Todd Rundgren's Utopia MK1 - Utopia Theme at CW Post 1973 RARE!!!!

[@frankleescarlet8881]

I have but a few brief queries I'd like to ask--niqqa what the fukk? How is it that this choice little clip has been MIA for the last four years and I'm just now finding out about it? And how did it get pass the guards? I'm looking at a tally right now that says that I'm the first viewer in the last 5 months. Seriously, what the fukk? I'm not complaining or anything it's just that I've been dragging the bottom for the last three day's looking for little gems like this. This changes everything. Thanks for the post.

[@Chordmerchant]

Yep! Also in Phoenix Arizona, 1973. One of the best Todd concerts I have ever been to. Went off without a hitch!

[@incognito7479]

My day has just been made. Thank you, God, Todd and all real people longing the city in our head.

[@maxxkarma]

This is an awesome historical recording. Thanks so much for posting.

[@vampyros1]

Wow, this is a great post; I'd never heard this group in a live context, though I don't think they were yet billed as 'Utopia', but merely as a Todd solo concert. Not really polished here, within a few month's it was an extremely well oiled machine after some player changes, and practice. Thanks for posting--

[@andyinwales]

this is the first time I ever heard a performance of Utopia #1. Todd, Tony Sales, Hunt Sales. Thanks to the guy who posted this.

[@usandthemakakelly2535]

Thank you Fern! This is AWESOME!

[@mycuff2]

I have an album that was produced by Todd Rundgren. its by M. Frog...anyone else ever hear of this rare M Frog LP? I have the only copy I've ever seen. bought it in houston texas at the record exchange on westheimer blvd.

[@paulwagoner7888]

Used to have it back in the 70's but sold off all my vinyl many years ago.

[@michaelleroi9077]

M Frog is the bb and at the root of much of Todd's work.

[@johnkirk4]

Gosh how I wish the rest of this show was available somewhere.

[@louiswheeler]

Thanks for posting this. It's nice to hear it ... !!!

[@BufordandEunice]

Interesting stuff. Hunt and Tony... I was not aware they were ever in Utopia, but I wasn't ever all that into details at the time./ Saw Utopia at the Agora in Cleveland in 1979.

[@milanpetro276]

great to hear it as it was conceived

[@kevinmcgiffin10]

OMG !! THIS IS AWESOME ! THANK YOU SO MUCH TODD !👍❤👋👋👋👋 HATS OFF TO YOU FERN !!!

[@juliekripalifeldman5307]

thanks for this treasure, fernando ~*~

[@michaelleroi9077]

Nice pics!

[@pracstock]

This is the "original" Utopia, formed to tour Wizard/True Star. Colored hair, Todd on Flying "W" double neck 6 string and 12 string, Tony Sales on double neck 6 string and 4 string Bass! Jean Yves Labat on Synth/Processing. Supposedly there was a sliver mylar geodesic dome with all of M. Frog's synths and Hunt up over top on the drum platform.

[@mojorisen74]

it's a real shame there is no video of this tour. It only lasted 2 weeks I think. Too many tech problems, biggest issue was most of the venues didn't have enough power to run everything. There was projections involved, lighting effects.

[@Gary-A57]

Brilliant!!! Nuff Said ;)

[@leonakita]

Great stuff!..same rhythm section ( Hunt bros) employed later by Iggy Pop for THE IDIOT and LUST FOR LIFE albums. the Hunt bros were also part of Todd's early albums w/RUNT and resurfaced in the late 80s/early 90s with Dvaid Bowies Tin Machine.

[@MRSHORTFUSE100]

FYI to anybody if you search Todd Rundgren 1973 a short 45 sec clip of this band comes up that was filmed on 8 mm.Theres no sound it shows Todd,Tony and Hunt Sales.Gives you idea of what they were doing on this short lived tour.If you ask me its about as rare as they come to see this from a very short lived version of this band.

[@aliensporebomb]

Rare indeed - never saw audio/visual evidence of this lineup before now. RIP David Mason.

[@joeybringle8398]

I love this stuff..utube rocks!

[@garysinger1401]

Wow in 1973 this must have been so amazing like from another universe

[@memguitar]

love!

[@Baphomet23]

This is of historic significance (aka I really like it).

[@SanderAnderon]

incredibly rare, what a find! never knew that the Sales bros were in original utopia, wow....wondering where the CW Post theater was located?

[@juliekripalifeldman5307]

hi randy, it's located in long island, ny.

[@SanderAnderon]

julie feldman thanx julie - i've been a big fan since Runt, but if cornered into a desert island era pick it might have to be those heady early days of Utopia; which would u take?

[@YouTupeea]

City in my MEMORY !!

[@fperdomo]

RIP DAVID ROGER MASON.. He passed away this week..

[@ThirdJonesBoy]

from Gainesville, FL - incredible musician. Played with Tom Petty and Joe Walsh!

[@michaelleroi9077]

M Frog rocks!

[@LordDavidPaul]

The drummer is Hunt Sales... son of Soupy

[@kevinhotchkiss6879]

Hunt's brother Tony is playing bass

[@michaelleroi9077]

Encore!

[@thelastperfectman4139]

Why was this original version of Utopia dismantled after only a few shows?

[@ApplicationHD]

absolutely remarkable - how very odd - proto-utopia!!!!

[@robbrown6934]

never knew about this lineup.Thought I was a big fan, but nooooooo!

[@tsomething8441]

the hunt brothers go on to form tin machine backing bowie.

[@mdnathan]

Thomas Smith you mean The SALES Brothers...

[@chrisnewcastle61]

+Marc Nathan you must be *that* Marc Nathan, I guess. :-) Just been reading the Billy James first book. Kudos to you, if it's true, that you were director of Ampex at 17!

[@tsomething8441]

+Marc Nathan thanks for the correction..my slip

[@7777Scion]

Hunt Sales was actually the drummer on the 2nd PARIS album, "Big Towne 2061" long before Tin Machine came out.

[@tsomething8441]

also you'll find Thom Mooney from Nazz playing on one of the Paris albums as well...the one with the green lettering on a black background

[@Ceejay52]

very sad news!!

[@johnkirk4]

Do you know who the drummer is here?

[@pj87892000]

Hunt Sales

[@fernandoperdomomusic]

you can see that in the first pic.. drums on top of the "Dome"