If you know what you want, I'll get it for you. If you don't know
what you want, I'll do it for you. Todd Rundgren. Few record
producers possess the musical facility to back up such a bold
promise, but in over forty-plus years behind the glass, Todd
Rundgren has willed himself into becoming a not only a rock guitar
virtuoso, an accomplished lead vocalist, and a serviceable drummer,
vocal arranger and keyboard player, but also a master of perhaps
his greatest instrument of all, the recording studio. Throughout
his career, Rundgren has ping-ponged between the worlds of producer
and recording artist with varying degrees of critical and
commercial success. After learning his craft as a songwriter and
arranger, with Nazz, Rundgren gained attention for engineering
recordings by The Band. His reputation was cemented by a string of
noteworthy productions beginning in 1971 with Sparks, and
continuing with classic albums for Grand Funk, The New York Dolls,
Badfinger, Hall and Oates, Meat Loaf, Patti Smith Group,
Psychedelic Furs and XTC. All of this alongside his own solo albums
- such as, "Something/Anything", "A Wizard A True Star" and "Hermit
Of Mink Hollow" - on which he played and sang virtually everything,
and a series of albums by his band, Utopia. Researched and written
with the participation and cooperation of Rundgren himself, "Todd
Rundgren: Sounds Of The Studio" is a fascinating and authoritative
trip through the land of flickering red lights inhabited by a
studio wizard - and true star - who has rarely enjoyed a proper
victory lap along the many trails that he has blazed. It draws upon
exclusive new interviews with Robbie Robertson, Patti Smith, XTC,
Sparks, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman, Cheap
Trick, Grand Funk, The Psychedelic Furs, The Tubes, Steve Hillage,
all members of Rundgren's legendary band, Utopia, and many other
key Rundgren associates.
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