Todd Rundgren 2008 Tour

Starring Kasim Sulton

Saturday 12th April 2008

The Tampa Theatre
Tampa, FL

The set list has not been posted online but it was likley to be based around the following songs:
Buffalo Grass
I Hate My Frickin' ISP
Black Maria
Soul Brother
Mammon
Fascist Christ
I Saw The Light
Black And White
Lunatic Fringe
No 1 Lowest Common Denominator
Drive
Tiny Demons
Mystified / Broke Down And Busted / Mystified
S.L.U.T.
The Walls Came Down
One World

Hawking
Trapped
Worldwide Epiphany

Kasim Sulton and Todd Rundgren at the Tampa Theatre, Tampa, Florida, 04/12/08 - photo by Tony Cona

Other websites:
TRConnection.com has some reviews and photos of this gig here.

LukesFan has added some videos of this concert - I Saw The Light, Trapped and Worldwide Epiphany.

Kasim Sulton and Todd Rundgren at the Tampa Theatre, Tampa, Florida, 04/12/08 - photo by Tony Cona

Comments posted by fans on mailing lists and messageboards include:
"In this ornate theater built in 1926, an awesome rock concert almost shook the cherubs off their plaster foundations."

"Just when I was thinking, 'I wish I could hear Kasim do a solo'., comes Trapped during the three song encore. Kaz's vocals are still as powerful as ever!"

"Tampa Theatre was fantastic place for a show, so historic and ornate. There appeared to be some technical problems though."

"Jesse, Kasim, and Prairie are every bit as talented as the E Street Band, if not more so. Todd refuses to mix it up. Why?"

"Band badly jetlagged, but sounded great (Todd's voice kind of shot at times)."

"Kasim, Jesse, Prairie, Todd...what a show! Thank you guys!"

"Kasim's voice very strong, bass thundered."

"During One World they sang "Tampa to Tokyo"!"

Kasim Sulton and Todd Rundgren at the Tampa Theatre, Tampa, Florida, 04/12/08 - photo by Tony Cona

The venue (taken from the KasimInfo.com Blog that day):
Kasim Sulton venue Tonight Kasim Sulton plays the first of six gigs this month in US as part of Todd Rundgren's band. The gig tonight is at the Tampa Theatre in Tampa, Florida.

The address of the venue is 711 Franklin Street, Tampa, FL 33602 and the concert tonight starts at 7.30pm. Click here to view the venue website (unfortunately Kasim is not mentioned by name on the site). Tickets for the concert are $41 & $33.50 and can be purchased from this link. This morning there were two seats available in the 7th row of the orchestra section.

This venue was built by Paramount Studios opened on 15th October 15 1926 and cost $1.2 million to build. Back then it cost 25 cents to see a movie at the theater! Apparently is a very ornate building and in 1978 it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was also the first commercial building in Tampa to offer air conditioning.

There are 1,446 seats in the theater and a couple of useless facts are that there are 99 stars in the auditorium ceiling and 245,185 tiles on the lobby floor! They also advise you to look up at the ceiling before the show starts as apparently it looks like clouds are moving above you. This venue is also supposed to be haunted!

Kasim Sulton venue

Many thanks to Tony Cona for all the photos on this page.

This photo shows how ornate the venue is:
Kasim Sulton and Todd Rundgren at the Tampa Theatre, Tampa, Florida, 04/12/08 - photo by Tony Cona

Is this a guitar tech standing beside Kasim or the venue ghost?!!!
Kasim Sulton and Todd Rundgren at the Tampa Theatre, Tampa, Florida, 04/12/08 - photo by Tony Cona

Kasim Sulton and Todd Rundgren at the Tampa Theatre, Tampa, Florida, 04/12/08 - photo by Tony Cona

Todd Rundgren 2008 Tour

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