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GLAM ROCK I: TODD RUNDGREN

Todd Rundgren’s glitter phase was not about the gender indeterminacy, real or feigned, one came to expect of Glam Rock (Rundgren's machismo was certified platinum when he won the hand of Bebe Buell, rock music's Helen of Troy). The hair colors, facial glitter, jewelry and warrior-sprite-prom queen costumes were the trappings of a wizard, a pharaoh and a god, which is what the fans started calling Rundgren, who happily assumed those mantels.

The wizard practiced his craft at a studio Albert Grossman built for Rundgren at his Bearsville Records outpost in Woodstock. As it turns out, Rundren’s elaborate, challenging, meticulously-crafted, occasionally self-indulgent on-stage wardrobe from the period of A Wizard, A True Star through Ra (1973-77), was not just dressing up for fans--it was am emblem of his approach to music making and production, epitomized by the first Utopia albums. This description of the studio is from a 1973 interview with Rundgren:

At the studio, construction on the Utopia Landing Module, a geodesic dome to be covered completely in silver mylar, is underway. All of Jean-Yves’ synthesizers

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TORSTEN SCHMIDT

It is yet again a very clear honor to welcome a man of truly many, many hats. Please, everyone, give a warm hand for Mr. Todd Rundgren.

[applause]

Now, there’s the danger of sitting here for eight hours, because we won’t ever be able to possibly cover everything and anything. And what we’re going to do first is probably play a little video that he kindly provided, which gives you a little bit of a very harsh overview of a lot of different directions this could be going, but we’re going to be focusing on only one or two of them. So, how about... Doing this?

(video: Medley of Todd Rundgren’s productions and his music)

Right. So, any questions at this stage? You get the idea, there’s a plethora of avenues that we could pursue now and go down. And what to execute in such a case, other than restarting your computer ’cause it’s a little confused. How about starting at the very beginning? You’re from the Pennsylvania area. Philly and all of that, right?

Todd Rundgren

 Yeah, I grew up in the Philadelphia area. There is a distinct musical scene in the Philadelphia area, but at the time it mostly revolved around a la

Return to Gender: Todd Rundgren and Rufus Wainwright’s Elastic Masculinity

Todd Rundgren

When I saw that Todd Rundgren was playing Park West this month, I decided to take a spin through his extensive body of work to reacquaint myself with his oeuvre. Which isn’t so easily done; Rundgren’s a restless talent, hard to pin down, and over the past forty-odd years he’s ranged everywhere from bossa nova to EDM.

But the most significant surprise came from a ballad relatively early in his career: 1971’s pop hit, “We Gotta Get You a Woman.” And the surprise was entirely of the how-the-hell-did-anyone-think-this-was-okay variety. The song (still ridiculously catchy after all these decades) finds Rundgren serenading his dejected friend Leroy with the resolution, “We gotta find you a female / It’s fond of nothin’ else to make you undergo sure you’re alive.” Granted, this was just a trickle past the cusp of the seventies, when feminism was still a set-up for late-night talk-show jokes; but love so many things about the period (casual racism, blithe homophobia and that whole genocidal-bombing-in-Cambodia thing), it shocks us well-meaning twenty-first-century folk that anyone could ever get b
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Fascinating NYTimes article on the influence of queer men on rock

WordMan1

Article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/style/the-gay-architects-of-classic-rock.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Well written article. Covers the famous appreciate Brian Epstein and Jann Wenner and the Who’s Kit Lambert, but many others, too. Includes an unfortunate but fascinating story involving a homophobic Harry Nilsson and a marvelous George Harrison.

A great view into an fascinating and important dimension of rock.

Chronos2

Fascinating indeed, but I’m a bit surprised that they didn’t say anything about those performers who were gay. Yes, yes, of course the majority were and are straight: That’s no surprise, since the majority of the population as a whole are straight.

Elendil_s_Heir3

Thanks, WordMan. I learned a lot from that article - quite interesting.

ZipperJJ4

Chronos:

Fascinating indeed, but I’m a bit surprised that they didn’t say anything about those performers who were gay. Yes, yes, of course the majority were and are straight: That’s n

Interview: Todd Rundgren

Todd: “I was looking for people to do what they were comfortable with and oppose me to figure out a way to build it all fit together”

With an album of collaborations on the way, we catch up with the iconic recording artist, producer and musical innovator

Any seek to succinctly summarise the career of Todd Rundgren is something of a gross injustice. Known equally for his own output, in particular the seminal 1972 album Something/Anything?, as for his production serve on records such as Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell and XTC’s Skylarking, his adventures in sound run far deeper than the catalogue he’s renowned for. Rundgren is an experimental pioneer who has advocated advancements in technology for much of his life, and that’s only scratching the surface.

For his latest project, White Knight, Rundgren has teamed up with a expansive array of collaborators, including Daryl Hall, Robyn, Trent Reznor and Joe Walsh. It’s an album that is also notable for the variety of styles it contains, ranging from space rock to disco soul with some rhythmic funk thrown into the mix for good measure. It’s an accessible and riveting record that we’d love to find out