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Acoustic guitar peter gabriel in your eyes10/14/2023 ![]() Part of the reason the song’s unusual time signature works is because it’s all in the guitars - that gorgeous spider web of an acoustic riff (played by Lou Reed and Alice Cooper guitarist Steve Hunter) circling the song’s perimeter and providing its pristine, immediately recognizable framework. The fact that it’s always noticeable but never distracting is a tremendous accomplishment for Gabriel as a songwriter, and makes “Solsbury” a standout from the very beginning.Ģ. The 7/4 stomp of “Solsbury Hill” is one of its indelible and striking features, that feeling of a beat missing in every measure giving the song a constant sense of struggle - and subsequently, of endurance. Writing a perfect pop song is hard enough, but writing one in an imperfect time signature is damn near impossible.
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