Set List:
Jaan Pahechan Ho
Love Of The Common Man
Black and White
Blow Me
Soul Brother
I Don't Wanna Tie You Down
Lysistrata
Viking Song
It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Free, Male & 21
Patches (Clarence Carter cover)
Cliche
Open My Eyes
Endless Prairie
Commentary and miming while listening to Lorne Greene's I'm A Gun
Born To Synthesize
Past
One World
The Wheel
Hawking
Comments by fans posted to various messageboards and mailing lists include:
"This was a show for the Todd fanatic. Almost as much talking as singing."
"The set list last night did not change radically from Sunday. No 96 Tears or I Saw the Light. A very nice semi blistering Open My Eyes. "
"One nice thing about the City Winery is there is no cut off. If you want to play for 3 or 4 hours you can, and if you want to rant between songs it doesn't mean you have to drop one from the list."
"This show may have been the most purely entertaining one of all time. There were lots of fun and jokes, but the serious stuff was serious."
"Todd came out wearing a woodpecker head. Kasim and Jesse took their whippings. Kasim sang most of the lead on Free, Male & 21."
Other websites:
TRConnection has reviews and photos of this gig here.
Kasim Sulton
Kasim described these gigs as:
"I did four shows in NYC with Todd in late Feb. and early March in an interesting fashion. Semi Acoustic.
Meaning, the line-up on stage was Todd, Jessie Gresse and myself, joined by a "percussioninst". I put that in quotes because what started out as "A couple of guys will be sitting in with the band for these shows. They'll be playing some hand percussion on a few of the songs" turned into two guys bringing entire cocktail drumsets to the venue! Granted, these are not my shows and I serve at the pleasure of The Grand Pouba. But what was supposed to be a quiet little intimate acoustic show turned into ... well, not that.
Please don't misunderstand me. It was fun and the audience seemed to dig it. The two gentlemen who sat in on "hand percussion" were Sam LaMonica and Greg Bendian. Both lovely guy's.
But I digress.
The real star of the show was the set list or, lack thereof. In 36 years of performing with Todd, I don't think there was ever a time when we did a show without there being a predetermined order of the songs.
That being said, having TR call out songs on the fly was exciting. It's easy to get bored playing the same set over and over again. That certainly wasn't the case here.
That was one thing. The other was the four or five songs we did each night that raised a few eyebrows. By now, most know what these little ditties were but, for the uninformed I'll list them here;
Jaan Pahecheo (Heiniken commercial)
Big Weekend (Artist unknown)
Friday (Rebecca Black)
Blow Me (Artist better left unknown)
Endless Prarrie (Lorne Green)
The Good Ship Venus (Artist unknown)
I might be missing one but... You get the picture. Definitely a PG17 show.
They were a great four shows and I believe there is a webcast out in the next few days of the last one on March 7th."
The band:
On stage with Todd, the band consisted of Kasim Sulton (bass), Jesse Gress (guitar) and Sam LaMonica(percussion).
Many thanks to Mark Woodin for all the photos on this page.
The venue (taken from the KasimInfo.com Blog that day):
Tonight Kasim Sulton plays a second Todd Rundgren gig in New York City at the City Winery.
This is the another of the four gigs they will be playing over the next couple of weeks at this venue which are billed as The Unpredictable Todd Rundgren.
City Winery is a small venue which is located at 155 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013-1106.
All of these gigs have already sold out but returns may be available at the door.
Also Nevessa Productions are making a webcast available on Monday 12th March at 9pm. It costs $19.95 and includes Video On Demand access for 30 days after the event.
The band tonight will consist of Todd Rundgren, Kasim SultonJesse Gress and newcomer to Todd's band Sam LaMonica on percussion.
