| Identifier | 8970425 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | cdr |
| Media Count | 2 |
| Sound Rating | a- |
| Note | Genesis
Palace Theatre, Manchester, 28 April 1975 Notes by Colin Dodd Sadly the recording didn’t run quite as smoothly as the gig. Calculating the time remaining on cassette tapes was always an inexact science and unfortunately the tape ran out a couple of minutes before the end of 'it!' If that wasn't bad enough I then fell foul of the curse of the Philips C-120. Anyone who was taping shows at the time will remember these. On the face of it they were ideal for the job, giving a full hour between tape flips. However, the motor used in the average cassette recorder just wasn't up to pulling that amount of tape with any degree of accuracy. You only needed to get a tape that was a little tight and you were in trouble. The result was that the first twenty minutes or so of the new tape suffered from speed fluctuations, the remainder of 'it!' and most of 'The Musical Box' being rendered unusable. For this remaster Andrew has decided to replace both these tracks with the versions from my recording of the previous night. Thankfully by 'Watcher' the tape was running okay again. HW08 Palace Theatre, Manchester, 28th April 1975 This is the second of the two nights Genesis played at Manchester on the latter part of the UK Lamb tour, and also comes from Colin Dodd's tapes of the evening's performance. There is not really a lot to say about this remaster that I haven't said in my notes for HW02; the 1st of the Manchester concerts. The performance as ever was exemplary, with an awesome extended Waiting Room (Peter adding vocals), and the second encore with Watcher of the Skies. The master tapes of this evening are, if anything, slightly brighter than those of the 27th, which may be just an example of how tapes degrade inconsistently over time rather than anything in the original recording itself. The tapes (two Phillips C120s) were flipped during the applause after Chamber of 32 Doors, and when the first tape runs out about a minute into 'it!'. I have patched the applause in the first flip, but as Colin mentions in his comments, the second flip caused more of a problem... The tape speed wobbles that are present on the second tape are quite extreme to begin with, 'it!' is pretty unlistenable. 'The Musical Box' also has this regular lift in pitch, from the tape slowing, 'grabbing', during recording, although as the tape progresses the problem eases. On Colin's original transcription of his tape, which has been circulating on CDR, he only replaces 'it!', so you can hear the problems that remain on 'Musical Box'. I have chosen to totally replace both 'it!' and 'Musical Box' for this remaster. During the audience interactions between songs, these speed wobbles are not apparent. So I have retained the audience sections; the applause after 'it!' and Peter's intro to Musical Box, and the applause between MB and 'Watcher'. You can still hear the pitch instabilities slightly during Watcher, but of course, it is a feature of this evenings concert, being the encore that was missed the previous night. As with HW02, I have made a new transcription of Colin's master tapes, optimising for mono. I have then denoised the recording and lifted the treble out a bit more. The bass was nice and strong, and there was no need for eq balancing. PALACE THEATRE, MANCHESTER Apr 28, 1975 (Palace Theatre - Manchester, England) 2cdr Recording - Audience/Excellent Label - Hogweed Remasters HW08 Comment - Remastered from the Master Tapes. |
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Performance
| Genesis 1975-04-28 Palace Theatre, Manchester, UK | |
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| Set 1 | 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 Story, Pt. 1 Back in N.Y.C. Hairless Heart Counting Out Time Carpet Crawlers The Chamber of 32 Doors Rael Story, Pt. 2 Lillywhite Lilith The Waiting Room |
| Set 2 | Anyway
Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist Interlude The Lamia Silent Sorrows in Empty Boats Arrival The Colony of Slippermen Ravine The Light Dies Down On Broadway Riding the Scree In the Rapids It! Henry Story The Musical Box Watcher Of The Skies |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | Complete The Lamb |