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TODD RUNDGREN LIVE @ THE WILTERN
Images from Todd Rundgren Live at the Wiltern Theater Los Angeles May 9th 2019
Sub-Titled: Did I write his set list?
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Sweet D did Todd with me again. When I say “again” it means it’s her third or fourth time. I love him. She knows it makes me happy. The hot mustard at Coles makes her happy. Thus. Pre-show visit.

I was pretty excited about seeing Todd again… I don’t exactly know why. I took a picture of the Marquee so you all could be as excited as me.

As with Trower it was a very simple set up with the addition of videos.

I took quite a few of these “long distance, couldn’t afford better seats” photos, so I won’t bore you with all of them… but my three takeaways are…

- I was digging it so much I didn’t say anything to the guy behind me who talked during the entire show. He was ‘splainin’ Todd to his son. Every nuance of every song. I was happy he was doing it. D, not so much.
- Speaking of D, she turned to me and said, “You don’t have to tell me the name of every song after the first note.” Yeah, I was that guy. I got a little too excited.
- The setlist was like he was plugged into almost every song I’ve become fixated on over the years. The only two songs he missed that I put on ‘endless repeat’ were “Wailing Wall” and “Hawking.” Otherwise… UFB! I heard “Fair Warning” live and almost cried.

Love owns us all,
time owns us all,
life owns us all
But the world doesn’t own me…
Todd
SET LIST
Intro (How About a Little Fanfare?)
Set 1:
I Think You Know
Open My Eyes
Hello It’s Me
We Gotta Get You a Woman
I Saw the Light
It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference
Black Maria
An Elpee’s Worth of Toons
Sometimes I Don’t Know What to Feel
Too Far Gone
A Dream Goes on Forever
The Death of Rock and Roll
Can We Still Be Friends
Real Man
Love of the Common Man
Compassion
Couldn’t I Just Tell You
Fair Warning
Set 2:
VIDEO w A Treatise on the Cosmic Fire (Pt 2)
Q&A
The Individualist
Cliché
Black and White
Eastern Intrigue
Tiny Demons
Lost Horizon
Buffalo Grass
Bag Lady
The Want of a Nail
Encore:
Fade Away