Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock.progressive
Titolo: PHIL COLLINS: "The Musical Box are a group of artists..."

INTRODUCTION by PHIL COLLINS
Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Fans....
Well 30 years has whistled by and we find ourselves on a celebratory journey back to 1974 to
rediscover that ancient work.... "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway".
I remember it like it was yesterday, the writing sessions in the rat infested Headley Grange, near
Guildford... Pete in one room with a grand piano with sheathes of blank paper waiting to be filled
with lyrics, every now and then joining the rest of us as we thrashed through various jams and
unfinished pieces of songs that were floating around. The incredible day we "wrote" what was to
become "The Waiting Room"... then titled "Evil Jam", improvising wildly through our dictionary of
the nastiest noises we could find, and then, when suddenly our "mood" shifted so did the weather
outside, from thunder and pouring rain to sunshine and rainbows..... I guess you had to be there,
but it WAS very special!!!
The recording at a Farm in somewhere in Wales. Us set up in a barn, with the Island Mobile parked by
the pig sty..... John Burns ever ready with a roll up!!! Having more material than the time to
finish it, we ended up doing 24 hour sessions at Island Basing Street Studios, now Sarm West (home
of Frankie goes to Hollywood the Band Aid single to name but several). Racing to finish tracks so we
could get it all wrapped up in time to go to America and play the entire double album before a
bewildered public, who had not heard a note of it as it hadn't been released yet!!! Now that WAS
interesting!!!
It also leads me to why I'm writing this. The Lamb was never filmed for posterity. There are some
very short patchy videos, very scratchy quality, taken by fans from an audience P.O.V.... but
otherwise nothing to jog your memory, until now that is.
The Musical Box are a group of artists who have, over the years, painstakingly recreated various
periods of the early Genesis years, with amazing accuracy and aplomb. In the early days, whenever we
were invited to go to a bar to see a band playing some of our stuff, I was always amazed at how they
actually played it BETTER than we did. Nowadays there are a few bands out there doing it, but right
at the top of the pile are who you have come to see tonight.... The Musical Box.
I've heard of them for ages, but never gotten around to ACTUALLY see them. Having done so, I have to
say it's an eerie feeling because they have uncannily captured US BACK THEN in every way. Using the
original back projection slides from our old show, they now have the advantage of technology
unavailable to us back then. We probably only managed a handful of shows (at most) where everything
worked as it should have done. Tonight, God willing, you'll see the show as it should and could have
been back then if the projector hadn't caught fire, or if the operator hadn't pressed the wrong
button by mistake and fast forwarded the slides to the next song!!! Hey, this was the 70's
remember!!! Anyway I doff my hat to the lads and their crew.... they've picked up the baton and run
with it, and it's there for all to see. Enjoy it.
Phil Collins (the singing drummer)

nessuno dice nulla sulla loro bravura (sicuramente saràcosì). è l'operazione 
ad essere ridicola (ma fai finta di non capire quelli che sostengono questa 
posizione perchè ti fa comodo). io se fossi nei vecchi tromboni non sarei 
così felice per l'esistenza di questi