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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Interview : Todd on Johnnie Walker on BBC Radio oct 23
Don't miss Todd Rundgren interviewed by Johnnie Walker on BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 70s on Sunday October 23rd at 15:00 http://bbc.in/SH1BH
Todd will be acting as the Grand Marshall in the Homecoming Parade...
Todd will be acting as the Grand Marshall in the Homecoming Parade at The University of Indiana Bloomington on Friday Oct 28th
Friday, October 14, 2011
Todd on TV... Live from Daryls house
Look for Todds episode of Live From Daryl's House ( at Daryl's House) on tv the week of the 17th. Check your local tv listings to find out times and channels.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Toddstore on facebook and ebay
Everything we carry now for sale can be found in the Toddstore Merch album..and on Ebay ..browse around and email with your order and any questions ! If you have friends that are not on Facebook but would like info about the Toddstore , tell them to email us and I will put them on the mailing list ! toddstore@yahoo.com
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Rundgren Radio update
In case you haven’t heard the news, the Rundgren Radio online radio program is retired except for special editions shows we may do on occasion. It’s been a fun 4 year ride and we appreciate you listening to the shows and keeping us going. Rundgren Radio completed over 200 shows, had over 100 different guests, presented over 20 Todd Rundgren concerts, and has had over 440,000 downloads. As a subscriber to this email database you will be alerted if we return for any shows which is one reason we are emailing you today :-).
On Tuesday, October 25th, we will be back for a special edition show to discuss the upcoming Todd Rundgren’s Utopia tour with our special guest Moogy Klingman. He requested another chance to reach out to our listeners before the reunion tour and of course we were happy to accommodate. The show will start at 8:30pm and listeners are welcome to call in and speak to Moogy.
Speaking of the TR’s Utopia reunion tour, just because the RR radio show is retired doesn’t mean the concert promotion side of RR is finished :-). We will be presenting one of the twelve TR’s Utopia concerts this November. The concert will be on November 12 in Akron, OH at the Akron Civic Theatre beginning at 8pm ET.
The night before the concert we will be hosting a fan party featuring a Todd Rundgren / Utopia tribute band, the Hermits of Mink Halloween Mark II, at the Ramada Plaza’s 19th floor ballroom overlooking downtown Akron. As an added bonus, Todd’s long time tour manager and member of his A Cappella tour ensemble, Mary Lou Arnold, will be singing background with the Hermits when they perform the song “Something To Fall Back On”! Tickets are only $12 advance and $15 at the door. It would be very helpful if attendees buy in advance so we can properly prepare for the right amount of people. The party not only includes the entertainment but an event laminate, cake, DJ for band breaks, and appetizers. There will also be a cash bar available for the thirsty people. The event weekend has been affectionately dubbed, “IKRON”. Tickets are available here …
https://rundgrenradio.tix.com
For info on the other 11 shows visit,
http://www.todd-rundgren.com/tr-tour.html or
http://trconnection.com/tour/t2011.
We are not aware of any plans for more shows so this tour may be it. In our opinion, the possibility of future TR’s Utopia concerts depends on the success of these 12 shows and how Moogy feels health-wise after the tour. We are well aware fans from the west coast, Chicago, UK, etc. want a TR’s Utopia concert but we aren’t in charge of the routing :-).
Our concert promotion company for non-Todd shows, Onward Promotions, will be presenting the first ever double bill concert featuring Utopian Kasim Sulton and Eliot Lewis on 10/16/2011, which is this Sunday! You all know who Kasim is of course. Eliot is the keyboardist for Hall & Oates and you have probably seen him on the Live From Daryl’s House shows with Todd as the guest. The show will be in the Long Island area in Bellmore, NY at the Brokerage Comedy Club. Tickets ($25) will be available at the Brokerage or you can get them up on our ticket site until sometime tonight at:
https://rundgrenradio.tix.com.
On Saturday, 10/22/2011 we will be presenting another Kasim Sulton concert but this one will be Rob Fetters who many of you may remember from the Psychodots if you attended the Todd+Healing album show in Toledo, OH. Rob is an excellent and very well respected guitarist and was also a founding member of The Bears (with Adrian Belew). The concert will be held in Cleveland’s #1 venue, Winchester’s Music Hall! You can get tickets by calling the venue at 216-226-5681.
Their website is:
http://www.thewinchester.net/.
Here’s some cool Todd news --- Five new Todd/Utopia packages available from the Edsel Label (part of Demon Music Group:
http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/home)!
· “Runt” (two versions) + “Ballad Of”
· “Something/Anything?”
· “A Wizard, A True Star” + “Todd”
· “Initiation” + “Faithful”
· “Ra” + Oops! Wrong Planet”
These are all 2-on-2 packages, with the exception of “Something/Anything?”.
As bonus tracks they have added tracks from the 1998 JVC Japan-only release “Somewhere/Anywhere”.
“Runt” also includes all the different versions that were on the November 1970 mis-pressing of the album, featuring of course “Say No More” and the full version of “Baby Let’s Swing”.
All the booklet notes have excerpts by Paul Myers from his excellent book “Todd Rundgren In The Studio” as well as some liners notes he put together. They only have the Bearsville rights for Europe, so these re-issues will probably not appear on North American internet retailer sites, but they can be found on the UK sites i.e. Amazon.co.uk.
If you are a Facebooker, please join the RR group if you like …
http://www.facebook.com/groups/17618438938/
And for you twitter folks, stay in touch with us at …
http://twitter.com/#!/rundgrenradio
See you on the road to Utopia!
Doug & Melinda
RundgrenRadio.com
On Tuesday, October 25th, we will be back for a special edition show to discuss the upcoming Todd Rundgren’s Utopia tour with our special guest Moogy Klingman. He requested another chance to reach out to our listeners before the reunion tour and of course we were happy to accommodate. The show will start at 8:30pm and listeners are welcome to call in and speak to Moogy.
Speaking of the TR’s Utopia reunion tour, just because the RR radio show is retired doesn’t mean the concert promotion side of RR is finished :-). We will be presenting one of the twelve TR’s Utopia concerts this November. The concert will be on November 12 in Akron, OH at the Akron Civic Theatre beginning at 8pm ET.
The night before the concert we will be hosting a fan party featuring a Todd Rundgren / Utopia tribute band, the Hermits of Mink Halloween Mark II, at the Ramada Plaza’s 19th floor ballroom overlooking downtown Akron. As an added bonus, Todd’s long time tour manager and member of his A Cappella tour ensemble, Mary Lou Arnold, will be singing background with the Hermits when they perform the song “Something To Fall Back On”! Tickets are only $12 advance and $15 at the door. It would be very helpful if attendees buy in advance so we can properly prepare for the right amount of people. The party not only includes the entertainment but an event laminate, cake, DJ for band breaks, and appetizers. There will also be a cash bar available for the thirsty people. The event weekend has been affectionately dubbed, “IKRON”. Tickets are available here …
https://rundgrenradio.tix.com
For info on the other 11 shows visit,
http://www.todd-rundgren.com/tr-tour.html or
http://trconnection.com/tour/t2011.
We are not aware of any plans for more shows so this tour may be it. In our opinion, the possibility of future TR’s Utopia concerts depends on the success of these 12 shows and how Moogy feels health-wise after the tour. We are well aware fans from the west coast, Chicago, UK, etc. want a TR’s Utopia concert but we aren’t in charge of the routing :-).
Our concert promotion company for non-Todd shows, Onward Promotions, will be presenting the first ever double bill concert featuring Utopian Kasim Sulton and Eliot Lewis on 10/16/2011, which is this Sunday! You all know who Kasim is of course. Eliot is the keyboardist for Hall & Oates and you have probably seen him on the Live From Daryl’s House shows with Todd as the guest. The show will be in the Long Island area in Bellmore, NY at the Brokerage Comedy Club. Tickets ($25) will be available at the Brokerage or you can get them up on our ticket site until sometime tonight at:
https://rundgrenradio.tix.com.
On Saturday, 10/22/2011 we will be presenting another Kasim Sulton concert but this one will be Rob Fetters who many of you may remember from the Psychodots if you attended the Todd+Healing album show in Toledo, OH. Rob is an excellent and very well respected guitarist and was also a founding member of The Bears (with Adrian Belew). The concert will be held in Cleveland’s #1 venue, Winchester’s Music Hall! You can get tickets by calling the venue at 216-226-5681.
Their website is:
http://www.thewinchester.net/.
Here’s some cool Todd news --- Five new Todd/Utopia packages available from the Edsel Label (part of Demon Music Group:
http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/home)!
· “Runt” (two versions) + “Ballad Of”
· “Something/Anything?”
· “A Wizard, A True Star” + “Todd”
· “Initiation” + “Faithful”
· “Ra” + Oops! Wrong Planet”
These are all 2-on-2 packages, with the exception of “Something/Anything?”.
As bonus tracks they have added tracks from the 1998 JVC Japan-only release “Somewhere/Anywhere”.
“Runt” also includes all the different versions that were on the November 1970 mis-pressing of the album, featuring of course “Say No More” and the full version of “Baby Let’s Swing”.
All the booklet notes have excerpts by Paul Myers from his excellent book “Todd Rundgren In The Studio” as well as some liners notes he put together. They only have the Bearsville rights for Europe, so these re-issues will probably not appear on North American internet retailer sites, but they can be found on the UK sites i.e. Amazon.co.uk.
If you are a Facebooker, please join the RR group if you like …
http://www.facebook.com/groups/17618438938/
And for you twitter folks, stay in touch with us at …
http://twitter.com/#!/rundgrenradio
See you on the road to Utopia!
Doug & Melinda
RundgrenRadio.com
Jesse Gress playing with Mahavishu Project 0ct 20
Jesse Gress is playing at the Infinity Hall in Norfolk, CT on Thursday, Oct. 20th with The Mahavishnu Project. They will be doing the music of Jeff Beck and John McLaughlin/ Mahavishnu Orchestra. Here's a chance to hear Jesse play some amazing guitar! Tickets are only $15 and $25 @ http://www.infinityhall.com/node/855
Monday, October 10, 2011
Roomate needed to share a room for the Westbury NY show
Jill Mingo Needs to find a room mate for the Westbury NY show. She has reservations (group rates $109 + tax ..two beds) and wants to share the room and expense with anyone. Please contact me or Jill directly . the hotel is a really nice place and very close to the venue 1/2 mile walking distance. mingogo69@hotmail.com
VIDEO: 'Sweet' Bla Bla Bla (1) - Todd Rundgren, 'Classic Rundgren Tour', Jazz Cafe London 11/10/05
upped on youtube by Bart V.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
200,000th visitor giveaway from Toddstore.com and TR's Arena Blog
WWW.TODDSTORE.COM is having a giveaway with the www.ToddRundgrenArenaBlogspot.com !! The 200,000th visitor to their Blog will receive 1 free shirt & 1 free Todd button from the Toddstore !! We will announce the winner here in a few days !
Rundgren Radio Party featuring the Hermits of Mink Halloween Mark II
Rundgren Radio Party featuring the Hermits of Mink Halloween Mark II
RundgrenRadio Doug invited you
Location Ramada Plaza
20 West Mill Street
Akron, OH
More Info Fan party! Entertainment provided by Todd Rundgren/Utopia tribute band, Hermits of Mink Halloween Mark II featuring faux TR John Powhida.
Band members =
Lead vocals and guitar: John Powhida
Keyboards: Peter Moore
Lead guitar: John Kovach
Bass: John Syklunas
Drums: Dan Styklunas
With backup singers the faux Hello People -- Heartsville!
Cake, Hors d'oeuvres, and more fun than Todd fans should be allowed to have!
19th Floor ballroom. Please wear a Todd Rundgren t-shirt of some type if you can -- Nazz, Utopia, TNC, Todd, etc.
Tickets only $12. https://rundgrenradio.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=404724
RundgrenRadio Doug invited you
Location Ramada Plaza
20 West Mill Street
Akron, OH
More Info Fan party! Entertainment provided by Todd Rundgren/Utopia tribute band, Hermits of Mink Halloween Mark II featuring faux TR John Powhida.
Band members =
Lead vocals and guitar: John Powhida
Keyboards: Peter Moore
Lead guitar: John Kovach
Bass: John Syklunas
Drums: Dan Styklunas
With backup singers the faux Hello People -- Heartsville!
Cake, Hors d'oeuvres, and more fun than Todd fans should be allowed to have!
19th Floor ballroom. Please wear a Todd Rundgren t-shirt of some type if you can -- Nazz, Utopia, TNC, Todd, etc.
Tickets only $12. https://rundgrenradio.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=404724
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