Todd Rundgren on Inspiration & Artistry
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Todd Rundgren is an artist in pursuit of his own creative vision.
Here's a sneak peek at our upcoming interview feature with him about his amazing vocal-only album, "A Capella." We learned a lot about the making of this record from this discussion and some of the stories are just mind-blowing.
In this clip, he and Gregg Bendian discuss his lack of concern for the music industry and how he's survived as an artist for decades without worrying about his own publicity.
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Interview conducted by Gregg Bendian of @TheProgCast.
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The fact that Todd wasn't concerned about commercial success is what's made his music great.
Yep, it's art!
The fact that Todd doesn't pander to his audience's expectations but is entirely true to his muse is what makes his music so fascinating, engrossing, challenging and rewarding.
Agreed. We need more artists like that.
I have appreciated seeing all these videos of Todd! Thank you so much!
I’m a big fan of Todd and have seen him live many times, as an individual artist and with “Utopia”. Great musician! My all time favorite song is “Love is the answer.” ✌🏻❤️
Great song, Mary! Happy new year to you and Jim.
Excellent record was A Wizard, True Star. One of my all time favorites.
OMG This is Todd talking - thanks for gettng me thru so many years. I love you for this.
Fair Warning and Pretending To Care - Todd has always been able to bring me to tears.
Thanks for watching, Ric
Thank you for the latest interview with Todd!!! He knows how much we love him. FROGS in the background....hahahaha. Listen to his "Frogs" creation. Not to be missed.
We played the Frogs song for him while we listened to the frogs in his yard living room haha
I love Todd Rundgren
I was fortunate enough to bring my gorgeous granddaughter her uncle and father (who are huge fans) to the house of blues ( during Covid) to see him live 😍💋♥️ his music is timeless
One of my favorite records is Todd's WITH A TWIST...taking his own music and changing it to a Bossa Nova style...truly brilliant.
It was also one of the most remarkable tours I've ever seen with a theatrical stage set of a tiki bar. A bartender serving drinks to half a dozen tables, with Todd and the rest of the band on a tiny little round stage playing to just those tables. It was a brilliant concept, unlike anything I've ever seen before.
It is.
We discussed the bossa nova stuff in the interview. Maybe we'll release it
Great album. Hello is excellent
Wow... That is astonishing. I would lie if I ever said the same thing...
Todds way of approaching and making music is astounding. One of the biggest still out there.
A true hero and a great musician and composer.
😮Sounds like Roxy is a pug? I love pugs ❤️
You’re drip feeding us, guys, but I’m enjoying every minute of it!
Hah, excellent!
That was me as a kid… buying cut outs with cool album covers. Can’t tell you how many artists I discovered just because they had a great
album cover. The main difference being he’s a music genius and I struggle to play 3 chords.
"The main difference" lol! I'm in the same boat!
I never heard any Rundgren on the radio. I was lucky enough to have musician friends. We found out about the best music by word of mouth and meeting up in people's houses. I'm still listening and it's stood the test of time.
I can’t believe you never heard Todd on the radio! What did you first hear, Marta?
@@MakeWeirdMusic I am from the UK and listened to Radio 1 as often as I could as a child. The first Rundgren album I heard was Todd. I was 16 and visiting a guitarist friend who was able to stun us by playing Al Di Meola guitar solos.
He used to get a Lot more FM rock radio airplay before all the stations became mind numbingly predictable- though deep tracks on SiriusXM play him a lot..
1:06 MOLY OF HOLINESS!!!! I was going to ask if ya'll got into the A CAPPELLA action!!! This will be INSANE! (Already is.) AWESOME!
The A Capella video is gonna be awesome. I haven't dug through all the footage yet, but it'll be great.
@@MakeWeirdMusic I'm preemptively losing my mind!! (And any chance his Dumb & Dumber score came up, elsewhere? WIZARD!!!)
Adore this guy…. such a talent
Agreed, Mellissa
Absolutely Love Todd. “A treatise on cosmic fire” is one of my favorites and I hope he will one day(soon) get back into this type of experimental stuff. I’d love an all instrumental by Todd.
Maxx, I hope you got a copy of "Runddans".
@@2wayplebney , yes I do. Love that project/album and wish there was more of that to come too.
I believe we listened to some of Treatise during our interview.
@@maxxkarma Excellent. Me too.
since then other artists have explored instrumental synthesis more deeply with some worthwhile sensibilities, they just didn't establish their name with a mainstream acoustic release beforehand. for instance, as a music software developer, i've spent decades listening only to music made by people who make synthesizers and audio processes. generative material aphex twin fans don't know anything about. places todd is too much todd to have gone. perhaps sites for modular synthesis enthusiasts are worth browsing for music you may enjoy. they are full of half hour recordings of people with the latest sequencer routing or module.
Very smart and honest guy. Great interview.
I make music just for the “Art” and Todd is an insipirational figure. Click on the crow.
Todd is awesome. More interview content with him coming soon.
I love your interview with our hero. Thank you
Thanks Kim! More is coming!
It gives us something to look forward to.
A true artist.
Yep!
I love Todd Rundgren! When I heard I saw the light it just stood out to me. Love is the answer is another fav.🎶❤🇨🇦✌
So many great songs. Thanks for sharing, Michelle!
Great 👍 interview!
Wow, I did the same thing when I was a kid. I did a lot of shopping at the cut-out bin. I found Stockhausen and Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky that way and their work lead me on towards a love of experimental music. I also discovered the Mothers of Invention that way. I also have to give credit to the Monkees for Daily Nightly for introducing me to the Moog synthesizer. There were always lots of gems to be found in those bins, indeed.
I'd never heard of a "cut-out bin" before this interview. What is it, Brent?
@@MakeWeirdMusic Well, back in the day it was a bin filled with records that were anywhere from 99 cents to a couple of dollars. They were usually overstock records or ones the record companies or distributors were trying to get rid of for one reason or another. They usually has a snip taken out of the record jacket (usually out of a corner) to indicate that they were to be sold in cut out bins. I have even seen a small hole driven into the label of cut out records.
Ohhh, I've seen those cut-outs and have purchased some myself. Thanks, Brent! Hole puncher or cut corners.
agreed, I first found Todd, rather Runt and Ballad, in a $2.99 cutout bin. the Runt cover, him sitting on the floor in blue velvet pants and a sweater with an elk or moose on it, his long torso and unique face grabbed me. once the needle dropped I was totally sold. that was in 1972.
My favorite musician. One of the greats.
The ever popular tortured artist. Love his music.
He's so great. Thanks, Peter!
Todd always has an interesting perspective. Thanks for posting this. I hope it means "Space Force" is imminent.
Is that a new project of his, Graham? There's a lot of "space force" talk these past few years.
@@MakeWeirdMusic yes, I believe the album is complete. They are waiting for LP versions to be created so they can do the whole gamut of media. I'd be happy with a download until the CD is available. Todd and Adrian Belew do a track, and I am desperate to hear it.
Finally out today - space force - album was delayed a few times .
@@KOSMICKEN09 Things like this make me happy I'm a human. Not a robot.
Thank you for saying that, Todd. I agree.
Thanks for watching, Victoria.
Todd is Godd been a huge fan since I was 14 🎵🎶🎸
Thanks for watching, Ken.
Love Todd!
Me too!
Love the Wizard- left out: reflection.
I don't understand
He mentioned fun and urgency. To make people reflect on a thought or feeling induced was left out. Ex” I shall be released” “ Third world man ” etc. they induce a contemplation. Not fun. Not urgency. There are many others. In fact “ Parallel lines” is another.
A musical genius on the level of Frank Zappa!
Agreed, Daniel. Just not nearly as snarky.
Digging his glasses. He looks better in round frames.
My wife hates round frames, but I agree with you, Zenmarq.
Funny from someone who made a career and a good living- writing love, and loss songs
Love Todd🎉😂
Can I relate! I used to find new LPs for a quarter. Many were terrible. Some were interesting.
Thanks for watching, Steve
Gosto muito de suas composições e canções!!! Forte abraço do Rodrigo aqui do Brasil!🇧🇷🤘👏
Roxy Rundgren ladies and gentlemen!
A nice cameo haha
Todd who? :). Kidding aside it's always fun to hear a new Todd music and he has certainly not disappointed year after year. However although I'm not a fan of his greatest hits - happy to have HIM and a few others retired for a while, I would love to see him perform the 50th anniversary Something Arenything show along with some gems never played live from Runt and Ballad of Todd Rundgren. I feel it's a revenue opportunity for him as well as a treat for long-term fans, especially to hear songs never played live before such as Marlene, One day no Word, perhaps a few gems like Parole. New music is always appreciated but so are rarities never played live.
Todd will do his thing no matter what we want to hear. That's why he's great. Thanks for watching, Michael!
wow todd makes record shoping sound interesting ;)
Yep!
Legend
Agreed, Dennis
When you’re at a job working, you have to do what your boss wants you to do.
Todd!
Cheri!
@@MakeWeirdMusic I love him so much!
Todd's dog Roxy! 💚💜💛
A truncated appearance haha
@@MakeWeirdMusic Sounded like a bullfrog a couple of times.
..good old.....Musique Concrete !!...
😅 😤 😆
Backwards reverb. Thanks Todd.
I'm dusting off my piano and letting my fingers find chords that I like. Do you think I might get a chance to get in the band? At least I can dream.
Absolutely. There's a band for everyone.
I work for a large cutout wholesaler.
They still exist??
@@MakeWeirdMusic I should have used the past tense. I think they're still around but I don't work there anymore. Scorpion music Trenton New Jersey.
Music needs talent from truly talented, competent and heavily disciplined, trained individuals. Same no longer exists as of 30 years ago. Today's "musicians" are beyond pathetic, a raging insult to those true musicians of the past. Music as per today and for well into twenty plus years no longer exists.
We interview plenty of young musicians putting out great new music. Statistically there are likely to be more now than ever.
Todd has a large fanbase all over the world. It's a pity he is so self-deprecating about his success in the USA. Also, he is always touring, in the USA, today.
He just doesn't seem to stop
todd mentions a formula of songwriting,someone has and expansion of that formula he made?
I know! I want the cheat codes to his songwriting!
@@MakeWeirdMusic than fucking ask him! you are the one who was lucky enouth to get to talk with him haha.please hand it over after to me :)
😂
Does Todd have a dog, or was he just playing Dogfight Giggle in the background?
Yes, I think its name is Roxy. Thanks, Steven.
Fun, urgency or in Todd's case, Laura Nyro.
Well, she was a huge influence on him, for sure.
@@MakeWeirdMusic And he addressed this by saying he was moving away from (in this example) he says Carol King, but you know what he meant. And he did progress away from Nyro and King...
Yes. I should have included that in my comment to David. Thanks!
@@MakeWeirdMusic I'm a long time fan of Todd, the point is tacitly understood.
As both a big Todd and Nyro fan I have always been disappointed by the experience he relates in interviews about getting to produce her. She never hit the same amazing, creative highs after her first "retirement" in 1972.
Cashing in his chips soon...
Todd Rundgren Philly's Finest I think he reads too much Alice Bailey
What does that mean?
The Seven Rays...
i wonder if he likes oister
Is that another band, Calvin? What brings them to mind?
Guy hasnt had a hit in 35 years................
Yeah, that's why he's on Make Weird Music and not the cover of Rolling Stone. But he is the one admitting this. He says being an album producer has been his way of making a living, not selling records.
@@MakeWeirdMusic Way overrated.
@@charliedontsurf70 Yeah, by you.
Most hits are the shits
@@charliedontsurf70 yeah, he’s now worth $12 million playing and producing music his way. And all he did was bang on the drum all day.