Virtuoso - The Lamb Collectors Reviews
The Ultimate Lamb
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Providence Lamb
Maple Leaf Lamb
Lamb In Los Angeles
Lakeland Civic Center Concert Hall, Lakeland, FL – January 11th, 1975
Disc 1 (49:19): The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Fly On a Windshield, Broadway Melody Of 1974, Cuckoo Cocoon, In The Cage, The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging, Rael’s Story (part 1), Back In N.Y.C., Hairless Heart, Counting Out Time, The Carpet Crawlers, The Chamber Of 32 Doors
Disc 2 (66:39): Rael’s Story (part 2), Lilywhite Lilith, The Waiting Room, Anyway, Here Comes The Supernatural Anesthetist, interlude, The Lamia, Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats, The Colony Of Slippermen, Ravine, The Light Dies Down On Broadway, Riding The Scree, In The Rapids, It, The Musical Box
Virtuoso have been plumbing the Genesis Lamb soundboards the past year and Ultimate Lamb is the latest. Using the second of what are called the Mike Rutherford soundboards, this captures the Lakeland Florida show on January 11th, 1975. It was utilized on From One Fan To All Others (Stonehenge STBX 016/STBX 017/STBX 018) and The Lamb Lives (Backstage BKCD 033/034) in varying degrees of quality. Virtuoso
“For nearly 20 years, avid ‘Lamb’ fans did not have much to rejoice about as far as live recordings were concerned. One of the Los Angeles performances was recorded by the King Biscuit team, one of the Wembley shows was recorded by the BBC, but in both cases only highlights of the concert ever reached the airwaves. As for audience recordings, only a handful (and often not the best) emerged as bootleg LPs, none of them offering a full ‘Lamb’ show, complete with encores. Patient fans had to wait until the mid-nineties for some full ‘Lamb’ live recordings to finally surface. The two most notorious shows to appear on bootleg CDs at the time were soundboard recordings of two Florida concerts: West Palm Beach, recorded on January 10th 1975, released by the Oxygen label under the title of ‘The Lamb Descends On Waterbury’ (???), and Lakeland, from January 11th 1975, released on the Backstage label under the title of ‘The Lamb Lives’. It is now known that both these recordings were doctored with patches used to fill in some missing segments but, at the time, the release of both CDs came as a welcome surprise for all Genesis fans. For the first time, fans could finally hear a full ‘Lamb’ performance presented in fantastic sound quality.
