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How old (young) was TR back then? A wizard. A true star!
An amazingingly great song. I feel happy & melancholy at the same time when I hear it.....which is a sadly rare event.
The whole Steven Tyler, Live Tyler, Todd Rundgren, Bebe Buell saga is a pretty wild story.
Saw him a few years ago in concert. What an a-hole. First the advertised opening act didn’t play, which someone told us was because he didn’t want to have to follow anyone. Then he mocked people who request songs, “don’t ask for “Leroy Boy”, that’s not even the name of the song”. Next he played a bunch of jazz-rock fusion for the first half of the show. By then half the audience had left when he started playing actual songs, but never did do his two biggest hits, We Gotta Get You a Woman and Beat on the Drum. I never saw a performer who seemed to hold people who paid to see him in such contempt.
Love that song.....have that and “I Saw The Light” on my IPad......guess I look a little funny gettin’ down in my garden to those songs. Makes hard work fun........;)
He did this entire song by himself. Very talented.
My all-time favorite TR song, which also ranks among my all-time FAVORITE songs, is “Can we still Be Friends”. Melancholy and mystical with a beautiful melody.
His gig on "Daryl's House" filmed at Todd's place in Hawaii was really good. I also saw him live in 2006-ish when he played lead for the "New Cars".
Love the song, love the album, “Something Anything.”
The first time I heard this, I saw Todd perform this on the Midnight Special. The announcers made a point of saying that he was going to be performing to a backup track, since he was alone with a piano on stage. I remember thinking, wow, that’s one weird looking outfit he’s wearing, but the music really won me over.
An amazing performer, but IMHO, where he seems to have really shined commercially is as a producer. He took Hall & Oats and Grand Funk Railroad to superstar status. He was also the producer of an album you might have heard of, “Bat Out of Hell” by Meatloaf & Jim Steinman.
I also love all the incarnations of “Utopia!”
Mark