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Well, the CD "The Lamb Lives" is quite a complex story and quite an engineering feat.
Most of the show is from January 10, 1975, at the West Palm Beach Convention Hall. The name of this venue supposedly has changed quite often through the years, anything from WPB Convention Center, WPB Civic Center, etc. I'm not sure of the exactness of the name. It is at the building that was at sometime known as the West Palm Beach Convention Hall or whatever the exact wording is.
But if you listen to it carefully, there are LOTS and LOTS of patches all over the place. For goodness sakes, the show begins actually from the show in The Palace Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 8, 1974. In the piano intro of "The Lamb", it shifts into West Palm Beach. Listen carefully...it goes from an audience tape to a soundboard. it happens at many other places. One notable area is the encore "The Musical Box", which most of the first half of the song again came from Providence.
From: Mel Huang
This is a list I compiled nearly a year ago. I think it should of made
its way to Alan at The Waiting Room by now to help with the NA listing
which eluded most who are trying to gather these tourographies.
My sources for these are quite extensive and reliable, from news
articles to Atlantic/Atco records internal publications, and others.
The Lamb tour in North America was quite extensive. From personal
research, here are the dates and venues. If any of you can
confirm/repudiate any of these, do mail me at mh@cais.com
11/20/74 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL *
*: no tape of this show have been found
From: Mel Huang
This could take all day....well, people disagree left and right on
this....this is an abridged version of my take on it....
Rael is a gang member on the streets of NYC. His brother John turned on
him and his colours by joining the establishment. It starts out with
Rael running around town on and off the subway on "The Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway".....then a strange occurence at Times Square and Rael shoots
up and starts to see strange, somewhat ironic things (KKK serves hot
soul food..)...then he's totally gone from the drugs and ends up in a
"cocoon" of his own high. Then he goes into a pseudo bad trip and is in
the cage of his trip....then things keep spinning and spinning until he
comes back to reality....to find that his brother turned and sold his
soul to society and joined the establishment...
Later he mentally returns from his trip to NYC and buys a book
called "Erogenous Zones" which teaches skills in copulation (I'm trying
to be civil mind you!). He picks up a girl and tries it....and it was
all over in 68 seconds....she's pissed...no kidding....so he's left
cuddling "his own prickley porcupine"...so he drifts the night away
stroking.....ya know what I mean!
Then he's dreaming....of strange creatures crawling on the
carpet....and guess what they're doing....then he proceeds through a
room, goes up some stairs, and enters a chamber of 32 doors, "which only
1 will lead our hero out."
Suddenly across the room a blind old lady calls for Rael....she said
that she'll lead him out...she did, into a dark tunnel, then abandons
him in a dark cave...she did mention to him about a figure that'll come
and meet him soon...so did he....Death arrives....he tries to give Rael
some of Death's "snuff" but Rael eludes the deathscent and runs into an
area....a weird pool with three creatures in it....beautiful female-like
creatures known as the Lamia.
After he's satisfied by the three sensuous creatures, he decided to
go 101% climax by eating them.....then poof! He became a human
testicle!
He turned into a creature of total disgust...bumps and lumps
everywhere...looking like testicles....he's slimy and greasy.....he runs
into a hideous creature and lo and behold, he tells Rael that he looks
like that too! D'oh! The Rael sees John...John tells him the only way
back to normal is to go and see Doktor Dyper...reformed
sniper...........
- snip -
- eep! -
Well, our hero's "tool" is placed in a yellow plastic tube.....suddenly,
a HUGE raven flies in and snags the appendage....Rael chases the bird
and calls for John to help...John turns his back again on Rael...so Rael
runs and chases...
They clear the cave...then the bird drops the tube into a
ravine...the rapids carry the tube downstream. Then wow.....a portal
opens up and Rael sees....NYC! A way home, out of the dream? It's
irresistable...maybe he'll wake up! But then he hears a voice calling
for help...but wait....it's....it's....
It's John! His weakness and life concern again returns to haunt
him.....Rael decides to go after him instead of saving himself....he
swims through the rapids and goes after him...
He rescues him...but...wait....no...it can't be....it's HIM! It's
RAEL! He's looking at his true life concern and his true
weakness...HIMSELF! Is this real? Is it Rael?! Is IT?!?!?!?!?!?
AAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
* I just put this interpretation in writing. It's a combo of what I've
read from the story and what Peter said about it in interviews and from
the 40 or so different Lamb stories I've heard from Peter from the Lamb
tour....
Date: 26 Aug 1995 17:43:15 GMT
Organization: JBANC
Newsgroups: alt.music.genesis
11/21/74 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL *
11/22/74 County Auditorium (Convention Theatre), Indianapolis, IN %
11/23/74 Ambassador Theatre, St. Louis, MO *
11/25/74 Allan Theatre (Music Hall), Cleveland, OH %
11/26/74 Allan Theatre (Music Hall), Cleveland, OH * %
11/27/74 Veterens' Memorial Coliseum, Columbus, OH *
11/28/74 Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, MI *
11/30/74 Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA *
12/01/74 Lyric Theater, Baltimore, MD
12/04/74 Richmond Mosque, VA *
12/05/74 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA *
12/06/74 Academy of Music, NYC, NY
12/07/74 Academy of Music, NYC, NY
12/08/74 Palace Theatre, Providence, RI
10/09/74 Boston * %
12/10/74 Forum, Montreal, QUE
12/11/74 Palace Theatre, Albany, NY *
12/12/74 Palace Theatre, Waterbury, CT
12/16/74 Maple Leafs Gardens, Toronto, ONT
12/17/74 The Dome, Rochester, NY *
12/18/74 Century Theater, Buffalo, NY *
1/10/75 West Palm Beach Convention Hall, FL
1/11/75 Lakeland Theatre, FL
1/12/75 Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, GA *
1/15/75 New Orleans Music Hall, LA *
1/17/75 Houston Music Hall, TX *
1/18/75 McFarland Auditorium, Dallas, TX *
1/19/75 Tulsa Music Hall, OK # (Civic Center Music Hall, Oklahoma City)
1/21/75 McKey Auditorium, Denver, CO *
1/22/75 Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA @
1/24/75 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
1/28/75 Phoenix Civic Center, AZ *
1/29/75 Golden Hall (Community Center), San Diego, CA * %
2/01/75 Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC *
2/02/75 Grand Valley State College, Grand Rapids * ?
2/??/75 Arie Crown Theatre, McCormick Place, Chicago * ?
&: the name of the venue is unclear...less likely one in parenthesis
#: The show wa actually at Tulsa, but the tape is still being labeled
as Oklahoma City
@: this show had a very strange radio bradcast come out...
?: this whole 2nd midwest leg is strange and I can't confirm this or
other dates. This is where I could use some help on compiling!A Lamb interps...
Date: 31 Aug 1995 00:21:57 GMT
Organization: JBANC
Newsgroups: alt.music.genesis Here is something I wrote awhile ago for fun (and a bit on the happy side of the vodka bottle if ya know what I mean -- szczesliwa wodka? Hmmmm......)
