Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
In 1974, the British progressive rock group Genesis released their double concept album “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”, now widely regarded as a classic album of 1970s progressive rock. The story was described by Genesis’ then front-man Peter Gabriel as a ‘moral fable’ about a half-Puerto-Rican street tough from New York City named Rael, who is engulfed by a solid cloud into a series of strange adventures in a metaphysical realm. This album has inspired nearly fanatical devotion among progressive rock fans, some of whom have constructed elaborate web sites purporting to ‘explain’ “The Lamb”. The album is a surreal allegory drawing its material from religious, literary and psychological themes. More than thirty years after its release, “Th
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A really useful piece for hardcore Genesis fans,
I have been a Genesis fan for over 20 years now, and I especially like the Lamb. I have always enjoyed the music and Gabriel’s voice, the orchestration, the solos and parts of the lyrics, but I have not had the chance to see this piece of art as a whole really. This books guided me through the very background of the creating of the Lamb, the sociological, cultural and economical state of play of the time of NYC, then through the music in details.
After having read this book, I arrived at a new level of understanding this record and the Gabriel years of Genesis, and now I am an even greater admire of theirs.
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|Annotated Lamb,
I’m the Jason Finegan mentioned in this book. Scott McMahan was running Paperlate in 1993-1994. The Annotated Lamb was an unfinished project for Paperlate that had been building over time. I volunteered to tackle a major revision, adding new material. That version is pretty much the version scattered around today. Others converted it to html. I originally wrote and edited it in plain text using elm. Wikipedia search: Elm (e-mail client). It’s gratifying to see that our work is still being referenced throughout the Genesis community. One irritating bit, in this book where the author quotes my words directly, he credits McMahan. (pp. 92-93 for example) I can understand though, since in the Annotated Lamb direct credit was not usually given to which parts of the annotation were written by whom.
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|I did not know!,
After growing up with listening to it,taking a apart,playing it
and listening to the Lamb time and time again. This book gives you great comparisions of life compared to the Lamb.I could not put the
book down. Do you remmember the Lamb publication? The Lamb was
always kinda a mystery album,until you had Genesis fans sit around
and discuss the album. Of course being a bass player I was amazed
to Rutherford’s bass playing and guitar work. The group got ever
bigger after this album came out. We started discussing the “factors” of what was the comparsions of this great masterpiece
related somehow to every day life. Then some 15 years ,this book came out. Please get this book,especially if you like the The Lamb
like I do. My first book was the Genesis book written by Armando
Gallo. Which if you can find,get it! I just found this book
very interesting,go buy it!
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