I Think You Know The Spark of Life An Elpee's Worth of Toons A Dream Goes On Forever Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song Drunken Blue Rooster The Last Ride Everybody's Going to Heaven/King Kong Reggae No 1. Lowest Common Denominator Useless Begging Sidewalk Cafe Izzat Love? Heavy Metal Kids Don't You Ever Learn?
Healer Sons of 1984 "I have seen a lot of Todd/Utopia shows in my life...this one would be in the top 3 all time." "This was the greatest Todd Rundgren show and probably the greatest concert I've ever attended. With its laser light show, incredible costumes, fantastic musicianship, inspiring songs, talented background chorus, spontaneous standing ovations, dancing in the aisles, and instruments that were rolled on and off the stage with each song, it was like theatrical music." "Todd performed with incredible energy and was totally "Into It", his voice was strong, the guitar playing spectacular and I marveled at his keyboard prowess." "No mishaps to speak of except Todd's broken string on Heavy Metal Kids, but this never slowed him down a bit. Maybe a bit of a lost "space out" during Healing #2 ( or was it #3 ). Todd just joked it off. I hadn't seen him in this good of spirits in awhile. Everything just seemed to work." "Todd took the stage at 9:30 and I feared the band would have to trim some songs. Nope, a complete 3 hour set with intermission." "The band was great...the venue and sound quality wonderful, the stage set and lighting fabulous...nothing but superlatives from me about this show." "There was an old-school video screen which employed miniature light bulbs as pixels, displaying various patterns to accompany the music. I noticed an interesting side effect of this video display: If you were to peer at Prarie Prince or Jessie Gress or Kasim Sulton through a set of binoculars, you would swear they were performing against the backdrop of The Larry King Live Show." "Todd was uncharacteristically quiet during the show, which may have been a symptom of the amount of energy (physical and mental) and focus required to pull off a show of that magnitude as well as he did." "I briefly fell asleep during "Healing: Part 2."" "When the band's only encore "Sons of 1984" ended behind a closed curtain and with the house lights already up, the audience never clapped again but instead continued singing the song a capella through six or seven complete choruses. "Worlds of tomorrow. Life without sorrow. Take it because it's yours. Sons of 1984."" "The entire concert lasted from 8:00 until 12:30." "A mesmerizing and memorable evening that I will never forget." "On a side note, I spoke to one of ushers afterward and asked him what he thought of the show. He was an older gentleman who'd never heard of Todd and I was expecting him to be nonplussed or underwhelmed at best, but his reaction warmed my heart: He said, "I was blown away... that was the best show I've seen here in 5 years!""
Other websites:
Jim Snyder has posted a photo of Kasim in his costume online here.
Tom Lawrence has posted a photo of Kasim in his costume online here.
The venue (taken from the KasimInfo.com Blog that day):
The address of the venue is 4602 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, 46208. This venue open on 18th October 1963 and was built in memory of Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes who had been a research director for Eli Lilly and Company. The website says that "The idea of a multi-purpose hall to serve Indianapolis and the community as a center for all the entertaining arts was conceived by Dr. Clowes. Funds to erect and complete the hall were subscribed by his family, Butler University and a small circle of friends sharing in Dr. Clowes’ devotion to the arts."
This venue seats 2,200 and two of the dressing rooms at this venue have showers. (I wonder who will get them!)
The gig starts tonight at 8pm and The Fixx are the opening act again. A few days ago seats were available in the 14th row. Tickets vary in price from $41 to $91.
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