Thursday, June 30, 2011

Todd Rundgren: Todd

"Most every music fan has a beloved album he or she would love to see performed live in its entirety. Todd Rundgren's fans are just more aggressive about it. A handful of them who run Rundgren Radio, an online talk show geared toward the Rundgren faithful, has branched into promoting concerts: basically hiring the singer and songwriter to perform complete albums from his considerable catalog, including 1973's 'Todd' and 1981's 'Healing' at a show in Hartford tonight. ... Rundgren's records can be complex, and many of the songs never made it into his live sets in the first place. ... Rundgren is by no means wallowing in the past: he continues to release new music, with three LPs and an EP since 2000, and he fronted the New Cars in 2006. All the same, he finds there's a benefit to revisiting the classics. 'First of all, I figured, all right, you guys asked for it, now you're going to have to like it, no matter what I do,' he says, laughing" (Eric R. Danton, "Todd Rundgren Playing 'Todd,' 'Healing' for Fans," Sound Check, 3/25/11).
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