Peter Gabriel Tickets

Peter Gabriel is diverse. Gabriel added modernist art stylings to Genesis. His song "In Your Eyes" is responsible for launching a large number of teenage sex lives and the image of John Cusack as super cool in "Say Anything." His funky videos and slick production pioneered a new age in music. Gabriel pioneered CD distribution for his albums. Peter Gabriel tickets are a glimpse into this avant-garde humanitarian and his live shows are still offering his fans something fresh and new. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is still experimental, progressive, and has urgent music for the world and urgent things to say about the world condition.

Peter Gabriel is best known for being the vanguard of cool for music during an era when the popular culture figures were celebrities like Richard Gere, Christy Turlington, and Jack Nicholson, to name a very few. He was a fun, free expression of the pop culture of that era. During the culturally homogenized 1980s, Gabriel found a way to create art that at first glance parents would not mind and that at second listen kids would find subversive. Without Gabriel, the rap, hip hop and even rock and roll we listen to today would be quite differently presented. He was one of the first artists to have social and political subtext swimming below the surface of his pop songs about love, and videos about beauty. Arguably, all blues and rock have had subtext about sexuality underneath their songs about life. Gabriel had subtext about life underneath his songs about sexuality. Unique in many ways of projecting music, Gabriel has continued to play with the normal order of things. Today, Gabriel in an age where the album, CD, and physical music products are disappearing into the Internet, turning into downloads, Gabriel is releasing limited editions of his art work, albums, prints, and even new releases. "I love artwork and album art," says Gabriel (on his own website), "It's a huge part of identifying with the music and the record."

Pitchfork's recent review of Gabriel's new album "Scratch My Back" may have failed to understand the subtext with which Gabriel now rankles. Gabriel has always been an artist who creates something to confuse listeners on some level. The fact that a cover tune album to appease dying record labels and bloated songs was called "Scratch My Back," read into a microphone, and made the listener feel "awkward," quite possibly (T.S. Eliot's "intentional fallacy" aside), was the point.

Peter Gabriel live is a different story. His albums are one kind of "art." Concerts are another. Live, Gabriel allows his songs to have "no frontiers," no rules. "I think one of the things about writing in the studio is the song hasn't matured," Gabriel said. "Whereas once you've taken it out on the road, you learn more about a song." Gabriel says what appeals to him in music is the evolution that enables an artist to present a process rather than sell a product. Although he has mastered the ability to simultaneously be successful at both, Gabriel seems to enjoy the latter. Gabriel is playing at Radio City Music Hall and the Hollywood Bowl in early May. No other concert dates for the summer have been released. Please check this website for added shows. Peter Gabriel, because of his short bursts of bookings is a difficult ticket. Demand is high for artists who only sparsely perform, possibly due to the effort Mr. Gabriel puts into each show, possibly because he is a fully dimensional, fully aware artist.