Peter Gabriel accepts his Prog God Award | TeamRock 

He still carries a bit of the shyness of his youth, it’s obvious, but he is so witty and funny!

couldn't have said it better myself!

Also, regarding the humanitarian stuff, he's not showing off as others do (e.g., Bono).

Well said! Bono pisses me off with the “give your money to charity” shit he always spouts! Why don’t you give your money to charity you tax dodging tosspot??!!

Without people like Peter in music no one would ever hear anything new if it was just left up to the major record companies! Just the same old pop as always if they had their way!!!!

He never reunited. That greatly diminished him in my life. Disgraceful.

Take a look at Tony's Prog Rock acceptance speech the next year 2015. Bank's at his funniest!

And Peter was very funny there too !

Where were the other guys???

@@DenisMorissetteJFK Writing pop songs

@@paulchoccyt1303 Damn good ones at that. Peter is the one that said that every artist should be able to experience pop stardom at some point during their career. He obviously enjoyed his 😉.

Hear! Hear! I totally agree. A complete work of musical genius!

yet he goes to mass every week.

I think his solo career is comparable to the 6 albums he did with Genesis. His solo music is not English prog but it is very individual and dynamic and artistic. Especially his 3rd and 4th albums which are akin to Bowie's Berlin trilogy.

You should watch his guest appearances on David Letterman's Late Show. He's very funny.

Same!

Same !

Same here :)

The Cat's Meow I'm a guy and I can understand your problem with no one else loving as much prog as I do

I'm a camel and I'm also the only one in this desert that likes prog. Specially Andy Latimer.

i´m not even born yet and I love prog !

All the guys here are suddenly very interested.

I like prog you know me now

Me too! And I'm not even gay!

I've wanted to marry him ever since June 1987.

+Valerie Marie me too since I was10 years old 1973, his soul is pure it"s not easy to find beautiful men like this man.

genesis forever They are definitely a dying breed.

Valerie Marie For sure MY FREIND:) But don't give up :)

would you like to speak infront of a Crow?

@Big Bill O'Reilly it is well known that Peter Gabriel is very shy and gets nervous in front of crowds.

He suffered stage fright and the costumes he wore helped

+Tuurke01 He seems to cough a lot when he speaks, perhaps he's nervous.

he's always had a slight hoarse voice , as long as I can recall. it's just his voice and the way it is.

"To take all the dust and the dirt."

Led Zep and Black Sabbath were heavy metal more than prog and very different from Tull, Genesis and Yes.

True - but the words 'heavy' and 'metal' were very rarely used together at the time (Steppenwolf using the term was a bit of a fluke and in reality it wasn't till the late 70s that the term became regularly used in the UK) - and there wasn't such a term as 'prog' at the time (as opposed to progressive) - that didn't start till the early 90s - at the time there wasn't much difference in the fans that would see Jethro Tull and Led Zep. In the early 70s the main terms that were used were - 'progressive' and 'underground' - something which Tull, Sabbath,Zep and Ten years after would all fall under.

I don't think we live in that same world :(. Most people it seems can't stand and listen to something that's "different" and out of their comfort zone, if they were performing with Pop or Rap. They would leave, be annoyed, be bored or possibly even boo the bands if at a Festival setting. The "Progressive Rock" term was probably not used till at-least 1973 to 1975. "Heavy Metal" term was not widely used until the "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" (NWOBHM) in the late 70's and 80's when it caught on. Bands were "Heavy", "Heavy Rock". And those journalists that lifted it from Steppenwolf about the roar of a V-twin "Heavy Metal Thunder" (as you mentioned) and Zeppelin "Trampled under foot" ("Dig my heavy metal Underneath your hood") helped start the title. We live in a time that most people don't like ALL types of music, Radio stations won't play anything new, or "Proggy", Heavier or experimental. It's all formulated for trends and marketing to the common denominator. Even fans of Metal and/or Prog will go on endless debates and have either; Lists of bands they can tolerate, fight who belongs and doesn't, that Prog "Metal" is an "abomination" to Progressive Rock, that Metal stopped in the 80's, or 90's, or everything is prog, new bands haven't "progressed" etc. etc. etc. I'm 52, I was raised with so much music of the 60's/70's and it helped me understand music, and to get ready for the Progressive and Metal music when it started and what it is today. Even though I don't mind the sub-genre labels, it is sad that people only listen to the Radio and think that if a band isn't selling a million units, if they don't have "hits" or that no one has heard of a said band, they must "suck" or have no value. We are living in a very different time than the 60's or 70's unfortunately.

You're right about the radio - there were always two types of bands - radio friendly bands that would have hits and bands that didn't have hits - the difference between people acknowledging these bands is worse today than it's ever been - in the 70s in the UK a band's popularity would be based mostly on live shows - bands that were massive in the UK at the time and headlined big theatres would be Black Oak Arkansas/Amon Duul II/Heavy metal kids etc - none of these had a hit album so they're completely forgotten about in this country. I've always made my own mind up about which bands I like and it's cause of the fact that the radio dictates what people go out and buy that has made me question people's views on music - in the UK the BBC has always fiddled the charts to how they want it (not the public) and it's worse than ever now. It's got the point lately where I get annoyed if people say the best album ever is Dark side of the Moon/Rumours/Bat out of Hell etc - they didn't make their own minds up about that. The radio never plays 50s rock 'n' roll/punk/70s rock/50s blues/50s country/good classical music/30s and 40s Swing - so the public never get to hear it cause they're so lazy when it comes to discovering music

NeilThompson30 - Well here in California, there are many college radio programs that play the list of musics you mentioned, kind of the last bastion for those musics, or our record collections :).

As far as I remember, at the beginning of the seventies Genesis music was called "Rock theatre" or even "Symphonic rock" as well as other bands such as Yes and ELP. Then there were other bands under the title of "Progressive rock": King Crimson. Somehow te term had a experimental connotation. At least it was so that way in my country, Argentina. Everything changed.

david garione Progressive Rock in America was THE COOL thing in the 1970s. FM radio stations marketed themselves as being "progressive rock". Glam Rock started it in the early 70s. But many rock bands back then, in the early 70s, were blues-oriented. In North America at least. Bowie was "rock theater" back then. But Genesis with Gabriel was the first time I saw a band on stage in costumes and staging that had a purpose and was part of the song or album. Some of those masks that Peter wore. And I saw hundreds and hundreds of concerts in the 1970s in St. Louis, home of progressive rock radio legend station KSHE-95, "Concept albums" were the big deal back then as well. Like Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis or Blows Against the Empire by Kanter/Jefferson Starship, etc...Kansas' first album is another fine example. I don't know why ProgRock gets such a bad rep. Some of the best music came out of that period and it further inspired other artists and music to come, as well as punk rock (which I also like) itself and it's spins off just by virtue of punk musicians rejection of it (Progrock). Thanks to growing up on prog-rock, I believe I have a more well-rounded appreciation for other types and forms of music.

The only gods that really exist are men extraordinary gifted and widely performed during their lives expanding the creation and perception of the ideas and things that are surrounding us. Of course, Peter and others of his kind are such gods.

@@karakorum2007 There are not gods but only one GOD. PERIOD.

​@@handebarlas6248 Another moron fanatic and intolerant , preaching about tolerance and the exquisite happiness of believing that there is a god who explains according to you everything that has not been possible to explain yet and that once such explanations appear, you try to fit them as if in place to your beliefs, in a fetish that animates souls without knowledge, only dogmas and "Because" God wants it that way. .

Peter is more than a man.

@@karakorum2007 no your a moron, slicing notes together to create a lovely sound, is far from anything close to god like . i have total respect for all these players, but my, some of us live a rather shallow existence

I was waiting for one dick head comment to come along and I wasn’t disappointed

Evan Helmes, with a name like yours I guess you like wearing women’s clothes eh?

Steve Forks dumber response to a dumb comment lol