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All'inizio degli anni novanta, mentre nuovi generi musicali come il Britpop, il Grunge ed il Post-Rock stavano cominciando ad emergere, il nostro Arcangelo Peter Gabriel era probabilmente all'apice del suo successo.
Tralasciate le sfuriate tribali e graffianti di inizio ottanta alla "Intruder" e "Not One Of Us" (seppur non abbandonando la parte avanguardistica della "world music" con il suo capolavoro Passion del 1989) e complice il successo mondiale di So che lo aveva consacrato a grande icona pop e rock mondiale, nel 1992 pubblica un nuovo album, "Us", nato dalle ceneri della sua separazione con la sua prima moglie Jill Moore e dal fallimento del suo matrimonio. Tale disco, che basa presumibilmente il suo fulcro concettuale sulle relazioni umane, vede sua pubblicazione più o meno in modo contemporaneo a quella del nuovo disco dei suoi ex-compagni Genesis (o quel che ne è rimasto) che si interrogano invece sulle "presunte abilità ed affinità con il ballo". Il tour che seguì alla pubblicazione di "Us" (e che venne battezzato "Secret World Tour", da cui venne appunto tratto questo CD/DVD di cui adesso vi parlerò) fu probabilmente una delle tourneé più spettacolari, mastodontiche e grandiose del decennio, seguita probabilmente dallo ZooTV Tour degli U2.
Il nostro Pietro, per mettere in pratica ciò, si avvalé della collaborazione dello sceneggiatore canadese Robert Lepage (con il quale parteciperà anche all'allestimento di altri suoi successivi e più recenti tour, come il "Growing Up Live Tour") che diede vita ad un particolare palcoscenico dal design vertiginoso. Inoltre la sua band, oltre a vedere la presenza dei suoi storici compagni di viaggio Tony Levin al basso e David Rhodes alla chitarra elettrica, comprende anche l'ottimo batterista francese Manu Katché ed il tastierista Jean Claude Naimro, a cui si aggiungono anche i cosiddetti session-man come il violinista indiano Shankar e Levon Minassian al doudouk. La scaletta raccoglie più o meno tutto quel che è stato del Pietro solista a cavallo tra la fine degli ottanta e l’inizio dei novanta: abbiamo le coinvolgenti hit radiofoniche come la sempreverde “Sledgehammer” e la buffa “Steam”, le ballate introspettive di “Come Talk To Me” e “Blood Of Eden”, la maestosa “Red Rain” e la riflessiva title-track. Questo perfetto cerchio si chiude con una splendida e dilatata versione di “In Your Eyes”, qui estesa a circa 11 minuti, con la quale Gabriel e la sua band si congedano dal quel di Modena (si, il live è stato proprio registrato qui in Italia).
Per arrivare al dunque, un disco che qualunque fan dell’ex-Genesis dovrebbe possedere e che racchiude in sé la seconda parte della carriera del nostro Peter, ovvero quella, dal punto di vista musicale, più accessibile e commerciale ma non inferiore alla prima (77’-83’) dal punto di vista qualitativo. Un live che non può far altro che arricchire la vostra collezione di dischi.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Digging in the Dirt (07:36)
Something in me, dark and sticky
All the time it's getting strong
No way of dealing with this feeling
Can't go on like this too long
This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far
I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you
This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far
I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you
Don't talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don't say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around
This is for real
Digging in the dirt
Stay with me, I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt
The more I look, the more I find
As I close on in, I get so blind
I feel it in my head, I feel it in my toes
I feel it in my sex, that's the place it goes
This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far
I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you
This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far
This time you've gone too far
I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you
Don't talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don't say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around
This is for real
I'm digging in the dirt
Stay with me I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt
I'm digging in the dirt
Stay with me I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
To open up the places I got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
02 Sledgehammer (04:59)
You could have a steam train
If you'd just lay down your tracks
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back
All you do is call me
I'll be anything you need
You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
Oh, let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony
Show me 'round your fruitcage
'Cause I will be your honey bee
Open up your fruitcage
Where the fruit is as sweet as can be
I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
You'd better call the sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest
I'm going to be the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it
Sledge, sledge, sledgehammer
I've kicked the habit
Shed my skin
This is the new stuff
I go dancing in
We go dancing in
Oh, won't you show for me
I will show for you
Show for me
I will show for you
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I do mean you
Only you
You've been coming through
Going to build that power
Build, build up that power
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
Going to feel that power build in you
Come on, come on, help me do
Come on, come on, help me do
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
It's what we're doing, doing
All day and night
05 In Your Eyes (11:34)
Love
I get so lost sometimes
Days pass
And this emptiness fills my heart
When I want to run away
I drive off in my car
But whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are
All my instincts
They return
The grand façade
So soon will burn
Without a noise
Without my pride
I reach out from the inside
In your eyes
The light, the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway
To a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution
In your eyes
Of all the fruitless searches
Oh, I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes
Love
I don't like to see so much pain
So much wasted
And this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired
Working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you
To keep me awake and alive
And all my instincts
They return
And the grand façade
So soon will burn
Without a noise
Without my pride
I reach out from the inside
In your eyes, in your eyes
In your eyes, in your eyes
In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway
To a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution
In your eyes
Of all the fruitless searches
Oh, I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes
In your eyes, in your eyes
In your eyes, in your eyes
In your eyes, in your eyes
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