Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Rockpalast - WDR Studio-L Koln, 08.01.1977
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- Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Rockpalast
WDR Studio-L Koln
Aug. 01, 1977
01. Overture: Mountaintop and Sunrise - Communion With The Sun
02. When The Shit Hits The Fan - Sunset Blvd - Le Feel Internacionale
03. Love Of The Common Man
04. Sunburst Finish
05. Jealousy
06. Windows
07. Emergency Splashdown
08. The Verb "To Love"
09. Initiation
10. Singring And The Glass Guitar (An Electrified Fairytale)
11. Utopia Theme
12. Couldn't I Just Tell You
13. Just One Victory
Utopia is :
Todd Rundgren - guitar, vocals
Roger Powell - synthesizers, vocals
Kasim Sulton - bass, vocals
John "Willie" Wilcox - drums, vocals
He is so simple in his delivery, yet gets fantastic results. Anyone can relate to him. Intelligent music for everyone. All band members on the same page. His guitar work isn't shabby either.
Good God! It's like a jazz/rock/fusion/beatles/metal band all rolled into one! Love Utopia!
This kind of music is called PROGRESSIVE ROCK !!
You're kidding us right? I'm thought it was new wave Dicso Rock? 😜
He’s replying to the 1st comment dick for brains.
Exactly!! 😝
What a fantastic concert. One of the best bands ever. I listen to a lot of music with my buddies, but they are all big fans of Todd Rundgren. We often play his records, especially in the Utopia era. What strikes me is that many Todd Rundgren fans also love another great in music: Frank Zappa, as well as Little feet (with Lowel George)! Look also Todd Rungren's CZcams film with the great Dutch Metropool Orchestra. When I listen to Todd Rundren's brilliant music I get nostalgic for the 70's again!
I love😍the drummer😊
Kasim awesome
Saw them in ‘77…
Still amazed!!!!
Totally love Todd's prog days. What an amazing display of musicianship the keyboard player is friggin awesome. Todd always delivers.
I've discovered Todd Rundgren this summer and I think he's one of the biggest rock musicians I've ever listened to. Amazing, he's work is very underrated.
+Pablo Petidier Smit I've been listening to him for almost 50 years. It only gets better!!! I'm thrilled you've discovered Todd. Your life in music will forever be changed!
+Pablo Petidier Smit great find
he is the best
Pablo - Remember Todd is Godd!
Pablo Petidier Smit Just recently you discovered Rundgren?? Hey dude, better late than to never hear him!! I recommend looking up Rod Argent , another outstanding, old school artist!
i saw this tour at the philadephia civic center in feb. 1977 with 1200 other people. this was my first todd/utopia show...it blew my mind-trippin my ass off- ive been hooked ever since. ill never forget him falling off the pyramid, the heat of the flames coming out of the spinxes, shattering glass guitar. what a show, thanks utopia.
Such a great band ! such great singers ! What a mastership of instruments and vocals ... wow ! I saw this show at the time and was completely blown away. Their album "Ra" is a masterpiece !
indeed !
***** It's a shame though that Todd is very prone to sticking his brilliant head up his own arse.... with those long spun out tracks like The Icon and "Singring and his little glass guitar". Half of what he did since "Wizard"was pure genius while the other half pure crap.Till he decided in 1980 (with the "New Wave"in full swing) to search for adventures in Utopia for good....such a shame,he probably was too accomplished for his own good.
Was ? still puts out pretty good shit. Listen to the Liars album I love it all about the Bush era of War and false religion and greed
He is like Zappa he experiments you don't get it so you say it is pure crap when it in fact is some Ingenious playing, when Zep does it ,it's a masterpiece, no it is just POP .
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"Ra" has a constant place on my IPhone
hear here, RA, OOPS WRONG PLANET, SWING TO THE RIGH, THE "WHITE" UTOPIA ALBUM
All were BRILLIANT in conception, performance, recording, and perhaps most importantly, in LIVE reproduction.
As far as I'm concerned about UTOPIA...ALL SUPERLATIVES fail to describe. TODD IS GODD
I saw the RA tour at the Richfield Colesium. It was mind blowing. When Todd climbed up the pyramid and then did a flip off of the top was wild. The entire audience was quiet during his climb. When he flipped down gasp was heard from everyone! It was such a great memory. I have many from Todd. He's so cute. 🤓😂🤙🤯♾️💜😝🤪
NYE 1977 - possibly the best show I've ever seen.
Saw the same show at the Kent State Field House just down the road from Richfield Colleseum.
I had my car stolen from the parking lot there at Richfield during another concert! 🙁
Tower Theater
Philadelphia. Pa.🎉
I saw that tour May 10th 1977 Buffalo New York blew me and my buddy's away like you said when Todd flipped off the pyramid and he broke the glass guitar just an amazing show especially with the lasers
The Beatles meets Jeff Beck/Jan Hammer.Doesn't get any better than this.This is the best resolution/sound of this apprearance that I've ever seen much better than the bootleg DVD I had.My only complaint is that some of the guitar solos & Willie's drums could be louder in the mix.It would be so great if someone do a Peter Jackson/A.I. remix of this show for posterity & remind everyone of the greatness of UTOPIA.Thank you so much for uploading this!
I would recommend this version with restored video and colour corrected. Audio has been played with subtly as well. Well worth a download for posterity !! czcams.com/video/SsSZJ8sKP44/video.html
HOLY S**T!!! Four of thee most amazing musicians I have ever witnessed. What in the HELL was wrong with audiences in the 70's!?!?!?!?!?!?
Ric Anderson
All Rockaplast audiences where like this, but they produced fabulous concerts like this,Peter Gabriel and David Bowie which features Roger Powell !
I remember seeing that first Nazz album an d getting hooked immediately. Who is that genius kid writing and arranging those amazing songs...he couldn't be more than 17 or 18. I wanted to be Todd R. There was something very magical about him. Still is...A wizard, a true star.
Totally. I think "Open My Eyes" on that first Nazz album is criminally underrated and overlooked as standout psychedelic rock - and there are some good tracks on the rest of it as well. I think he was 18 when he joined The Nazz and 20 when he left for a solo career. A Wizard, A True Star, indeed! Cheers.
Wayne Dent we gotta get you a woman lol
I named my 2003 Corolla "A Wizard, a True Car".
This a nugget of gold. I grew up with this music and I am rediscovering as well as digging deeper into all the 70’s material I am familiar with; and all of his music up to Liars and beyond. He is skilled in all instruments, lyrics, etc. ….He is near the epic and grand heights of another genius I am obsessed with by the name of Mr. Frank Zappa. Good stuff.
What a treat for old fans like me. Fabulous!!!
I forgot what a great song Communion with the Sun is. WOW! It is such dynamite to open a show with. When Ra first came out , I was in college and played it EVERY morning before I left the house. I am going to play it tomorrow morning to wake my daughter up, maybe start a new tradition.
Just an intergalactic experience!!! This is #1 in the WORLD!
Credit to the band for holding it together performing such highly produced compositions in front of a live audience.
Probably their first live performance for this album, which was released only 6 days previous.
@@alexhicks5889 Right good point. I did see this tour in 1977 in the US. Can't remember the date though, I was 17. :)
Kasim Sultan one of the best singing bass players. Severely underrated. Killer 4 part harmonies - maybe the best rock singing foursome ever.
They take a backseat to Vanilla Fudge in that department hands down. All four of the Fudge could play, sing, write and arrange. I cannot think of any other group that could lay claim to that - not to say Todd's a slouch. I once saw at a warehouse party in SF in 1990 the Tubes were backing him. Arrived a little after midnight and left at 5 am. They were still going strong - no breaks. They were very well rehearsed; not just a bunch of long jams. The harmonies were incredible among other things.
I was a TR/Utopia fan in the mid-70s but kinda lost track of him/them by '76 when punk was happening. Glad I've rediscovered all of it. That being said, it strikes me that the singing of the other three sound like TR impersonators...
That was my thought- all this precision playing, prog freakout song composition, and then fantastic harmonies on top of it?? To paraphrase Frank Zappa, these guys could really whip it out.
@@hellbillybilly4770 Seriously?
@@jamesmartin6709 Yes. Serious about the Vanilla Fudge and the block party with the Tubes. Fantastic show.
42年前に戻って、このステージをナマで見たい！（当時、日本の田舎の女子高生の私には叶わぬ夢でした）ロック史上、最高のバンド、最高のライブ、最高の音楽！ 感動しました！！ 素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます。
One of the most amazing four piece bands in history... and they get golf claps from this crowd.
maybe because they were planning on a live release he does it all the time Nearly Human is all Live in studio stuff
Studio audiences are often intellectuals (musical) and their subdued ness is total respect and digging the arrangements choreography of each instrument and their listenning for perfection which this is walah
@@walterhaynes5393 try a sentence again? My god...
I like all the different eras of Utopia, (yes, even the 80’s) but this time period is my absolute favorite!
Prince grew up on Todd (among others) and it's not difficult to see here, even if the period which probably mattered most to him preceded this by several years (i.e., the "blue-eyed soul" years). Go, Todd! RIP, Prince.
The guitar! Prince must've remembered that design for some of his.
Yep the guitar ✔️
NOW YOU KNOW WHERE PRINCE GOT HIS FANCY GUITAR IDEA FROM.
Rick James.. lol
That isn't the only idea Prince borrowed from Todd 😊
@@Mr.Mann1971 name some more...I stole from both of them.
Hard to find a Guitar player as dynamic and skilled as Rundgren during his "RA" phase. Hell, the whole Band is completely in the zone, Incredible version of - the Verb "to Love", oh yeah... Gotta love Todd's custom Ikon Guitar!!
+Sal Benvinato Amazing that there's a video of this concert. I know that during the RA tour (maybe in the states) there was a pyramid on stage that Todd daringly ascended during the show. Apparently some guy now has it "out standing in his field…"
yeah I've seen him umpteen times and the last time he played it I know of was in '85. and yes Princes first guitar was just like this
Frank Zappa
What a great blast from the past.
Todd, a wizard a true star!
Always Have Todd Rundgren BAND Utopia.❤️🙂👍🏼
i saw them on same tour at glasgow apollo. awesome this brings back lots of good memories.
Brilliant Performance .
Of course this is THE best!! Todd and Utopia played and sing their hearts out!! Still do when they get together. Love ❤️ and thank you.
Just went to see the opening concert of The Individualist tour. So I dove into CZcams to see Todd (28 here), Kas (just turned 21 here) and Roger and Willie. Discovered Todd/Utopia when I was 17 at the release of Oops! Wrong Planet. It hit me deep and hard. And I was desperate to see them live. This Rockpalast concert was the first live footage I ever saw of Todd/Utopia about three years after it was broadcast. My jaw dropped and it took my love for the music, lyrics, Todd and the guys to the next level. I was blessed to have met him a few times and even had dinner with him and Michele, Jesse Gress and his wife Mary Lou Arnold, Todd’s faithful tour manager. How lucky are we to have those people in our lives and play the soundtrack to whatever we go through!
Got to see the RA tour in El Paso, after the show the band (sans Todd) were waiting by a limo for TR to come out of the venue when I walked around the corner and there they were! Got to b.s. around for about half an hour with them. All super nice guys and amazing musicians. Plus the show was fantastic! That's a night I'll never forget.
Todd is amazing here 🎬🎹❤️🥁🎤📺🥁🎸
Such great musicianship.
I wore this record out (RA). Headphones material. Seeing Singring (56:00)played over 30 years later is unbelieveable..This is a gem.
I agree. Singring was fantastic.
Great stuff here. If any of you folks are new to 'Rockpalast' there is a veritable ton of stuff from this era. A huge spectrum of artists. You could spend a couple of days with it.
'Love of the Common Man' is close to a perfect pop/rock song.
Thanks to you cfrey for the posting.
Oh damn, i didn't even realize. Another great bounty of video-music like TOGWT and TOTP.
TheSoundEngineAF Right. Or should I say 'richtig'? Pretty much full shows, and I haven't found too many lame-ass place-holders phoning one in.
Seeing Todd perform in any way is my best day!! Many thanks!!
This was during the RA era. Utopias strongest period as a live touring act. IMO.
Saw this tour at the Santa Monica Civic. It was great.
Damn this is my favorite band. Todd is awesome.
Them's some tough vocals to reproduce live. They had cojones THIS big to even attempt it.
Holy crap! I've owned every version of this since it was available. All were VHS 2nd to 3rd generation. This is spectacular compared to those. Whoever has a "source" copy of this should get it Todd or Michelle. This can definitely be released. It is in better shape than "An Evening With Utopia'. Plus, it would be way cool to have a legit copy. Killer post!
No doubt.Best version ever.
It doesn't get better than this , amazing all the way . Listen to those back up vocals .
Thanks for this...caught this tour at the paramount in asbury nj,
4th row, all 4 wheels were turning at once....what a show!!!
I love this so much. Utopia, city in my head
@Frunk I sing the Utopia theme to my cat when he's hounding me to be fed (but with different lyrics...)
"Kitty in my heh-eh-eh-ED
You ate before!
M'Yowing in my bah-ah-ah-DEE
Get out of here!
Get the fuck out of my kih-ih-ih-CHEN
You ate just now!
Intooo the living room!
Don't have a cow...!"
He doesn't seem to mind if I take liberties with the rhyming...
I drew the Initiation album cover that is on the wall behind Todd. I found out a few years ago that Todd did the artwork on the cover! I always want to draw the artwork on many of Todd albums. A Wizard A True Star is definitely the most challenging! I can't wait to finish the Liars album before Easter! 😂🤙
Hi Kelly
@@hughhallett4589 hey!
I love how every member sings and makes for an experience very close to the album version for everything. Todd is awesome
I saw Todd Rundgren and Utopia a long long time ago in San Jose, Ca. The Drummer's set was like a motorcycle spinning around and around. I didn't appreciate the show then like I do now. I'd give anything to see that again. Todd the godfather of video.
Always good to listen to creatives that put effort into it.
Me and my friends saw this tour May 10th 1977 in Buffalo New York I seen all the great acts of the seventies and eighties in the show blew my mind. The pyramid the Sphinx the lasers for me top five shows I've ever seen in my life it was that good people... Todd is such an underrated musician and songwriter it's criminal...
Yay ! ..... Phenomenal ...!!! Thanks for posting !!!!
Seeing them tomorrow here in Portland OR - been on the Road to Utopia since my 1st show in '76 at the Wolman Rink in Central Park. $4 tickets. Still amazing how Todd and the boys would crank out 2 hours of music with back to back songs, barely pausing to breathe.
For me..... your most amazing and astoneschising album was and shall always be Todd Rundgen´s Utopia, a true masterpíece indeed... Greetings from Metal Monterrey Mexico, cheers and have a most awesome weekend, ciao.....
Todd made some really good music back in the day
godamn that bass player is killin it
I remember! This is my all time favourite year! "Communion with the sun/Son" whatever, all good!
Saw Todd in 73&74 most explosive rock band of the era n I saw em all
I saw Todd open for the Who at the first concert in the (then new) Pontiac Silverdome, in Michigan, USA, IN 1975
Wish I had seen this show....amazing!!!
What an era
great show from a stellar group
check out todd's guitar, does anyone still wonder where prince got the idea for his symbal guitar from ? it's pretty obvious ain't it ? even genius's borrow , and who better to borrow from ; oh , and the whole band willie , kasim , and rodger are freaking awesome !
There are those of us that get it and others that don't.
true words
Great!
A Wizard, a True Star.
I love this concert. I've seen this video about three times. SOOOOO GOOOOOOD.
Just looooooves "Sunset Boulevard".
What a great band!!
Where are the years....
Wow that was nice
toughest set in the world. these are not easy songs to play live. god bless these guys.
not that hard.. having done several of them. Parts is parts.
Awe - epic rock!
Wonderful! wowww! Very tks Cfrey1228
you are welcome
This guy made so much great music .
Thank you for this. Must come back to see more.....
This band was so cohesive. Was a point where you could tell where one stopped and the other started. Loved this part of Todd.
Thank you bunches! ♥♥♥
When Willie goes double time for the solos in Sunburst Finish, groove of the decade.
Qué delicia de música.
Verb to love makes me...... everytime. Such a beauty.
Sang like an angel.
Saw this show live at homecoming in college, along with Oops pyramid set. Totally awesome. Nothing like it today.
Utopia were just as good as Genesis or Yes back in the day... Awesome stuff
Better!
Even Todd and the boys could see how hyperbolic and wrong that comment is.
They were America's answer to the Brits brilliance .
I LOVE TR and Utopia, but can't agree with you. The early Utopia work was deeply proggy but they ultimately went in a different direction (e.g. the Network album, Swing to the Right, etc.) Both Genesis and Yes had such amazing chemistry. Also, as much as I love Todd (I've seen him three times) Jon Anderson is the best vocalist I ever heard live. His performances are so amazing and consistent. Genesis was such an amazing band both with and without (for a while) Peter Gabriel. Roger Powell is terrific on keys, but Tony Banks add so much to the sound of Genesis. Kasim is terrific on bass and his vocals are terrific. I don't hear a lot of people talk about Willie Wilcox, which is a shame. That dude is badass.
Thank you for mentioning Willie. A Badass, Indeed!!
Thank you so much. This was fantastic!! So raw and frankly, hot!
Beautiful guitar
Love of the Common Man is my favorite TR song. Great lyrics.
Two years ago I made a couple of comments.
If that were me at this show I'd had been screaming my ass off!
I did see Utopia in'77 in Buffalo.
so so so amazing ✨🌙✨
Would love to see all these Rockpalaste concerts uploaded in HD
woooohoooohhhhooowoohooo!
Vintage Todd
Now we know where Prince got the idea for his guitar...
...this group is so awesome ! Thx for sharing this ! ))))::::::::::
THE RA TOUR WAS FUCKING AWESOME...FUCKING AWESOME(WE GOT THE PYRAMID AND EVERYTHING IN MARCH 77 MASONIC AUDITORIUM...AND A TASTE OF RA AT PONTIAC STADIUM WITH BOB SEGER IN JUNE 1976(LOL) ..THEY COULD REPRODUCE EVERYTHING STUDIO LIVE AND IF NOT IT STILL SOUNDED VERY VERY GOOD...THE VOCALS WERE VERY GOOD AND SO WERE THE MUSICIANS... I CRY WHEN I HEAR SUNBURST FINISH,,ITS SUCH A DEEP SONG...THE RA TOUR IN ITSELF WAS JUST SO DEEP AND INFLUENTIAL IN MY LIFE....AND I WISH HI SOLO ON SUNBURST HAD BEEN FOR ANOTHER 16 BARS...THAT SONG HAS SUCH A GREAT FINISH.....THANKS TODD FOR THE LOVE IN YOUR MUSIC...
Wonderful, thank u so much for uploading
cfrey1228 MAN THIS IS AWESOME . THANKS .
I wish they kept The Verb "To Love" on the setlist in later shows. Such a great song.
Utopia and other prog bands really did it for me. Todd was so cool. So happy to have seen them a few times.
The RA Tour swung in to the DFW area smack dab in the middle at University of Texas Arlington, a fairly small hall and no alcohol was allowed - ha,. I snuck in two cans of beer in my socks so I didn't get thirsty. Full blown show with the cool video roll-in at the beginning, sphinx, pyramid jump, lasers, etc and it was LOUD - it was worth that $6.50 ticket for certain.
Been listening since the 70s
This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
"The verb to love" - some of Todd's best singing, here and on the "Faithful" record
Great upload, thanks.
Great Stuff !!
man this band reminds me of yes love this rhythm and beat very powerful and emotional deep feeling type of music very creative
Awesome concert. Thanks for sharing.