Todd Rundgren’s Utopia *
July 8, 1976
Grand Valley State Dome
Allendale, Michigan
- Audience recording -

* Billed as Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, this four piece version of the band would soon be known as simply Utopia.

From the original source: Cassettes from pre-2000 tape trade > Nakamichi BX-300 > USB Audio Interface > Audacity > FLAC
For this torrent: Audacity> wav> iTunes> xACT> flac

01. Overture
02. Commmunion With the Sun
03. When the Shit Hits the Fan - Sunset Blvd
04. Le Feel Internationale
05. - Todd welcomes everybody
06. Love of the Common Man
07. - TR announces the next song
08. The Seven Rays
09. The Verb “To Love”
10. - band personnel
11. Emergency Splashdown
12. Black and White
13. - TR talks "campfire songs"
14. The Wheel
15. Initiation
- intermission -
16. Real Man (cuts in)
17. - Todd announces Roger Powell's composition
18. Landmark (Roger lead vocals)
19. -TR talks previous Utopia album
20. Mister Triscuits
21. Something’s Coming (Bernstein/Sondheim cover)
22. Heavy Metal Kids
23. Jealousy (Willie lead vocals)
24. Hiroshima
25. Todd talks "electrified fairy-tale"
26. Singring and the Glass Guitar
27. Freedom Fighters
28. Do Ya (The Move cover)
29. Just One Victory

The band members:
Todd Rundgren – Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Vocals
Roger Powell – Keyboards, Vocals
Kasim Sulton – Bass, Vocals
John “Willie” Wilcox – Drums, Percussion, Vocals

This sounds so good it's tempting to think it's a soundboard! It's not perfect, with some minor cuts and audience noise, but the taper must have been in a sweet spot for sound, and relatively little interference from the audience. Some work done using Audacity made this even better; with the valuable help of TTD member jswetch. If you dig this era of Utopia, don't pass it up! It's a great early example of the four-piece Utopia.

From this source:
https://www.guitars101.com/threads/todd-rundgrens-utopia-1976-07-08-grand-valley-state-dome-allendale-mi-aud-flac.831627/?post_id=4006219&nested_view=1&sortby=oldest#post-4006219

Notes from the source:
Audience Recording. Total time 02:07:40
Billed as Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, this four piece version of the band would soon be known as simply Utopia. They would continue to tour and record consistently for the next ten years.
This tour came upon the heels of Todd’s solo album Faithful. More attention is paid to the material on the forthcoming Utopia album RA (released February 1977).
There are a couple of tunes from Roger Powell’s Air Pocket album (including the live rarity “Landmark”), which wouldn’t come out until 1980.
Bassist Kasim Sulton was brand new to the band and gets less lead vocal time than Roger and Willie. That would soon change.

Thanks to the generous poster for sharing this recording, via the link at guitars 101.
If anyone has more recordings of this era of Utopia, please post them!

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https://toddrundgren.bandcamp.com

Since this was Kasim's first tour, check out his website:
https://www.kasimsulton.com/
and his presence on Bandcamp:
https://bandcamp.com/search?q=kasim%2Bsulton