31 Oct
2009
31 Oct
'09
1:42 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:26:02AM -0400, Rob wrote:
On Friday 30 October 2009 12:27 am, Ken Restivo
wrote:
Good point. He did leave out a couple songs, some of which you mention, but I have a
bootleg DVD of the entire show somewhere, and he definitely DID do Riding the Scree,
because the keyboardist executed that solo perfectly, with an entire audience full of
keyboard players anxiously holding their breath waiting for him to make a mistake, then
cheering supportively when he made it all the way through it :-)
-ken
I'm pretty sure Kevin Gilbert was in the
audience, and he took note of
this reaction, and planned his Giraffe Lamb-Lies-cover set for ProgFest
1994 based on that. He also used the element of surprise. Another friend
went to that show, and said it was just billed as "Giraffe". Nobody
outside of their innner circle knew that it was going to be a complete
live version of Lamb Lies, and it got a similar heroes' welcome.
Not to pick nits on a legendary prog moment, but Kevin had to skip parts of
it due to time constraints, and alluded to that in his pseudo-Gabriel
banter between songs. He omitted about 20 minutes, including Counting Out
Time, Supernatural Anaesthetist, Riding the Scree and a few other songs.