Rock/Pop Icon Todd Rundgren is returning to Fairfield County to perform his seminal 1973 album "A Wizard, A True Star" live in its entirety at the Stamford Center for the Arts Palace Theater on September 9, 2009. Ticket information is available at www.AWATSlive.com. Todd will perform the entire AWATS album plus a second full set of songs spanning his remarkable 40 year career backed by an all-star band featuring Jesse Gress, Kasim Sulton, Prairie Prince, Greg Hawkes, & Roger Powell.
"A Wizard, A True Star" was Todd’s follow up to his most commercially successful album, “Something /Anything?” which included popular hits like “I Saw The Light” and “Hello It’s Me”. Instead of going with a similar sound, Todd Rundgren went in a completely different direction with his electrical psychedelic album "A Wizard, A True Star".
Although the album wasn’t a big hit with critics and didn’t reach near the sales as Todd’s previous album, it’s the clear cut favorite of Todd’s most avid fans and is considered a very influential album to thousands of musicians. Todd’s manager, Eric Gardner of Panacea Entertainment, said, “It was Todd’s 180 degree turn after 'Something/Anything?' much to the dismay of the record company and much to the dismay of radio. Back then they were hoping for a follow up of 'Something/Anything?' something in the same vein. 'A Wizard, A True Star' is actually a record that’s near and dear to Todd’s heart because it was so contrary”.
"A Wizard, A True Star" was listed in the 2006 musical reference book, “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die”. In 2003, British music critic Barney Hoskyns wrote in MOJO magazine, "Rundgren’s 'A Wizard, A True Star' is simply the greatest album ever made”.
The Todd Rundgren AWATS Live concert in Stamford is being presented by RundgrenRadio.com. This will be the third AWATS Live performance ever. The first two AWATS Live performances are being held in Akron, OH on September 6th and 7th.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Third Todd Rundgren AWATS show to be announced tonight on Rundgren Radio!
Find out where the third Todd Rundgren "A Wizard, A True Star" live show is booked tonight on Rundgren Radio!
There is no guest scheduled for tonight but plenty of entertainment will be provided including covers of AWATS songs including some from Japanese musicians.
Show starts at 8:30pm ET. Chat room will be open as always.
www.RundgrenRadio.com
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Second date for Todd Rundgren A Wizard, A True Star LIVE booked!
Musician Todd Rundgren will perform his entire "A Wizard, A True Star" album live for the second time ever on September 7th, 2009 at the Akron Civic Theatre in Akron, Ohio beginning at 7pm. The concert is being presented by RundgrenRadio.com. Ticket prices start at $50 and are available at http://rundgrenradio.tix.com and http://www.ticketmaster.com/. Additional information can be found at http://www.awatslive.com/. Todd and his band will perform other songs from his vast catalog before embarking on the full album presentation.
Todd's "A Wizard, A True Star" lineup will include some of the members from his former bands Utopia and The New Cars. The all-star band lineup for the Akron "A Wizard, A True Star" gig includes: Todd Rundgren, Kasim Sulton, Prairie Prince, Jesse Gress, Greg Hawkes, and Roger Powell. This will be the first time the 3 Utopians Todd, Kasim, and Roger have been on stage together since 1992.
The performance of AWATS the night before at the same venue is almost sold out with less than 200 seats remaining. Tickets for the newly announced Monday night show go on sale this Monday June 29, 2009 at 11am ET.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Brent Bourgeois & Larry Tagg Tonight 8:30 ET
Tonight, two of our past guests will be visiting RundgrenRadio.com - but this time, they'll be on at the same time.
Brent Bourgeois and Larry Tagg, founding members of Bourgeois Tagg, will join us tonight to discuss what they've been doing. Both Brent and Larry have had new books published this year. They also participated in a benefit concert for their friend and ex-bandmate, Richard Oates, which was taped for a DVD and is now available here.
The chatroom will be open! 646-716-9262
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Paul Freeman Joins Us Tonight 8:30 pm ET
RundgrenRadio.com is pleased to welcome back to the show Paul Freeman, tonight at 8:30 pm Eastern. We will also have a special surprise guest for the second half of the show!
Welshman Paul Freeman has toured with Todd Rundgren off and on again for the past year or so, and will be joining Todd this month for some shows. He has been touring with Joe Cocker most recently, and will join Cocker again come July, but only until he will join Edwin McCain on the road for the rest of the summer.
All this and he's found time to pen numerous songs, some of which are currently being recorded by Meat Loaf. Several television shows have featured Paul's songs, and word has it that ABC has picked up several more.
Join us tonight as we delve a little further into this man's exciting career.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Rundgren Radio airs TONIGHT 06/09/09!
Our special guest on Rundgren Radio (6/9/09) is Gregg Rubin who is Todd Rundgren's current live sound engineer. Gregg was previously Harry Connick's live and studio sound engineer. There's more on his resume but you'll have to listen to the show to find out the rest of the story :-).
Chat room will be open! Listeners are welcome to call in and ask questions!
www.RundgrenRadio.com
Tuesday nights 8:30pm ET
Tuesday nights 8:30pm ET
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Tony Stevens (Foghat) Is Our Guest Tonight 8:30 pm ET
Coming from Savoy Brown, Tony Stevens became a founding member and bassist in the band Foghat. In 1971, Albert Grossman brought Foghat into the recording studio with Todd Rundgren wearing his producer's cap and they recorded a few tracks for Foghat's first album "Foghat." Eventually, that relationship was scrapped and Dave Edmunds finished the album in the producer role.
There's a story there, folks...
Tony Stevens hasn't faded from view. Oh no, he's been making music ever since. He is front man to a band called Tony Stevens' Slow Ride.
Check it out tonight at 8:30 pm ET. We'll have some really good tunes brought to us by Tony Stevens himself. Chatroom will be open for business, too.
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