Genesis 
September 29th, 1982
London, England @ Hammersmith Odeon - Milton Keynes Reunion Rehearsals
SBD > ? > "All The Help I Can Get" > flac > CDR

Disc 1:
1. Back In NYC 5:56
2. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight 4:02
3. The Carpet Crawlers 5:45
4. Firth Of Fifth 9:02
5. The Musical Box 10:45
6. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 6:37
7. Fly On A Windshield 4:37

Disc 2:
1. In The Cage 9:21
2. Supper's Ready 24:09
3. The Knife 3:48
4. Solsbury Hill (take 1) 1:51
5. Solsbury Hill (take 2) 3:24
6. Solsbury Hill (take 3) 5:04
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Peter Gabriel
1975 Demos: Before the Flood
7 1/2ips 1/4 trk stereo reels > ? > flac > dBpowerAMP (Convert to WAV) > 
Cool Edit Pro (Pitch Correction +47 cents) > flac > CDR
07 Howling At The Moon  3:05
08 Excuse Me   3:42
09 Funny Man   4:27
10 No More Mickey (aka Richard MacPhail)   2:45
11 Get the Guns (listen carefully for the root of "Down the Dolce Vita")   2:55
12 Here Comes the Flood   3:39
13 God Knows   4:59


These are evidently very early demos recorded for "car" (1976, Atco - Atco being Atlantic, a Warner subsidiary label). 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