Evil Jams from the Waiting Room

July 6th 1975 was a significant day in my life.

It was when BBC broadcast Genesis in Concert from 15th April at Wembley, and although I was very familiar with TLLDOB, I was really surprised when I heard The Waiting Room, which was a Jam.

It always had been a Jam before it was put on record, an Evil Jam in fact, having been played in a Thunderstorm during rehearsal at Headley Grange.....well you all know the story.

So that version of The Waiting Room from Wembley became my favourite piece of Genesis music ever for.... well 34 years, and after all the recent releases of Lamb shows over the last few years I always found the highlight of any show was The Waiting Room.

Well somewhere in Germany, the song started to change dramatically from the album version, and just got weirder and better and stranger and more complex.


So here I present a little complilation, showing how The Waiting Room changed over the year or so it was played.

The venues are

Headley Grange 1 - June/July 1974
Headley Grange 2 - June/July 1974
Phoenix - 28 January 1975
Dijon - 1 March 1975
Nurenburg - 27 March 1975
Saarbrucken - 30 March 1975
Munich - 4 April 1975
Groningen - 10 April 1975
Wembley - 15 April 1975
Southampton - 16 April 1975
Liverpool - 19 April 1975
Edinburgh - 22 April 1975
Manchester - 28 April 1975
Rheims - 15 May 1975

Sorry if your fave version is not on it.

There is nothing on this that is not available elsewhere (not commercially of course), but there are edits, and some tracks are tarted up a bit.

For me it is a Gaussian curve of wonderfulness, with Wembley as the peak, of course, but with the German shows and the fantastic Groningen leading up to it, and the glorious Southampton, Liverpool and Edinburgh versions leading away from it, maybe it's a bit of a plateau now.

Just something a bit different....Well exactly the same track actually, but not identical.

If you do make it to the end of track 14, you may consider yourself......robust.

It's a mixtute of Aud, SB, FM and PreFM

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