Peter Gabriel's monologues

[XavGel]

Hello everyone ! Hope you're all well in those gloomy yet somehow full of hope days.
Sorry if this tread has already been explored, but can someone point me if someone did collect all of PG's storys he made up (or wrote) and used in Genesis gigs to fill the space between two numbers, as the others were busy tuning their mellotron ? I surely would be extremely interested in knowing that.
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Xavier

[XavGel]

Hello everyone ! Hope you're all well in those gloomy yet somehow full of hope days.
Sorry if this tread has already been explored, but can someone point me if someone did collect all of PG's storys he made up (or wrote) and used in Genesis gigs to fill the space between two numbers, as the others were busy tuning their mellotron ? I surely would be extremely interested in knowing that.
Happy Xmas from Ghost Rhythms !
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Xavier

No one ? NOT ONE SOUL has collected those stories ? I don't believe it.
(Happy Xmas everyone !)

[pb2015]

No, I don't know of any site transcribing Gabriel's stage talk, and doing a quick search I couldn't find one. I agree it's a cool idea.

[moecurlythanu]

They appear on numerous bootlegs, of course, but transcribing them would be a time consuming labor of love. The Old Michael story and the Girl In The Green Trouser Suit story are particularly lengthy.

[JKL2000]

If anyone has a copy of the old Genesis Discography or whatever that long .txt document was called that was kicking around on the internet for years, I THINK that had some info on Gabriel's monologues, and it might have included the text of at least some of them. I might be able to find the file somewhere on my drives, or online, but I think at least a few people here have copies handy.

[Dave (in MA)]

Peter Gabriel's monologues...

It's SO hot in these Slipperman costumes
HOW HOT IS IT
It was so hot, my Magog makeup melted

[thos]

Are you fond of lettuce?

[XavGel]

If anyone has a copy of the old Genesis Discography or whatever that long .txt document was called that was kicking around on the internet for years, I THINK that had some info on Gabriel's monologues, and it might have included the text of at least some of them. I might be able to find the file somewhere on my drives, or online, but I think at least a few people here have copies handy.

That would be extra great !

[XavGel]

They appear on numerous bootlegs, of course, but transcribing them would be a time consuming labor of love. The Old Michael story and the Girl In The Green Trouser Suit story are particularly lengthy.

That's the kind of work someone certainly did. I think it's very strange to think that nobody collected them.

[XavGel]

Are you fond of lettuce?

It's my bondage to cabbages !

[FirthOf5th]

Loof uoy.

From Solsbury Hill. Just learned what that meant. “You fool” backwards.

[JKL2000]

^ Where is that in Solsbury Hill? In the lyrics in the album sleeve/booklet?

[ca1ore]

I’ve listened to his ‘stories’ a few times, but now I mostly just FF through them.

[Moribund2]

Loof uoy.

From Solsbury Hill. Just learned what that meant. “You fool” backwards.

Oh. My. Goodness.

I've always wondered what that lyric was.

[Mister Triscuits]

Oh. My. Goodness.

I've always wondered what that lyric was.

For 45 years I thought that was just a grunt, like "ooh yeah."

^ Where is that in Solsbury Hill? In the lyrics in the album sleeve/booklet?

It's the exclamation after the first verse.

[pb2015]

I've never owned the PG windshield album but from what I find online it didn't have a lyric sheet. Did one of the later albums have an official lyric for Solsbury Hill?

(Speaking of which, it is interesting that in Fripp's Exposure the word "crowd" appears before the first chorus of Here Comes The Flood in the lyric sheet, I guess meaning that in the original PG version he multitracked his voice so it sounds like a crowd of people is singing it, and it got garbled in Fripp's liner notes.)

[Mister Triscuits]

I've never owned the PG windshield album but from what I find online it didn't have a lyric sheet. Did one of the later albums have an official lyric for Solsbury Hill?

The original LP did not have a lyric sheet, but the lyrics have been included in CD releases. The "loof uoy" is not transcribed, however.

(Speaking of which, it is interesting that in Fripp's Exposure the word "crowd" appears before the first chorus of Here Comes The Flood in the lyric sheet, I guess meaning that in the original PG version he multitracked his voice so it sounds like a crowd of people is singing it, and it got garbled in Fripp's liner notes.)

Clearly a typesetting error. "Crowd" is simply the word that precedes the first chorus, but the chorus itself is shifted to the wrong place in the printed lyrics.

[Progatron]

I've just reversed that section of Solsbury Hill and it doesn't sound anything like 'You fool' to me. Or not much, anyway, especially with the 'eh' sound so prominent at the end.

[interbellum]

The original LP did not have a lyric sheet, but the lyrics have been included in CD releases. The "loof uoy" is not transcribed, however.

This morning I checked my LP and although it contains a innersleeve there're no lyrics on it. However I found inside this sleeve a copy of the lyrics including the catalogue-number 6369 978.
Discogs learns that at least the Scandinavian version contains the lyrics-sheet: https://www.discogs.com/release/3895...U6OTk0MjE3NQ==

[proggy_jazzer]

Loof uoy.

From Solsbury Hill. Just learned what that meant. “You fool” backwards.

I've also never seen that on any lyric sheet. Listening to it, it definitely does sound like what you write, though. On the "Plays Live" version, he clearly says "back home" at that spot in the song. How did you learn about this?

And getting back to the OT: Would the Musical Box folks be a possible resource for the texts of PG's stories?

[FirthOf5th]

5:10

Loo fuoy.

[interbellum]

[proggy_jazzer]

5:10

Loo fuoy.

Well, there you have it, then. Another nugget of trivia that probably just pushed something actually useful out of my brain.

[XavGel]

And getting back to the OT: Would the Musical Box folks be a possible resource for the texts of PG's stories?

Good idea, no idea how to contact them ! I think I will listen and transcribe myself whatever I find.