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Mark Jochim (Thailand)'s Collection

Peter Gabriel   ??/??/1975

Studio Demos, Unknown, Unknown
Source SBD > ?? > FLAC
Media FLAC   1 disc
Notes These are evidently very early demos recorded for "car" (1976, Atco - Atco being Atlantic, a Warner subsidiary ;abel). They are extremely raw; they may have been done in Gabriel's home studio. Most are acoustic piano with a few accompanying support tracks and Peter singing.

The songs come from a white tape box marked: 7 1/2ips 1/4 trk stereo Gabriel/Hall Fuse Music. The lead sheets had the composer's names given as "Peter Gabriel and Tony Hall" and were marked with a stamp from Fuse Music, England; they were merely lead melody transcriptions for copyright purposes, not hand-written by Gabriel or anything.

At that time, the best research i could come up with was that Fuse was somehow connected to Warner Bros (maybe like Sire was, but English; a sub-distribution deal?)... I later heard that the Fuse Music building burned down and took a whole lot of master tapes with it, and that this reel is quite probably the only surviving record of these demos.

This brown-oxide tape was discovered rotting in a water-soaked box shoved into a cleaning closet, along with the lead sheets, in a cavernous and seldom-used warehouse. It was lost/forgotten/abandoned. The tape had some warbley spots from the neglect and also quite a lot of tape hiss and
lost tone.

I processed the material for several weeks before I was satisfied as to the quality, although "Get the Guns" was problemmatic to begin with; the Master appears to have been recorded badly or with misaligned heads. On the whole there is a tiny bit of tape hiss but no more than you'd expect from such a "live" environment. There is unfortunately one small glitch from a later cassette-to-cd transfer in "Excuse Me" ("Looking for Lost Angeleeeeee") so don't think it's your file or player :)

Enjoy this very raw and simple glimpse into the creative process of Peter Gabriel.

(man-on-the-spot), June 2006

--->will trade as FLAC disc w/artwork or CD Audio w/o artwork
Trades Allowed Yes   Traded from: BT (DIME) download, June 2006
Ratings Show: B    Sound: A
Reference / Generation TH-0003
Owned by Mark Jochim (Thailand) · Last Updated May 23, 2023