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Blog 64 (03/15/04 - 04/06/04)
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Tuesday 6th April 2004
06.00 - Michele Rundgren's online diary has been updated with a couple of interesting points about the tour. On 03/29 she says that Todd will be gone for "5-6 months" (the tour currently only has dates booked up until July plus one date in September) and on 04/04 she mentions how excited Todd is about the new lighting creation.
05.45 - Both on Sunday and yesterday KasimInfo.com had over 4,000 hits each day (on Sunday it was almost 5,000) - not bad for "a mere bass player" as someone once described him.
04.45 - Kasim Sulton is now the lead interview on WebcasterU.com. In case the description disappears at some point, it says:
"One of the hardest working and most respected men in the music business has to be Kasim Sulton. His work with rock icons Meat Loaf and Todd Rundgren has made him one of the most in demand talents in the industry. It's little wonder why people line up to get a chance to work with him, not only is he a great talent but he's also a nice guy to boot! The one thing I noticed while researching Kasim was that in every picture I came across he always had a look of intensity or a great big smile. You can tell by the photographs that he truly loves what he does."
04.30 - Just a reminder that the new Todd Rundgren album called Liars is released today in US. Although Kasim Sulton doesn't play on the album itself, he will be part of the band to promote the album on the tour which commences on Thursday.

Kasim Sulton in Cambridge - 02/25/02
One photo I found again as I was moving files from one server to another this weekend

Monday 5th April 2004
23.00 - Just a reminder that the new Todd Rundgren album called Liars was released today in UK. Although Kasim Sulton doesn't play on the album itself, he will be part of the band to promote the album on the tour which commences on Thursday.

Sunday 4th April 2004
11.45 - The Video Of The Week section of the site has been updated with three videos showing Kasim playing Cliché.
11.15 - This thread only mentions Kasim is passing a few times but is an interesting read to hear some technical details about the forthcoming Todd Rundgren tour. Also here is the link to the BBC Radio 2 interview with Todd last Thursday. He doesn't mention Kasim at all but there are some details about the technical aspects of the tour.
10.45 - There are threads about the online chat with Kasim Sulton last Sunday here, here, here and one about one of the more technical details here.
09.30 - Apparently almost all the 3,000 seats at The Royal Festival Hall have already been sold! (It's very impressive as Todd Rundgren hasn't played a concert in UK for almost 10 years.) However there is a competition to win 7th row seats and backstagepasses here which is open to fans worldwide.

Saturday 3rd April 2004
09.00 - In case anybody else was "fooled" on Thursday, the business card below isn't actually Kasim's new business card! It could be though, other than the phone number (and I did have someone e-mail me to question whether it was a good idea to put Kasim's phone number on the site!). There were a couple of good tricks played this year on Kasim associated websites. All day TRConnection.com had Todd's name as Ted Rondgren or something similar and on the MLUKFC messageboard everybody's name was written backwards so mine was WeuS! Also on MLUKFC a few fans joined together to tell us that there were rumors of Meat Loaf playing for the England Rugby Squad sometime in July! People were supposed to have read about it or heard it mentioned on the radio. For those who weren't reading this site back in previous years, last year there was a very mild prank as I just listed on the "This Day" section "On This Day in 1994 Kasim Sulton changed his socks" or something like that. In 2002 a lot of people were fooled by a spoof interview from Rolling Stone Magazine with Kasim that I added. Click here to read it. When it was posted it had loads of Rolling Stone logos too. Some of the Kasim quotes are genuine but some I fabricated. Ironically the part about Kasim opening for Meat Loaf even actually came true (when I wrote this spoof, I had got him listed on Pollstar a few times and they assumed that is was opening for Meat Loaf but we didn't know then that Kasim Sulton would eventually open most of the concerts). I think this was one of the best interviews that Kasim didn't do!

Friday 2nd April 2004
17.30 - Due to lack of space on the server (again!) various parts of KasimInfo.com will be down at different points during the weekend and bookmarks may be changed as I move sections from one server to another.

Thursday 1st April 2004
18.30 - Some very important news about the tour has been posted here!
10.15 - Kasim Sulton receives a mention in this press release about the London Todd Rundgren concert.
04.45 - In the Off Topic section on the KasimInfo.com messageboard there are several categories of the MISAK Awards (Misak is Kasim spelt backwards (as spotted by Lost Soul) and is a play on the word "music"). Kasim is nominated for the "Lifetime Achievement Award" here.
03.15 - Tickets for Kasim Sulton's gig with Todd Rundgren on 15th July go on sale this morning. Details have been added to both the Todd Rundgren's Liars Tour and the Gigs sections of the site.

Kasim's new business card
APRIL FOOL!!!

Wednesday 31st March 2004
11.30 - As mentioned on MeatInfo.com(!) Todd Rundgren is soon to be interviewed on BBC Radio 2 but already they have announced on the show that one of the European tour dates will be 15th July at The Royal Festival Hall, London. The Gigs section of the site has been updated.
10.45 - Just a bit of cross-advertising here! On MLUKFC.com members of the fan club have a section on the messageboard where they can have their own Blog. I opted for the title MeatInfo.com and it's quite self-explanatory. I won't keep mentioning it here (I think that's called spam!) but I do quite often mention Kasim Sulton in it (obviously!), for example todays entry has some 1996 rehearsal / hotel details. The link is here.
09.45 - The venue of the Clearwater, FL gig has been changed to the Ruth Eckerd Hall and tickets go on sale tomorrow. The Gigs section of the site has been updated with the links. Many thanks to Sherrie Williams for this info. (The concert is listed as "Pop, Rock & Jazz"!)
09.00 - A transcript of the chat on Sunday in Adobe Acrobat has now been added here complete with a link of how to download Adobe Reader free so now everybody should be able to access it. Many thanks to Adrian Donoghue for converting this file.
08.30 - I haven't reported this for a few weeks (I never know how accurate this is!) but since 25th February, according to WKOnline Quid Pro Quo has climbed 85,394 places in the Sales Rank from #123,160 to 37,766 (its highest place to date was 30,324). The Basement Tapes has dropped 627 places from #67,375 to 68,002 in the same period.

Tuesday 30th March 2004
09.45 - Kasim Sulton Magazine #19 which was to have been issued on Thursday will now be delayed until the next Thursday to coincide with the start of the Todd Rundgren tour.

Monday 29th March 2004
08.00 - It appears that I uploaded one of my working copies of the chat transcript to the page which was very large (about 400 pages!). The correct one of 25 pages has now been uploaded.

Sunday 28th March 2004
20.15 - A synopsis of the online chat with Kasim earlier today has been added to the Gigs section of the site or click here for the direct link.
10.00 - Todd Rundgren held a brief chat last night (the full chat will be tonight) but a couple of items that are relevant to Kasim and his fans were:

  • Todd leaves for the mainland tomorrow (Monday) and "will be on the road for the next six months"
  • Todd expects that the tour will head to the UK in mid July
  • Sanctuary Records has contracted to put out a DVD of this tour
  • The Liars Tour VIP Passes are good for unlimited use provided; the purchser is present and among the first 25 to present it at that concert. One reservation though is that any VIP Pass holders who have never used their passes will have priority over those who already have previously used theirs (at other shows).
  • Todd is still working on the 5.1 surround version of Liars

  • Many thanks to Wendy and Hark for posting this info.
    09.45 - For today only Kasim Sulton (or at least his chat tonight) receives a mention on the front page of MLUKFC.com (on the right about halfway down the page).
    09.15 - It seems that I must just be looking at the wrong site! After dissing Kasim's fans (see 3/24 at 08.45), it's now his messageboard that is getting a knocking. In answer to the complaints:
    1) If the typing is "too small to read", highlight the text and copy it into a word processing package or even an e-mail programme and it shows at the default font of that package
    2) If you can not see latest updates to the journal either (a) join the KasimInfo.com messageboard so you can receive automatic notifications of updates to the journal and then PM anyone to ask what it says or (b) try clearing your cache and keep refreshing (unforunately this does not work for all computers)
    3) If the site takes "five minutes to load", I think that Broadband or DSL is the only answer as there currently is no html version of the site available.
    09.00 - Just a reminder that there is an online chat with Kasim TONIGHT:
    Place: MOTS Chatroom
    Time: Noon in LA
    3.00pm in New York
    9.00pm in London
    10.00pm in Frankfurt

    Saturday 27th March 2004
    08.15 - Last night Kasim Sulton sent two messages to his mailing list. The main points of his first one were:

    • The final copies of Quid Pro Quo Limited Edition are almost sold out (less than 40 remain) and will not be available again.
    • The new edition of Quid Pro Quo will have slight changes in the artwork.
    • Purchases of the second edition of Quid Pro Quo will have a chance for a lunch, brunch or late dinner, song dedication, and personalized signed copies.
    • Kasim said "Because of the overwhelming support I've received from the sales of Quid Pro Quo I am committed to getting back into the studio for another solo record" (unfortunately no time scale was given)
    • Kasim also stated "Despite the impression I tended to give, I had a great time at the Dock Street show and am looking forward to numerous solo gigs late in 2004 and throughout 2005."
    • He also reminded us that the backstage passes are available to use at the forthcoming Todd Rundgren concerts as well as at any Meat Loaf shows
    His second message confirmed the details of the chat tomorrow.

    Friday 26th March 2004
    09.30 - Kasim has arranged another online chat. The details are:
    Date: Sunday 28th (this coming Sunday)
    Place: MOTS Chatroom
    Time: Noon in LA
    3.00pm in New York
    9.00pm in London
    10.00pm in Frankfurt
    09.00 - There is a new posting in Kasim's journal on KasimSulton.com.
    08.00 - Joel Platfoot who conducted the interview with Kasim Sulton on Webcaster U.com has posted a message here.

    Kasim interview logo
    The latest interview with Kasim

    Thursday 25th March 2004
    17.30 - The messageboard attached to KasimSulton.com is down at the moment.
    06.00 - Michael Kazazis has sent some photos of Kasim Sulton when he played in the band called Eyes in about 1986 which have been added to the Photos section of the site or click here for the direct link.

    Wednesday 24th March 2004
    19.15 - Kasim now receives a mention on the front page of Webcaster U.com. As it will disappear at some point, it says:
    "Stay tuned for interviews with: YES's Rick Wakeman, Rare Earth's Peter Rivera, former KISS Guitarist Bruce Kulick, ex Dokken guitarist George Lynch, Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau and Utopia/Meat Loaf bass player Kasim Sulton!"
    (Obviously in reverse order of importance of course!)
    12.00 - Here is a discussion thread about the Webcaster U.com interview.
    08.45 - Recently there have been a few digs about some posts on the KasimInfo.com messageboard and about some of Kasim's fans. Firstly, since the end of the Meat Loaf tour, there has been very little news issued (other than the new interview yesterday) and at least people ARE talking about Kasim and secondly over the last couple of days there have been two poignant posts made by Kasim's younger fans here and here that a lot of us can learn from. As not everybody will follow those links I'll copy them in here.
    In a thread about favorite words or lines from a Kasim song, Colleen wrote:
    "i love what Sacrifice teaches us.......
    i love these bits especially,
    "its a sacrifce, you make a choice and move on with life, take whats good and leave the rest behind.....,"
    "i no that im not perfect, thats the cross i bear, whats the sense in looking back when nothing changes there.... "
    Listening to this song has helped me to stop living in regret in some things that have happended in life.......i love it when he says its a sin to wonder what could have been....there's no point in doing this cuz it wont change anything....it will only stress u out for nothing!!
    "
    And in a thread about being a fan of Kasim, Helena wrote:
    "Being a fan of Kasim is.........
    something so special and soo sacred that I feel that I'm not worthy enough to be apart of! I just feel too lucky and too happy for it to be true!! Being a fan of Kasim has been and is an amazing experience for me which feels like it's about to errupt (whether its good or bad) at anytime. But I'm not just here because i'm a fan of Kas, it's also because I have become a fan of the fans!! For so many years I have been neglected, in a way, by "friends" and people who just keep me around for the hell of it. I have never been a strong character who has been able to stand up for herself and make her own choices. I've always been easily minipulated and impressioned by people I always caled friends and I have only ever wanted to make everyone happy, apart from myself.
    But being here, I feel like a whole new life has been given to me on a golden plate. I have been apart of something so beautiful and it's so hard to explain how I feel grateful and happy I am that I've even found this.
    Kasim,
    I know you probably won't read this but if you do, I just want to apologise for not being able to find the words to how I feel about you, your music and your fans!! It's like a new emotion thats taken over me and I'm finding it so overwhelming to find an explination to these feelings!! I think ABBA got it in one when thay sang "Thank you for the music"!! Everything about you has opened up windows and doors for me in everyway possible!!
    And to you all, thank you for giving me this new life/insperation/will/ emotion, whatever it is, on a golden plate!! And even though I said I don't feel worthy enough of it all, I am more grateful than I can explain!!
    "
    08.15 - Click here for a discussion about the second version of Quid Pro Quo.
    08.00 - Click here for some really great news - Quid Pro Quo has sold out at Sphere Sound Records! It appears that ShopSourceOne still have some copies available and there will also be some for sale at the Todd Rundgren concerts but anybody wishing to purchase directly through the record company (SphereSound.com) will have to wait until the second version of the album is released later this year.

    Quid Pro Quo
    Kasim's award winning album Quid Pro Quo

    Tuesday 23rd March 2004
    15.30 - Webcaster U.com have added a great new interview with Kasim.
    07.00 - Issue #7 has now been added to the The Kasim Sulton Magazine section of the website. This issue was originally published on Tuesday 23rd September 2003 and included the following features:
    Kasim Sulton October 2003 Calendar
    Kasim Sulton and charities
    Kasim Sulton's Solo Career Part II
    Sideman's happy serving alongside star Meat Loaf article
    The Story Of A Photo
    06.30 - Here is a slideshow of about 6 photos (including two of Kasim Sulton) from the Meat Loaf concert at the Beau Rivage Casino, Biloxi, MS in 2002.

    Monday 22nd March 2004
    11.45 - A batch of new dates for the Todd Rundgren's Liars Tour have been added to the Gigs section of the site. However a lot of the dates vary between Pollstar and TicketMaster so there are a lot of "To be Confirmed" notes on the pages.
    05.30 - As far as I'm aware there was only one version of the live CD that was given away at Kasim Sulton's gig at Dock Street and yet to date on Doug Kennedy's website he has called it "Kasim Sulton - Live In Europe", "Kasim Sulton - Alive In Europe" and "Kasim Sulton- Sulton Comes Alive"!

    A fan's comments about Quid Pro Quo

    I ordered Quid Pro Quo direct from www.spheresound.com and it arrived 5 days after ordering it. The total invoiced was $19.20 and this equated to £10.60 taken out of my credit card. This is probably cheaper than if I had bought it in the UK if it was available.

    E-Mailed Sphere Sound to thank them for the brilliant service and mentioned that I had seen Kasim at both Glasgow shows and enjoyed his set. They passed my message on to Kasim who E-mailed a reply hoping that I would enjoy the CD.

    This I certainly do. Favourites are Sacrifice and Before She Was Gone.

    IanV, Lanarkshire, Scotland

    Sunday 21st March 2004
    17.45 - Deb Matheson has updated her website with more photos of the final Glasgow concert - there are too many photos of Kasim to list them all individually!
    17.30 - Click here to read a review of the final New Zealand concert including details about Shane Field's Meet and Greet with Kasim afterwards.
    10.00 - Here's a poll that Kasim is winning!
    06.30 - Click here for a discussion and some more details about Kasim Sulton's recording with The Tom Robinson Band.
    06.15 - I am still having horrendous mail problems. For anybody technical reading this it is due to my ISP blocking Port 25. It means that I am receiving e-mail okay but I just can not send it so I apologize to anyone who has not had a reply from me for a few days.
    06.00 - On a personal note, I'd ike to say Happy Anniversary to me! It was 10 years ago today that I became a fan of Kasim's - I probably would have got a shorter sentence for murder! Seriously, during this period I've seen a lot of brilliant gigs, visited places that I never thought I would see (The Old Miami dive in Detroit for example as never once in my childhood did I think I would visit there!) and, through Kasim meet some really great people both online and in person. Enough of the mushy stuff....!

    Friday 19th March 2004
    06.00 - Pollstar.com have added a batch of new dates for the Todd Rundgren's Liars Tour. Those not yet on KasimInfo.com are:
    Wed 05/05/04 - Portland, ME, State Theatre
    Tue05/11/04 - Carrboro, NC, Cat's Cradle
    Sat 05/15/04 - Jacksonville, FL, Free Bird Cafe
    Mon 05/17/04 - Gainesville, FL, The Moon
    Wed 05/19/04 - Lake Buena Vista, FL, House Of Blues
    Tue 05/25/04 - Houston, TX, TBA
    Wed 05/26/04 - San Antonio, TX, TBA
    Fri 05/28/04 - Austin, TX, TBA
    Sat 05/29/04 - Dallas, TX, TBA
    Tue 06/01/04 - Oklahoma City, OK, TBA
    Thu 06/03/04 - Saint Louis, MO, The Pageant
    Fri 06/04/04 - Kansas City, MO, TBA
    Sat 06/05/04 - Clear Lake, IA Surf Ballroom
    Ticketing and venue links will be added soon.
    05.30 - For the past 36 hours I have horrendous problems mainly sending but also receiving mail. If you were expecting an e-mail or have sent me one and not received a reply, please try sending it to KasimSultonInfo@aol.com (please don't forget the "Sulton" part!). Hopefully this is only a temporary glitch.
    05.00 - A link to issue #18 of The Kasim Sulton Magazine was issued late last night to all members of the KasimSulton Mailing List. Due to e-mail problems, I was unable to e-mail the magazine so people will have to download it from the website themselves. This issue contained the following articles:
    A Couldn't Have Said It Better World Tour round-up
    An old review of the Kasim album
    A "behind the scenes" look at the interview that Kasim gave to KasimInfo.com
    Part III of the in-depth look at Kasim's solo career.
    If you normally receive the magazine but did not get the link, please e-mail me for details.

    Thursday 18th March 2004
    17.30 - Click here for a thread and some photos of Kasim playing with Richie Sambora back in 1998.
    08.15 - One item in The Kasim Sulton Magazine issue #18 (which will be issued today) is an analysis of the recent Meat Loaf tour. The breakdown of Kasim Sulton's opening sets part is:
    Kasim Sulton played a short opening set at 39 of concerts - 7 in the US, 2 in Germany, 19 in the UK, the one Irish concert, 8 in Australia and both the concerts in New Zealand. At 35 of the concerts Kasim played a three song set and at four he played 4 songs.
    The totals are:
    39 - Sacrifice
    36 - Don’t Hold Me Back
    25 - Before She Was Gone
    12 - Sometimes Love Is A Dangerous Thing
    6 - Bully
    2 - Cliché
    1 - Across The Universe
    In total Kasim played 121 songs out of a 7 song set and Sacrifice was played at each and every concert. The most common set list was Don’t Hold Me Back, Before She Was Gone and Sacrifice.

    06.00 - Click here for another mention of Kasim's opening set in Christchurch on Wednesday. As messages from this board frequently disappear, it says:
    "As I was shuffling amongst the masses trying to get to my place in the seating arrangements, Kasim Sulton, one of Meat Loaf’s guitarists, was introduced for some solo songs, as a warm up to the main concert itself. He wasn’t received very well by the audience. Being a die hard Meat Loaf fan, I knew who Kasim Sulton was, but I could understand if the audience had no clue who he was.
    Kasim announced to the audience that Meat Loaf would be out soon, and that this was the last concert in a year and a half long tour and the other band members had something special lined up for tonight. Then he proceeded to play some songs from his own solo album.
    Midway through one of Kasim’s songs, John Miceli and another band member came on stage dressed up as spooks and prodded Kasim, and each other with pitchforks! Kasim dared them to do it again naked, but they didn't show.
    "
    (Personally I think that after Kasim Sulton has opened at 39 of the concerts, it's such a shame that the only time that his set has received multiple mentions was when people were horse-acting on the stage behind him. Thankfully it appears that he has won a lot of new fans through these sets though.)
    05.45 - GiganteMedia.com are looking for e-team members to help promote the Liars album. Anybody who joins now will get copies of the CDs and chances to win tickets to the shows. Please contact Drew@GiganteMedia.com for more details.

    Kasim Sulton
    Todd Rundgren's forthcoming album Liars

    Wednesday 17th March 2004
    18.15 - The set list and a review of Kasim's opening set in Christchurch, New Zealand last night has been added to the Kasim Sulton's Opening Set World Tour section of the site or click here for the direct link.
    17.00 - Here is another post about the concert last night. It contains the part:
    "Kasim began with three songs, but he had a tough time performing without laughing...two of the band members pulled a prank, running around in masks, capes and with the girls pitchforks, poking each other in the bum! They ten ran off stage after Kasim tried starting a song three times, got in a Golf Cart and hooned around backstage and behind the security fences. ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!!! "
    14.45 - There's been very few reviews of most of the concerts "down under" and even less about Kasim's opening sets but this mention was posted today by Amanda Fitzwater about the final concert:
    "John Micelli and one of the other band members played a joke on Kasim during his set, running around in masks, capes and using the girls pitchforks to poke each other in the bum! Eventually Kasim just gave up and laughed so much...telling John to come and moon the crowd. What a riot! He couldn't play straight...the guys kept running around behind the stage and fences, driving around in a golf cart!"
    12.30 - Kasim Sulton receives a mention in the BBC review of Liars. The mention is slightly misleading as Kasim does not play on the album but it says:
    "With only old cohorts Kasim Sulton (bass), Jesse Gress (guitar), John Ferenzik (keyboards) and The Tube's Prairie Prince (drums) for company he manages to fuse new and old with his singular genius for harmony."
    Liars is released today in Japan.
    09.45 - Earlier items on this Blog have been moved to help this page load faster. The link is at the bottom of this page.
    07.30 - The E-Bay auction for a copy of Lights On came to a close yesterday with the winning bid of a mere 99 cents!
    06.15 - Two more concerts on the Todd Rundgren's Liars Tour have been confirmed for Atlanta, GA and New Orleans, LA. Tickets go on sale on Friday and Saturday respectively. The Gigs section of the site has been updated with the links.
    05.30 - Before the concert last night Meat Loaf made another "no more shows" post. Although it could be read as no more shows ever in New Zealand it did contain the phrase "Right now I feel.... (sorry) no more music. nothing!". So far no details about the Christchurch concert have been posted other than it did go ahead.

    Kasim Sulton
    The part of the fans' poster that was given away with each copy of Man Of Steel that contains the two photos of Kasim (top left and bottom right)

    Tuesday 16th March 2004
    19.00 - As there is supposed to be a concert in about 7 hours, there is a slightly confusing new entry in Kasim Sulton's online journal. (Many thanks to Kendra Quinn for noticing this.) Also the front page of the site has been changed to include a copy of the cover of Quid Pro Quo and links to buy the album.
    17.45 - Click here for a thread about the forthcoming new version of Quid Pro Quo.
    17.30 - Jennifer Salyer has updated her website with some new photos of Kasim and a totally new design.
    16.15 - Today on a couple of Todd Rundgren mailing lists there have been posts with extracts from some recent interviews with him. Unfortunately the posts have not indicated where the original interviews came from but the relevent parts (tour hints / Kasim mentions) are:
    "Are you planning to go on tour again quite soon?
    Todd: Well, we start in the first week of April in the upper Mid West of the United States and we'll go around the country ending up in Texas and that'll be the first half and then we hope to continue through July doing a series of festivals and some more gigs in Europe and then we'll come back and we'll finish off the rest of the United States in probably the late summer, August and September, and then maybe sometime in the fall we'll go to Japan and that'll be the substance of my world tour.
    "
    "What can we expect when we see you live next? I'm too young to remember but your 70's band Utopia was known for their rather extravagant stage performances..
    Todd: Well, extravagant in this day and age is far more extravagant than extravagant was in those days so it's not as if we could possibly compete with anything like that. I think what we're trying to do is attain some level of production quality which we'll achieve mostly by using a kind of revolutionary lighting and using the very latest technology in terms of how we produce or process our sounds. We avoid taking an extra bulk of equipment around and at this particular point in time I couldn't exactly describe to you what you're gonna see because we haven't even gotten into rehearsals yet and had a chance to set it up and see what it all looks like, let alone apply what it. But I can say that we intend to have some degree of production, how much of that we will reproduce in Europe I'm not sure because if we go there principally doing festivals we won't be carrying our own sound and lights. We'll be using the festival production like everyone else. So the only thing you can expect beyond that is probably one of the better bands playing.
    "
    "Is it true that your band comprises of members from Utopia?
    Todd: Kasim is the only one from Utopia. The other guys, as far as I know, don't do any touring at all anymore but Kasim has continued to tour. People in England are familiar with him because he's been there so many times with Meat Loaf, having, for the past several years, been his musical director as well as his bass-player.
    "
    "I see you're going on tour shortly in America. Is there a chance of the tour coming to Europe or perhaps England?
    Todd Rungren: Well we're working on it now. We're hoping to play a series of festivals in July around Europe so that would quite obviously include somewhere in England and probably some other gigs as well but we're still waiting to hear back about that. We're just a little bit ahead of the window when the decision is to be made; we expect to hear in another couple of weeks but we will be coming.
    "
    13.30 - Kasim Sulton receives a mention in this review of the Meat Loaf concert on Sunday in Auckland, New Zealand. As threads from this messageboard often disappear, it says:
    "Kasim opened at half-seven, with a couple of songs that were quite good. There was some tart down the front screaming like mad and dancing about - having attracted Kasim's attention, he threw her his pick. Which apparently had his website name on the back of it. Good advertising there!"
    Also posted today was a review of the same concert on a mailing list which included the phrase:
    "Kasim opened with a few songs...and its the first time I've really heard him and actually I think I need to get his cd :-)"

    Monday 15th March 2004
    17.30 - Click here to hear all the tracks from the new Todd Rundgren album Liars and here to read an interview with him which includes the question:
    "Are you coming to Europe on the forthcoming tour?
    Well we have a promoter who's putting together a tour in July in Europe for us. A bunch of festivals and things so a lot of it isn't finalised yet. We're keeping our fingers crossed. Britain is the only place where the album has an official release date so it looks fairly certain... "
    The album has also been named the BBC's Album Of The Week (the BBC is the British national television and radio network).
    13.00 - Click here to read a nice comment by Shane Field (who is going to see the concert in Christchurch on Wednesday).
    11.15 - Alina Thomas has opened a new website which includes a section on Kasim Sulton.
    08.45 - Here, here and here are threads about the Todd Rundgren tour info that was given by Kasim in the online chat last weekend.
    06.30 - There's currently a copy of Lights On available on E-Bay for the very low "buy it now" price of $2.50 (or bidding starts at $0.99). The auction ends tomorrow and currently there are no bids on it.
    06.00 - Click here for a thread about the backstage passes to meet Kasim Sulton.
    05.45 - Click here for a thread on a Meat Loaf messageboard about Quid Pro Quo (the last post alone is well worth reading!).

    Kasim Sulton at Wembley - 01/24/04 (Sometimes I snap a good photo of him!)
    The photo which is currently on the front page of the site (and one of my favorities!)

    Blog 63 (02/20/03 - 03/14/04)

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