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Local Pittsburgh radio station WDVE broadcast this gig live on the air on Tuesday 13th April 1976, and repeated the show one week later. A subsequent rebroadcast probably occurred between late late 1976 and early 1978. On at least one of these occasions the entire show was broadcast, though nearly all bootleg tapes are missing the It/Watcher encore.
One broadcast finished with the announcer stating that Genesis were recorded at the Stanley Theatre, though Syria Mosque was certainly the true venue. Sadly the Syria Mosque (once described by Bette Middler as "like a Holiday Inn in Baghdad") was demolished several years ago to make room for a parking lot! 
After the opening number Phil says "Good evening Baltimore" then hastily tries to dig himself out of trouble saying that Baltimore is only forty miles from Pittsburgh. But he's digging a deeper hole, the distance between the two cities being rather more than forty miles! 

Surprisingly there were no early bootlegs containing the Pittsburgh material until Highland plugged the gap with "A Trick Of The Show" [Highland HL 010/11#G1 - 2CD] minus the encore, then later the better sounding "A Trick Of The Stage" [Highland HL 319/320 - 2CD] which has some of the encore, finishing as It fades into Watcher. By far the best version of this show to be circulated is the recent fan release FAde002 which is compiled from three low generation recordings one of which boasted the full It/Watcher encore. 

Poster: Sowhat

Tracks broadcast by WDVE: 

Dance On A Volcano 
Lamb Lies Down 
/ Fly On A Windshield [instrumental section] 
/ Carpet Crawl 
The Cinema Show 
Robbery, Assault And Battery 
White Mountain 
Firth Of Fifth 
Entangled 
Squonk 
Supper's Ready 
I Know What I Like 
Los Endos 
It 
/ Watcher Of The Skies [intro and ending]