Peter Gabriel - Big Time

Big Time is a song by English rock musician @itspetergabriel from his 1986 album So. It was his second top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at no. 8.[5] The song underwent a lot of changes: Jerry Marotta remembers an early version of “Big Time“, which he described as more intense and so far out from the released version that it “would not have been a hit.“[6] The song’s bass guitar part is unique in that backing bassist Tony Levin and then-backing drummer Jerry Marotta teamed up to record it. Levin handled the fingerings while Marotta hit the strings with his drumsticks, resulting in a percussive sound; it was inspired by a technique developed by Gene Krupa in the 1940s or early 1950s.[7] Inspired by this sound, Levin later invented funk fingers, which were little drumstick ends that could be attached to the fingers to achieve a similar bass guitar effect in concert. The drum parts were a considerable challenge to record, with Marotta, Manu Katché