The ARENA dates for October
10/18 Bayshore, LI, NY - YMCA Boulton Center
10/20 Rochester, NY - German House Theater
10/21 Annapolis, MD - Rams Head
10/23 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Spectrum (Festival Show)
10/25 San Juan Capistrano, CA - The Coach House
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Friday, August 28, 2009
TODDCAST TV PPV
For those who are unable to travel to any of the AWATS shows, tickets for the two AWATS PPV packages are available at:
Akron:
http://live.todocast.tv/template.multi-add_16x9_clogo.php?EventNumber=TDC-E1151
Chicago:
http://live.todocast.tv/template.multi-add_16x9_clogo.php?EventNumber=TDC-E1153
Akron:
http://live.todocast.tv/template.multi-add_16x9_clogo.php?EventNumber=TDC-E1151
Chicago:
http://live.todocast.tv/template.multi-add_16x9_clogo.php?EventNumber=TDC-E1153
Thursday, August 27, 2009
sad fan has to sell ticket Akron 6th show 2 seats
2 Orchestra section 1 / seats K3 and K4 on the end... great seats!
Sunday Sept 6th, Akron Civie Theatre 8pm
contact andy at the email below for information
lavalle@gmail.com
Sunday Sept 6th, Akron Civie Theatre 8pm
contact andy at the email below for information
lavalle@gmail.com
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
awats pay per view
AWATS PAY PER VIEW
Join Todd and his stellar band live, in real time, as it happens, for an historic concert extravaganza -- consisting of an extended pre-show, a "special secret surprise opening act", a brief content-filled intermission, and then -- AWATS unexpurgated!! Performed in its entirety for the first time in the history of recorded time, this event will be a production to rival Las Vegas and Broadway, incorporating video projection, special effects, and multiple costume changes --- including original outfits from the AWATS era.
Package #1: September 6 & 7 from the Akron Civic Center, Akron OH
(Sept 6 Pre-show begins 7pm Eastern Daylight Time, Sept 7 Pre-show begins 6pm Eastern Daylight Time)
Package #2: September 12 & 13 from the Park West, Chicago IL
(Pre-show begins both nights 8pm Eastern Daylight Time)
Frank Bubnick's AWATS compilation project
The Live AWATS Project
http://bubnick.trconnection.com/
click on this link below to find the mp 3 of songs that have performed live in the past for AWATS show
http://www.stratlogistics.com/AWATS/index.html
Todd Has Performed Many, but not all, of the songs from AWATS over the years live.
Here are versions of all the ones I could find in my collection.
If you have some of the missing tracks, send me an E-mail and I'll post them here.
I picked what was mostly convenient and in some cases the only versions I had.
Some just popped into my head that there were played on a certain tour or there was a certain memorable version.
Edits are rough, I just got the tracks off the CD's and chopped to length.
Can't wait for the Akron show on September 5th so I can hear ALL of these songs,
some of which will be performed live for the very first time!
You can always check out my list of live shows at: http://bubnick.trconnection.com
AWATS Live Project:
1. International Feel - Audience November '73 Detroit
2: Never Never Land - Board tapes 5/14/78 Bottom Line
3. Tic Tic Tic, It Wears Off - Audience CW Post University 5/3/73
4. You Need Your Head - missing
5. Rock and Roll Pussy - missing
6. Dogfight Giggle - missing - This should be interesting on the new tour!
7. You Don't Have to Camp Around - Audience November '73 Detroit
8. Flamingo - missing
9. Zen Archer - Board tapes 5/14/78 Bottom Line
10. Just Another Head/Da Da Dali
11. When The Shit Hits the Fan / Sunset Blvd. - FM 10/20/77 Chicago
12. Le Feel Internacionale - Live in Cyberia Laserdisc '94
13. Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel - Board Tapes 5/14/78 Bottom Line
14. Does Anybody Love You? - missing
15. Oldies Medley - Board Tapes 5/14/78 Bottom Line
16. Hungry for Love - Audience November '73 Detroit
17. I Don't Want to Tie You Down - Boston 2/4/99 FM Board
18. Is It My Name? - Audience November '73 Detroit
19. Just One Victory - Midnight Special 1978 with extra long solo ending
AWATS radio promo ad
http://bubnick.trconnection.com/
click on this link below to find the mp 3 of songs that have performed live in the past for AWATS show
http://www.stratlogistics.com/AWATS/index.html
Todd Has Performed Many, but not all, of the songs from AWATS over the years live.
Here are versions of all the ones I could find in my collection.
If you have some of the missing tracks, send me an E-mail and I'll post them here.
I picked what was mostly convenient and in some cases the only versions I had.
Some just popped into my head that there were played on a certain tour or there was a certain memorable version.
Edits are rough, I just got the tracks off the CD's and chopped to length.
Can't wait for the Akron show on September 5th so I can hear ALL of these songs,
some of which will be performed live for the very first time!
You can always check out my list of live shows at: http://bubnick.trconnection.com
AWATS Live Project:
1. International Feel - Audience November '73 Detroit
2: Never Never Land - Board tapes 5/14/78 Bottom Line
3. Tic Tic Tic, It Wears Off - Audience CW Post University 5/3/73
4. You Need Your Head - missing
5. Rock and Roll Pussy - missing
6. Dogfight Giggle - missing - This should be interesting on the new tour!
7. You Don't Have to Camp Around - Audience November '73 Detroit
8. Flamingo - missing
9. Zen Archer - Board tapes 5/14/78 Bottom Line
10. Just Another Head/Da Da Dali
11. When The Shit Hits the Fan / Sunset Blvd. - FM 10/20/77 Chicago
12. Le Feel Internacionale - Live in Cyberia Laserdisc '94
13. Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel - Board Tapes 5/14/78 Bottom Line
14. Does Anybody Love You? - missing
15. Oldies Medley - Board Tapes 5/14/78 Bottom Line
16. Hungry for Love - Audience November '73 Detroit
17. I Don't Want to Tie You Down - Boston 2/4/99 FM Board
18. Is It My Name? - Audience November '73 Detroit
19. Just One Victory - Midnight Special 1978 with extra long solo ending
AWATS radio promo ad
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Rock and Roll hall of fame appearance
Todd will be at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday Sept 7th at 1PM. He will be doing a photo op with the press at his display. We are working out the details for a fan meet and greet to follow with Todd Kasim, Roger and Prairie . The...re should be a group discount in place for TR fans that day. More details to come
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Huffington post todd article
Hello It's Me, Todd Rundgren: A Digital Chat With a Wizard, a True Star
David Wild TV Writer, Rolling Stone Contributing Editor and author of "He Is . . . I Say"
Posted: August 23, 2009 10:15 PM
Sure, Eric Clapton may have been God first, but growing up in New Jersey in the Seventies, I somehow decided to buy American when it came to guitar gods. And so I began to worship Todd Rundgren, the brilliantly talented singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer-arranger and part-time cult superstar who remains to this day a musical force with which to be reckoned.
Todd Rundgren's wildly eclectic career is such that even his devoted fans may only know part of what the man has achieved over the years, from his days with the Nazz, to producing everyone from the New York Dolls to Grand Funk Railroad to Meatloaf to Patti Smith to XTC, to blowing lots of progressive minds with the group Utopia, to foreseeing massive technological changes in the music business before just about anyone else. In his spare time, Todd has always been one of the great vocalists, musicians and guitar gods on earth. And as a dad myself now, I can't help but admire how Todd was also a way cool father figure to Liv Tyler during that long stretch when Steven Tyler was out to an extended chemical lunch.
One thing that Todd Rundgren hasn't ever done is make things particularly easy on himself. Todd's latest challenge is a characteristically wild and challenging one. He's bringing one of his finest and most completely trippy album A Wizard, A True Star to theatrical life for an ambitious series of shows that will find him performing it in its entirety starting on September 6th at the Akron Civic Theater, with further dates already set in Stamford, Connecticut, Bethesda, Maryland, Chicago and Minneapolis. Toddheads not in those neighborhoods will be able to eventually see the Stamford show on DVD and hear it on CD next year, or perhaps more in keeping with Todd's forward-thinking view of the world, they can watch that show live on the web on Pay Per View -- you can find details here.
In my excitement at hearing this non-Fox bit of news, I decided to pimp this exciting occasion to hit Todd up with a few questions about this upcoming theatrical endeavor, about the state of the music business and about his own unique and still-evolving place in living music history.
So all of you Huffington Post-ers, please honk if you too love Todd Rundgren -- whose work appears regularly on the playlists I post here. And if you you're your own questions for the Wizard, write in and maybe God -- I mean Todd -- will answer some of your questions too.
And if Todd doesn't, don't worry. Like the man says, "A Dream Goes On Forever."
Todd, I know why I love A Wizard, A True Star, but why did you choose this album for special live treatment over something/anything else, like for, instance, Something/Anything?
Like a high-priced prostitute, I have my specialties, but I am not above entertaining a bizarre request from the client. My first thought was "...well, it's been a very long time. I'm not sure if my knees are up to it." Then it occurred that there might be something in it for me -- perhaps a settlement of unfinished business. Like somebody Dexter forgot to kill and then he had a lucky chance opportunity to off them in Emmy-winning style.
I saw the production of your Up Against It twice at the Public Theater, so I'm a fan of your theatrical side. How theatrical will this tour get? Will you be channeling your inner Tommy Tune?
You presume I have an inner TT. Unless Tommy can trot out a convincing Soupy Shuffle, I may have to draw my terpsichorial influence elsewhere. There will be quite a few costume changes, some involving originals from the 70s. In such instances, I will be calling on my inner tapeworm so as to fit into them. And let us not forget the Cool Jerk in 7/4. Take that, Tommy!
You foresaw a sea change coming in the music business a long, long time ago -- way ahead of the pack. How do you view the increasing importance of live performance over music sales today: as an encouraging reaffirmation of the meaning of music or an exhausting pain in the ass?
At the expense of tooting my own prognosticational horn, totally covered this years ago. It's amazing how people think you are being revelatory if you can simply bring yourself to accept the facts. Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow there will be performance.
More to the point, successful record sales result not in gigantic windfalls of cash for the artist unless they opt to demonstrate their ability to reproduce such performances before witnesses and collect the commensurate rewards therefrom... that being a greater than 50% slice of ticket prices plus merch sales vs. 20 or less percent of record royalties. 'Twas ever thus. The Road Rules.
Even with all your success and influence and a masterful and eclectic body of work, you've been called an undervalued genius, by me at least. Do you feel more undervalued or more genius?
I've been ruminating on this genius thing, and if the cinema is any indication, being misunderstood and undervalued is the true mark of genius. If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses, the other half peculiarly enough, idiots.
David Wild TV Writer, Rolling Stone Contributing Editor and author of "He Is . . . I Say"
Posted: August 23, 2009 10:15 PM
Sure, Eric Clapton may have been God first, but growing up in New Jersey in the Seventies, I somehow decided to buy American when it came to guitar gods. And so I began to worship Todd Rundgren, the brilliantly talented singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer-arranger and part-time cult superstar who remains to this day a musical force with which to be reckoned.
Todd Rundgren's wildly eclectic career is such that even his devoted fans may only know part of what the man has achieved over the years, from his days with the Nazz, to producing everyone from the New York Dolls to Grand Funk Railroad to Meatloaf to Patti Smith to XTC, to blowing lots of progressive minds with the group Utopia, to foreseeing massive technological changes in the music business before just about anyone else. In his spare time, Todd has always been one of the great vocalists, musicians and guitar gods on earth. And as a dad myself now, I can't help but admire how Todd was also a way cool father figure to Liv Tyler during that long stretch when Steven Tyler was out to an extended chemical lunch.
One thing that Todd Rundgren hasn't ever done is make things particularly easy on himself. Todd's latest challenge is a characteristically wild and challenging one. He's bringing one of his finest and most completely trippy album A Wizard, A True Star to theatrical life for an ambitious series of shows that will find him performing it in its entirety starting on September 6th at the Akron Civic Theater, with further dates already set in Stamford, Connecticut, Bethesda, Maryland, Chicago and Minneapolis. Toddheads not in those neighborhoods will be able to eventually see the Stamford show on DVD and hear it on CD next year, or perhaps more in keeping with Todd's forward-thinking view of the world, they can watch that show live on the web on Pay Per View -- you can find details here.
In my excitement at hearing this non-Fox bit of news, I decided to pimp this exciting occasion to hit Todd up with a few questions about this upcoming theatrical endeavor, about the state of the music business and about his own unique and still-evolving place in living music history.
So all of you Huffington Post-ers, please honk if you too love Todd Rundgren -- whose work appears regularly on the playlists I post here. And if you you're your own questions for the Wizard, write in and maybe God -- I mean Todd -- will answer some of your questions too.
And if Todd doesn't, don't worry. Like the man says, "A Dream Goes On Forever."
Todd, I know why I love A Wizard, A True Star, but why did you choose this album for special live treatment over something/anything else, like for, instance, Something/Anything?
Like a high-priced prostitute, I have my specialties, but I am not above entertaining a bizarre request from the client. My first thought was "...well, it's been a very long time. I'm not sure if my knees are up to it." Then it occurred that there might be something in it for me -- perhaps a settlement of unfinished business. Like somebody Dexter forgot to kill and then he had a lucky chance opportunity to off them in Emmy-winning style.
I saw the production of your Up Against It twice at the Public Theater, so I'm a fan of your theatrical side. How theatrical will this tour get? Will you be channeling your inner Tommy Tune?
You presume I have an inner TT. Unless Tommy can trot out a convincing Soupy Shuffle, I may have to draw my terpsichorial influence elsewhere. There will be quite a few costume changes, some involving originals from the 70s. In such instances, I will be calling on my inner tapeworm so as to fit into them. And let us not forget the Cool Jerk in 7/4. Take that, Tommy!
You foresaw a sea change coming in the music business a long, long time ago -- way ahead of the pack. How do you view the increasing importance of live performance over music sales today: as an encouraging reaffirmation of the meaning of music or an exhausting pain in the ass?
At the expense of tooting my own prognosticational horn, totally covered this years ago. It's amazing how people think you are being revelatory if you can simply bring yourself to accept the facts. Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow there will be performance.
More to the point, successful record sales result not in gigantic windfalls of cash for the artist unless they opt to demonstrate their ability to reproduce such performances before witnesses and collect the commensurate rewards therefrom... that being a greater than 50% slice of ticket prices plus merch sales vs. 20 or less percent of record royalties. 'Twas ever thus. The Road Rules.
Even with all your success and influence and a masterful and eclectic body of work, you've been called an undervalued genius, by me at least. Do you feel more undervalued or more genius?
I've been ruminating on this genius thing, and if the cinema is any indication, being misunderstood and undervalued is the true mark of genius. If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses, the other half peculiarly enough, idiots.
Todd's Gibson SG " FOOL" guitar
in the recent interview on Hofstra Radio todd was asked if his gibson sg "fool" guitar will be used on the AWATS shows. He hinted that it will be used at the show.. The original was auctioned off a few years back..
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