Ekeberghallen, Oslo

Nice recording overall. It has the occasional odd noise here and there and one significant dropout. [Duke23]

My first concert with them, still vivid in my mind. Especially the ending as someone (a roadie?) made the finalising "bomb" too big. The blast with Peter on one side of the stage, and someone else at the other side while the strobe light flashed, was too much for the hall's - and the surrounded area's - electricity system. The bomb went out with a deafening bang. The same happened with the electricity. After several minutes in total darkness (Ekeberghallen is a sport hall without any windows) the large doors at de end of the venue was opened. Outside trucks and care were started with full headlights while the announcer said something like : "sorry, we're left in darkness. Please go slowly towards the cars lights". [Boiling]

This is the often talked about (Phil mentions this show in "Genesis: A History") performance which featured a deafening explosion at the end of "It." I guess the European crew put a little too much flash-powder in the cans, as it were. This is also the reason for lack of an encore performance... [rkipp]

In the first European gig of the Lamb tour, the flashboxes exploded with much more force than usual during the finale at the end of "IT. Mike Rutherford wrote about this concert and its explosion in his autobiography: "In any case we found ourselves agreeing to go back to Europe for a second sting of touring the Lamb, although as it turned out this nearly resulted in the end of Genesis entirely when we blew ourselves up in Oslo. Like the American power supply, American explosive powder wasn't the same as the European kind: it was three times stronger. We only found that out when our flashboxes went off at the climax of our encore and it sounded like someone had dropped a bomb. My ears felt like they had been sucked into my skull, the monitors blew up and there was a piece of the stage missing. Afterwards there was a moment of stunned silence and then a little voice piped up from the side of the stage: 'Sorry!' This was a roadie called Peter Hart. "You're sorry?! You're fired!" This was Phil. We were all cross, but Phil was livid. The crowd, meanwhile, had been shocked into utter silence. They all stood there, pale-faced, for the next ten minutes or so, and when they gradually began to file out it remained eerily quiet." [Mellowtron11]

Torrent notes:
The GASP release has a large amount of clipping (in some cases serious) present. Missing from the master is 'Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist'.
Four songs have cuts (see below). And, from meeksgenesis' comments in the GASP release, "This one has a few problems such as there are some tape squeals due to oxidation and a few tape breaks. Other than that it's a nice listen."

For this version the clipping has been fixed and the transitions between the cuts has been smoothed. The tape squeals (present during parts of Carpet Crawlers, Lilywhite Lilith, Anyway, Slippermen, Ravine, and perhaps a few other places) are still present.

Genesis-Movement user comment: "This is the often talked about (Phil mentions this show in "Genesis: A History") performance which featured a deafening explosion at the end of "It." I guess the European crew put a little too much flash-powder in the cans, as it were. This is also the reason for lack of an encore performance..."


*fixes/edits (CD Wave Editor & Audacity):
-removed gaps
-smoothed transition at start of 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'
-smoothed transition between cuts in 'Anyway' and 'The Lamia'
-smoothed transition between cut toward the end of 'The Colony Of Slippermen' and 'Ravine'
-retracked a few songs
-removed clipping
-balanced channels (normalize)
-moved 'Rael Story 2' to be begin 'cd 2'
-faded out cut in applause following 'It'

-fixed Sector Boundary Errors, added new ffp and md5 files (Trader's Little Helper).

*Aside from these fixes, there was no EQ work or alteration of the sound

woolie July 2020