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BBC in Concert - Genesis (July 12, 1975)
This is believed to be the April 14th or 15th, 1975 concert from Empire Pool, London, UK, originally broadcast on BBC Radio on July 12, 1975.
This is from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour, with Peter Gabriel as lead singer. It's about 69 minutes long, and about 99 MB in 192 kbs .mp3, for download. Most likely, this is the complete radio broadcast, but not necessarily the complete concert performance.
The file originates from a bit torrent site called thebox, and full details about the show would have been included, but the web page no longer exists, since the site was shut down in September, 2012.
I don't know if this was taped from radio during the original 1975 broadcast, or from a subsequent rebroadcast, but the original July 12, 1975 broadcast date is verified, and the performance is from Empire Pool, but no one is sure if it's from the April 14 or 15th, 1975 show there. The exact performance date was probably included in the page description at the box, either by the uploader, or from someone with direct knowledge, in the comments section.
I've never heard this show in its' entirety. I wasn't a fan of Genesis, or other Prog bands from the 1970's. I just saw the acquisition of this file, when available, as being more valuable than 99 MB of empty disk space. Someone here may place a greater value on it than that.
I didn't mind Peter Gabriel era Genesis, but they were played too often on local FM radio in Montreal, so I couldn't avoid them. I despised the band after Phil Collins became lead singer. In high school, we called them Penises, from 1976 onward.
Sample set list from this tour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamb_Lies_Down_on_Broadway_Tour
I don't know which of those songs are part of this performance, but I can tell you that the show opens with Watcher of the Skies.
This was the first or second tour date in the UK, on the November, 1974 - May, 1975 world tour. The Canadian tour dates were December 15, at the Montreal Forum, and December 16 at the Maple Leaf Gardens Concert Bowl, so roughly half to two thirds of the Gardens, with the stage moved forward, and seats behind the stage not sold, if the concert bowl configuration at MLG was the same as in Montreal. They did that because they expected a crowd in the range of 10,000, or so, and they wanted a smaller portion of the arena to be filled, as opposed to having the full arena half full. They were popular enough in Montreal to have sold out the Forum within 1-2 days of tickets going on sale.
All Progressive Rock bands in the early and mid 70's were hugely popular in the Montreal area, often long before having any significant following elsewhere in Canada, or the United States. This was largely due to the individual tastes of influential local FM radio DJs on the major radio stations CHOM-FM and CQOI-FM. CHOM had bilingual content, and CQOI was a French station, but most of the music played on both stations was from British bands, and too much of it was Prog, for my tastes. I rarely listened to CQOI, except when "Coco"'s show was on. He was sort of a French Wolfman Jack.
I used to talk to Doug Pringle on the phone a lot. Doug was the afternoon DJ on CHOM, and he'd talk to people for an hour, while doing his show, frequently interrupting the conversation while he changed the record on the turntable, or had to make an announcement, but he'd get back to you, as soon as he finished his task. Doug would even play several requests for you, during the conversation, as long as you asked for songs that he liked himself.
He didn't play much Prog; that was mostly the night time DJ's preferences. Doug played a lot of edgier pop, like early Kinks, The Pretty Things, Roxy Music from the Brian Eno era, Sparks, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, and stuff like that. Doug was replaced around 1975, because not enough people shared his music taste, and the station lost market share in the afternoon. By then, I was buying my own music, and listening to the radio less, but I learned a lot from Doug, when I was about 13 or 14.
The radio stations then didn't shill for the big record companies. They sold their advertising based on the popularity of their DJs music tastes, and if the listeners liked what they heard, one DJ's taste made obscure bands popular enough to fill the Montreal Forum, at a time when they might have been able to fill Massey Hall in Toronto. Unfortunately, too many of the bands that broke big in Montreal before anywhere else were Prog bands.
The same arrangement existed in Cleveland, Ohio, but the DJs there had better taste, and that's probably why the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame isn't in Montreal.
Anyway, enjoy, if you like this kind of music. I don't, but I didn't upload this for me. I own a copy, but I don't listen to it.
This is believed to be the April 14th or 15th, 1975 concert from Empire Pool, London, UK, originally broadcast on BBC Radio on July 12, 1975.
This is from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour, with Peter Gabriel as lead singer. It's about 69 minutes long, and about 99 MB in 192 kbs .mp3, for download. Most likely, this is the complete radio broadcast, but not necessarily the complete concert performance.
The file originates from a bit torrent site called thebox, and full details about the show would have been included, but the web page no longer exists, since the site was shut down in September, 2012.
I don't know if this was taped from radio during the original 1975 broadcast, or from a subsequent rebroadcast, but the original July 12, 1975 broadcast date is verified, and the performance is from Empire Pool, but no one is sure if it's from the April 14 or 15th, 1975 show there. The exact performance date was probably included in the page description at the box, either by the uploader, or from someone with direct knowledge, in the comments section.
I've never heard this show in its' entirety. I wasn't a fan of Genesis, or other Prog bands from the 1970's. I just saw the acquisition of this file, when available, as being more valuable than 99 MB of empty disk space. Someone here may place a greater value on it than that.
I didn't mind Peter Gabriel era Genesis, but they were played too often on local FM radio in Montreal, so I couldn't avoid them. I despised the band after Phil Collins became lead singer. In high school, we called them Penises, from 1976 onward.
Sample set list from this tour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamb_Lies_Down_on_Broadway_Tour
I don't know which of those songs are part of this performance, but I can tell you that the show opens with Watcher of the Skies.
This was the first or second tour date in the UK, on the November, 1974 - May, 1975 world tour. The Canadian tour dates were December 15, at the Montreal Forum, and December 16 at the Maple Leaf Gardens Concert Bowl, so roughly half to two thirds of the Gardens, with the stage moved forward, and seats behind the stage not sold, if the concert bowl configuration at MLG was the same as in Montreal. They did that because they expected a crowd in the range of 10,000, or so, and they wanted a smaller portion of the arena to be filled, as opposed to having the full arena half full. They were popular enough in Montreal to have sold out the Forum within 1-2 days of tickets going on sale.
All Progressive Rock bands in the early and mid 70's were hugely popular in the Montreal area, often long before having any significant following elsewhere in Canada, or the United States. This was largely due to the individual tastes of influential local FM radio DJs on the major radio stations CHOM-FM and CQOI-FM. CHOM had bilingual content, and CQOI was a French station, but most of the music played on both stations was from British bands, and too much of it was Prog, for my tastes. I rarely listened to CQOI, except when "Coco"'s show was on. He was sort of a French Wolfman Jack.
I used to talk to Doug Pringle on the phone a lot. Doug was the afternoon DJ on CHOM, and he'd talk to people for an hour, while doing his show, frequently interrupting the conversation while he changed the record on the turntable, or had to make an announcement, but he'd get back to you, as soon as he finished his task. Doug would even play several requests for you, during the conversation, as long as you asked for songs that he liked himself.
He didn't play much Prog; that was mostly the night time DJ's preferences. Doug played a lot of edgier pop, like early Kinks, The Pretty Things, Roxy Music from the Brian Eno era, Sparks, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, and stuff like that. Doug was replaced around 1975, because not enough people shared his music taste, and the station lost market share in the afternoon. By then, I was buying my own music, and listening to the radio less, but I learned a lot from Doug, when I was about 13 or 14.
The radio stations then didn't shill for the big record companies. They sold their advertising based on the popularity of their DJs music tastes, and if the listeners liked what they heard, one DJ's taste made obscure bands popular enough to fill the Montreal Forum, at a time when they might have been able to fill Massey Hall in Toronto. Unfortunately, too many of the bands that broke big in Montreal before anywhere else were Prog bands.
The same arrangement existed in Cleveland, Ohio, but the DJs there had better taste, and that's probably why the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame isn't in Montreal.
Anyway, enjoy, if you like this kind of music. I don't, but I didn't upload this for me. I own a copy, but I don't listen to it.
