Genesis - Gabriel Lies Down On Broadway

   Hi, new here.  Just don't understand how you can be a fan of prog-rock and not like Genesis, and especially Peter Gabriel. I recomend you have a listen to it all. Every album they have done has a couple of good songs on them. My preference is the Gabriel era, wish I had of seen them then. Have

As Jethro said before, Peter assumed the chatracter of RAEL, a young Puerto Rican troubled kid, so he uses the New York accent, one of his main talents was assuming different characters and voices during his songs and albums.

Try Battle for the Epping Forest and you'll here 10 or more different voices or personas all interpreted by Gabriel.

By the way, I TOLD YOU....Sooner or later you'll be a Genesis fan, welcome to the Genesis family 

Iván

 Interesting you say that, as I remember hearing Jeff Buckley cover 'Back In NYC' on Sketches, and of all the songs on the double album, that was the one that immediately stuck in my head - I didn't even know it was Genesis at the time!

My discovery of Genesis gets more intriguing.  Are there any other websites with all this trivia b****ks on it, as I dont want to bore the Geneso-dinosaurs on this site with the same old questions again.  I'm scared to go on the official site in case someone sees the URL on my computer . 

arcer wrote: just another one of Gabriel's on-record personas I would guess. Much dropping into character's voices on 'Harold the Barrel' and 'The Battle of Epping Forest' etc

Yup, that's pretty much it. Gabriel was a very theatrical singer and would often act out different roles during songs (listen to "Get 'em out by Friday" and you'll hear Gabriel doing a whole cast of characters).

As for "The lamb lies down on broadway", the whole thing is set in New York and Peter is stepping in to the persona of Rael which is the main character of the story (actually a Puerto Rican kid in NYC).

Okay, this is really hard for me to admit, but recently, I've found myself liking certain tracks by Genesis, principally 'Supper's Ready' and the whole second CD of Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.  In a mad panic, I decided to acquire their other albums surrounding this period just to reassure myself that I was in fact just having a sanity blip and would promptly be back to hating them by morning light.  It didn't work.  I tried hammering PFM's entire back catalogue into my ears ALL DAY, to quell the echo's of Gabriel's dulcet tones.  No use.  Every time the music stopped, I kept imagining the "great dodgy prog bum grape" appearing with "And it's.....hey babe"

Anyway, here's a Genesis question from essentially a Newbie (excuses).  Is it my imagination, or does Gabriel suddenly leap from well-bred Home Counties BBC accent on Foxtrot/  ("And its...." ) or Selling England By The Pound (whichever came first), to a bona fide New Yawk drawl on the Lamb Lies Down - and is this deliberate? Has he become Broadway?  Its just that, by the time Collins starts singing on Trick of the Tail (thank God for that album - something I can really hate....), we're back to Chas'N'Dave style cockney innit dawlin'. 

Sorry to any Americanos out there who might be wondering what the hell I'm on about.