Original image by There Stands the Glass.
The overblown music performed at the Uptown Theater on Wednesday, April 3, was filled with showboating instrumentalists and songs with laughably absurd lyrics. Like most of the audience of more than 1,000, I loved it.
I purchased Genesis’ 1972 album Foxtrot at Metro North Shopping Mall as a cutout in 1974. It’s been my favorite prog-rock album ever since. Of course, I haven’t spent much time with it since the Ramones spoiled my taste for grandiose art-rock in 1976.
Still, I happily laid down $25 plus $14 in fees to hear Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett and five able musicians play a note-perfect rendition of Foxtrot in pleasingly high fidelity on the “Genesis Revisited: Foxtrot at 50 & Hackett Highlights” tour.
Experiencing the concert as a beautiful requiem for the two or three years I unironically embraced prog-rock as a child served as a soothing therapy session. As “Time Table” has it, it was “a time of valor and legends born.”