Peter Gabriel album. And TOUR!

[NotAbbott]

I've only listened to Up once so far, but I'm liking it. Tour dates are up at www.pollstar.com

Jeez, Pete, it's about time!

Later,
COZ

[obie]

$131 top price at MSG. Greedy bastard, but I'm a sucker and I'm going to pay it anyway.

[bmurphyfl]

Gabriel may have to make a stop in Philly during his tour...to testify that is. Defense attorneys in the Ira Einhorn murder trial (http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/09/24/einhorn/index.html) are considering calling Gabriel as a character witness for Einhorn. Apparently Gabriel and Einhorn were acquaintances once upon a time.

This may be a bit of bad publicity for him in the middle of a record launch and tour if he defends a dirtbag like Einhorn in a courtroom.

Murf

[obie]

Well, this morning I paid my $103 ($86 plus TicketBastard service charges) for a 100-level seat at MSG. I just couldn't pull the trigger on the $150+ (un-fooking-believable!) that it would have cost to sit on the floor. Besides, if the in-the-round rotating stage show is anything like what they're saying it is, it'll probably be good to be up a little bit off the ground.

[Footix]

Originally posted by obie
$131 top price at MSG. Greedy bastard, but I'm a sucker and I'm going to pay it anyway.

That's nuts, to me anyway...

Obie, if you don't mind, would you post here what the total charge including Ticketmaster fees, etc. are once you get tickets?

[Footix]

Obie-

You must have been reading my mind as I was typing ;).

Thanks.

[obie]

$86 "official" ticket price, which includes $1 service charge for Witness, which is Gabriel's long-time human rights group.
$4.50 MSG venue charge
$9.90 TicketMonster "Convenience" charge
$3.05 order processing fee

Grand total: $103.45

I justify this to the extent possible by saying that seeing PG is not unlike going to a Broadway show in terms of its theatricality, and that typically costs $90-100 per ticket plus charges nowadays as well.

[NotAbbott]

Just a note...there was no such thing as Major League Soccer when Gabriel's last studio album came out. I'm not including OVO in that, nor Secret World Live, but that's only because I don't remember when the latter was released.

Later,
COZ

[whirlwind]

Saw him in Detroit on his last major tour. It was cool and all, but a hundred bucks a ticket? Plus another for the Mrs.?

No thanks.

[HalaMadrid]

$45 base price in Chicago...but I reeealllly want to go...argh...

I'll see what I can do.

And PG is on Conan tonight. Woohoo!

[NotAbbott]

"The Barry Williams Show" was kinda weak on Conan, but then it's kinda weak on the record as well. Unless it's LOUD and you pump the bass. I streamed the version off of windowsmedia.com, and it had a lot more oomph with the help of the subwoofer on my PC.

Got my tickets. Section 118, which put them in the $85 category rather than the $130. Not quite so bad on the underemployed wallet. That's one more month before I can replace my CD burner, especially if I go see Me'Shell Ndegeocello as well.

Later,
COZ

[HalaMadrid]

Well I'm definitely not going now. Ugh.

[nicodemus]

I've never really understood the appeal of Peter Gabriel. Some of the "So" album was pretty good, but I haven't really been impressed by much else I've heard.

[Auriaprottu]

Originally posted by nicodemus
I've never really understood the appeal of Peter Gabriel. Some of the "So" album was pretty good, but I haven't really been impressed by much else I've heard.

I think of him as being kinda like Paul Simon, in that he takes some musical ideas from various cultures and mixes them with his lyrics to form some pretty interesting stuff. If you can get hold of a videotape of one of his concerts, you'll be impressed. It's not really party music, and his usage of sociopolitical issues in some of his music tends to alienate certain segments of the population, but there's generally something in the sound for everyone.

[Vegalta_Sendai]

Originally posted by NotAbbott
I've only listened to Up once so far, but I'm liking it. Tour dates are up at www.pollstar.com

Jeez, Pete, it's about time!

Later,
COZ

I'll say this about him, he seems to have phsysically aged like 20 *years* since his last album! Anyone seen that new video yet? Man, the years have been unkind to poor Mr. Gabriel... ;-)

The new track (and video) seem pretty weak to me as well, and if that's the best he's got this time there's no way this album will be anything but a footnote.

-Adam

[nicodemus]

Originally posted by Auriaprottu


I think of him as being kinda like Paul Simon, in that he takes some musical ideas from various cultures and mixes them with his lyrics to form some pretty interesting stuff. If you can get hold of a videotape of one of his concerts, you'll be impressed. It's not really party music, and his usage of sociopolitical issues in some of his music tends to alienate certain segments of the population, but there's generally something in the sound for everyone.

I recognize his contributions to world music as a whole with his Real World label. That label has turned me onto music from Senegal, Somalia, India and tons of other places. The politics never turned me off (Midnight Oil is one of my favorite bands.) It seems as if I should like him given everything else I listen to. Maybe I just haven't heard the right stuff yet.

[sebakoole]

There was an interesting story on PG on Weekend Edition. Go to the link and you can download it.
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/features/2002/gabriel/index.html

I'd never heard about this theme park project with Eno and Laurie Anderson. Gabriel says in the interview it's not quite a project yet, just an idea they've been tossing around over the years. I for one would love to see it come to pass.

[obie]

A quick look at ticket availability for the first shows of the US tour tells me that PG has clearly miscalculated his popularity with regards to venue and/or ticket price. You can still get top-price seats in NY and Philly, which have traditionally been his strongest markets.

The only category sold out is the $45 seats in Philadelphia, which tells me he overpriced the floor and lower levels.

[Footix]

Did you guys see that Gabriel's playing a "more intimate" show at Mohegan Sun Casino on 26 Nov?

[NotAbbott]

I'm assuming the high-priced tickets sold out in Chicago, since I had "best available" selected and got the second price level. Then again, do NYC or Philly have a radio outlet that will still play *new* Peter Gabriel? We're fortunate to have a strong AAA format station in Chicago, but I think that's the exception more than the norm.

Later,
COZ