ollie Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 http://www4.ncsu.edu/~ktcosent/PeterGabriel-Imagine.mpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Thanks for this, Ollie! That Gabriel, what a slouch . Perfect song choice for the occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cully Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 What a terrible version, he is getting old!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 [Homer]Old people? What are they good for? Nothing![/Homer] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 What a terrible version, he is getting old!!Are you serious? Watch it again. I thought it was great. I like the Daniel Lanois look he and his band had going on.Italian's love Peter Gabriel and Genesis. I thought it was an inspired choice to have him perform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 love it! I thought 'daniel lanois' as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kookycanooky Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 "Can You Tell Me Where My Country Lies..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cully Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 are you serious...he wasn't even singing the first verse (just speaking the words) boo urns..I changed the channelI thought the purpose of the opening ceremonies was to fire people up, not put them to sleep!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Here's some fan-stalking pictures from Turin:http://www.nicomonguzzi.com/gallery/album89Digital cameras have really reduced the stature of celebrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Tony Levin posted the following on his blog after receiving numerous e-mails asking why he wasn't in Turin. Pretty humourous and insightful even if you don't give a toss about Gabriel or Levin.Feb 12, KingstonNo, no, it wasn't me in Torino. I've had lots of letters about Peter at the Olympics - the explanation could be short, or medium, or I think I could write a mini-novel about it!I'll go for the medium length cause it's kind of funny and you'll enjoy it.Peter Gabriel's engineer contacted me about a week and a half ago, about doing a bass part for Peter. Great, of course - maybe for the new album, I thought. But they needed it really quickly, so I did it from home, by ftp, (which is the way I play on a lot of projects nowadays.)Then, only a week ago Friday, I was asked if I could come to Italy to play a show with Peter. Not realizing what that show was, I sadly declined, because I had a record session (a great one, with Paula Cole, booked on Friday the 10th.) Imagine my surprise, coming home from New York on Friday night, to hear from friends (who saw the opening ceremony on Canada tv earlier than it was aired here in the U.S) that the "show" of Peter's was performing Imagine for about the biggest tv audience conceivable! E-mails started coming in about 3 minutes after it aired, asking whether it was me, and if not, why!Alas, it's typical of me that I hadn't asked what the show would be, and typical of Peter that he hadn't mentioned it. But, oh, the photos I'd have up on the site for you if I'd been there! Not to mention the fun of being back in Italy. It did seem to me (as people pointed out on the Guestbook page) that it was David Rhodes playing an NS Upright bass (which I'd done the track on.) And it sounded like that part of the track was indeed my playing - hard to be sure from a tv set. I'll surely ask David when I see him - I'm sure there'll be great stories from the event, not the least of it his feelings about being setup as a moustache-less Tony!And, in the big picture, I'm very happy to be a part of Paula's new recording - so I've got no complaints.There, I've explained it!Coming up this week: I may sit in with the California Guitar Trio at BB King's in NYC on Wednesday. And I'll be with Jim Weider's band at Ram's Head in Anapolis, on Saturday. In between I'll be trying to arrange a second barbershop quartet for my upcoming tour. (And fielding e-mails asking Was that you in Torino?)!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Funny - that's the first thing I wondered too (though having seen him a few times, I figured pretty quick it wasn't him)!I'd love to see him playing with the CGT and/or Weider.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I love that Levin's been doing his thing so long that he doesn't even think to ask what anything is for... the bass part, then the gig. And the little things like sending his part by ftp. What an awesome guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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