The Musical Box Bids a Fond Farewell
Enter: The Musical Box. Since 1993 the group has reproduced the Gabriel-era Genesis shows to microscopic detail and toured world wide to massive crowds. Having produced "Selling England By The Pound" and "Foxtrot", Genesis themselves licensed the rights for "Lamb" to the group; the only such an honour's been bestowed. The former members of Genesis also donated instruments, produced copies of the more than 1000 slides and gave access to the 24 track recordings in order to recreate the exact sounds as no music was ever printed for the piece.
Over years of research and attention to detail from home video, still photographs, sketches and personal accounts, "Lamb" was first staged by The Musical Box on October 11, 2000 at the Montreal Spectrum.
The Musical Box recreates Genesis to perfection. Denis Gagné on lead vocals is so convincing and powerful, he had people wondering if Peter Gabriel had hopped up on stage. Despite Gagne status as a Francophone he even sounded like Gabriel, but still speaking broken French during introductions to songs. When it came to Martin Levac on drums, if you closed your eyes and listened to the drumming and back up vocals you would swear Phil Collins was hidden amongst the kit.
As the last notes of 'IT' rang out the band came back for a very well deserved encore hammering versions of 'The Musical Box' and 'The Knife'. It is understandable why Genesis endorse this group and have even gone on record as saying that they do that era of Genesis better than Genesis did.
In a day and age where music tends to be disposable, with a lack of creativity and challenge in terms of content or ideas, it is shame that the younger generations are not embracing the glorious creative music from the 70's. Sure there are those who cringe at the word "prog rock" but doesn't prog stand for PROGRESSIVE. After a show like this you can understand why the term stood out in the 70's.
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