{"id":84991,"date":"2020-12-21T05:33:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=84991"},"modified":"2020-12-20T21:09:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T02:09:06","slug":"suppers-ready-and-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2020\/12\/suppers-ready-and-theology.html","title":{"rendered":"Supper’s Ready Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I have blogged about the Genesis song Supper\u2019s Ready<\/a> before (links to those previous posts at the end of this one). After an introduction to Genesis by way of their music from the Phil Collins era, my cousins played for me and then actually gave me one of their LPs, the album Foxtrot which includes the song\/suite that is the length of an album side, Supper\u2019s Ready. Long songs\/suites are of course typical of prog rock. I will confess that even long after I had become a huge fan of Genesis, the song \u201cSupper\u2019s Ready\u201d in its album version never really grabbed me. It intrigued and puzzled me, and I appreciated it, but one thing it never really seemed to be was\u00a0rock music<\/em>. Even as I returned to it looking at the lyrics and thinking about what I would write about the song in the book I am writing together with Frank Felice on progressive rock, this remained true. Then, just very recently, I watched this video of a live performance from the Peter Gabriel era, and my entire impression of the song shifted. Seriously, watch it or at least listen to it:<\/p>\n