NEWS FLASH: Tuesday night (Jan 22) - RR presents PAUL FISHKIN! come join the fun.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Video: Black Maria Performed live at Treetops for the Under the RA Pyramid benefit on 10/20/12
featuring Dan Harple's Gibson SG Fool Guitar. Performed live at Treetops for the Under the RA Pyramid benefit on 10/20/12
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
New Todd Rundgren album to be released in April
By Phyllis Pollack
Multi-talented producer, singer, songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist Todd Rundgren will release a new studio CD on April 9. His tour in support of the release will begin in April, and will continue throughout the year. More details will be announced early next year.
Rundgren will be featured on the Thursday, January 10 episode of Daryl Hall’s Live From Daryl’s House, which debuts at 11pm EST on Palladia. The special one-hour episode was shot at Todd’s house in Kauai, Hawaii.
The episode will include a rousing seven-song set from Todd and Daryl that includes Daryl Hall and John Oates' "Beanie G and The Rose Tattoo," and a cover of the Delfonics' 1970 hit, "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time," along with Todd Rundgren staple classics.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
VIDEO: TODD RUNDGREN / UTOPIA - SWEET LITTLE SUZIE
THIS IS A SONG THAT WAS PLAYED DURING THE VIDEO PORTION OF UTOPIA'S RA TOUR IN 1977. SUNG BY DRUMMER WILLIE WILCOX, THIS SONG WOULD LATER APPEAR SLIGHTLY ALTERED AS HOI POLOI, SUNG BY KASIM SULTON ON UTOPIA'S DEFACE THE MUSIC LP IN 1980., THERE WERE 4 VIDEOS PLAYED AND AS FAR AS I KNOW ONLY ONE VIDEO HAS SURFACED, LOVE REUNION WHICH IS AVAILABLE HERE ON YOUTUBE. THE OTHER SONGS WERE PIPELINE, SWEET LITTLE SUZIE AND AN UNKNOWN INSTRUMENTAL PIECE. MAYBE ONE DAY THESE VIDEOS WILL ALL SURFACE, BUT UNTIL THEN WE ONLY HAVE THE AUDIO. found by superfan Mark Risen.. aka mojorisen
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
RUNDGREN RADIO LAUNCHES CROWDSOURCING CAMPAIGN
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Michele Rundgren wants you !!!
http://www.tikifishtank.com/
MICHELE RUNDGREN WANTS YOU ...
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SO, WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? OPPORTUNITIES TO GET SOME UNIQUE AND SPECIAL ITEMS THAT CAN ONLY BE FOUND RIGHT HERE! PLEDGES RANGE FROM $20 TO $2500.
READY TO GO SHOPPING? PLEASE VISIT THE PLEDGES PAGE ON THIS SITE.
THIS PROJECT IS BEING BROUGHT TO YOU BY RUNDGRENRADIO.COM, BUT 100% OF THE PROCEEDS GO TO THE TIKI INIKI AQUARIUM PROJECT.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Special RundgrenRadio show Michele Rundgren 1/1/13
Special guest Michele Rundgren
RundgrenRadio.com
8:30pm ET at www.RundgrenRadio.com on 1/1/13.
Start the new year off right with an RR show!
RR will be launching our plan for helping with Tiki Iniki. We can also talk about Toddstock II and other stuff if you want :-).
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Video: 2012 and 2011 Amsterdam shows
http://www.keezer.tv/trmo/2012.html
Todd Amsterdam 2012 Video full show multi camera
http://www.keezer.tv/trmo/
both 2011 and 2012 shows
Todd Amsterdam 2012 Video full show multi camera
http://www.keezer.tv/trmo/
both 2011 and 2012 shows
Choose one of the events
Trailer/interview 2012 show here
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Columbia College Artist in Residence: April 8-12
Todd Rundgren
In residence April 8-12, 2013
Residency Concert – Friday, April 12, 2013 – 7:00 pm
The Music Center, 1014 S. Michigan Ave.
For reservations call 312-369-8330 starting 3/18/2013An eclectically accomplished musician and studio virtuoso, Todd Rundgren has been recording for more than three decades. His musical career has gone from simple pop that never brought the success some critics felt he deserved (only one gold LP,
Something/Anything?) to the more complex progressive rock of Utopia, which did gain Rundgren a devoted cult following. Through it all, this multi-instrumentalist has maintained a prolific sideline career as a producer; he must also be regarded as a pioneer of rock video, interactive CD, and Web-based music.
Rundgren began playing in a high-school band, Money, then went on to play with Woody's Truckstop in the mid-'60s (a tape recording of the latter makes a brief appearance on Something/Anything?). In 1967 he formed the Nazz [see entry], which, contrary to then-prevailing West Coast psychedelic trends, tried to replicate the look of Swinging London in its clothes, Mod haircuts, and Beatles-ish pop sound. In some ways the Nazz was ahead of its time, especially in terms of Rundgren's studio facility and the band's musical sophistication. But the quartet remained a local Philadelphia phenomenon, with one minor hit single, the original version of "Hello It's Me." The Nazz broke up in 1969, at which point Rundgren formed the studio band Runt and hit the Top 20 in 1971 with the single "We Gotta Get You a Woman."
By this time Rundgren had become associated with manager Albert Grossman, who let him produce for his new Bearsville label. By 1972 Rundgren had taken over production of Badfinger's Straight Up LP from George Harrison (who was involved with his Bangla Desh concerts) and had engineered the Band's Stage Fright and Jesse Winchester's self-titled 1971 LP, as well as produced records by the Hello People, bluesman James Cotton, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Halfnelson (who later became Sparks). In 1973 he would produce the New York Dolls' debut LP, Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band, and Fanny's Mother's Pride.
For many, Something/Anything? (Number 29, 1972) is the high-water mark of Rundgren's solo career. On it he played nearly all the instruments, overdubbed scores of vocals, and managed to cover pop bases from Motown to Hendrix, from the Beach Boys to the Beatles. The album yielded hit singles in "I Saw the Light" (Number 16, 1972) and "Hello It's Me" (Number 5, 1973).
A Wizard/A True Star (Number 86, 1973), while in much the same vein, was more of a critical than commercial success. However, Rundgren's cult following was growing. In Wizard's liner notes he asked fans to send their names to him for inclusion in a poster to be contained in his next LP. As promised, 1974's Todd included that poster —with some 10,000 names printed on it in tiny type.
That same year Rundgren unveiled his cosmic/symphonic progressive-rock band Utopia, which gradually expanded his following to mammoth proportions. Utopia was a more democratic band, in which Rundgren shared songwriting and lead vocals with other members (from 1977 on: Roger Powell, Kasim Sulton, and Willie Wilcox). In the mid-'70s Utopia played bombastic suites with "cosmic" lyrics and used pyramids as a backdrop, but in the 1980s it returned to Beatles/new wave–style pop (Faithful [Number 54, 1976]). Despite some excellent music, the quartet never placed a single in the Top 40 or saw any of its 11 albums go gold. One of their songs, "Love Is the Answer," was a 1979 Top 10 hit for England Dan and John Ford Coley.
In 1975 Rundgren produced Gong guitarist Steve Hillage's L, on which Utopia played backup. A trip to the Middle East in 1978 led Rundgren to a brief flirtation with Sufism; that same year Hermit of Mink Hollow (Number 36, 1978) produced his first hit single in several years in "Can We Still Be Friends?" (a minor hit for Robert Palmer a year later). Rundgren also produced Meat Loaf's monstrously successful Bat Out of Hell. In 1979 alone he produced Tom Robinson's TRB Two, the Tubes' Remote Control, and Patti Smith's Wave; in 1980 he produced Shaun Cassidy's Wasp.
By that time Rundgren had taken a strong interest in the emerging field of rock video. By 1981 he had built his own computer-video studio in Woodstock, New York, and was making technically advanced surrealistic videotapes. In 1982 Rundgren embarked on a one-man tour, playing sets that were solo-acoustic as well as those in which he was backed by taped band arrangements, with his computer-graphic videos being shown also. He still concentrated on production (with the Psychedelic Furs, among others) and video art.
Utopia took an indefinite sabbatical in 1985. Sulton, in addition to recording on his own, has played with Joan Jett, Hall and Oates, Patty Smyth, and Cheap Trick. Powell, designer of a shoulder-strap keyboard called the Powell Probe, now engineers software for a computer-graphics firm, while Wilcox writes and produces. In 1992 the four reunited for a tour of Japan, captured on Utopia Redux '92.
The following year Rundgren went back out on the road as a high-tech one-man band to perform his unique new album No World Order. The world's first interactive music-only CD (available on Philips), it allowed listeners to reshape the 10 songs into an infinite number of versions. To hear the same version of a song twice, Rundgren claimed, users would have to play the disc 24 hours a day, seven days a week "well into the next millennium." Continuing in a similar vein, he then released The Individualist, an enhanced CD which paired each song with its lyrics, graphics, and video. At about that time he came up with the monicker TR-i (Todd Rundgren–interactive), to be used for his multimedia work. In typical fashion, though, his next move was to rerecord several of his old songs in bossa-nova arrangements on 1997's With a Twist...(which also featured Utopia bassist Sulton). That same year he was one of the few Westerners invited to play the Shanghai Festival.
Consistently fascinated with new technological developments, Rundgren created PatroNet, a Web-based service in which subscribers could purchase new songs after paying a yearly fee, in 1998. The 2000 release One Long Year collected some of the songs sold through PatroNet. That year he embarked on a tour in which he performed material from his entire catalogue in a power-trio formation that also included Sulton and drummer Trey Sabatelli. Rundgren toured solo and with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band in the late-90s as well as produced Bad Religion's The New America and Splender's Halfway Down the Sky in 2000. An ongoing compilation, Todd Archive Series, included 11 different sets: The King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert, numerous full concerts, demos, and outtakes while Rundgren was alone, with Nazz, and Utopia, and a collection of Japanese-only rarities. In 2001 Rundgren played in the Beatles tribute tour, A Walk Down Abbey Road. In 2004, Rundgren released the political Liars on Sanctuary, making it his first rock album in thirteen years. In 2006, he assumed Rick Ocasek's duties in the Cars, henceforth named the New Cars. In September of 2008 Rundgren released Arena, which, with a surfeit of guitar-based rock and bombast, was something of a return to form.
Portions of this biography originally appeared in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001).
In residence April 8-12, 2013
Residency Concert – Friday, April 12, 2013 – 7:00 pm
The Music Center, 1014 S. Michigan Ave.
For reservations call 312-369-8330 starting 3/18/2013An eclectically accomplished musician and studio virtuoso, Todd Rundgren has been recording for more than three decades. His musical career has gone from simple pop that never brought the success some critics felt he deserved (only one gold LP,
Something/Anything?) to the more complex progressive rock of Utopia, which did gain Rundgren a devoted cult following. Through it all, this multi-instrumentalist has maintained a prolific sideline career as a producer; he must also be regarded as a pioneer of rock video, interactive CD, and Web-based music.
Rundgren began playing in a high-school band, Money, then went on to play with Woody's Truckstop in the mid-'60s (a tape recording of the latter makes a brief appearance on Something/Anything?). In 1967 he formed the Nazz [see entry], which, contrary to then-prevailing West Coast psychedelic trends, tried to replicate the look of Swinging London in its clothes, Mod haircuts, and Beatles-ish pop sound. In some ways the Nazz was ahead of its time, especially in terms of Rundgren's studio facility and the band's musical sophistication. But the quartet remained a local Philadelphia phenomenon, with one minor hit single, the original version of "Hello It's Me." The Nazz broke up in 1969, at which point Rundgren formed the studio band Runt and hit the Top 20 in 1971 with the single "We Gotta Get You a Woman."
By this time Rundgren had become associated with manager Albert Grossman, who let him produce for his new Bearsville label. By 1972 Rundgren had taken over production of Badfinger's Straight Up LP from George Harrison (who was involved with his Bangla Desh concerts) and had engineered the Band's Stage Fright and Jesse Winchester's self-titled 1971 LP, as well as produced records by the Hello People, bluesman James Cotton, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Halfnelson (who later became Sparks). In 1973 he would produce the New York Dolls' debut LP, Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band, and Fanny's Mother's Pride.
For many, Something/Anything? (Number 29, 1972) is the high-water mark of Rundgren's solo career. On it he played nearly all the instruments, overdubbed scores of vocals, and managed to cover pop bases from Motown to Hendrix, from the Beach Boys to the Beatles. The album yielded hit singles in "I Saw the Light" (Number 16, 1972) and "Hello It's Me" (Number 5, 1973).
A Wizard/A True Star (Number 86, 1973), while in much the same vein, was more of a critical than commercial success. However, Rundgren's cult following was growing. In Wizard's liner notes he asked fans to send their names to him for inclusion in a poster to be contained in his next LP. As promised, 1974's Todd included that poster —with some 10,000 names printed on it in tiny type.
That same year Rundgren unveiled his cosmic/symphonic progressive-rock band Utopia, which gradually expanded his following to mammoth proportions. Utopia was a more democratic band, in which Rundgren shared songwriting and lead vocals with other members (from 1977 on: Roger Powell, Kasim Sulton, and Willie Wilcox). In the mid-'70s Utopia played bombastic suites with "cosmic" lyrics and used pyramids as a backdrop, but in the 1980s it returned to Beatles/new wave–style pop (Faithful [Number 54, 1976]). Despite some excellent music, the quartet never placed a single in the Top 40 or saw any of its 11 albums go gold. One of their songs, "Love Is the Answer," was a 1979 Top 10 hit for England Dan and John Ford Coley.
In 1975 Rundgren produced Gong guitarist Steve Hillage's L, on which Utopia played backup. A trip to the Middle East in 1978 led Rundgren to a brief flirtation with Sufism; that same year Hermit of Mink Hollow (Number 36, 1978) produced his first hit single in several years in "Can We Still Be Friends?" (a minor hit for Robert Palmer a year later). Rundgren also produced Meat Loaf's monstrously successful Bat Out of Hell. In 1979 alone he produced Tom Robinson's TRB Two, the Tubes' Remote Control, and Patti Smith's Wave; in 1980 he produced Shaun Cassidy's Wasp.
By that time Rundgren had taken a strong interest in the emerging field of rock video. By 1981 he had built his own computer-video studio in Woodstock, New York, and was making technically advanced surrealistic videotapes. In 1982 Rundgren embarked on a one-man tour, playing sets that were solo-acoustic as well as those in which he was backed by taped band arrangements, with his computer-graphic videos being shown also. He still concentrated on production (with the Psychedelic Furs, among others) and video art.
Utopia took an indefinite sabbatical in 1985. Sulton, in addition to recording on his own, has played with Joan Jett, Hall and Oates, Patty Smyth, and Cheap Trick. Powell, designer of a shoulder-strap keyboard called the Powell Probe, now engineers software for a computer-graphics firm, while Wilcox writes and produces. In 1992 the four reunited for a tour of Japan, captured on Utopia Redux '92.
The following year Rundgren went back out on the road as a high-tech one-man band to perform his unique new album No World Order. The world's first interactive music-only CD (available on Philips), it allowed listeners to reshape the 10 songs into an infinite number of versions. To hear the same version of a song twice, Rundgren claimed, users would have to play the disc 24 hours a day, seven days a week "well into the next millennium." Continuing in a similar vein, he then released The Individualist, an enhanced CD which paired each song with its lyrics, graphics, and video. At about that time he came up with the monicker TR-i (Todd Rundgren–interactive), to be used for his multimedia work. In typical fashion, though, his next move was to rerecord several of his old songs in bossa-nova arrangements on 1997's With a Twist...(which also featured Utopia bassist Sulton). That same year he was one of the few Westerners invited to play the Shanghai Festival.
Consistently fascinated with new technological developments, Rundgren created PatroNet, a Web-based service in which subscribers could purchase new songs after paying a yearly fee, in 1998. The 2000 release One Long Year collected some of the songs sold through PatroNet. That year he embarked on a tour in which he performed material from his entire catalogue in a power-trio formation that also included Sulton and drummer Trey Sabatelli. Rundgren toured solo and with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band in the late-90s as well as produced Bad Religion's The New America and Splender's Halfway Down the Sky in 2000. An ongoing compilation, Todd Archive Series, included 11 different sets: The King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert, numerous full concerts, demos, and outtakes while Rundgren was alone, with Nazz, and Utopia, and a collection of Japanese-only rarities. In 2001 Rundgren played in the Beatles tribute tour, A Walk Down Abbey Road. In 2004, Rundgren released the political Liars on Sanctuary, making it his first rock album in thirteen years. In 2006, he assumed Rick Ocasek's duties in the Cars, henceforth named the New Cars. In September of 2008 Rundgren released Arena, which, with a surfeit of guitar-based rock and bombast, was something of a return to form.
Portions of this biography originally appeared in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001).
Monday, December 24, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
RundgrenRadio show tuesday 12/18/12
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Non Todd related post: Moonlight Miles: A Guide to Rolling Stones Landmarks Across America 1964-1981 [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/Moonlight-Miles-Landmarks-1964-1981-ebook/dp/B00AOT4JD6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355779909&sr=1-1&keywords=epting+moonlight
Super Todd fan Chris Epting new book:
Moonlight Miles: A Guide to Rolling Stones Landmarks Across America 1964-1981 [Kindle Edition]
A guide to the places throughout the US where the Rolling Stones, performed, stayed, recorded, partied, were arrested, and more from 1964-1981.
Super Todd fan Chris Epting new book:
Moonlight Miles: A Guide to Rolling Stones Landmarks Across America 1964-1981 [Kindle Edition]
A guide to the places throughout the US where the Rolling Stones, performed, stayed, recorded, partied, were arrested, and more from 1964-1981.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
todd store xmas goods and song
Without further ado..we are happy to launch the Holiday Toddstore 2012 !! We will do our best to ship FAST ..email with any questions ! toddstore@yahoo.com To hear a very special Holiday Greeting from Todd ..view the website using Google Chrome, IE or Safari !
Click the link : http://toddstore.com/trxmas.html
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Updates from RundgrenRadio Team.
More Todd & Ethel Coming Your Way in 2013
Including
Evanston, IL (near Chicago) on April 2nd. If you are interested in this show
you might want to buy your tickets today. The last two shows in Evanston
(Unpredictable at SPACE @ 200 capacity) sold out in 4 minutes at $85 and $50 a
ticket. This Todd & Ethel show is only $20 with a $3 order fee! The
concert will be held at the Pick Staiger Concert Hall (989 capacity) and tickets
can be purchased here
...
http://www.pickstaiger.org/event/ethel-and-todd-rundgren-tell-me-something-good
Todd
& Ethel are also already scheduled for a concert in Park City, Utah at the
The Eccles Center on April 6th. Information
including how to get tickets can be found here
...http://ecclescenter.org/upcoming-events/ethel-with-todd-rundgren-saturday-april-6-2013/
TODDSTOCK II To Be Held Next June - Todd's 65th Birthday Party
The big event is being held in White Castle, LA (30 minutes or so from Baton Rouge and a little over an hour from New Orleans) at the Nottoway Plantation Resort. All the cottages are sold out as well as the rooms at the Best Western in nearby Plaquemine. The only options left are pitching a tent or finding a room at the closest hotels (13 miles). For full details, visit ...http://www.toddstock2v65.com/
Something/Anything? 40th Year Anniversary Rolling Stone Tribute Ad In Stores Now
The Toddata.com project made it to half a page which is in the 12/20 issue available now. There are 4 different covers (all hip hop acts) and you can find the ad on page 109. It looks great!
Todd To Release A New Album This April!
Todd will be releasing a new album and then touring in support of it in the UK in April/May according to reports.
Extremely Rare Video Uploaded To YouTube Featuring Some RA Footage!
Mojorisen has unearthed a gem! The Bearsville Picnic video featuring some serious RA concert footage (near the end of the video) is about an hour long and well worth watching. You will see Todd and even Albert Grossman in this video among many other recognizable characters ...
http://youtu.be/VNK4wRc4O8U
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Doug & Melinda
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
update on TODDSTOCK 2
Hi Todd fans---I have some news regarding Toddstock II v6.5. We are sold out on
the Toddstock room blocks at Nottoway and the Best Western in Plaquemine. We n
now have ONLY tent spaces available at Nottoway for $799.00 per person which
includes all the meals, open bar and the week’s activities with
Todd.
Rooms may also be booked on your own, the following hotels are the closest to Nottoway. You would still need to make reservation for the event for $799.00 per person which again includes 6 breakfasts, 6 dinners and 6 happy hour open bar as well as all the activities with Todd.
Comfort Suites
Westport Drive, Port Allen, LA, US, 70767 Phone: (225) 343-4300
Port Allen Holiday Inn Express
2860 North Westport Drive Port Allen, LA 70767(225) 343-9967
BEST WESTERN PLANTATION INN DONALDSONVILLE
2179 Highway 70
Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 70346-8860, US
Phone: 225/746-9050
Rooms may also be booked on your own, the following hotels are the closest to Nottoway. You would still need to make reservation for the event for $799.00 per person which again includes 6 breakfasts, 6 dinners and 6 happy hour open bar as well as all the activities with Todd.
Comfort Suites
Westport Drive, Port Allen, LA, US, 70767 Phone: (225) 343-4300
Port Allen Holiday Inn Express
2860 North Westport Drive Port Allen, LA 70767(225) 343-9967
BEST WESTERN PLANTATION INN DONALDSONVILLE
2179 Highway 70
Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 70346-8860, US
Phone: 225/746-9050
Saturday, December 8, 2012
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