{"id":11227,"date":"2014-11-01T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11227"},"modified":"2014-11-01T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T15:08:24","slug":"peter-gabriel-inspired-by-shortwave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/peter-gabriel-inspired-by-shortwave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gabriel: inspired by shortwave radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_11228\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Peter-Gabriel-2011I2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11228\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11228\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Peter-Gabriel-2011I2.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Gabriel Photo by By Skoll World Forum (Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship Ceremony) [CC-BY-2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Peter-Gabriel-2011I2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Peter-Gabriel-2011I2-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Gabriel Photo by By Skoll World Forum (Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship Ceremony) via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div><em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Chris, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Your <a title=\"John Lennon and the Sony ICF-2001\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/john-lennon-and-the-sony-icf-2001\/\">recent post about John Lennon<\/a> triggered my memory about an interview I heard years ago with Peter Gabriel. He too had a fascination with Shortwave Radio listening and it inspired some of his music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chris then shared a link to the following promotional video for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00LWI3PGU\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00LWI3PGU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=swlcom01-20&amp;linkId=ZJVTQL72NYHUJX76\" target=\"_blank\">Real World 25 music collection<\/a> with Peter Gabriel&#8217;s introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was listening to shortwave radio in a village about seven miles away from here. As night came, you&#8217;d suddenly pick up all sorts of radio stations that you couldn&#8217;t in daylight. So that was quite mysterious to me and beguiling&#8230;and I would explore all sorts of strange sounds, noises and music.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dS_JI9oErGw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Real World Records<\/em> is Peter Gabriel&#8217;s label\u2013and Real World 25, a\u00a0three-disc collection, is the story of their first 25 Years. I listened to samples of songs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00LWI3PGU\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00LWI3PGU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=swlcom01-20&amp;linkId=ZJVTQL72NYHUJX76\" target=\"_blank\">and purchased my own copy<\/a>. At $17 US, it was a no-brainer;\u00a0I love world music (as well as Peter Gabriel&#8217;s music) and\u00a0appreciate anything that Gabriel would consider for his label. (Note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00LWI3PGU\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00LWI3PGU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=swlcom01-20&amp;linkId=ZJVTQL72NYHUJX76\" target=\"_blank\">the CD set is actually <em>less<\/em> expensive than the MP3 album at time of posting<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Chris also noted this quote from\u00a0Peter Gabriel, which describes his\u00a0&#8220;obsession&#8221; with\u00a0shortwave radio and its\u00a0influence on his hit\u00a0song, &#8220;Here Comes The Flood.&#8221;\u00a0Via\u00a0the website <a title=\"Planet Jeffro!\" href=\"http:\/\/planetjeffro.com\/post\/2441464676\/peter-gabriels-here-comes-the-flood-which-i\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Jeffro<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I wrote this song [Here Comes The Flood] I had an obsession with short-wave radio and I was always amazed at the way in which the radio signals would become stronger as daylight faded. I felt as if psychic energy levels would also increase in the night. I had had an apocalyptic dream in which the psychic barriers which normally prevent us from seeing into each others\u2019 thoughts had been completely eroded producing a mental flood. Those that had been used to having their innermost thoughts exposed would handle this torrent and those inclined to concealment would drown in it. (\u2018Peter Gabriel\u2019 by Armando Gallo, Omnibus Press, 1986.)&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Fascinating!<\/em>\u00a0I particularly like this live version of &#8220;Here Comes The Flood:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ww9JS8dJ9fY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chris, I owe you a debt of gratitude: while I&#8217;ve been a fan of Peter Gabriel for well over two decades, I never knew about his\u00a0connection with\u00a0shortwave radio. Time to revisit\u00a0some of his tunes with that in mind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post reader, Chris, writes: Your recent post about John Lennon triggered my memory about an interview I heard years ago with Peter Gabriel. He too had a fascination with Shortwave Radio listening and it inspired some of his music.\u00a0 Chris then shared a link to the following promotional video for the Real World 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,442,3,43,5],"tags":[4100,3363,3366,3364,3365,611,4082,3367],"class_list":["post-11227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-music","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-swlers","tag-music","tag-peter-gabriel","tag-peter-gabriel-shortwave","tag-real-world-25","tag-real-world-records","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-world-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2V5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55917,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/carlos-shortwave-art-and-recording-of-radio-nacional-arcangel-san-gabriel-lra-36-february-18-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":11227,"position":0},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Shortwave Art and recording of Radio Nacional Arc\u00e1ngel San Gabriel, LRA 36 (February 18, 2023)","author":"Thomas","date":"February 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares\u00a0his radio log art of a recent Radio Nacional Arc\u00e1ngel San Gabriell (LRA 36) test transmission. 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