Todd Rundgren-The Unpredictable Tour
The Theatre at Westbury
Westbury, NY
2014-10-31

Todd Rundgren-guitar, piano, vocals
Kasim Sulton-bass, piano (Muskrat Love), vocals
Jesse Gress- guitar
Gregg Bendian- drums

Lineage- audience capture on Roland Edirol R-05 internal mics > WAV to FlAC via TLH> Torrent creation via TLH > TTD

SETLIST

Hello There
I Dont Want to Tie you Down
Running Bear
Love of the Common Man
Friday
Are You Having Any Fun?
Black ahd White
Fire
Cliche
Big Weekend
Song of the Viking
It Wouldnt Have Made Any Difference
Too Far Gone
Compassion
Endless Prairee
I Saw the Light (bossa nova)
Hello Its Me
Lysistrata
Muskrat Love
The Wheel
Past
Love in Action
One World

Thought for awhile about whether to seed this because it's far from a pristing audience recording for the reasons outlined below. That being said, I've decided to do it because there isn't much that I know of from this tour which is available. This setlist is different enough from the 2014-11-12 show that I thought it might interest TR fans. The sound issues I mention below are not constant annoyances, but definitely are there at some times. When they're not present, this recording is quite listenable.
Halloween night of the Unpredictable Tour and things were "spooky" at times, very loose at other times, and even satisfying and nice at yet others.
The "spooky" parts had to do with stage and sound problems. The stage stuff you'll hear Todd refer to first had to do with some dry ice/smoke effect that he apparently didn't want, which wouldn't stop. There was also a big problem with Kasim's bass sound that made it at times sound like the proverbial ocean liner foghorn, and not a modern bass guitar through a high quality amp and sound system. This same type of issue was there when the set shifted to piano driven songs, and you'll hear Todd comment on that. He actually stopped Compassion to try to get the soundman to fix things. The bass register of the piano was creating the same foghorn effect. Unbelievable that an artist noted for his production career and sound engineering skills had to put up with this live! These issues were pretty much there at times throughout the night.
The loose parts had to do with a substitute drummer for Prairie Prince, the very competent Gregg Bendian, who nonetheless was not too tight with Kasim.Between the sound and rhythm section issues, Kas wore a pretty sour look on his face through the set. Todd's whole "goofy schtick" led to even more looseness on the audience's part, as the "Unpredictable" show veered into weekend themed songs (Halloween was on a Friday). This only encouraged more audience chatter and some very unwelcome, loud, and provocative audience participation, particularly at the end of The Wheel.
The satisfying and nice parts had to do with Todd's good voice and positive vibe during a show that might've seen other more temperamental artists storming off the stage. As a very long-time Todd fan, I was happy overall, and as mentioned above, many parts of this show are very listenable. BTW, I'd seen him on the Oops tour on a Halloween at Radio City many years ago and on another Halloween in New Jersey right before Adventures in Utopia came out.
If this description of the show doesn't scare you off, do download it. Just wanted you to have an idea of what you might be hearing.
Please support all of these artists by purchasing their commercially released products (Kasim has a new cd out; and Todd's BBC box is soon out) and by seeing them live.