'Classic Todd Rundgren' Tour

Starring Kasim Sulton

Saturday 16th July 2011

Coach House, San Juan Capistrano, CA

Real Man
Love Of The Common Man
Buffalo Grass
Kind Hearted Woman
Determination
Lucky Guy
Can We Still Be Friends?
Espresso
Love Is The Answer
It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Lost Horizon
Flaw
Soul Brother
I'm So Proud / Ooo Baby Baby / La La Means I Love You / I Want You
Hawking
I Saw The Light
Courage
Drive
Couldn't I Just Tell You?

Hello It's Me
A Dream Goes on Forever

This gig was filmed and could be watched online. However there were several reports of bad mixing so, rather than it being available to watch on demand imediately after the show, the producers are remixing it and, as at a week after the gig, it is still not available again yet.

Comments by fans posted to various messageboards and mailing lists include:
"I thought Todd started off very rough, with Real Man and LOTCM sounding very strained and, if I'm being honest, unpleasant. I thought 'Hoo boy- I guess Todd's still battling a virus. 5 songs into the show, when he starts singing Lucky Guy, it was like he flipped a switch and his vocals became clear and beautiful. For the rest of the show he was in fine voice- better than other times I've seen him, I'd say."

"Todd explained at the beginning of the show that this tour was a collection of songs that he felt, if he polled the audience, that these are songs the audience would want him to play."

"I have no complaints about the video presentation. It wasn't flashy, but it got the job done. There was no hi-def, and everything looked kind of soft, but smooth and very solid. There were no break-ups or stuttery satellite glitches in the streaming for the entire show, and I never had to re-connect. One of the cameras couldn't seem to get the lighting on Todd's face right, causing it to be washed out in the lights, but it wasn't that big a deal."

"Todd was fabulous and entertaining, the set list was fabulous and his voice was spot on. The band was precise as always. The crowd was really into it from the start and chanted for more until the house lights finally came on. "

"As far as I could tell the webcast was all in mono- no 5.1 or stereo. The other Todd webcasts I've seen were all in stereo. Hopefully this was a last-minute technical problem and the VOD will have improved sound. As others have mentioned, there was a section in the middle of the show where the BG vocals got cranked up to 11 and that pretty much ruined about 4 or 5 songs before some bright boy realized there was a serious problem and fixed it. I'll be watching the show again, and hopefully all of the sound issues of the live webcast can be ironed out."

"Great band, great set, awesome show."

"We were holding out hope for Just One Victory as the conclusion to the tour."

Other websites:
TRConnection has reviews of this gig here.

The band:
On stage with Todd were of Kasim Sulton (bass), Jesse Gress (guitar), Prairie Prince (drums) and John Frenzik (keyboards).

The venue (taken from the KasimInfo.com Blog that day):
Tonight Kasim Sulton plays the 16th and final gig of the first leg of the 'Classic Todd Rundgren' Tour. The gig tonight is at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, CA which is about an hour south of Los Angeles.

Kasim last (and first!) played at this venue on 25th October 2009 during the Todd Rundgren's Liars Tour. By coincidence that gig was also the final gig of a leg of a tour.

The address of the venue is 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano CA, 92675. Click here to view the venue website. The opening act is Rob Eller.

Doors for this gig open at 6pm with the show starting at 8pm. This is General Admission gig which is sold out. This venue serves dinner before the gig and diners are given priority seating at this 480 seater venue. The website says "The earlier you make reservations, the better your seats will be!" Call 949.496.8930 for dinner reservations.

Orangecounty.com will be filming the gig tonight and streaming it live. Click here to purchase it for $19.95. The recording will be available for 90 days (until October 14th) on demand at no additional cost.

The next time that Kasim Sulton will be playing as part of Todd's band is two weeks today in Niigata, Japan.

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Todd Rundgren's 2011 Gigs

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