Posted on 05/14/2017 12:06:07 PM PDT by drewh
Todd Rundgren isn’t bothered that some of his fans might avoid his concerts due to his politics. The 68-year-old musician and record producer conceded as much in an interview with Variety when asked about an incident in which a couple walked out of a concert in Los Angeles due to comments he made about President Donald Trump.
“No,” Rundgren said when asked if it bothered him. “I’d say: If you’re a Trump supporter, don’t come to my show, because you won’t have a good time. And also, I don’t understand your frickin’ values. Because I’m not singing about that. If you don’t understand that basic thing, you’re just fooling yourself.”
Rundgren is currently on a cross-country tour, with multiple dates in Florida and Texas, states that Trump won during the 2016 campaign. But the musician told Variety that Trump supporters “will likely be offended” if they attend his concerts.
“Let the buyer beware! I mean, if you can’t take a joke, or you can’t admit that you’ve made a mistake, you don’t belong with the rest of us,” he said with a laugh.
Elsewhere in the interview, Rundgren explained that music is the most “plagiaristic” art when compared with other forms, because there are only so many ways musicians can arrange a limited amount of notes together.
“You’ve got the western 12-tone scale. That’s essentially 11 notes. So you’re eventually going to run out of melodies, just by the pure mathematics of it,” he said. “So the whole art of making music is trying to obscure the fact that this is a melody from another song and has just been changed in subtle enough ways that you don’t recognize it.”
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Roger that.
Who?
Lol. I would be lying if I said I know who he is. I think he’s a sports show host from like the eighties?
Who the hell is he?
“Hello it’s Me”....
Whatever....
Nah. He was a decent singer who had a handful of hits during the 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeCB7Kn-VE Hello it’s me
Well, this is a fine example of tolerance/sarc
Chicks got into him after they outgrew Bobby Sherman...
What a retard, mathematically there can only be so many notes stringed together? No sheet sherlock, I can also count all the hydrogen atoms in the universe.
Enjoy losing money you dipwad.
I thought he and his music died in the 70s.
His best-known songs include the 1972 singles “Hello It’s Me” and “I Saw the Light”, which have heavy rotation on classic rock radio stations, and the 1983 single “Bang the Drum All Day”, which is featured in many sports arenas, commercials and movie trailers.
Todd Rundgren - Hello It’s Me (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeCB7Kn-VE
Bang The Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1YB8oOLsjw
Do people actually attend Turd Rumpgrins shows?
“If you’re a Trump supporter, don’t come to my show.”
I wasn’t planning on it.
Fine...won’t spend any money on you, now or ever.
Hello it’s he.
Todd, you never were ‘all that’ to begin with.
Trust me, i wasn’t going to pay good money to see you anyway.
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