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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
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Friday, February 6, 2009
todd rundgren: rock and roll fantasy camp
Dear Rockstars,
The upcoming camp is heating up! Legendary rockstar/producer, Todd
Rundgren, is coming to Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp to jam with each band.
Todd, who is arguably one of the most versatile rockers of our
generation, is going to conduct master classes, jam sessions, and
rehearse with each band at the upcoming camp. This is VERY exciting as
I consider Todd to be one of the most innovative and talented
producers/musicians of our time. There's not a sporting event or radio
station on Friday afternoon that doesn't play his song "Bang on the
Drum All Day." Please see the spotlight section of the newsletter to
learn more about Todd and his many accomplishments. Todd Rundgren is a true jack of all trades, gaining success and notoriety in the music, production, and
even computer programming worlds. Todd has had a successful solo
career, and has played with his band Utopia. As a producer, Todd has
been hailed as a genius for his ability to command career defining
albums from such bands as Meatloaf, XTC, Cheap Trick, and The Band.
Todd has also found success in the digital world as well where he has
developed various computer programs, including Patronet in the mid
1990's. Todd has brought success to everything he has touched and we
know he'll bring that same enthusiasm to camp this April!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
new tour dates coming soon
March tour dates
Looks like we may have some March dates coming together. Will advise
this was posted on todd myspace.
Looks like we may have some March dates coming together. Will advise
this was posted on todd myspace.
Monday, February 2, 2009
RundgrenRadio upcoming show
Event: Prairie Prince on RundgrenRadio.com
"Drummer from the Tubes, The New Cars, and More!"
What: Performance
Host: RundgrenRadio.com
Start Time: Tomorrow, February 3 at 8:30pm
End Time: Tomorrow, February 3 at 10:30pm
Where: www.rundgrenradio.com
"Drummer from the Tubes, The New Cars, and More!"
What: Performance
Host: RundgrenRadio.com
Start Time: Tomorrow, February 3 at 8:30pm
End Time: Tomorrow, February 3 at 10:30pm
Where: www.rundgrenradio.com
TODD AND THE GRAMMY'S
The 51st annual Grammy awards will be held in Los Angeles this Sunday February 8th. Midmorning spoke with three Grammy nominees in studio this year: folk icon Joan Baez, musician/producer Todd Rundgren, and blues legend Taj Mahal. We'll hear excerpts from those artists about the music that moves them.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/02/02/midmorning2/?refid=0
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
RundgrenRadio Ed Vigdor tonight
Special guest Ed Vigdor. You may not know he was involved with projects
for Nearly Human and 2nd wind among some other things we'll be
discussing tonight. And of course we'll be talking about the official
Toddstock DVD he is working on with Bill Chapman!
for Nearly Human and 2nd wind among some other things we'll be
discussing tonight. And of course we'll be talking about the official
Toddstock DVD he is working on with Bill Chapman!
Kasim DVD release party information
this notice was emailed to fans from the kasim store
Greetings friends!
I wanted to let you all know that our friends Doug and Cruiser Mel at Rundgren Radio are hosting a Kasim Sulton DVD Release Party in Tampa, Florida on February 28th! It is a chance for us to get together and escape the long, cold winter in sunny Florida!
The date, February 28th, is the one year anniversary weekend of the DVD filming. Our gracious host and hostess, have put together a fantastic evening for us. There will be a waterfront dinner party with Kasim followed by an intimate solo performance.
All of the details can be found at www.kasimtampa.info.
A great group rate has been negotiated at an adjacent waterfront hotel and the hotel has an airport shuttle available for anyone flying in. There is no doubt, it will be another memorable evening.
Also, thank you for your reviews and comments you have sent about the DVD. We are still running the special on the All Sides CD's, purchase the CD and get an All Sides tour shirt FREE! Sizes are very limited, but we have a few left!
I would love to see you in Tampa. We will have brand new Kasim merchandise to unveil at the party as well!
Peace and Love,
Carrie
Greetings friends!
I wanted to let you all know that our friends Doug and Cruiser Mel at Rundgren Radio are hosting a Kasim Sulton DVD Release Party in Tampa, Florida on February 28th! It is a chance for us to get together and escape the long, cold winter in sunny Florida!
The date, February 28th, is the one year anniversary weekend of the DVD filming. Our gracious host and hostess, have put together a fantastic evening for us. There will be a waterfront dinner party with Kasim followed by an intimate solo performance.
All of the details can be found at www.kasimtampa.info.
A great group rate has been negotiated at an adjacent waterfront hotel and the hotel has an airport shuttle available for anyone flying in. There is no doubt, it will be another memorable evening.
Also, thank you for your reviews and comments you have sent about the DVD. We are still running the special on the All Sides CD's, purchase the CD and get an All Sides tour shirt FREE! Sizes are very limited, but we have a few left!
I would love to see you in Tampa. We will have brand new Kasim merchandise to unveil at the party as well!
Peace and Love,
Carrie
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Arena cd review: audiophile audition
http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=5395
Todd Rundgren – Arena – Hi-Fi
Todd Rundgren has created an album of sure handed artistry proving that experience is still a potent factor in rock.
Published on January 24, 2009
Todd Rundgren – Arena – Hi-Fi HF1002, 56:42 *****:
Amongst the bands that surfaced during rock’s Cambrian explosion in 1967 was the talented garage band Nazz featuring Todd Rundgren. As a singer/songwriter/producer with a strong aptitude for the technical aspects of recording Rundgren has fashioned a lengthy career with multiple artistic peaks and several classic recordings. Songs such as the 1973 top ten hit “Hello It’s Me” featured Rundgren’s talent for producing multi-layered recordings. His work was always tastefully textured into an aural chainmail metal that was neatly woven into an elegant custom fit. After a long and successful career Rundgren might have retired confident in the musical legacy he had left behind. But like all artists with a restless spirit silence is simply not an option.
Arena is Rundgren’s first studio album in four years and in every respect it is a paradigm of what has distinguished his best work over the years. Superficially it may be described as guitar-driven rock with one foot in the glorious past and the other foot firmly planted in today’s music scene. The discerning ear can hear echoes of rock’s last four decades as distilled through Rundgren’s unerring artistic gifts. Touches of Boston and of David Crosby or Neil Young backed by gorgeous CSN&Y style harmonies weave their way through several of Rundgren’s Technicolor palette of 13 new songs. Hard-core metal alternately overpowers and seduces because Rundgren possesses a supremely well-crafted melodic sensibility that he is never hesitant to deploy.
From the beautiful acoustic introduction of the first track “Mad” which quickly metals-up into a Pete Townshend rage we are led into another gorgeous series of acoustic arpeggios and the splendid second track “Afraid”. By the time we reach the third track, “Mercenary,” with its insistent cries of “How do you like me now?” and glorious guitar licks that Rundgren wields like a fist made of sound we are hooked for good. Rundgren adopts a Rage Against the Machine persona on several songs: his anger is palpable and it’s obvious he never allows himself to become too comfortable anywhere on this restless, questing album.
There are songs like the tastefully melodic “Courage” and the memorable “Weakness” - which is a bluesy love song of aching beauty and insistent power - that haunt the listener like old-school Rundgren singles. Whether his voice is heartbreaking or shrill it is always expressive. These songs are reminders of what this artist has achieved and strong indications that much still remains. Todd Rundgren has created an album of sure-handed artistry proving that experience is still a potent factor in rock, despite the music industry’s constant craving for the ephemera of the new.
The recorded sound on this CD is warm and spatially well-focused. Its production values are superb as expected given this record’s provenance. The guitars have a gritty punch in the louder passages and a pristine bell-like resonance in the softer acoustic ones. There is not a hint of distortion even when the music is played extremely loud.
-- Mike Birman
Todd Rundgren – Arena – Hi-Fi
Todd Rundgren has created an album of sure handed artistry proving that experience is still a potent factor in rock.
Published on January 24, 2009
Todd Rundgren – Arena – Hi-Fi HF1002, 56:42 *****:
Amongst the bands that surfaced during rock’s Cambrian explosion in 1967 was the talented garage band Nazz featuring Todd Rundgren. As a singer/songwriter/producer with a strong aptitude for the technical aspects of recording Rundgren has fashioned a lengthy career with multiple artistic peaks and several classic recordings. Songs such as the 1973 top ten hit “Hello It’s Me” featured Rundgren’s talent for producing multi-layered recordings. His work was always tastefully textured into an aural chainmail metal that was neatly woven into an elegant custom fit. After a long and successful career Rundgren might have retired confident in the musical legacy he had left behind. But like all artists with a restless spirit silence is simply not an option.
Arena is Rundgren’s first studio album in four years and in every respect it is a paradigm of what has distinguished his best work over the years. Superficially it may be described as guitar-driven rock with one foot in the glorious past and the other foot firmly planted in today’s music scene. The discerning ear can hear echoes of rock’s last four decades as distilled through Rundgren’s unerring artistic gifts. Touches of Boston and of David Crosby or Neil Young backed by gorgeous CSN&Y style harmonies weave their way through several of Rundgren’s Technicolor palette of 13 new songs. Hard-core metal alternately overpowers and seduces because Rundgren possesses a supremely well-crafted melodic sensibility that he is never hesitant to deploy.
From the beautiful acoustic introduction of the first track “Mad” which quickly metals-up into a Pete Townshend rage we are led into another gorgeous series of acoustic arpeggios and the splendid second track “Afraid”. By the time we reach the third track, “Mercenary,” with its insistent cries of “How do you like me now?” and glorious guitar licks that Rundgren wields like a fist made of sound we are hooked for good. Rundgren adopts a Rage Against the Machine persona on several songs: his anger is palpable and it’s obvious he never allows himself to become too comfortable anywhere on this restless, questing album.
There are songs like the tastefully melodic “Courage” and the memorable “Weakness” - which is a bluesy love song of aching beauty and insistent power - that haunt the listener like old-school Rundgren singles. Whether his voice is heartbreaking or shrill it is always expressive. These songs are reminders of what this artist has achieved and strong indications that much still remains. Todd Rundgren has created an album of sure-handed artistry proving that experience is still a potent factor in rock, despite the music industry’s constant craving for the ephemera of the new.
The recorded sound on this CD is warm and spatially well-focused. Its production values are superb as expected given this record’s provenance. The guitars have a gritty punch in the louder passages and a pristine bell-like resonance in the softer acoustic ones. There is not a hint of distortion even when the music is played extremely loud.
-- Mike Birman
Friday, January 23, 2009
special announcement tonight
Rundgren Radio will be airing a SPECIAL EDITION show tonight to give
all the details of the KASIM SULTON DVD RELEASE PARTY to be held in
Tampa FL on 2/28/09!
www.RundgrenRadio.com at 6:30pm ET
If you want the short and skinny before then ...
www.KasimTampa.info
all the details of the KASIM SULTON DVD RELEASE PARTY to be held in
Tampa FL on 2/28/09!
www.RundgrenRadio.com at 6:30pm ET
If you want the short and skinny before then ...
www.KasimTampa.info
RUMORS RUMORS RUMORS
this is from todds myspace page
AWATS
I have been receiving a lot of questions regarding an AWATS tour. I absolutely think its a GREAT idea and who knows maybe one day it might happen. I can only push for it. However , there is no plan of it at this moment. People have made speculation based on a rumor. If it becomes any more then I rumor YOU will be the first to know...just after us that is.
Hope you have a fab weekend all.
xxlynn
ps I think Eric Gardner my kick ass boss man is going to do the Rundgren Radio show. You will love him... he has great stories.
AWATS
I have been receiving a lot of questions regarding an AWATS tour. I absolutely think its a GREAT idea and who knows maybe one day it might happen. I can only push for it. However , there is no plan of it at this moment. People have made speculation based on a rumor. If it becomes any more then I rumor YOU will be the first to know...just after us that is.
Hope you have a fab weekend all.
xxlynn
ps I think Eric Gardner my kick ass boss man is going to do the Rundgren Radio show. You will love him... he has great stories.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
RundgrenRadio updates
Show starts at 8:30pm ET
www.RundgrenRadio.com
Michele returns tonight and will be on the webcam again!
Also on tonight's show we may be making an announcement that Kasim
fans might want to hear!
Ed Vigdor on 1/27 and yes we will be asking him WTH is taking so long
on the Toddstock video .
Prairie Prince on 2/3.
John Ferenzik, Greg Hawkes, and Roger Powell will all be on a show on
2/10. Keyboards Special!
Jesse Gress on 2/17 (tentatively scheduled)
Mary Lou Arnold on 2/24 (tentatively scheduled)
Eric Gardner on 3/3 (tentatively scheduled)
John Siegler on 3/10
And ... we found David Mason -- the Utopian keyboardist not the
guitar player! Working on getting him on a show which would complete
our goal to have every single Utopian on a show.
www.RundgrenRadio.com
Michele returns tonight and will be on the webcam again!
Also on tonight's show we may be making an announcement that Kasim
fans might want to hear!
Ed Vigdor on 1/27 and yes we will be asking him WTH is taking so long
on the Toddstock video .
Prairie Prince on 2/3.
John Ferenzik, Greg Hawkes, and Roger Powell will all be on a show on
2/10. Keyboards Special!
Jesse Gress on 2/17 (tentatively scheduled)
Mary Lou Arnold on 2/24 (tentatively scheduled)
Eric Gardner on 3/3 (tentatively scheduled)
John Siegler on 3/10
And ... we found David Mason -- the Utopian keyboardist not the
guitar player! Working on getting him on a show which would complete
our goal to have every single Utopian on a show.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
DIRECT FROM LYNN VIA TODDS MYSPACE PAGE
Happy Belated New Year Ya'll
Wow...it sure has been a while!! I hope you all had a great holiday season. I have been pretty much straight out since before Christmas. I do believe it is the new pace of my life! oK...so lets catch up... NYE in Philadelphia was sooo much fun! I didnt know I was actually going till the afternoon of day before. The band kicked some serious ass. Other then the sub zero temp it was perfect. But thats probably my fault...really who goes to Philadelphia in the middle of winter wearing a couple of sweaters? ( silly LA girls!!!) After the tour Todd headed back to Hawaii where he has been sequestered with the NY Dolls. They should be done laying down tracks before too long. Got an email from Todd this morning saying it may be the best NY Dolls record to date. No tour dates planned yet for the new year. I will let you know as things progress. xxlynn
Wow...it sure has been a while!! I hope you all had a great holiday season. I have been pretty much straight out since before Christmas. I do believe it is the new pace of my life! oK...so lets catch up... NYE in Philadelphia was sooo much fun! I didnt know I was actually going till the afternoon of day before. The band kicked some serious ass. Other then the sub zero temp it was perfect. But thats probably my fault...really who goes to Philadelphia in the middle of winter wearing a couple of sweaters? ( silly LA girls!!!) After the tour Todd headed back to Hawaii where he has been sequestered with the NY Dolls. They should be done laying down tracks before too long. Got an email from Todd this morning saying it may be the best NY Dolls record to date. No tour dates planned yet for the new year. I will let you know as things progress. xxlynn
Sunday, January 18, 2009
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