Interview: Peter Rivera (Rare Earth, solo)
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HIT CHANNEL EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: September We had the honour to talk with a great musician: Peter Hoorelbeke aka Peter Rivera. He is best known as the original drummer and lead vocalist of Rare Earth, the first successful white band of Motown. They had three groundbreaking hit singles: “Get Ready”, “(I Know) I’m Losing You” and “I Just Want to Celebrate”. After his departure from Rare Earth, Peter followed a solo career and also formed HUB and The Classic Rock All-Stars. His autobiography “Born to Wander” is a must-have for the fans of Rare Earth. His latest album “It Is What It Is” was released in December Read below the very interesting things he told us:
What was the idea behind the song “Look What We’ve Done”?
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Well, I grew up in Detroit, Michigan and my father, my uncles and my cousin, they all worked at these factories all my life. A few years ago, automobile factories started closing down. Detroit was suffering a lot and jobs were gone. My friend from Detroit told me: “You’ve got to write a song about this. Look what we’ve done here?” So, one day I got an id
The devastating story of Rare Earth, Motown's funkiest white band
Gil Bridges truly is the last of the last of the last. He has endured the deaths of three of his bandmates, the permanent retirement of another two, and the betrayal of yet another. He has experienced racial segregation, record label meddling and indifference, protracted lawsuits, and even the slow and inexorable decline of his band Rare Earth’s once-bustling home town of Detroit.
He has endured because the music has endured. Rare Earth’s twin monster jams, I Just Want to Celebrate and Get Ready, still get people on their feet nearly four decades later. Both songs are laced with a sort of crazy magic; a rock’n’roll mojo that has never ceased to enthrall, intoxicate and elevate. When you hear them you will feel good – guaranteed.
Rare Earth’s music straddles genres and defies categorisation, slipping seamlessly between the two seemingly disparate worlds of classic rock and R&B. This careful balancing act is a rarity even now, and was a near impossibility in the colour-segregated 60s when Rare Earth began their journey. Groundbreakers and pioneers, this post-racia
Rare Earth
Peter Rivera is the original lead singer and drummer for the '70s Rock group Rare Earth.
Rare Earth enjoyed great success with songs such as "Get Ready" and "I Just Want To Celebrate". The group has sold over 30 million records worldwide and earned a spot in The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Peter wrote a book about his life with Rare Earth titled Born To Wander. It's a book that tells what it was like to be the first White band to sign a recording contract with Motown Records.
Q - Peter, why did you write the book?
A - Well, you know, over the years you tell war stories. You sit around and talk about everything. People used to say "You should write this stuff" because they found it interesting and humorous. I thought, yeah, right. But I got a lap top computer. I just started sitting in airplanes reminiscing, pretending I was writing. In fact, the first sentence of what I wrote was "People tell me to write a book. Well, how do you write a book? I guess you start with this." I just started writing randomly, no form to it. I would skip around. He said he was a big fan. He felt he kne
Get ready for Peter Rivera: Former Rare Earth leader has a rare performance at Bing Crosby Theater on Saturday
Performing Saturday at the Bing Crosby Theater is a big deal for Peter Rivera. The former leader of the underrated R&B band Rare Earth has envisioned an “evening with” type of performance for the last half decade.
“This is definitely a bucket list kind of thing for me,” Rivera said from his north Spokane home. “I’ve bopped around town the last few years thinking about where I could perform this kind of show, and the Bing is the place. The Bing is Spokane, and I feel like I am Spokane after living here for years.”
Rivera, 77, is a charismatic vocalist-drummer and could live anywhere. The inveterate tunesmith, who called Los Angeles home for much of his career, has children who reside in Atlanta, Texas and North Dakota. However, Rivera has been hanging out in his north Spokane home for a dozen years.
“People have asked me so many times, ‘Why are you here in Spokane?’ It’s easy to answer. I love living in Spokane since it’s big enough not to be a small town, and it’s small enough not to be a big city.”
It sounds like there is a tune in there, and perhaps Rivera ca
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