I've always gotten the impression that if you're working with Peter Gabriel, you're part of a team and you work hard, but the experience is a lot of fun, magical maybe even. There's a camaraderie and love onstage which comes from offstage, and, I don't know if this explains it, but like they know something you don't. Tony confirms this:
"Ever wonder what a band does on its days off?
Usually they're travel days, but in my experience, when there is a whole day free in one place, nothing particularly exciting goes on. In King Crimson we'd each stay in, often practicing, and maybe a few guys would meet for dinner or a movie. On Seals tour there was more going out to see other bands.
But Peter Gabriel tours are different. In the past, we've bicycled through the Alps, rode Harleys across the Arizona desert to the Grand Canyon, gone white water rafting... and a lot more excursions that didn't work out to be what we'd planned!
Well yesterday we went dog sledding up in the mountains of Colorado!"
*drooling with envy to be part of something*
life carries on in the people i meet
in everyone that's out on the street
in all the dogs and cats
in the flies and rats
in the rot and the rust
in the ashes and the dust
life carries on and on and on and on
life carries on and on and on
"I Grieve" - (Peter Gabriel)
