studio version are incredible, he brought his A game for Peter. Thanks for doing this one, Ryan.

[@Kimobubby]

❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

[@TheCorrectAnswer56]

He just toured in 2016. He’s 70 now but he has aged gracefully. His live shows are still incredible. He doesn’t run around stage a whole lot or wear makeup or anything but he is a master of using drama and intensity to create an atmosphere. And he uses lights very creatively. If he comes around again I would highly recommend you see him still.

[@rpraelsporcupine3112]

His voice still sounds very similar to the beginning of the 80’s, it’s unbelievable. He did “Moribund the Burgermeister” in two or three of his concerts of 2007 and you could have sworn the performances belonged to his 1978’s tour. Amazing. It’s obvious he’s taken very good care of his health (no drinking, smoking or taking drugs).

[@swirll360]

whats realy cool is your seeing his development as a solo artist. His live performances get better and better as his confidence grows. This tour was my first PG show, never forgot it. Ryan he crowd surfed and I personally had never seen that before for a song approprietly named "Lay Your Hands On Me"... I dont know if he was among the first to do that but it was a first for me. The "Secret World "Tour was for me his pinnacle. He's always been great but that tour was just remarkable. Watch the entire concert on your own, its available on KZbin, but watching it on a large screen is a great way to spend an evening. I'm absolutly positive watching that entire show will seal the deal for you as far as PG goes.

[@davidhoward7322]

Yeh man i seen this tour at the liverpool empire the band came on the stage and we were all waiting for peter he was sitting next to someone in the stalls who had no idea he was sitting next to them he stood up and jumped on the stage absolute legend

[@stephanevilleneuve9450]

To saw him 2 times (Secret World Tour & Growing Up Tour) was my most wonderful musical experiences. By now, I hope you've seen the vid of all this great concerts.

[@delllittle5692]

You know about the "no cymbals" rule on this album? Peter didn't want any cymbals. And Kate singing. My Queen to Peter's King. I love you freaking on getting to spread out. I understand completely.

[@Jfhelwig]

His secret world tour was amazing. He has conveyor belts all over the stage. At one point the whole band in single file got into a suitcase which Peter closed and carried into the audience where a UFO came from the ceiling and covered them. I've seen him walk on the ceiling upside down while singing. So many cool things

[@MattLathrum]

The Secret World tour was the first time I got to see him live. I was in the nosebleed seats. It was glorious. Paula Cole was an awesome addition to that tour. Got to see him just two months later at a WOMAD outdoor festival singing Blood of Eden with Sinead O'Connor. Lenny Kravitz also played at that concert. The summer of 1993 was pretty awesome.

[@OronOfMontreal]

Amazing concert. It was staged by French-Canadian actor-director Robert Lepage, who is a great Avant-Garde Theatre director and headed Canada's National Theatre for a decade. The square stage starts off as a cube and the round stage as a dome. They are connected by a walkway with automatic conveyer belt. The square stage represents the Masculine of humanity, while the round represents the feminine. The beltway between is the universal river linking the two. Rivers and seas and mystical/mythical transitions between genders are images that have dominated Peter Gabriel's songwriting since his days with Genesis in the early 1970s. That dome descending upon the suitcase is the eternal womb. "Out of woman come the man / Spend the rest of his life getting back when he can" -- peter gabriel I, 1977

[@JuandeFucaU]

I was at the Secret World concert in Vancouver, July, 93..... our seats were halfway between the two stages..... 5 or 6 rows away from the long catwalk connecting the two stages..... I thought that would be the perfect place to be close to both stages.....but little did I know..... that Peter would have a special performance just for us, nobody else could see.....we got to see Peter walking under the catwalk from one stage to the other..... he obviously knew only people in our seats could see his "trick" under the catwalk so..... as he walked briskly..... he also held his finger to his lips and mimed "shhhh", then waved.

[@themadmerkin]

As great as Peter’s studio work is, he has and will always be best heard when he performs live. Even as he’d gotten older, his vocals have only improved and he’s still an A+ experience to see live.

[@MisterWondrous]

Heavens to Murgatroyd! Gabriel was a bit of a student of Gurdjieff, so I always assumed that this was about Gurdjieff's work on trying to free people from our mechanical lives. He created a "stop exercise" to help. Here is a bit about it: "The "Stop exercise" of the Russian mystic, Gurdjieff is tremendously significant, perhaps one of the greatest contributions to the modern world - and the modern world is not even aware of it." Since his time, people have become a good deal more meditative, but it is good to also consider DH Lawrence's poem, "Death is Not Evil, Evil is Mechanical". And that live version of the song was the exact opposite of mechanical staging. I am still slackjawed in disbelief at how wondrous it was. Genius. Not evil. Not mechanical.

[@MiguelLopez-is9te]

So Good. Especially the live version

[@maraboo72]

There is another very interesting musician on stage with him - I mean all of them are great but the keyboarder is one of those who are often overlooked. If you watch the list of musicians who played with David Sancious besides his solo work it seems like an excerpt of a who's who in Rock and Jazz. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sancious I first saw him in a Rockpalast Night performing with Jack Bruce, Clem Clemson and Billy Cobham. I was very impressed.

[@OronOfMontreal]

He changed the sound of this song quite radically from the album; more jazzy than the audio violence of the studio. But wow, did he make up for it with the visual violence. The world had never before seen a singer physically attacked by his light show! BTW, the very next song "Mercy Street", begins with him lying there, and it is heart wrenching. It's about poet Ann Sexton, who suffered from depression all her life and finally killed herself in middle-age. It is one of Peter's greatest live performances.

[@matsjakobsson1376]

Love how you play studio, then live! Unique as far as I know!

[@Kimobubby]

Ty :))

[@BennyGeserit]

Phil on Drums.

[@swirll360]

just when you think he is going more main stream (like you said in a prevously) he throws something like this at you. You gotta love it! You'll never know what to expect...Unlike any other artist

[@NABIL7]

Thanks for your reaction.

[@rpraelsporcupine3112]

I have never seen him live, either, unfortunately. And it’s also my fault for not being such a great fan earlier (I’ve always liked him, but wasn’t such a big fan as I am now). But I still have hope that I will see him one day. He said he would release a new album this year, so maybe, with a little lick, there’ll be an accompanying tour… 🤞🏻

[@douggrant]

Great stuff, as ever, Ryan. Are you going to be covering the fourth album next? This Athens video is certainly his best live recording for the period, encompassing the catalogue up to and including So.

[@Kimobubby]

I’m doing his 4th album as well :)

[@douggrant]

Ryan First Time Listens And Reviews Excellent news. Lay Your Hands on Me is a must, especially the Athens live footage.

[@franckb8279]

Nice song, so many stars on this one: • Peter Gabriel - lead vocals • Kate Bush - backing vocals • David Rhodes - guitar • Robert Fripp - guitar >>>>> YOU HAVE TO GO TO DISCOVER KING CRIMSON (with Tony Levin, Peter's bassist) • John Giblin - bass guitar • Larry Fast - synthesizers, processing • Phil Collins - drums • Morris Pert - percussion

[@bcpod]

• Dick Morrissey - Sax (In the Times obituary, British music critic Chris Welch wrote that Dick Morrissey was a "fiery musician who straddled the worlds of jazz and rock, but with a style built firmly on bebop and widely regarded as the most brilliant British saxophonist to emerge in the wake of Tubby Hayes. His advocacy of jazz-rock fusion successfully brought jazz to a rock audience and rock to a jazz audience".)

[@delllittle5692]

"That Guy" David Rhodes

[@oliverbendallcharles]

Kate Bush on backing vocals

[@Divedown_25]

Not one bad or boring song on this album. Avant-gardeish. Think when this came out. I was so happy for his first solo album but did not really dig into his second album but this album, oh yes

[@markjohnson4217]

I think this is the scariest song ever written... No Self Control No Self Control No Self... No Self.... No... No...

[@WallyStreetify]

No cymbals used with the drum kit Kate Bush backing vocals

[@wagnerribeirodesantana1651]

Peter Gabriel's songs sound much better live than on his records.🎧

[@danielmcbriel1192]

Some songs yes. Some songs not.

[@gamalon]

In the case of his third album, I definitely prefer the studio versions ! Live, these songs lose their identity and their dark side that which is their strength.

[@WallyStreetify]

PG had a King Crimson period

[@WallyStreetify]

The song is about addiction, I think

[@davidhoward7322]

And kate bush dont forget