Kevin Gilbert - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Tune 1

[kig283]

lol that's my bros name but that's not him

[pmfith]

Everything after Duke sucked. Period. Invisible snatch was absolute crap, with the exception of Domino - Banks' attempt to at least sneak in something with some meat to it.

[AdoDog]

Any person who appreciates prog music looks at Invisible Touch and shudders. The reality is that now, and in years to come, Genesis will be remembered for albums such as The Lamb, SEBTP, Tresspass, Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme. Not Invisible Touch.

[pmfith]

@AdoDog

you are ABSOLUTELY correct.

[yahoopig]

what is this shit?

[TheTASTY666]

Why go back to school ? I have been listening to genesis since grade 4 which was around 32yrs ago. Anything after abacab was pretty much a disappointment at best or simply an embarrassment to own or hear. But I am glad you enjoy that crap mr.susudio. Take care

[Yogiphildas]

To trash Invisible Touch is an insult to Genesis which imo is an magnificient evolution through the times, from FGTR to WCD. I am a devotee of Genesis and I love it ALL from FGTR to WCD. Who is this guy anyway? never heard of him. As a tributeer to Genesis he should respect IT as well.

[TheBlackycat]

@Yogiphildas This is Kevin Gilbert who was a top notch musician and songwriter who died back in 1996 at age 29. I recommend you check out The Shaming of the True, a rock "opera" he wrote that was completed and released after his death.

[leftpanproductions]

@Yogiphildas I wouldn't take it the wrong way. If you can get over being insulted, you might look up Kevin Gilbert and give his stuff and all the projects he was involved in a listen. Incidentally, he had an audition to replace Phil Collins as the frontman of Genesis the same week he died.

[yahoopig]

@leftpanproductions bollocks

[eahazell]

Why is it that musicians can do great remakes most times and supposedly comic book geek directors fuck up almost every comic movie adaptation?

[eahazell]

joke or statement it is brilliant. i LOVE Genesis and was a "blind faithful" enough fan to ride that love through the dark 80's that brought us Invisible Touch... decent pop pablum but after Peter and Steve left it was not the same band. These guys reach back to when Genesis had balls and remind people what made them a GREAT band not just a fair popular band.

[eahazell]

good grief this a great job. I am sorry to say I never heard of these guys but they do a bang up job on this, what is Genesis' greatest least known album with radio play from just the title track. They nailed it I want to hear the whole show!!

[allthingskenteroo]

"Not many people know about The Lamb". Man, that makes me sad. I guess I'm old at 43. Kev was one of a kind, no doubt. He was a hero of mine trying to make music in the Bay Area in the 80's I can tell you that.

I went to a RUSH concert in August that opened my eyes. It was a sold out show with a lot of grey hair and 15 year old kids as well. And tons of dope smoke, just like the old days. Things haven't changed so much.

[dlmaston]

You could hear Kevin's respect for Peter in his vocals. While they are undeniably Kevin, every now and again you can hear him slip into a bit of a Gabriel pronunciation pattern.......and it fits perfectly! Brilliant!!! RIP Kevin.....

[drebatista]

Please, send me a link of the entire concert.

[ontherush77]

Invisible Touch BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOO

[bamboosa]

ok, I finally get it - Kevin was a big "early" Genesis fan, hence the opening bit. I stopped listening to Genesis after Gabriel left, so I was unaware of what "Invisible Touch" was about.

[oooowwwwdddd]

Is this the same Kevin Gilbert from Toy Matinee? He sounds and looks different.

[WoodenBadger77]

well he's made up and in costume, that'd account for the Looking different...oh, and he lost the mullet he wore in the TM days, lol...as for sounding different...totally different style of music so maybe a different emotional approach, but to me it's instantly recognizable as the same Kevin! :) ---oh and yes, that's definitely NDV of Spock's Beard on drums and backing vox!

[oooowwwwdddd]

@WoodenBadger77 That was a nice reply. So definitive and articulate. I guess he was a big Genesis fan huh? Is that the same Spock guy from Star Trek? Funny though, Kevin died the same way Michael Hutchence from INXS died. Do you think that someone saved a seat for Kevin on his last plain out? I don't know if Michael made his flight.

[JohnyVirgil]

@oooowwwwdddd This is indeed the same Kevin Gilbert as in Toy Matinee. Don't know why he'd sound different, maybe he's trying to imitate Gabriel a bit? I've heard the performance plenty of times and just here Kevin, so maybe I'm missing a little something else he's doing.

[manifestgtr]

it was a prog show so he had to keep from making too big a mess by smashing the radio in a barrel heh....miss you kevin...you were arguably the greatest genius most of the world had never heard of...

[yeshead]

I was at that show. When he trashed the radio it was a cathartic moment for every single person there.

Note: I think that's Nick D'Virgillio of Spock's Beard on the drums.

[poo4breakfast]

Sheryl Crow is a retarded whore-bitch that should die of gonorrhea.

[Maroan2]

This is great.. A shame he died so early.. and i love the opening of the show: Great joke! (I hate "Invisible Touch"!

[dojonane]

Hi Chris, I sent you a PM but not sure if you'll see it. Could you please send me the link to view the entire performance? This is a rare treasure indeed.

[innerturbulence23]

WOW! That is killer! This guy truly was a huge talent, and a major loss when he died. Toy Matinee was one of my favorite bands. I still can't believe how and when this artist checked out. Really would have like to have seen what he would have done later on.

[chefjl]

How to get the link to the whole concert?

[MuzzikLvr]

This is a great interpretation of my all time fave Genesis song. The opening bit is priceless. We miss you Kevin.

[theo9952]

fine job.

long live prog!

[ayubtawasne]

Genesis is Peter Gabriel...

Te felicito Kevin...Abrazo...

[JvKNightmare]

The joke in the beginning kinda reminded me of the reference to the Invisible Touch in American Psycho, where Bateman praises the album as a masterpiece.

[sheerasmith]

I have seen the Lamb Tour in 1975 and for me it was the most memorable concert of my life and it changed my taste of music.One year later with A Trick of the Tail the band was okay but not the same without Peter.

Sorry for my bad english.

[gaarack]

As for Kevin's 'statement' re Invisible Touch; it had to do with the music played that night than the current/more popular music that Genesis was producing at the time. Most people had resigned to the fact that they'd sold out with Invisible Touch (Collins admits it).

Sad still is the fact that when Kevin was found dead by his manager; he was there to tell him that Kevin had secured an audition to be the new lead singer for Genesis.

We miss you Kevin (and the music you would have written)!

[LBjim]

He would have been a perfect fit for Genesis..I also heard Fish(of Marillion fame) was asked but he turned it down...

[gaarack]

That should be phrased that not many people who weren't alive in 1975 would not be aware of The Lamb. Although I wasn't old enough to attend when Peter fronted Genesis, my older brother still remembers it as one of the most memorable experiences of his life (I had to settle for the LP).

[Anglagard1]

@gaarack: I'm with you buddy. I am 10 years younger than my brother, who saw them live for the Lamb tour. I did get to see The Musical Box do The Lamb, however. I think Tony Banks said they did it better than Genesis ever did, and I'd have to say they were excellent.

[ZedsDeadMan]

Not many people heard of the lamb,and saying it was underground? Don't agree

[chrisslooter]

whatever

[padawan23]

"it was utterly bad taste to go bash on Invisible Touch - which obviously saw more record sales than Kevin ever saw." I agree. A true Genesis fan loves their entire catalog and all eras.

[chrisslooter]

It's called a joke. The same as I view your comment.

[padawan23]

Yeah I know it was a joke, but I stand by my support of the entire Genesis catalog. That quote from another poster is correct. Invisible Touch was a huge success for Genesis. I love The Lamb but at the time it did not sell well at all.

[chrisslooter]

You sound level headed. :) I just think that Kevin knew the audience was there to see them perform the Lamb. Kind of like an inside joke, because not many people know about The Lamb. It is a very underground album. The whole concert was a tribute to the band Genesis, the joke was not really in bad taste, I am sure if the original members of Genesis saw it, they would all laugh.

[padawan23]

Yeah they probably would, though Phil might scoff on the inside a little bit knowing full well that the album Invisible Touch sold a ridiculous amount of copies and was the most successful album they ever did. In fact, for many, if it werent for Invisible Touch's success, many people would not have ever known about The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Ive known many fans who admit that Invisible Touch is the reason they are Genesis fans and love all their music.

[padawan23]

In fact, for me, of all their early material with Peter, The Lamb is my all time favorite album, period! Ahhh if only id been old enough at the time to have actually attended a show from this tour. In 1974/75, I was only 1 and a half years old!! :)

[TheTASTY666]

@padawan23 If you really enjoyed invisible touch , you are a joke. that crap is only Genesis by name. Nothing else.

I don't think it would have been that innappropriate if Kevin would have brought Phil Collins up on stage and shot him.

[padawan23]

@TheTASTY666 go back to school

[sonicreality]

FTR, we thought it would be funny at PROGFEST to shock the audience with one of the most pop songs Genesis had ever done and that Casey would announce THAT as a "Golden Oldie"... when all true Genesis fans know what REAL "oldie" is ;) something perhaps from the mid 70's? I did the Casey voice btw. We recorded it at Kev's studio about two hours before the show as a last minute fun idea. It got the audience going. KG had a great sense of humor.

[sandprof]

Never heard of him - praps he is an American Idle genesis type - but apparantly ... Gilbert's manager sent a copy of the lamb recording to Tony Wanks and Mike Buggerford who were searching for a new Genetals front man to replace Feel Collins. His manager, Jon Rubber, had come to Gilbert's home to tell him that he had managed to get him an audition and discovered his dead body, suitably dressed in a red dress and fox heed ;-)

[jonsilence]

The smashing of the radio & the first few bars of the song represented the single greatest moment Kevin ever enjoyed onstage. You can see it in the way he falls to his knees and the look on his face. I was watching this from the side of the stage & prior to the gig had witnessed the painstaking labor Kevin put into making it all happen. Getting be his favorite singer in his favorite band playing his all-time favorite record was his dream come true and his Moment of greatness.

[progrockhound]

Kevin's solo stuff, his work with Kaviar, and the Toy Matinee album are also great. Do yourself a favor and check them out. The world lost a brilliant artist with his passing.

(PS - and thanks for NOTHING, Sheryl Crow . . .)

[mattisprettycool]

The fucking joke about Invisible Touch is that most fans of Genesis are either die-hard fans of Gabriel or Collins era..Not Both.

Everyone who was watching the show was obviously expecting to see some Gabriel era genesis, thus meaning they would detest collins era genesis.

[89DrAcoNiAn89]

yes that's right I'm a die-hard gabriel

long live the king!

[PeterOzanne]

THE INTRO, THE INTRO, MY GOD, I HAVN'T LAUGHED LIKE THAT FOR YEARS! The tears were streaming down my face, snot running out of my nose. Absolutely BRILLIANT! The is the first time I've heard of Kevin Gilbert and Giraffe. A Raely Excellent performance! just watched the intro, and laughed till I cried AGAIN!!

[DavieMarshall]

An interesting intro there, quite clever in its own way, but hopefully tongue in cheek!

[laserdiamond]

Invisible Touch is a fucking joke. Don't you get it? The new tour is a bigger joke also... Phil Collins sounds like he is 90 years old. Genesis died in 1975. End of story.

[slumsquirrel21]

tru dat, collins killed it

[JohnyVirgil]

Oh come one, A trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering were brilliant albums!

[musicdoc55]

it was downhill from there...

[thelurker25]

it was utterly bad taste to go bash on Invisible Touch - which obviously saw more record sales than Kevin ever saw.

[memalley]

THE POINT IS that invisble touch is not PROG.

That performance was at PROGFEST I do believe.

decent music and record sales are usually unrelated.

[thelurker25]

thats a load of bullshit. The Invisible Touch album came from Genesis - a prog band - thus, it is a PROG album. Clean the shit out of your ears.

[memalley]

The only time i had shit in my ears was when Invisible Touch came on...

Any type of band can make an album or song of any type. If Invis Touch is PROG then LAMB is not PROG since TOUCH and LAMB are too dissimilar to be compared. They were mostly written by the same people but at different periods of their career and obviously different interests musically.

[thelurker25]

you're comment made no sense at all. whatever :-P

[tenchimasake]

Indeed. "Domino". That is all.

Kevin sounds awesome doing The Lamb! O_o AND HE LOOKS MORE LIKE PETER GABRIEL THAN PETER GABRIEL DOES??? (Circa 1978, at least) This must have been awesome...R.I.P. Kevin Gilbert.

[pmfith]

@memalley - yes it was at Progfest '94...I was there... it was glorious to see it performed so well. ;D

[dbg335]

We do MISS HIM & his Talent

[jxnsmom]

Thank you, chrisslooter, for posting these clips!! I've been a fan of the Lamb since its release, and a fan of Kevin's for several years. My only copy of this concert is a grainy 10th-generation VHS.

[thelurker25]

lame

[Booman69]

By far the BEST and most PASSIONATE cover of early GENESIS material ever. Kevin appreciated good music.

[schizophunk]

FUCK YEEEEAAAAHHH!!!!!!

[kevingilbertfan]

This was an excellent performance! Outstanding musicianship here. NDV in particular demonstrates his mastery of time and space. Thanks for posting this one time only concert.

[Echdrum]

Jolly goodness to see this. thank you for adding.

[spleenarcana]

Is this Nick D'Virgilio on drums?

[kenarnest]

Yup...that's nick....That is also the jacket peter wore....rosana arquette stole it and gave it to kev

[darksideof1]

real funny when he crashed the radio in the trash when radio sation said they're gonna play invisible touch.

[JohnyVirgil]

I don't like his vocals live, but I think some of his vocals once he mastered his voice were extraordinary! (particularly on The Shaming of the True)

[jmorrell22]

WOW , I nearly fell off my seat laughing at Gilberts ´poke in the eye ´intro !! Superb stuff. thanks again