Todd Rundgren
75TH Presidio Hill Scholarship Fund Benefit
The Warfield
San Francisco, CA
1993-01-16

Todd Rundgren – Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars

Source/lineage-digital folder share of Audience recording captured on unknown equipment (some details pasted in below)> Audacity> TLH> TTD

01-Todd's intro by his kids and some remarks
02-Lysistrata
03-Cliché
04-Play This Game
05-There Goes My Inspiration
06-Tiny Demons
07-Hammer in My Heart
08-You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
09-I Don't Want to Tie You Down
10-What's Going On / Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
11-Love of the Common Man
12-The Wheel

Total time 00:59:06.

Here's yet another of the Todd shows that was shared elsewhere a few months ago. This one's a totally solo one off show that was performed on a bill with Jefferson Starship as a benefit for the school that both Todd's and Paul Kantner's children then attended. Todd's kids actually introduce him.
It's a loose and fun set where Todd seems to be generally referring to a sheet of numbered song possibilities on his person to determine what should be played next. Part of the schtick is deciding whether that would be decided by Todd or the audience. He's in fine voice and plays well, but the tuning of his guitars give him a bit of a problem at a few points when he's already into a song. With the "show must go on" approach he deals with the issues "on the fly" and gets on with it.
Apparently this is the show where I Don't Want to Tie You Down from AWATS entered his live repertoire, and Todd also mentions that it's only his 2nd time doing You've Got to Hide Your Love Away onstage, after the first time of doing it in Liverpool with Ringo. It's also interesting to hear Todd do 2/3 of his Marvin Gaye medley on an acoustic 12 string guitar (I Want You isn't performed). It's definitely an audience capture, and you'll hear folks in the crowd. A drawback with that is that in brief spots some of them sing, or try to sing, along. Regardless of that, it's a fun show, and a decent enough listen. Check the samples to see what you'll be getting.
This show was treated in Audacity in a couple of ways. It came over from the other tracker as a single flac file, so Audacity was used to track it as you'll now receive it. It was also a very "bright" audience recording, so EQ and Mastering tools were used to bring out a little more bottom and overall clarity. Things like the guitar accompaniment to Todd's voice now seem better for having done that. FWIW, comparatively few Todd shows circulate from the first half of 1993. He seemed to be working then on New World Order, and shows relating to that picked up later in the year.
Many thanks to whoever recorded this and distributed it to others, and to our benefactor on the "other" tracker who'd generously shared it while providing his blessing to enact sonic modifications that might prove beneficial, and bring shows over to TTD. Thanks too to fnord who'd done the initial tracking on this and had sent that my way for a listen.

details provided with the share from when we grabbed this elsewhere now follow:
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A low generation yet average audience recording of this complete one-off solo set.

Cassette > Nakamichi BX-300 > USB Audio Interface > Audacity > FLAC

No eq’ing from me, but volume adjustments, pitch correction, noise repair, fade-ins and fade-outs were executed as deemed necessary on Audacity.