Todd Rundgren & Band

Presented by STG Genre: Iconic Singer-songwriter, Progressive Rock Related Artists: Supertramp, Steely Dan, Alan Parsons Todd Rundgren is universally regarded as the most influential and innovative music artist of his generation. For the past 35 years, as a musician, singer/songwriter, record producer and multimedia artist, he has consistently been on the cutting edge. His career seems like a virtual rollercoaster ride which has taken him from garage band (The Nazz) to record producer and technological visionary, whose work is used by millions of people around the globe. Playing rock'n'roll since his high school days in local bands in Philadelphia, in 1967 he formed his first serious band, The Nazz. The band had a psychedelic pop hit, Open My Eyes, before disbanding in 1969. For his next musical venture, Rundgren went on to form Runt in 1971; and scored first taste of national U.S. success with the top-20 hit single We Gotta Get You A Woman. Shortly thereafter, he went on to produce albums for Badfinger, The Band, Paul Butterfield, James Cotton, Fanny, and Grand Funk Railroad. By '72 he embarked on a solo career and released the milestone double album Something/Anything; his first album that spawned two top-20 hit singles in America, I Saw The Light and the seminal Hello, It's Me. By 1974, Rundgren formed a progressive rock band called Utopia, and during that same year he released Todd Rundgren's Utopia, an album packed with cosmic rock numbers fused with outstanding instrumental tracks. When the 1980s rolled around, and before MTV was just a seed that was still waiting to grow, Rundgren became heavily involved in the advent of video technology and began creating enhanced music videos with the aid of the computer. As a live solo artist, he relentlessly toured North America, at times, backed by his videos and pre-taped musical arrangements, which in those days, was totally unheard of. Once again, it became evident that Todd is ahead of his time, with the rest of the world trying to catch up with him! For more information, visit  www.tr-i.com