ultimate prog christmas presents

Swinton MCR wrote: The lamb is obviously the best one!

Does anyone know if there is some film material of the shows?

Alucard:

Just seen you're in France. You'll have to check their website to see if they're playing in France. If not, I guess its not a million miles from here

Well I'd definitely do the trip back to 1975... but it wouldn't be to see the "Lamb"... I'd prefer to be in the Sinai watching Greg Lake shoot that "I Believe in Father Christmas" video... while hanging off the cliffs where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.  He was really freaked out about being that high up on a little ledge...

Cool!

threefates wrote: Well I'd definitely do the trip back to 1975... but it wouldn't be to see the "Lamb"... I'd prefer to be in the Sinai watching Greg Lake shoot that "I Believe in Father Christmas" video... while hanging off the cliffs where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.  He was really freaked out about being that high up on a little ledge... Cool!

And of course 3fates would be there to provide lots of comforting. I see your fiendish plan!

Blacksword wrote: Alucard wrote: Swinton MCR wrote: The lamb is obviously the best one! Does anyone know if there is some film material of the shows? Apparently not. I had been asking this question for ages. Eventually someone here posted an interview with Phil Collins. He said the only film footage of the 'Lamb..' is grainy, shot from the crowd by fans, and generally extremley hard to get hold of. Absolute tragedy. However, apprently 'The Musical Box' Genesis tribute band is touring (UK) next year and are playing the Albert Hall in April with the full Lamb ashow. They the only tribute act fully endorsed by Genesis themselves. Phil said the MB play the lamb a lot better than they did in 1975!!

That was me Blacksword and that was the forward of the Musical Box program that PC wrote for them this year.  For all that missed it here it is again:

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Fans....

Well 30 years has whistled by and we find ourselves on a celebratory
journey back to 1974 to rediscover that ancient work.... "The Lamb
Lies Down On Broadway". I remember it like it was yesterday, the
writing sessions in the rat infested Headley Grange, near
Guildford...Pete in one room with a grand piano with sheathes of
blank paper waiting to be filled with lyrics, every now and then
joining the rest of us as we thrashed through various jams and
unfinished pieces of songs that were floating around. The incredible
day we "wrote" what was to become "The Waiting Room"...then
titled "Evil Jam", improvising wildly through our dictionary of
nastiest noises we could find, and then, when suddenly our "mood"
shifted so did the weather outside, from thunder and pouring rain to
sunshine and rainbows.....I guess you had to be there, but it WAS
very special !!! The recording at a Farm in somewhere in Wales. Us
set up in a barn, with the Island Mobile parked by the pig
sty.....John Burns ever ready with a roll up!!!

Having more material than the time to finish it, we ended up doing 24
hour sessions at Island Basing Street Studios, now Sarm West (home of
Frankie goes to Hollywood and the Band Aid single to name but
several). Racing to finish tracks so we could get it all wrapped up
in time to go to America and play the entire double album before a
bewildered public, who had not heard a note of it as it hadn't been
released yet!!! Now that WAS interesting!!! It also leads me to why
I'm writing this.

The Lamb was never filmed for posterity. There are some very short
patchy videos, very scratchy quality, taken by fans from an audience
P.O.V.... but otherwise nothing to jog your memory, until now that
is. The Musical Box are a group of artists who have, over the years,
painstakingly recreated various periods of the early Genesis years,
with amazing accuracy and aplomb. In the early days, whenever we were
invited to go to a bar to see a band playing some of our stuff, I was
always amazed at how they actually played it BETTER than we did.
Nowadays there are a few bands out there doing it, but right at the
top of the pile are who you have come to see tonight....The Musical
Box.

I've heard of them for ages, but never gotten around to ACTUALLY see
them. Having done so, I have to say it's an eerie feeling because
they have uncannily captured US BACK THEN in every way. Using the
original back projection slides from our old show, they now have the
advantage of technology unavailable to us back then. We probably only
managed a handful of shows (at most) where everything worked as it
should have done. Tonight, God willing, you'll see the show as it
should and could have been back then if the projector hadn't caught
fire, or if the operator hadn't pressed the wrong button by mistake
and fast forwarded the slides to the next song !!! Hey, this was the
70's remember!!!

Anyway I doff my hat to the lads and their crew....they've picked up
the baton and run with it, and it's there for all to see. Enjoy it.

Phil Collins (the singing drummer)
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And The Lamb Lies Down  my biggest regret is not seeing this tour oh please make it happen Santa

Let us all write a really nice letter to Santa and ask Greg Lake if he  will do a free show in the Sinai singing I believe.. (with Mariah C.disguised as raindeer)to support us and see what happens!