Couldn't I Just Tell You - Todd Rundgren | The Midnight Special

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @michaelt.wardlespider2496
    @michaelt.wardlespider2496 5 місяців тому +35

    Some comments are dissing this performance... But it is a performance, real people, playing real music, in real time. All performances aren't perfect, but it has emotion. Better than the computer perfected drivel being released today.

    • @planomathandscience
      @planomathandscience 5 місяців тому

      Stop this, please. Music as "real and emotive" as this is out there, it's just not where you're listening. Do you go to local shows? Do you push outside the suggestions on your music app?

    • @michaelt.wardlespider2496
      @michaelt.wardlespider2496 4 місяці тому

      @@planomathandscience You don't know anything about me... And your opinion, on anything, is meaningless. I've probably forgotten more about music than you will ever know. Grow up.

    • @Hal9000ize
      @Hal9000ize 4 місяці тому

      @@michaelt.wardlespider2496Wow, dude must’ve hit a nerve on ya

    • @DIAMONDGIRL57
      @DIAMONDGIRL57 28 днів тому

      Love the real rawness and emotion in this performance. Beautiful ❤❤❤

  • @bperry3173
    @bperry3173 6 місяців тому +35

    Awesome to see him using “The Fool” (Clapton’s guitar from 60’s Cream days). Great that the guitar wasn’t just locked away in someone’s private collection.

  • @briansmolik4653
    @briansmolik4653 6 місяців тому +12

    This is great!! One of the most talented musicians of our generation. A Wizard a True Star indeed.

  • @felipelizana7502
    @felipelizana7502 6 місяців тому +9

    Todd is a very special music man...just love it! This record sound like a budfinger's soundgear

  • @cynthiaporcaro9937
    @cynthiaporcaro9937 6 місяців тому +13

    Just bought tix to see him in Chicago. 50 yrs after this! Amazing 😅

    • @susanwilliams9549
      @susanwilliams9549 6 місяців тому +3

      Just saw Todd & his band last month (May) in Charlotte, NC. He did a mix of new & his older music, great concert! Have a blast!

    • @wilpoltbuttecollege9864
      @wilpoltbuttecollege9864 5 місяців тому +3

      Be prepared to rock, Cynthia! Last night in Napa CA he killed it. A setlist of deep cuts - dont expect the "hits". This is Todd doing what he does - defying expectations!

    • @planomathandscience
      @planomathandscience 5 місяців тому

      @@wilpoltbuttecollege9864 DAMMIT! He played D last month and I was unaware!!!

  • @donnalynne2237
    @donnalynne2237 Місяць тому

    Fantastic! Love it! Takes me back to the 70’s❤❤❤
    1:52

  • @fumanchu1977
    @fumanchu1977 6 місяців тому +8

    Wonderful. I was waiting for this clip. Todd tearing his voice in this pure feeling performance.

  • @k.glowacka
    @k.glowacka 6 місяців тому +16

    Please bring back those outfits, hair and make-up. It's so refreshing to watch. I bet it was a lot of fun for them to came up with this. ❤

    • @rogeeeferrari
      @rogeeeferrari 6 місяців тому +3

      Refreshing ? Total gay outfits with make up, no thanks...

    • @k.glowacka
      @k.glowacka 6 місяців тому +1

      @@rogeeeferrari yes, it is refreshing, because now almost everybody wears black, beige or other dull colors. I like when people express themselves through colorful outfits, especially on stage. Go be miserable somewhere else.

    • @LillyMarz777
      @LillyMarz777 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@rogeeeferrari I agree.

    • @planomathandscience
      @planomathandscience 5 місяців тому +1

      @@rogeeeferrari and? How can you stand the dichotomy of liking this type of music and the concepts of rock and roll and be homophobic? Who CARES?

    • @rogeeeferrari
      @rogeeeferrari 5 місяців тому

      @@planomathandscience You're very confused...

  • @rabit818
    @rabit818 5 місяців тому +5

    Full on early 70s Bowie/Eno makeup. Love this song!

  • @timguzz8844
    @timguzz8844 5 місяців тому +3

    Was a hit...made it to no. 93 on billboard and considered one of the great power pop songs years before power pop

  • @edwardmeradith2419
    @edwardmeradith2419 6 місяців тому +16

    Such a nice studio recording-
    But this- I’ve never heard his voice this shot

    • @leiferickson5069
      @leiferickson5069 5 місяців тому +2

      I’ve had the occasion to interview Todd a few times over the years. He mentioned to me that early in his solo career, his voice sometimes “lacked tour endurance.” He would tour with Hello People as his band early on and they would do one of their numbers occasionally to break the set up for him a bit.

    • @Generatorhead
      @Generatorhead 4 місяці тому

      Pretty sure a lot of coke was consumed which will ravage your voice.

  •  5 місяців тому +5

    Great footage!

  • @JeffReams
    @JeffReams 5 місяців тому +2

    Hell yeah ... more Todd Rundgren!

  • @Laurasiana
    @Laurasiana 6 місяців тому +10

    It sounds like a 70s ballad as performed by a punk band. Todd was always ahead of the curve! 😆

  • @stephenharris
    @stephenharris Місяць тому

    Just no way to replicate the perfection of the studio version.

  • @planomathandscience
    @planomathandscience 5 місяців тому +3

    Wonderful, and c'mon, the styles in the 70s were SO F****** COOL!

  • @SteveKraus
    @SteveKraus 6 місяців тому +4

    Classic Rundgren

  • @RobinKay75
    @RobinKay75 5 місяців тому

    Love Todd! I had the pleasure of seeing him perform in 2018, and it was amazing!

  • @tawandafree
    @tawandafree 5 місяців тому +2

    my man my man💗✨💫💐

  • @Magnetron33
    @Magnetron33 5 місяців тому

    Thanks what a great find! The Clash before the Clash

  • @TheGB1950
    @TheGB1950 5 місяців тому +2

    More Todd!!

  • @gregoryduncan3067
    @gregoryduncan3067 6 місяців тому +10

    Well, that was very nice. Much heavier than the studio recording of it.

  • @jeffreybussmann3313
    @jeffreybussmann3313 5 місяців тому +2

    Just about a month before he released Todd!

  • @ronm6585
    @ronm6585 6 місяців тому +1

    Thanks. 👍🏻👏🏻

  • @louiebee6745
    @louiebee6745 5 місяців тому +1

    Live Todd! Hell Yeah! Like 420!👍

  • @tertommy
    @tertommy 3 місяці тому +2

    That was live, no lip sync.

  • @brickerb2
    @brickerb2 5 місяців тому +1

    Bringing power to offset his obviously strained voice. I prefer the gentler S/A? version, personally. Still an immense talent.

  • @karlmadsen3179
    @karlmadsen3179 6 місяців тому +4

    I think the integrated shoe-pants is going to make a comeback. Todd rocks the style.

  • @Washington-Dreaming
    @Washington-Dreaming 6 місяців тому +2

    I guess you might call them “Ballads.” But I prefer Rundgren’s famous songs over those more obscure. Usually it’s the other way around for me. But I think he excels when he sits behind the piano and wears his heart on his sleeve. (True story. I knew this guy in high school named Todd. Great guy actually. He played bass and I actually thought he’d become a star as he was in a lot of “Battle of the Bands” contests. But Todd and Todd Rundgren seem so similar to me in so many ways. They even kind of looked alike although Rundgren is probably around 10 to 15 years older.)

  • @benjohnson4810
    @benjohnson4810 3 місяці тому +1

    Go and watch Utopia play this in 1981 and 1982. Todd sings so much better then and Utopia sounded better than ever. TRUST ME!

  • @thegravetenders
    @thegravetenders 4 місяці тому +1

    Old Gregg @1:21

    • @thegravetenders
      @thegravetenders 4 місяці тому

      You've seen his downstairs mixup now...

  • @cherdanland
    @cherdanland 6 місяців тому +2

    💕💕

  • @gregwaters7830
    @gregwaters7830 5 місяців тому +1

    I was freaking out. I had Todd Rundgren and Ted Nugent conflated. I thought this cannot be the conservative hunter guy!

  • @marceloaraujo8728
    @marceloaraujo8728 5 місяців тому

  • @JohnFromArlingtron
    @JohnFromArlingtron 5 місяців тому +2

    Probably one of the greatest songs of the 70's. But only if it is performed well. Much better live a few years later later when Roger Powel and Kasim Sultan joined up and handled the high harmonies

  • @beckiebuist803
    @beckiebuist803 6 місяців тому +3

    A true music genius but a very strange fella.

  • @reversefulfillment9189
    @reversefulfillment9189 6 місяців тому +3

    I like Todd better when he was producing XTC.

    • @beckiebuist803
      @beckiebuist803 6 місяців тому +2

      And Grand Funk Railroad, and The NY Dolls, and Patti Smith, and many others.

    • @boblittle7607
      @boblittle7607 5 місяців тому

      Andy Patridge of XTC couldn’t stand him

    • @beckiebuist803
      @beckiebuist803 5 місяців тому

      @@boblittle7607 Partridge couldn't stand anybody...he's an ignorant prat and XTC stink.

    • @superorangeish
      @superorangeish 5 місяців тому

      ​@@beckiebuist803Not to mention believing in Meatloaf,producing Bat out of hell and I think playing the guitar solo on the title track in 1 take!

    • @reversefulfillment9189
      @reversefulfillment9189 5 місяців тому

      @@boblittle7607 Todd also somehow misplaced the masters to Skylarking, only found a few years ago by happenstance.

  • @thegravetenders
    @thegravetenders 5 місяців тому +1

    This band is legendary for their bad fashion choices.

  • @svensvensson2724
    @svensvensson2724 6 місяців тому +3

    What the hell is that keyboard the little guy was wearing??
    In 1974 that thing must have weighed as much as he did.
    Strong as a bull!

    • @svensvensson2724
      @svensvensson2724 6 місяців тому +3

      Found it !!
      CRUMAR Compac Piano (Crucianelli) 1972
      Over 20 lbs. 10 kg !!!

    • @leiferickson5069
      @leiferickson5069 5 місяців тому

      @@svensvensson2724Edgar Winter was known to sling keyboards around his shoulders in those days too.

    • @svensvensson2724
      @svensvensson2724 5 місяців тому +1

      @@leiferickson5069 Yeah, I saw adverts with him promoting a later model.
      They were bragging it only weighed 21 lbs / 10.5 kg.

  • @eric_in_florida
    @eric_in_florida 6 місяців тому +6

    OK well "most" things in the 70's were good.

  • @hansvandermeulen5515
    @hansvandermeulen5515 6 місяців тому +1

    Who's in the band?

    • @richardnagamitsu1582
      @richardnagamitsu1582 6 місяців тому +2

      I think it’s an early version of Utopia.

    • @hansvandermeulen5515
      @hansvandermeulen5515 6 місяців тому +2

      @@richardnagamitsu1582 is this the band that recorded the first Utopia album? Or is this an earlier line up?

    • @richardnagamitsu1582
      @richardnagamitsu1582 6 місяців тому +2

      I think it’s the band that recorded the first album in ‘74:
      Todd Rundgren - vocals, electric guitar
      Mark "Moogy" Klingman - keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ
      Ralph Schuckett - keyboards
      Jean Yves "M. Frog" Labat - synthesizer
      John Siegler - bass guitar, cello
      Kevin Ellman - drums, percussion

  • @makthnife
    @makthnife 5 місяців тому

    Who’s the drummer

  • @zitherzon2121
    @zitherzon2121 3 місяці тому

    Too bad his voice is blown-out from the tour here. Here's the recorded song that created powerpop and inspired Boston. ua-cam.com/video/XERFyUsnlro/v-deo.html

  • @minsterhill
    @minsterhill 5 місяців тому +1

    How is this man not in the Hall of Shame?

    • @Fresh-tw7ev
      @Fresh-tw7ev 5 місяців тому

      He actually was recently inducted

    • @minsterhill
      @minsterhill 5 місяців тому +1

      @@Fresh-tw7ev Not in this world! Maybe yours?!

  • @karlsinclair9918
    @karlsinclair9918 6 місяців тому +6

    Can't say I like Todd solo..the vocals are flat...

  • @darrenrunning5415
    @darrenrunning5415 6 місяців тому +2

    Sorry Todd, you're a better producer than singer.

  • @jenniferweed2552
    @jenniferweed2552 5 місяців тому

    Cracks me up, the way conservatives think that cross dressing, men wearing make-up, etc JUST popped up recently. LOL

  • @clockwork914
    @clockwork914 6 місяців тому +4

    Not even Claptons The Fool SG could help make this performance good.

    • @christianman73
      @christianman73 6 місяців тому +6

      You're right-- it's not good. It's great! :-) Raw, live, rock and roll (power pop, really) with feeling!

    • @clockwork914
      @clockwork914 5 місяців тому +1

      @@christianman73
      Like in how some people like beer that tastes like piss, yeah sure, ok.

    • @stevepotocin9501
      @stevepotocin9501 5 місяців тому

      Have another drink!

    • @clockwork914
      @clockwork914 5 місяців тому

      I’ll need a good toke too, but this song will still blow.

    • @stevepotocin9501
      @stevepotocin9501 5 місяців тому

      @@clockwork914 There you go, projecting again...

  • @bsota8513
    @bsota8513 6 місяців тому +6

    Never heard this one. It sucks, like their blue eye shadow.

    • @eric_in_florida
      @eric_in_florida 6 місяців тому +7

      It's a rough watch lol

    • @rosskstar
      @rosskstar 6 місяців тому +9

      He was determined to not be a dude-Carole King who wrote radio-friendly classics. I'd say he... won?

    • @Magnetron33
      @Magnetron33 5 місяців тому +2

      loved it!

  • @Washington-Dreaming
    @Washington-Dreaming 6 місяців тому +7

    Ah, Todd Rundgren. Now he said something like, “If you’re a Trump supporter don’t come to my concert.” His words and not mine. Fair enough. I wonder if he watched the debate though last night. I know Joe Biden didn’t because Joe slept through the festivities.

    • @milesmcmillansr999
      @milesmcmillansr999 6 місяців тому +1

      Stinky Diaperload treason man was all hopped up on Mountain Dew and Mountain of lies!

    • @chasbodaniels1744
      @chasbodaniels1744 5 місяців тому +1

      President Biden is past his sell-by date for sure, but that doesn’t make the devious orange used care salesman any more suited for elected office.

  • @GregoryHorn-i7q
    @GregoryHorn-i7q Місяць тому

    Who's in this band?