Why was Genesis Live ever released?
“There was a suggestion from Charisma that this [the writing/recording of SEbtP] was taking a long time and there was a chance we’d miss the deadline, that we should release a live album compiled from the best of the King Biscuit Hour tapes of recordings we’d made from our last tour. This was the first Genesis live album. Up until then, we never actually felt that we sounded as good live as we did on record. In fact it was just the opposite – we always sounded more gutsy on stage than we did on record.” – phil collins.