singring and the glass guitar part 2

performed live in germany 1977.quality varies. unfortunately had to cut the song into three parts because of its length.

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• utopia

[SpocksBrain425]

We saw Utopia play this on New Years Eve 1978 at the Richfield Colloseum near Cleveland. It was awesome. No midnight countdown, just this long bit. They played til 1:30 AM. Unbelievable, especially considering what hacks today's pop artists are in comparison.

[migjp7]

Thanks soooooo much for posting this!

My next door neighbor went to this show when they played in St. Paul and until now I couldn't believe they could pull this song off live!

What we all have to remember is this was 1977 people and to do those kind of harmonies and the endurance of the musicianship to play that long of a song was simply ASTOUNDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hat's off to Todd, so damn clever in his writing ability and superb musicanship.

Thank you Rundgrenfan you too are AWESOME!

[545t3t4t5]

kasim sulton, wow! from 1:35-1:44 thats seriously one of the best bass solos ive ever heard!

[jflinn210]

Saw this live in Toledo, Oh, October of 1977. Utopia came out and played 7-8 songs from Oops, Wrong Planet, dressed in just white T-shirts and jeans, then took about a 15-20-min intermission. When the curtains parted, there was the Sphinx, the pyramid, the dry ice/smoke ... the lights went down, and then we heard, "THIS ... is an electrified fairy tale." That was it. I was hooked. Have been to this day.

[JimmyLeeVanDePutte]

Crazy Todd and co.

[kenmeyerjr]

this is one of the songs that proves this is truly a band and not just a Todd vehicle.

[danmist]

Keyboard solo needs lasers....

[bei1016]

Wow! RA is still 1 of my favorite Utopia CD's. What a Treat to see these tracks live. Thank you, These guys are Unbelieveable.

[SpocksBrain425]

@shiitaco Well sonny, don't come around talking trash on a 70s video if you don't want to hear opinions you might not agree with. A young 20-some friend of mine shared something once from a group called Mars-something, maybe the same one you mentioned. It was interesting, but seemed very derivative. Much of today's music sounds like it could have played in the 70s or 80s. Meanwhile, 30 years before the 70s was the Bib Band era. I'm simply not impressed.

[shiitaco]

@SpocksBrain425 "Unbelievable, especially considering what hacks today's pop artists are in comparison." I'd consider that a cheap shot and I was responding. I was suggesting that instead of attacking "kids these days" and their music, that your generation also had some terrible shit. A lot of people think our generation is worthless musically and it's simply not true.

[SpocksBrain425]

@shiitaco never heard of them. And next time, if you have some intelligent point, why not make it instead of taking a cheap shot

[shiitaco]

@SpocksBrain425 We're obviously only talking about pop stars, and I doubt you could find any pop stars in the 70s that would be willing to play a long ass jam, just as I can't name any now...which was the point of my post. Now if you want to talk about real music, I can name a number of modern bands, many of whom can stand up to Rundgren musically, that jam for ages. The Mars Volta and Dream Theater are probably my favorite. I saw TMV on New Years 07/08 and they rocked out for about 5 hours.