Rundgren – expect the unexpected!
huzzah! Todd Rundgren heard his fans cries for a brand new set list and has come up with a new set of songs for his summer tour. but instead of drawing from his vast back catalog, Rundgren has decided to play all the songs off of his upcoming studio album titled Arena.
you heard right, brand new songs from an album that hasn’t been released yet. the man’s got balls playing 13 songs that the audience never heard before. but that’s per usual for Todd – doing the unexpected and going against the grain.
here are the updated tour dates -
Wed 7/02/08 West Hollywood, CA Key Club
Thu 7/03/08 San Juan Capistrano, CA The Coach House
Sat 7/05/08 Agoura Hills, CA The Canyon
Sun 7/06/08 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Tue 7/08/08 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater
Wed 7/09/08 Seattle, WA Triple Door
Fri 7/11/08 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theater
Sun 7/13/08 Beaver Creek, CO Vilar Performing Arts Center
Mon 7/14/08 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
Tue 7/15/08 Aspen, CO Belly Up
Thu 7/17/08 San Diego, CA House of Blues – San Diego
Sat 7/19/08 Austin, TX Antone’s Nightclub
Sun 7/20/08 Dallas, TX House of Blues – Dallas
Mon 7/21/08 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Wed 7/23/08 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
Thu 7/24/08 N. Kansas City, MO Voodoo at Harrah’s
Sat 7/26/08 Rochester, NY Nolas
Mon 7/28/08 Bearsville, NY Bearsville Theater
Fri 8/01/08 Buffalo, NY The Tralf
Sat 8/02/08 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata
*Rundgren then joins up with Lou Gramm, Bo Bice, Christopher Cross and Denny Laine for a Beatles Sgt. Peppers tribute called “It was 40 Years Ago Today” for the rest of august. again, with the “unexpected”!
..then in november it’s off to Europe:
Sat 11/15/08 TROMP International Music Festival Eindhoven
Sun 11/16/08 Harmonie Bonn
Tue 11/18/08 Rolling Stone Milan
Thu 11/20/08 Trabendo Paris
Sun 11/23/08 The Forum London
note: spoiler alert – don’t read any further if you don’t want to see the current set list…
Set List (from the Cleveland House of Blues show 6/29/2008):
Love In Action
Walls Came Down
Black Maria
Open My eyes
Lunatic Fringe
I Saw The Light
Mad
Afraid
Mercenary
Gun
Courage
Weakness
Strike
Pissin
Today
Bardo
Mountaintop
Panic
Manup
encore:
Couldn’t I just Tell You
Just One Victory
I’m not really sure why Todd still keeps playing those two covers (Walls Came Down, Lunatic Fringe). the two songs are far from fan favorites and frankly the songs aren’t all that great to begin with. I’d love to see Todd replace those two songs on the list with practically anything else from his past albums. but hearing the Arena songs before their release must be a REAL treat for long time Todd fans. but for casual fans, I’m not so sure…
++++update: 02Jul08 – youtube videos from the Cleveland show++++
Courage
also:
watch- Open my Eyes
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