{"id":25022,"date":"2023-04-16T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=25022"},"modified":"2023-04-18T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T12:07:08","slug":"interview-roundup-todd-rundgren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/interview-roundup-todd-rundgren\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: Todd Rundgren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Rundgren and I go way back, even if he doesn\u2019t know it. I grew up with his music, though I missed my first opportunity to see him live. Utopia was on a double-bill tour with The Tubes, and I was out of town when they came through Atlanta. Happily, I got to see him not long after, on Thanksgiving Day at the Moonshadow Saloon in Atlanta, a date on the <i>A Cappella<\/i> tour. A few years later, Todd was doing a demonstration tour promoting the CD-i technology; after that, I saw him on the TR-i tour. Weird stuff to be sure, but groundbreaking.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10142\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10142\" class=\"wp-image-10142 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bk_tr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bk_tr.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bk_tr-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author with Todd Rundgren in 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I would see him in concert, meet him and interview him quite a few times after that. The most recent conversation I\u2019ve had with him was early this year when we chatted about his time \u2013 very early on \u2013 in Nazz.<\/p>\n<p>One of my very first published works as a music journalist was a 2004 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/02\/todd-rundgren-utopia-nazz-a-critical-essay\/\">career-spanning critical essay<\/a> on Todd\u2019s body of work, written for <i>Trouser Press<\/i>. Nearly 20 years later, I\u2019m still at it, and \u2013 thank goodness \u2013 so is he.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=811\">Todd Rundgren<\/a> (2008) discussing his then-current album <i>Arena<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/03\/todd-rundgren-looks-over-his-shoulder-part-one\/\">Todd Rundgren<\/a> (2016) discussing his then-current \u2018An Evening with Todd Rundgren\u2019 tour<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/27\/utopias-adventures-continue-part-one\/\">Todd Rundgren\u2019s Utopia<\/a> (2018) chatting about the reunion tour (includes interviews with Willie Wilcox and Kasim Sulton)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/02\/the-it-was-fifty-years-ago-today-tour-part-one\/\">Todd Rundgren and Joey Molland<\/a> (2019) discussing the \u2018It Was Fifty Years Ago Today\u2019 tour<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/todd-rundgrens-clearly-human-tour-the-ever-popular-geofenced-artist-effect-part-one\/\">Todd Rundgren<\/a> (2021 #1) discussing his \u2018Virtual Tour\u2019 with emphasis on Chicago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/todd-rundgrens-1989-album-nearly-human-gets-a-covid-era-2nd-wind\/\">Todd Rundgren<\/a> (2021 #2) discussing the \u2018Virtual Tour\u2019 with emphasis on the Bay Area<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/12\/dont-forget-all-about-it-todd-rundgrens-early-days-in-nazz-part-1-of-3\/\">Todd Rundgren<\/a> (2023) \u2014 just published here a few days ago, it\u2019s a dive into Todd\u2019s Nazz years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Rundgren and I go way back, even if he doesn\u2019t know it. I grew up with his music, though I missed my first opportunity to see him live. Utopia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2228],"class_list":["post-25022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-todd-rundgren","cat-41-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25135,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022\/revisions\/25135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}