Todd Rundgren-Nearly Human
Citi
Boston, MA
1989-07-31
Todd Rundgren-vocals, guitars
Byron Alred-keys
Lyle Workman-guitar
Larry Tagg-bass
Mike Urbano-drums
Vince Welnick-keys
Scott Mathews-percussion
Max Haskett-trumpet
Bobby Strickland-saxophones
Michele Gray (Rundgren)-backing vox
Jenni Muldaur-backing vox
Shandi Sinnamon-backing vox
source/lineage-Soundboard recording captured and passed on via unknown equipment> cd-r trade> EAC> Audacity> TLH> TTD
01-Real Man 4:30
02-Unloved Children 4:18
03-Parallel Lines 4:50
04-Can't Stop Running 5:55
05-Compassion 5:21
06-Secret Society 4:35
07-Something To Fall Back On 4:40
08-There Goes My inspiration 4:46
09-Tiny Demons 4:10
10-Cliche 4:39
11-TR Stage Talk 1:40
12-Can We Still Be Friends (cut) 2:16
13-Rock Love 6:15
14-Hawking 8:04
15-Todd Stage Talk 2 and Guest Intros 1:52
16-Want Of a Nail 5:40
17-Hello It's Me 5:51
18-TR band intros 3:02
19-I Love My Life 13:51
Todd released the Nearly Human album around the time of this show. His tour to promote this album was the closest thing to a soul revue, or possibly a Vegas act, as he'd ever get. It was a few years after Utopia ended, and a bit before he'd try on TR-i and flirt with hip hop. Soul and Vegas aside, there was nothing cheesy about this at all. The material was great and the live performances were energetic and a lot of fun for those of us who might've gone back to the days of the Moogy Klingman Utopia and followed along through it all with Todd (and probably kept right on doing that!).
This is a terrific recording, and I honestly can't recall who I got it from in a long ago cd-r trade. Many thanks to them, whoever they were. Another show from this tour, in San Francisco, was just shared, and there's a show from NYC at the Ritz (where I saw the tour) that's been running here for ages. The set here is slightly different from those 2 in that there's no Lost Horizon, Marvin Gaye medley, Mated, or Love in Action. Here, we have Tiny Demons, Cliche, much of Can We Still Be Friends (before it cuts out), and a lengthy I Love My Life. I can't help but wonder if the medley and anything else might've been lost at the point of the cut here during CWSBF, so if anyone out there has a more complete version of this, please do share it.
It all sounds beautiful, as the samples will show. I did use Audacity to pinpoint song starts a little better in some places, and to trim about 4 minutes total of crowd noise waiting after Hawking and during the wait for an encore. Light fades were applied to improve those transitions, and a Mastering tool was lightly applied to add a bit more depth to the recording. As for the credits above, most of the players also sang backgrounds too, so there's a very "big" vocal sound onstage. Workman, Tagg, and Urbano were all from Bourgeois Tagg, and Vince Welnick was in the Tubes (and eventually the Grateful Dead). Thanks again to whoever made this available to me, and to whoever got the recording and passed it on to the rest of us.
