A really useful piece for hardcore Genesis fans, February 23, 2009

I'm the Jason Finegan mentioned in this book. Scott McMahan was running Paperlate in 1993-1994. The Annotated Lamb was an unfinished project for Paperlate that had been building over time. I volunteered to tackle a major revision, adding new material. That version is pretty much the version scattered around today. Others converted it to html. I originally wrote and edited it in plain text using elm. Wikipedia search: Elm (e-mail client). It's gratifying to see that our work is still being referenced throughout the Genesis community. One irritating bit, in this book where the author quotes my words directly, he credits McMahan. (pp. 92-93 for example) I can understand though, since in the Annotated Lamb direct credit was not usually given to which parts of the annotation were written by whom.

I have been a Genesis fan for over 20 years now, and I especially like the Lamb. I have always enjoyed the music and Gabriel's voice, the orchestration, the solos and parts of the lyrics, but I have not had the chance to see this piece of art as a whole really. This books guided me through the very background of the creating of the Lamb, the sociological, cultural and economical state of play of the time of NYC, then through the music in details.After having read this book, I arrived at a new level of understanding this record and the Gabriel years of Genesis, and now I am an even greater admire of theirs.

After growing up with listening to it,taking a apart,playing itand listening to the Lamb time and time again. This book gives you great comparisions of life compared to the Lamb.I could not put thebook down. Do you remmember the Lamb publication? The Lamb wasalways kinda a mystery album,until you had Genesis fans sit aroundand discuss the album. Of course being a bass player I was amazedto Rutherford's bass playing and guitar work. The group got everbigger after this album came out. We started discussing the "factors" of what was the comparsions of this great masterpiecerelated somehow to every day life. Then some 15 years ,this book came out. Please get this book,especially if you like the The Lamblike I do. My first book was the Genesis book written by ArmandoGallo. Which if you can find,get it! I just found this bookvery interesting,go buy it!