Ranking of my Favorite live shows:

Ranking of my Favorite live shows:

·         1 Paul McCartney. One on One Tour

·         2 Muse Drones Tour

·         3 Living Colour X3

·         4Victor Wooten.

·         5Tony Levin/ Stick men X2
 6 Screaming Headless Torsos

·         7Red Hot Chili Peppers.

·         8 Head/Love and Death.

·         9Bella Fleck and the Flecktones.

·         10Pual Simon.

·         11Peter Gabriel.

·         12Stone Temple Pilots.

·         13Soulfly Archangel Tour.

·         14Korn

·         15Deftones
16 Molotov x3

·         17De La Tierra Cosquin Rock 2015

·         18Carajo Cosquin Rock 2015

19 Zack Wylde

Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel III/Melt (1980) Genre: Experimental Rock and Prog-Rock

Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel III/Melt (1980)

Genre: Experimental Rock and Prog-Rock

Here we are at Peter Gabriel’s artistic zenith, this album is incredible. It really pushes the limits of what you can do on a rock album..  

   

Vocals and Lyrics: Intruder is one of the sickest and darkest songs that  I have ever listen to, like most of the lyrics on this album are pretty intriguing, like “Family Snapshot” or the epic political anthem of Biko. 10

Instrumentation:

Guitar: Robert Fripp is on a couple of tracks, but the guitar in general takes second stage.

Bass: Effect heavy bass line of a “I don’t remember” is mind blowing, its actual played on a Chapman Stick by Tony Levin. 

Drums: Intruder and Biko have simple but incredibly effective drum playing on each one of these tracks. 7.8

Melody and/or Structure: A very dark but the songs mostly have a typical pop structure. 10

Sound, Production and Feeling: This album is dark, claustrophobic and innovative.  Songs like “Games without Frontiers” are very ahead of their time. And on the other hand  you have the simple but powerful protest song of Biko. 10  

Songs: Every song on this album is a classic. 10

The Bad: 

Originality: Peter’s brilliance just keeps growing, moving out farther and farther away from a traditional band structure, I can observe the direct influence of this album on artist like Trent Reznor. 10

Overall: 57.8

Peter Gabriel Review Peter Gabriel II/Scratch (1978) Genre: Alternative Rock, Prog-Rock, Experimental Rock

Peter looks like a Evil Beck on the cover of this album

Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel II/Scratch (1978)

Genre: Alternative Rock, Prog-Rock, Experimental Rock

This is probably one of Peter’s most obscure album; it doesn’t have any his classic hit songs and none of them have sticked to his live set over the years. But this album is really good and one of the most immediate and rock oriented albums in his catalogue, so I recommend if of you want to get into to the stranger side of rock music get this album.

   

Vocals and Lyrics: Gabriel’s vocals are pretty good, the cool thing about Peter even though it’s a solo album he leaves a lot of room to the band, the album isn’t a monument to his ego like most solo artist do.  8

Instrumentation:

Guitar: Robert Fripp (King Crimson) and Sid McGinnis (Late show) do the Guitars on this album. If you are a Crimson fan you'll be happy to hear some of Fripp style solos on this album.

Bass:  Interesting and powerful bass lines and we have legendary Tony Levin to thank for this.

Keys: Killer sequences and arrangements.

Drum and Percussion:  Jerry Marrota does a great good.  7.7

Melody and/or Structure: It’s not your typical solo artist pop album; Peter sets out for artistic integrity so you can find interesting stuff in both departments.  8

Sound, Production and Feeling: It’s strong and energetic and look it sounds dated at moments, but some of the stuff on this album was cutting edge back then, like the use of Frippertronic, look it up to see what the hell this is. 10 

Songs: As I said none of the songs are in Peter’s pantheon of mega hits but the album is good from front to back.10

The Bad: Nothing

Originality: Peter keeps growing as an artist and as his albums progress and he does a great job in never repeating himself.  10

Overall: 53.7