Due to increased demand and my own decreased free time, I can no longer oblige people with copies of my recordings. I apologize and wish you all good luck in building your own collections. Please do not contact me about my music unless you have something to trade from my wish list. -Steve

NOTE: This "news" section does not include news about the whereabouts or activities of Genesis or its diverse members. My feeling is that all of that is covered quite well by the official site, as they always have the most reliable news and they always have it first, so why bother just repeating what they say on my site? (And actually Simon Funnell does an even better job of keeping up to date and informed on Genesis happenings--check out his main page.) My news section features news about updates on this site, and info on bootlegs that are on their way to me or that I have just received.

13 April 2026 - Good morning. Ahem. Several of those one-file shows I was noting in my previous entry are now added to the site. They include:
- 9/7/76 Glasgow
- 24/6/78 Knebworth pre-FM: Midsummer Night
- 22/10/78 Houston '78
- 29/11/81 Uniondale '81
There are also three Invisible Touch shows still to listen to and add to the site, from two MSG '86 performances early in the tour and one in Kentucky later in the tour. Another big revamp to the site, though ideally you won't notice it at all, is that my Short List page of bootlegs has been rebuilt entirely so that it is now a million times easier for me to update, allowing me to include all the added GL shows on that page. I did this with the help of AI. I have concerns about the use of AI but it saved me hours and hours of work to have the engine rebuild my table for me. If you want to easily find all the Gigaleak shows I've added lately, you can go to that short list and do a find on the page for "(GL)". I expect I'll be able to add those Invisible Touch shows this week; then it's a question of whether I want to update my "Best Bootlegs" list to include any of these new acquisitions - quite a few of them are shoe-ins, so it would be a crime not to. There are also some other miscellaneous bonus items I received along with the Genesis stuff, which I may explore one of these days - if I do, and update the site with details, I will note here.

4 April 2026 - Another news update - I'm starting to get a little excessive with these things. I wanted to note that pretty much all the Genesis shows from the GL acquisition of 28 February are now listed on the site. There are a few additional ones that I have only in one giant raw file, which I am probably going to try to cut into tracks at some point; but that will take me a while to figure out. I also posted an entry for the Bataclan Complete video to my DVDs page - wow, what a find that is. As and when I'm able to add more to the site, I will add an update here...

30 March 2026 - Check it out, two news updates in the same month! I've now added all GL shows up to the 3SL tour shows, inclusive (see list in 28 Feb entry below). I am still working my way through the many Mama tour shows. All for now. (Quick April Fool's Day addendum: almost all the Mama shows are now listed, just one left to listen to! I hope to finish that and also get around to adding the Sydney '86 show and the '07 rehearsal tracks before the week is out.)

24 March 2026 - Just dropping in to say that I have begun adding the shows listed in my last post to my database; so far all up to Glasgow '80 are now on the site in their various tour pages in the Live Recordings section. I also made sure to add "(GL)" to the ends of the show names for any Gigaleak releases, including the 3 I already had from late 2025, to make them easy to identify. There are also a bunch more from the Feb '26 list which I have listened to and written notes for, but haven't been able to put up yet; and many more still unheard. So more to come! Another thing I haven't done yet is add any of the new shows to my "Short List" page, because frankly that page is an absolute nightmare. I constructed it (back when I was using Dreamweaver, if anyone remembers that software) in the worst way possible, making it very difficult to update, especially given the incredibly primitive way I update my html pages these days. I think what I need to do is rebuild that page from the ground up, possibly with the assistance of AI and/or some WYSIWYG html editor, which is a task I can't bring myself to think about right now. More news when I have it!

28 February 2026 - Happy 2026! On the Genesis and related front, some big news for my collection: with many thanks to long-time fellow collector and trading buddy Mason (Cheers Mason), I have acquired a huge dump from the infamous "Giga-Leak" of Genesis shows (a very small amount of which I had acquired from a co-worker late in 2025). Many of these are soundboard recordings or partial soundboards rounded off with audience recordings. They include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 1/3/74 Passaic, NJ
• 9/74 Lamb rough mixes
• 21/11/74 Chicago
• 18/12/74 Buffalo
• 10/7/76 Stafford
• 24/2/77 Boston
• 3/3/77 Quebec City
• 14/10/78 Chicago
• 28/4/80 Glasgow
• 28/11/81 NYC
• 30/11/81 Landover
• 2/12/81 Hartford
• 5/12/81 Ottawa
• 11/12/81 Syracuse
• 31/7/82 Peoria (rehearsals)
• 1/8/82 Peoria
• 7/8/82 Berkeley
• 18/8/82 Clarkston
• 29/8/82 Montreal
• 21/9/82 Birmingham
• 30/9/82 London
• Many shows from the Mama tour, which I feel would be too tedious to list here
• Four shows from the IT tour, including one from the Australian leg
• Some very interesting rehearsals from the '07 Turn It on Again tour, featuring songs never played on the tour
• Many other goodies, including Phil soundboards, some video stuff which I may or may not be able to figure out how to watch, and so on.
• Amazing addition: I've also discovered that the files include the full video shot of the Bataclan performance of 10 January 1973. Previously I've only ever seen this footage as part of a very heavily edited French TV broadcast - this version, though watermarked, has the full performance of the songs by the band, with no cuts and no narration interrupting it. Also included is a whole additional song, in their usual opener, "Watcher." I stared in disbelief when I realized what I was looking at here, and produced no few number of colorful expletives to myself. Amazing find, this.

I'll be very slowly working my way through all this material and adding most or all of it to the site, in between living my life, so we'll see how that goes. But exciting stuff! Also, fans will likely be aware that Peter Gabriel has surprised everyone by beginning to release yet another new album, a companion to 2023's i/o named o/i, which he'll be releasing over this year using the same song-every-full-moon schedule that irritated me so much with his previous one. Once he's managed to eke out the whole thing, I will have a listen and likely write a review for the site - though given the time scale involved, don't expect that until December!

On an unrelated note, just mentioning that my He-Man site is now fully loaded with reviews of all episodes of the Filmation series and its She-Ra spin-off, along with my own top-ten list of episodes from the old cartoon. Check it out if you are interested. I've also now, to the chagrin of my wife and my pocketbook, become a collector of MOTU action figures - yeesh. Wishing everyone well with their own collecting, whatever that might be, and I will update this page once the new shows have started to trickle into my database.

4 October 2025 - I completed my review of the Lamb anniversary set, which can be found here. Enjoy! Now for my usual sign-off, which is: I'm not sure when I'll have reason to post here again, but I wish you all well and if I have Genesis-related updates you will see info about them on this page. If you are interested in 80s cartoons, I plan to continue adding to the other part of this site, which is a database of reviews and information on the original cartoon for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and the Filmation spin-off, She-Ra: Princess of Power. See here. I'm currently in the process of finishing up the episode entries for the second season of She-Ra, which will likely continue into late 2025. Laters!

28 September 2025 - Back again as promised with some updates. I'm surprised to say that I've actually added a few live shows to my collection, something that hasn't happened in QUITE a long time, and it took me some work to figure out how to update those clunky old pages of mine. The new shows are soundboard recordings that I was lucky enough to receive from a co-worker - thank you Matthew! They are Saratoga '80 (the last show in the Duke tour), Rosemont '81, and Dallas '82 (big surprise on this one, as it appears to be the only time the song "Paperlate" was played live without the horn accompaniment!).

Also soon to come, though not just yet, will be my review of the remastered Lamb box set, which finally arrived here after some unexpected delays on the other end. So look for that in the next week.

7 December 2024 - Happy Holidays! It's been about a year since I last updated things here, it seems. This year not a lot has happened on the Genesis front for me; instead, I've been working on a website entirely devoted to the 1980s animated series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. I imagine that the Venn diagram displaying fans of Genesis and fans of He-Man has the tiniest, tiniest little sliver of an overlap on those two circles; but just in case you are interested, that site (which features analysis of all 130 episodes of the cartoon, plus two movies whose entries are currently in the process of being loaded) can be found here.

For those of you who don't care about that, I do in fact have a Genesis-related update: last night I saw the Musical Box for the first time in a very, very long time, so I added a review to my collection of TMB show reviews, which can be found here. It was a very special show which featured a song that was a surprise to everyone - even the band! I also somewhat updated my Goodies page, which is where all my personally attended show reviews can be found. And, in upcoming news, I hear there's a rerelease of a particularly famous Genesis album in the offing (cough - Lamb! - cough), so I am hoping to acquire a copy of that sucker and, once I have it, post a no-holds-barred, far-too-wordy review of it here. So stay tuned for that in 2025 peeps!

28 January 2024 - Happy New Year! It's important to me that I keep my promises to all my loyal fans (ha ha... if there's anyone actually out there paying attention, bless you), so I did in fact write a lengthy review of Peter's latest album, and it can be read here. I hope you enjoy, and for those of you who liked the album more than I did, I hope my own disappointment in it doesn't disappoint you too much! I enjoyed writing this as it gave me a chance to sound off on Peter's whole career, which I have much enjoyed following and analyzing. As usual when I sign off here, I remain uncertain as to when or if I will post again, but here's hoping I will find a reason. Thanks...

28 October 2023 - When I wrote the last entry it sounded like I was done posting here for a while; but I forgot that I'd put The Last Domino? tour rehearsal DVD on my wish list! I received it, watched it, and wrote a review, which is available to read here. One of the things this DVD finally brought me to do was actually Google up what is going on with Chester Thompson. I read a very nice lengthy interview with him where he discussed his falling out with Phil. I do hope they pave this over some day; I don't like the idea of these two guys not burying the hatchet. Genesis is supposed to be one of those few bands without too much personal drama! Anyway, at this point I'm again not sure what could bring me to post anything else on the site. I'd love an excuse to do so, but I imagine it would take one of the band members doing something new. Maybe when Peter actually releases his new album I will write a review of it, though I'm not sure where such a thing would fit on the site. Until that day! Happy listening.

23 September 2023 - Hello hello... Not a lot of movement on the site as there is not a lot going on in my world that is Genesis-related. However, true to my prediction from the last posting, I did write a review of the Peter Gabriel show I saw last weekend, which is available to read here. It also includes a few photos my wife took during the show. Hope you enjoy! All for now. I also saw Steve Hackett not too long ago when he was playing Seconds Out live, but I don't think I am going to write a review of that, though it was a lot of fun and I have the T-shirt to prove it. Not sure what excuse I will find to update this website again. We shall see!

15 April 2023 - I finished watching the When in Rome DVD and composing an incredibly lengthy review from my notes, which I just posted. I encountered a few difficulties from the fact that I composed the review in a Google doc and then tried to transfer it over into html - turns out it didn't like my apostrophes or quotes. But it's there now. I hope someone out there finds it enjoyable! This may mark the end of regular updates to the site for a while, though as I mentioned I will be looking into getting that more recent tour documentary and eventually adding a review.

I also have tickets to see Peter Gabriel later this year! So I'll likely write a review of that. I've been listening to his new tracks as they dribble onto the internet. I have mixed feelings about them at the moment, but I eventually learned to love Up so hopefully the same will happen with i/o...

2 April 2023 - Quite a few little updates to the site today. First, I updated the solo pages in the Live Recordings section so that they would have a matching background color and rollover operation to all the other pages in the Live Recordings section. Then I updated various lists in my Lists section to include the existence of the Last Domino? tour. That includes the Set Lists page, the Band Line-Ups list, and Most Played Live list, and the Pete-Era Songs Played by Phil-Era Band list. Then, and more obscurely, I tweaked the last page of my Picture Caption Test because I noted some line breaks that were screwing up my scoring table. I also added some information about The Last Domino? to the bottom of my Mysteries page.

I am also slowly working up some notes in preparation for writing a review of the When in Rome 2007 tour DVD, which I've owned for quite a long time but never listed on the site. Turns out the DVD has quite a few features and I haven't watched it in ... several years, so I'm going to take some time going through that. I am also looking into acquiring the promotional video made in preparation for the 2021 tour, so may add a review of that one of these days.

19 March 2023 - Look, two weeks in a row with updates! I posted my review of the BBC Broadcasts set to a Genesis Facebook group to which I still belong, and the only comment I got about it was that the background was too dark to read the page. This made me realize that I'd been thinking the same thing for... several years, without doing anything about it. The main reason I hadn't done anything about it was that I had a whole set of ancient rollover graphics that I built about sixteen years ago that used that background color, and I didn't want to have to fix them all. But this weekend I went in and roughed out what was probably a ridiculously inefficient set of javascript functions to do the work of all those rollovers, so that I could finally lighten up the background color on all the live recordings pages (of which, it turns out, there are around 30 - yikes). There are still some sub-pages in the Solo Artists section that use the old darker background, which I may get around to fixing one of these days. But for now the great majority of them have been fixed.

I also updated the main Live Recordings page to add a caveat about the information in that FAQ, which is incredibly dated; and I added at least a mention of the Last Domino tour, for the sake of actually acknowledging that it exists, even though I don't have any recordings from it (by the way if anyone would like to point me to any of those, feel free to let me know!). I am considering plans to update my list of band lineups and tour set lists to include information for the Last Domino tour as well, though I haven't gotten around to it yet.

Finally I'm going to go and update the actual index page of this site, because why not?

11 March 2023 - Ha ha ha ha! Look at the last time I updated this site. Guys it's been about fifteen years. How insane is that? I guess what finally convinced me to do it was the BBC Broadcasts set, which I just bought. I wrote a review of it which is available here. I also (somewhat belatedly, again by about fifteen years) finally wrote a review of the 1970-1975 remix box set. Ha ha. I hardly know why this happened but here we are. I don't know if this means I'll be making any other updates to the site but we'll see. I might try to bring some of my comments about trading more into the twenty-first century - many of the things I used to do back when I was trading seem akin to painting the walls of caves these days. Anyway, long live Genesis y'all.

20 November 2008 - At last I have chosen to sit down and bang out various updates to the site. The following shows have been added (in no particular order):

9/1/72 Sounds of the Seventies re-broadcast: awesome-sounding 2008 broadcast of this famous BBC Session
26/6/76 Fest in Bern (Digital Brothers)
17/6/77 Cologne (slight upgrade to my previous version)
19/4/75 Liverpool (soundboard Lamb show with rare Knife encore)
11/1/75 Lakeland (GASP 16)
15/4/76 (BURP 4)
19/7/78 (BURP 20)
26/3/78 (BURP 34)
1/4/76 (BURP 40)

I also added to my Mysteries page some comments I received about a year ago about the meaning of The Lamb. I updated my Lists page with some submitted misheard lyrics for "Squonk." And I added a photo credit to one of my past Contest images, since the person who took the photo kindly contacted me.

Finally I have added a 2-DVD Cleveland '07 Musical Box show to the DVD page. This is one I mentioned way back in February of 2008--now it's finally on the site.

Note that my comments about not providing free recordings to people still stand, unfortunately. It took me a very, very long time to add these shows to the site, because I just don't have the time to spend on this site anymore. I was happy to get these updates done, however. You never know, if something major happens in the Genesis world I may become more active again.

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This web site was originally built using Adobe Photoshop 5.0 and Dreamweaver 2 on a DVD iMac with an old-fashioned G3 processor. I am now working on a different iMac and uploading to a different domain. But I am still plugging away in Dreamweaver 2.

For a long time I had a paragraph here about how the site doesn't work right in Netscape. However since Netscape is I believe pretty defunct at this point (probably because my web site didn't work right in their browser), I have omitted it. This site should work on most browsers with little or no problems, as the design is very simple. Most issues will probably have to do with the type size settings on your chosen internet browser--if they are set too large certain parts of the site will not display correctly. I have also found that in Safari some of the jpeg colors do not match the page background color, even though the colors do match in most other browsers. This is aesthetically disturbing but should not interfere with site navigation.

Seeing as how the Internet is a cross-platform type of thing, it shouldn't matter (although of course it often does) if you're using a PC or a Mac to view this site. The type will look different, and pop-up windows may not appear to come up at the right size, but that's about it (and by the way, all of the pop-up windows should be adjustable). Screen resolution doesn't really matter either; this site was built on a computer using 800x600 resolution, but it also works just fine (if not better) on computers set to 1024x768. I'd be worried only if you have your resolution set to 640x480, because that's awfully small, and the width of this page might not fit in your main window.

I hope you can get the site to work and enjoy yourself while here! Thanks very much for checking it out. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact me here.

- Blue Snaggletooth (Steven Genzano)