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Do you remember the old publication called Gabbleratchet (the official publication written by fans)? What this word means? Thanks.

It is the name of one of the parts of Supper's Ready on Genesis' Foxtrot album. I think the whole title is: "Apocalypse in 9/8 co-starring the glorious talents of Gabble Ratchet" Fabulous. By the way, one of our loonies has that as his name here. Hello John if you're watching!

Gabble Ratchet is a reference to the hounds of hell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supper's_Ready

And wasn't it the name of Peter's first journal (in the 80ties, or did he already have it before?), where he tried to keep up contacts with his fans? I still have one somewhere, only where, anyhow, I will check. I remember, others also had one or more, wasn't it you, Jeremy? A serious collector would love them!

Aehm, sorry, Danitaly, you mentioned it already, but to my knowledge, it was authorised by Pete! The fans could attend, of course.

I know that fanzine. I won a copy in an old Tina's competition. :-]

I was in his fan club back then. I'm not sure if I have anything other than the live recording of Solsbury Hill on one of those 7" 'floppy" records. Back then in the late 70s we were known as 'Friends of Peter Gabriel" but it disappeared.

Mr. McPhail kindly explained the meaning of the word to some of us in Orvieto last year: i must say that the Wiki page is exceptionally accurate.

Mysterious, if you wish to copy the clear short article on this page: http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/FRA_GAE/GABRIEL_HOUNDS.html then you get something else coming out, in fact this, however often you try. . .: "GABRIEL HOUNDS , a spectral See also: PACK (apparently from the root pak-, paq-, seen in Lat. pangere, to fasten; cf. " compact ") PACK, OTTO VON (c. 1480-1537) pack supposed in the See also: NORTH NORTH, BARONS NORTH, MARIANNE (1830?1890) NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734) NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?) North of See also: ENGLAND ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF England to foretell See also: DEATH death by their yelping at See also: NIGHT night . The See also: LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read) legend is that they are the souls of unbaptized See also: CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO children wandering through the See also: AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ") AIR, or ASBEN air till the See also: DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies") DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?) DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789) day of See also: JUDGMENT judgment . They are also some-times called See also: GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God) Gabriel or Gabble Ratchet . A very prosaic ex-planation of this nocturnal See also: NOISE (a word of doubtful origin; O. Fr. nogse or nose; Prov. nausa, which points to Lat. nausea, sickness, as the origin; others take Lat. noxia, harm, as the source) noise is given by J . C . See also: ATKINSON, EDWARD (1827?1905) ATKINSON, SIR HARRY ALBERT (1831?1892) Atkinson in his See also: CLEVELAND CLEVELAND (or CLEIVELAND), JOHN (1613?165 CLEVELAND, BARBARA VILLIERS, DUCHESS OF (1641-1709) CLEVELAND, STEPHEN GROVER (1837-190 Cleveland Glossary (186 . "This," he writes, " is the name for a yelping See also: SOUND SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund) sound heard at night, more or less resembling the cry of hounds or yelping of See also: DOGS, ISLE OF dogs, probably due to large flocks of See also: WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725) wild geese which See also: CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ") chance to be flying by night." See further See also: JOSEPH JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870) JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-163 Joseph See also: LUCAS, CHARLES (1713?1771) LUCAS, JOHN SEYMOUR (1849? ) LUCAS, SIR CHARLES (d. 164 Lucas, Studies in Nidderdale (1882), pp . 156-157 ." Strange, but maybe for some it makes some sense?

OMgosh them were the days, sending your $10 (cash) to a random address in the US to receive I think it was two copies a year! lol 'friends of Peter Gabriel' the last issue with the dolphin swimming and doctorate award I still remember as the swimming with dolpins pics were great :-]

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