40th Anniversary of Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
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Topic: 40th Anniversary of Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Posted By: prog4evr
Subject: 40th Anniversary of Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Date Posted: June 11 2014 at 20:54
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In the summer of 1974, Genesis went on tour with their concept-album: "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." It is 40 years this year since that magnificent debut... Does anyone know of a special commemoration this summer (or later this year) for this landmark event? For example: Will the Canadian group Musical Box reprise the whole LLDOB this year as a tribute to that great album?
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: June 11 2014 at 21:17
My congratulations to this top of the top of the Genesis albums: -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: June 11 2014 at 21:50
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I'll definitely be giving The Lamb a spin in celebration of this joyous occasion. ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: June 12 2014 at 00:48
The Lamb gets better and better each passing year ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 12 2014 at 14:43
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They are getting back together for several shows to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the album. Full tour, stage show and costume changes by PG...no Chester Thompson or Daryl Stuemer on this tour.
......(and then I woke up) -------------   
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: June 12 2014 at 14:49
I heard it was Chester and Daryl touring as a duo without the others  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Catcher10 wrote:Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 12 2014 at 15:26
But wouldn't that be simply incredible?
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 12 2014 at 15:59
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i might as well wait till November 18 (as that's the apparent release date of that album) to hear it again, but i may hear it before that; i need to get into to more anyway. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: June 12 2014 at 20:32
+1 Indeed it does. ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 13 2014 at 00:07
At least I've enjoyed this album for 26 of its 40 years.........Happy anniversary TLLDOB 
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 13 2014 at 14:33
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 14 2014 at 09:03
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Absolutely my favorite Genesis album. It's sad that some people don't get it. If you've ever had a really weird dream, you get it.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Watcher of the Sky
Date Posted: June 14 2014 at 09:25
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Happy anniversary to this great album! ------------- Nous sommes du soleil |
Posted By: progrockdeepcuts
Date Posted: June 14 2014 at 11:30
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Maybe Hackett will pick up a few extra lamb tunes for the tour?
------------- Listen to older shows here: mixcloud.com/progrockdeepcuts/ |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 14 2014 at 19:07
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: June 14 2014 at 19:51
Right on, these ones: Broadway Melody of 1974; Hairless Heart; Riding The Scree; Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats and Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist - BY FAR the most experimental and surreal tunes from Genesis, and of course my fave ones. ------------- "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: June 14 2014 at 21:25
I always thought The Colony of Slippermen was good fun as well. Very cool song. I love the keyboard work from Banks.  ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 05:05
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let's face it not a dull moment......I love Silent Sorrow....and Chamber of 32 doors at the moment, 1999 version of Carpet Crawl was friggin awesome too. ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 08:31
| I've been listening to it lately every day in my car. The playing options in my car let me turn the compression on or off. FYI, It's much better with it off. Side three is my favorite side, but the whole thing is fantastic. Strange chords and strange rhythm at the start of Supernatural Anaesthetist. |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 19:40
I was disappointed in the 1999 version because of the absence of Hackett's fluid guitar line in the "gotta get in to get out" chorus...
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 20 2014 at 04:51
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A fantastic album, and I'll never forget the first time I put this album on the turntable. Christmas day 1985. Headphones on, I was taken somewhere I didn't expect to be taken by rock music. I think this was the first Genesis album with Gabriel that I heard and for along time it was my favourite album of any era of the band. I loved the mystery and atmosphere of it all, and even thought the slightly muddy production added to that and gave it an ancient classic quality..
The album had been a Christmas present from my mum. I had given her a list of albums that year to choose from and she chose TLLDOB. Thanks mum, although she said she had trouble getting it at the time. She ended up going into a murkey record shop called 'Cave Records' which was run by this enormous rockerbilly guy with a huge blonde quiff. He had a big metal and prog section in there. My mum - bless her - never had a great memory and said to the guy "My son's asked me to get an album by a band called Genesis; something about a lamb. Maybe the lamb of Bethlehem or something" She said the guy was almost doubling up with laughter as he staggered over to the shelf and picked the album out for her saying "Broadway my love, not Bethlehem" ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 20 2014 at 05:05
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It's a dense work. At 90-odd minutes, it's an intense listen ; I used to spin it often but not so much these days. I am very familiar with it, and whilst it is a remarkable album, I prefer other albums over it (Trick, Foxtrot, Cryme.....). |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: June 20 2014 at 10:41
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Without you, what would a poor boy do... One of my favorite double albums. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 20 2014 at 10:58
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I think I heard it the first time somewhere around the end of 85/beginning of 86 myself, although it was the 2nd to last Gabriel-era album I heard (FGTR was the last). SEBTP was the first.
There are some great songs on the album and it is one of the few double albums that I can sit down and listen to all in one sitting, but it's far from my favorite of the Gabriel era. This probably speaks more to how good the other albums were than taking too much away from the Lamb though. However, there are some parts of the album that aren't as successful as others. The first two sides are pretty much awesome all the way through, although with In The Cage I actually prefer the Collins-sung version on Three Sides Live over the original. Sides 3 and 4 seem a bit more hit or miss, but still overall very good. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 13:02
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Well - I'm going to Holmfirth on 3rd October - to see a tribute band - Carpet Crawlers - Perform the whole of Lamb Lies down on Broadway!
This is the band here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWj4PpjA1lc Looks Good! ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 27 2014 at 19:12
I first heard it after I had gotten into Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot. It didn't click at first but now it's my number one favorite Genesis album. I have weird dreams and if you don't understand the concept, that is what it's all about.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: hobocamp
Date Posted: June 28 2014 at 12:33
| The only Genesis album I LOVE. The others just have their moments. A beautiful Gabriel - era swan song. |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: June 28 2014 at 17:28
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The first time I heard the album I absolutely hated it. One year later
it was my favourite Genesis album. And it still is, more than 30 years
later. Every time I listen to it I find details I hadn’t discovered
before. And the lyrics are indeed enigmatic, but far from
unintelligible.
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: waluigithewalrus
Date Posted: June 28 2014 at 23:51
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It's hard for me to believe that it's only been about a year since I discovered the lamb. At the time, the only Gabriel era album that I had head was Nursery Cryme, but I stumbled across the lamb in an antique mall of all places in Muncie, Indiana. The thing had old 'Muncie Public Library' stickers plastered all over it, but it was worth it. Totally blown away by it, though the first listen I got bored half way through and went to something else. At this point, the only Gabriel era album I don't have is From Genesis to Revelation, and my prog collection has greatly expanded thanks quite a bit to the lamb.
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: June 29 2014 at 20:01
Glad to have you aboard! |
Posted By: waluigithewalrus
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 20:35
Thanks! And it's good to aboard!
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Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 04:29
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I think that Selling...,Foxtrot & Nursery...are all better, I'd put it on a par with Trespass, just above Trick.... and Wind.... still an excellent album though... I first owned it 1977, I almost certainly first heard it when it came out as my older brother almost certainly played it whilst I was messing about with my Mechano & lego....and it's amazing how bits stick in your mind when you listen to it properly - and you think I've heard that before and you had subliminally whilst playing as your big brother plays his latest vinyl! ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: July 28 2014 at 01:23
I first heard this album on late night FM radio around Christmas 1974. This was my first exposure to Genesis as they were mostly unknown in the Dallas area. Their US fan base seemed to be exclusively in the Northeast then. While parts of it sounded kind of strange, overall I was impressed. Fast forward several months and I hear on the same FM radio station that Peter Gabriel had left Genesis. I remember well the DJ's comment at the end of the press announcement: "Well, that looks like the end of Genesis." Thankfully, it did not turn out that way. But that's another story.  ------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |