In, in, in!

If nothing but for the Lyceum show and the 2 Knebworth (abbreviated?) shows.

Nick Davis confirmed this set in an interview back in the fall.

I had a feeling it would be exactly this material.

He also said he was going in and cleaning up the tapes from the BBC archives, but not remixing them.

Only one show on here that is complete and that’s the 1980 Lyceum show which many fans have already (I also have the full show on DVD and highlights were on the Duke deluxe in the box set).

Also, the listing is wrong when it states two songs (really three songs) are from 1980 (Mama and Domino with In The Glow Of The Night and The Last Domino) when they are from 1987.

And it kills me that Abacab, Tonight, Tonight, Tonight, the In the Cage medley, Afterglow and Turn it on Again are all missing from 1987.

I think many diehard Genesis fans are disappointed, but I’m happy anything is getting officially released.

I have most of it already, but will I buy it?

Yep, and I’m looking forward to owning these properly.

I'm surprised there's only 1 CD worth of Gabriel-era material. I'd have thought they'd be performing quite a bit on the BBC in the early 1970s.

Aw, I was really looking forward to the 1980 version of Mama.

Looking forward to anything new [sic] by this band.

Anything Nick Davis is involved with, I'm out. Which pretty much means everything from the catalog remixes forward, unfortunately.

He did a great job with Tony Banks' solo box set. Not near as loud as the Genesis remixes.

I love how the albums were remastered on the CD box sets.

No idea what the 5.1 mixes are like, and I’ve read complaints that may be legit, but I also don’t care.

Got my copy yesterday. I started off with the Lyceum show and it sounds fantastic.

Someone over at the other place said it sounds horrible. That person must have transistor radio speakers. Unbelievable, some people.

I have a lot of this material already, but definitely not all of it.

The reviews on Amazon have been savage, but they sound like clueless boobs who don’t realize this is stuff from the BBC Archives and won’t be perfect.

I’ve seen fools claiming this is no better than a bootleg.

I mean, c’mon!

Can anyone confirm the sound quality?

That's correct.... BBC archives. As such, you get what they delivered to Genesis.




Probably the same ones who whine incessantly about Gabriel and Hackett. No, that's not to take away from those two guys, but they left the band on their own terms. People seem to be in a PG/Hackett camp and others in the PC camp. I'm in both.




So far I've listened to thew Lyceum show. It's excellent. Just started on the Wembley '87 and can't give you an answer.


Did you ever get that LA radio show I told you to get?

I didn’t.

Money is so tight and I read that the recording cuts off “Los Endos” at the end, so for now I passed.

Maybe in the future though.

I’m hoping these guys finally start releasing official shows at some point and that this box is a starting marker.

Some pro-shot footage from 1987 (Montreux and Germany, though both are incomplete, we do get the first pro-shot Old Medley from that tour) has finally leaked out in video, so this stuff is in the vaults! Release it, guys!

Where did you read that? That's false. This recording is so complete that you get all the banter from Phil.

Better get it before it goes OOP.

Again, the sound is pretty damn good.

I bought this without looking at the tracklist. I can appreciate all eras of Genesis, so I figured it was safe. Even when listening through I didn't look at the back of the box, and went with a "no spoilers" approach.

Very disappointed that there was only 1 disc with Gabriel. I looked around the internet to see how much BBC material was with Gabriel, but could not find any type of comprehensive listing. However, I did look at Genesis/BBC bootlegs and, from those, there doesn't appear to be nearly as much as I would have assumed. Sure, there are multiple recordings of The Musical Box, but I can't blame them for just picking one version and including it in this box. The only Gabriel songs that I can confirm were recorded for the BBC but not included in this set are Looking for Someone and The Return of the Giant Hogweed. Omitting Hogweed is an unforgivable offense, especially when it appears that at least 2 BBC recordings of the song exists. Disc 4 is only 60 minutes. It would have been pretty easy to stick a couple more Gabriel songs on disc 2 and then push everything else back, especially since the Lyceum and Wembley shows are broken up over 2 discs already.

Discs four and five. Even though there are a couple songs from the self-titled album, a couple Ray Wilson songs, and a medley of some of the old stuff...these discs just play way too much like an Invisible Touch/We Can't Dance love-fest...and frankly I think these two records are among the weakest in the catalog. And to make it worse, Tonight, Tonight, Tonight is not present (I'd certainly rate that as the best song from Invisible Touch and maybe better than anything on We Can't Dance).

Also hate the fact that the Abacab record is not represented. Not the greatest Genesis album, but I think it's the most under-rated of the Collins albums.

I didn't think the sound quality was a disaster, but it definitely is not a great sounding set either.

I borrowed a friend's copy and enjoyed it for what it was, but it didn't convince me to buy. If there's a BBC version of Hogweed and it had been included, it probably would've been enough for me to get it.