I love Todd Rundgren’s work from Naz onto many other albums.
Not all, but many. His music and lyrics helped me make sense of the world during my late teens. His melodies were wonderful ‘It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference’, Just One Victory, Fair Warning, A Wizard A True Star, and many others. Funny thing is, he was never that well known to the average rock or pop music listener. I rarely found anyone who knew much about Todd accept for ‘I Saw The Light’ or some throw away tune “I Wanna Play the Drums All Day’, a song I have zero use for. Todd was an acquired taste.
Sort of like the group “Sparks” a brother duo Todd also produced.
My heart was broken last year though, when Todd said Trump voters were ‘not welcome’ at his concerts. Not that I would ever have gone to one now, at my age (62), but it was quite unwelcoming. Todd has become bitter and set in his ways.
I have learned to separate the man he is now, from the younger man who created all that music I adored. He can’t take that memory away from me now, no matter how proud he is of hating all conservatives.
Mrs. Hugin and I saw him a few years ago. He may be talented but he’s a huge a-hole. We were staying at a casino and he was playing so we decided to go. Most of the audience were just people like us who knew a few of his songs and decided to go. His contempt for the audience was palpable. He started out saying “I don’t do requests. Don’t ask me to play “Hey Leroy”, that’s not even the name of the song.” He then proceeded to play about an hour of jazz-fusion arrangements. By the time he was done with that half the audience had left, which he made fun of, then played some of his songs, the being Light in Your Eyes. He never did play “We gotta get you a woman” or “Bang on the Drum”, his two biggest hits. The whole thing was a big FU to anyone who wasn’t a hard core fan.
Mrs. Hugin and I now just call him “that a-hole”.