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Freak Parade Heavy Metal Kids Another Life Somethings Coming 7 Rays Do Ya The Wheel The Ikon Freedom Fighters Just One Victory "The Tower Theater is a slightly run down venue in a slightly run down neighborhood. But it was exciting to see "Todd Rundgren's Utopia" on the marquee as I approached. The theater was almost full." "An absolutely incredible performance by Todd and Utopia." "Kasim is a very musical player, but on keyboard, he certainly doesn't have the chops of Ralph, Moogy or Roger. (Wasn't Roger available?) As I expected, he played "second fiddle" to Ralph the whole night, not taking any major parts or any solos." "The show was amazing, I was spellbound by the music. Had a small complaint about the mix, strong sound but vocals were not a good mix, very hard to understand the lyrics. I knew the lyrics, but I took a new fan who could not understand the lyrics but did love the sounds and mood." "Ralph Shuckett played perhaps the biggest role of the night pulling out what I assume was a combination of he and Moogy's parts...with Kasim also chiming in on keys. Having Jesse and Kas there for vocals and random percussion was a great idea and really filled out the sound." "There was some slight distraction with the glowstick thing as people were frantically handing out the bracelets to the correct rows during the opening of the show but once that stopped all was well... and Todd did mention how "ethereal" the crowd looked. Not sure if we made it into the Guinness records book as the show was not entirely sold out. What I do know is that those in the first few rows were pelted with hundreds of the bracelets as they all became projectiles after the closing notes of Just One Victory! Quite an ending to an amazing night...with much heartfelt credit to Moogy for being the catalyst of this whole reunion. I'm sure he is proud up in Utopia. " "After the show I tell John Siegler that I prefer his bass playing to Kasim, and he tells me emphatically that he would hire Kasim over himself. Just then Kasim walks over, and John yells "There he is!" I get a photo and autograph from Kasim. Ralph tells me how terrific Kaz is."
Videos:
The Wheel
Freedom Fighters
Just One Victory
Other websites:
City Paper have an article about the World Record attempt at this gig here.
The band:
The venue (taken from the KasimInfo.com Blog that day):
The address of the venue is 69th Street and Ludlow Street, Upper Darby, Philadelphia, PA 19082 and the gig tonight starts at 8pm (as have most if not all of the gigs on this tour). Click here to view the venue website.
Tickets (from this link) vary in price from $37 to $72 (plus charges). (The $125 VIP tickets have sold out.) A couple of days ago the best seats available were in the fifteenth row at this 3,119 seat venue. There is limited parking in the area.
This venue was opened in 1927 and is named after to the large blue tower-like structure that sits atop the building (a few years ago it used to have a large lighted rotating ball on top too). This venue is famous for David Bowie recording his 10th July 1974 show here and releasing it as David Live. Lots of performances of the radio shows The King Biscuit Flower Hour (on which Utopia played several times) were also recorded here.
Moogy Klingman was expected to play at have played this gig.
Kasim last played at this venue on Saturday 24th March 2007 on the Meat Loaf Seize The Night Tour. Prior to that was on 8th May 2004 on the Todd Rundgren Liars Tour.
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