whatcha know about Todd Rundgren?

SoulAlive said:

TRY ME!

"I Saw The Light" is a great song.

I have SOOOOO been on Todd these last few weeks. I am wearing A Cappella Out

Pretending to Care is my JOINT!

I can't figure out how to embed the video

http://www.youtube.com/wa...7S_GYh57io
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butterfli25 said:

Here's how you do it

Timmy84 said:

^ Probably one of the "weaker" songs on that album.




...Influenza





...Don't Hurt Yourself





...There Goes Your Baybay




...Drive





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He's still got it! Saw him in September, and it was a fantastic show. He likely shouldn't have been squeezing into some of those outfits, but aesthetics aside, that musical gift is still there.

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Had to throw my 2 cents in..I read somewhere that this was a lament for Marvin Gaye..,




and another of my personal favorites...








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carlcranshaw said:

I know right?!

paligap said:

It definitely has a Marvin touch to it. Definitely sounds like a tribute to him.

Lyrics:
Now I guess it’s too late to speculate
On things as they might have been
That given the time, you’d read my mind
And know there was love within
I could loudly exclaim we felt the same
But not in all honesty
Now you’ll never know
How could you know the friend that you had in me

I’ve got so much to learn now
Lessons I never had
When you lose a friend forever
Hurts so bad
Ooh it hurt me so bad

I had always believed that you and me
Were connected by destiny
But the time never came
It sounds so lame
Is it all just my vanity?
Am I the only one to feel the sun
Exactly the way I do?
When you sang how you felt I’d tell myself
Maybe someday I’ll sing with you

I’ve got so much to hope for
Dreams that I’ve never had
When you’ve got no one to share them
Hurts so bad
Ooh it hurt me so bad

I have an ideal I think is real
But I just can’t find it
I believe that one day
I’ll melt away into that lost horizon

Ooh it hurt me so bad
That you had an ideal you knew was real
And you went out to find it
And you found it one day
You’ve gone to stay into that lost horizon
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Timmy84 said:

I loooove that song!

xlr8r said:

Used to absolutely LUV this song! Glad to hear the old boy still has it!

carlcranshaw said:

Kool! great interview, thanks!




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Timmy84 said:

Yeah,that's how I took it, too, and it's notable that during Todd's 'Acapella' tour, he would always segue Marvin Gaye's ''I Want You into this song...





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poetcorner61 said:

I was playing this song all night last night.

carlcranshaw said:

Nice interview.

A segment from it...

JM: Your answer brings up something I’m quite interested in, which is the relationship between music and technology. I was wondering about your thoughts on what are the good and the bad about how technology has evolved, in regard to making music.

TR: I think that technology is good if you have a sensibility that transcends whatever technology you’re using. There’s only room for so many Kraftwerk’s in the world. Not everyone can simply program machines and let them run and call it music. Before you twist a knob or plug in a wire, you have to have some idea of what you’re trying to accomplish. So a lack of that is a musical fatal flaw regardless of the level of technology that you’re dealing with.

It’s curious, it is possible, I think it’s totally possible that some people only have so much music in them, and then it eventually runs out. But they are making a living as a musician, so they continue to make music anyway, even though all of the good music has pretty much drained out of them [laughs]. That’s not an excuse to make music. The technology makes that kind of approach that much easier, it makes creating dreck easier. It doesn’t necessarily make creating good music easier.



JM: It almost seems too easy to make music nowadays.

TR: Well, it’s easy to blur the distinction between being a musician, being a performer, and being an entertainer. They’re actually completely distinct roles, and it’s only in our latter-day music business that we get them all blurred together. But it’s possible to be a musician and have no facility to actually play [laughs], to be able to perform. Somebody like Burt Bacharach, who writes incredible songs, but he can’t sing them [laughs]. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard him try to sing – he’s not very good at it.



JM: I don’t remember hearing him sing, which is probably telling, right?

TR: He writes the most incredible songs, but he can’t really sing them. He can play them on the piano, but he can’t really sing them. So it doesn’t necessarily hold that if you’re a great musician, you’re also a great performer.

Also, at the same time, there is a distinction between performance and entertainment. And the audience criteria are in some ways different. For instance, Pavarotti is one of the most incredible performers of all time. But it isn’t necessarily entertaining to watch him, because he just stands there and sings. In an opera, it might be. But if he’s just standing up and singing an aria in front of an orchestra, for most people you’ve got to figure out how to entertain yourself by watching him, you know, like how fat he is, or the way his eyes bug out [laughs], or something like that. But he’s not trying to entertain you, he’s trying to sing the song as perfectly as he can. He’s taking a very challenging piece of music, and trying to perform it as close to perfection as possible. That’s what the entertainment value is for other people, but he’s not dancing around the stage [laughs], and grinning at people, and stuff like that, like Christina Aguilera or Lady Gaga.

There are these three completely distinct roles, and it’s only nowadays that we have the expectation that someone is all three. The likely weak point is the first thing, is the musicianship. That’s where they’re most likely to be weak. Because all of the other stuff is fairly easily learned, you know how to dance, and how to smile at people, and you can take singing lessons and things like that. All of that other stuff can pretty much be learned, but having something to say as a musician is the most difficult challenge for anyone.



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Tortilla said:

Tortilla said:

Great song. Better appreciated on a continuous listen with the album it's culled from, A Wizard, A True Star. Here's a clip of him performing it with his side project, Utopia.

I was looking for "Flamingo" on Youtube from that Wizard/Star album.

Cinnie said:

Crazy tune.

RipHer2Shreds said:

It was rap that brought it to my attention.

Cinnie said:

I was guessing it was something like that for you. Nice reworking of the sample.

Y'all like the gossip end of things; why come nobody mentioned that Liv Tyler grew up thinking Todd was her daddy?