Genesis meeting (but without Phil Collins) for "The Lamb ..."

Genesis meeting (but without Phil Collins) for “The Lamb …”

ByJohn

Last Friday Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford I know were found in the Dolby Screening Rooms to listen to the playback of the Dolby Atmos version of “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”, the double album published on November 22, 1974, whose super deluxe version – announced for March 2025, postponed to June 2025, then still back to the “Late autumn” 2025 – It should finally be published before the expiry of the fifty year.

It will be a box in multiple formats-5 LP and Blu-Ray Audio, 4 CDs and Blu-ray audio, and digitally-containing the remastering of the original album, the remix atmos supervised by Gabriel and Banks, rare demo recorded in the Headley Grange study (if you have time, on YouTube there are six hours here) and, for the first time in the official version, the whole concert of January, 1975 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California (you can also listen to this here).

On this occasion, Alex Petidis of the “Guardian” – who wrote the box booklet – conducted an interview with the four musicians present.

Steve Hackett:

“It was not the easiest to do, among the Genesis albums, but I think it sounds wonderfully today.”

Tony Banks:

“We went to the limit, on that album – according to some beyond the limit. It would have been a fantastic album if we had released it as a single disc – but at the time we were unable to agree on what to leave out …”

Peter Gabriel:

“We were obsessed with the smallest details, and we often could not get what we wanted. But the imperfections that then annoyed me, over time they gained their charm”.

Mike Rutherford:

“‘The Lamb’ is the culmination of the possibilities of the Genesis? I don’t know. He surely marked the end of a period”.

Here the story of the disc.

The box includes:

The original album remastered by the 1974 analogue tapes from Miles Showell to Abbey Road Studios

Bob McKenzie’s Dolby Atmos mix made in Real World studios with the supervision of Gabriel and Banks

Live at the 1975 Shrine Auditorium with the “Wather of the Skies” and “The Musical Box” encore.

Three of the Headley Grange Demos (in digital download)

A 60 large -format 60 pages with new interviews, rare photographs and reproductions of memorabilia.

John
John

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