PETER GABRIEL - GENESIS - AT THE BOTTOM LINE - TICKET - OCTOBER 4, 1978

Following his 1975 departure from Genesis, at the height of their popularity, and after a period of rest and creative rejuvenation, Peter Gabriel returned with his compelling first solo album in 1977. In the two-year interim, Gabriel had matured as both an artist and a songwriter. His new music was scaled down considerably and gone were the rhetorical and prog-rock musical flourishes that characterized Genesis. Over the course of his first three solo albums, he would become increasingly adventurous and increasingly introspective, creating music on his own terms. He began working with some of the most talented and esoteric musicians of the era, including King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, (who was then pursuing his own solo and session work career), and the extraordinarily talented bass player, Tony Levin, a veteran of the New York studio session scene. Gabriel's new music could be explosively powerful one minute and psychologically introspective the next, taking listeners on a dark, brooding journey through the bleak recesses of his mind.