I really thought this was great, and my overwhelming feeling was that this music needed to be played again. I saw this original Utopia 3 or 4 times back in the day before Willie Wilcox and Kasim came on board. This is awesome music from heady times.
Certainly, these guys are not a working unit anymore, so the tightness may not have been what once was, but don't forget that this was very challenging material for rock audiences and rock musicians at a time when Prog rock and Mahavishnu/RTF fusion was in vogue. As a fellow bassist, I loved hearing John Siegler again. Great foundation and great ideas. I'd much rather hear Todd doing this, than a by the numbers version of I Saw the Light. I was also impressed by how well he covered most of his old vocal parts.
Happy I went.
