It was stupid to have all this money and not invest it in something. 131-2).In 1976, Rundgren bought the neighboring house turned it into a guest residence. “[D]epending on how efficiently the recording process went”—and Rundgren was famous for demanding extensive rehearsals and composition before his clients entered the studios—most recording artists could save money while Rundgren got the convenience of working out of his home.Utopia Sound became the base of recording and rehearsals for Todd’s solo albums and the albums of by the band of the same name. The Ah, the Tinker Street Café! A facile composer of memorable hook-filled pop melodies, he has often chosen to make willfully difficult music.
He was buried behind Bearsville Theater. He is hunkered down in Hawaii but has not stopped working. In fact,” he laughs, “I kind of expected the label to eat the loss!” (pg. Discovering that he was taking work on that he wasn’t excited about just to keep the facility afloat, he finally gave up on Utopia Video Studios in 1983.Myers doesn’t report much about how often and where Rundgren would drive into the village from his Mink Hollow residence. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio. Todd Rundgren, Soundtrack: Dumb and Dumber. But the first thing he did was build this little wooden A-frame house, so that he had a place to live while he was building a fancier house, a little further up the hill. (The Mink Hollow residence was a site of personal trauma and emotional development for Rundgren. It signed some of his less famous clients (Paul Butterfield, Jesse Winchester) but also other artists not under Grossman’s management (Foghat, the first incarnation of Sparks). Todd Rundgren is, apparently by design, a bundle of contradictions. By 1996, he stopped working at Utopia Sound altogether; having shifted almost entirely to recording his own music on a laptop computer, he no longer felt it necessary to have a personal studio at his disposal. They also appear My research here draws primarily from Paul Myers’ book, A Philadelphia native, Rundgren first came to Woodstock in 1969 to work at Bearsville Studios, the recording facility built and owned by Albert Grossman. “I was always problematic that way and it probably would have been worse for a different kind of manager than Albert, who was used to dealing with people who could be very self-directed, temperamental, or mercurial, like The Band, Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin.
Todd produced That’s What Friends Are For in May 1981 for my band The Moondogs with Chris Andersen engineering. punk-rock dads in suburbia: reflections on "The Other F Word" You’d drive into town and there’d be all sorts of head shops and bead stores, even though the actual Woodstock festival had been miles down the road, in Bethel. He made his first three albums in Los Angeles; the first three sides of Over the following ten years, Rundgren shifted much of his recording activity (solo and with Utopia) and production work, as well as his personal life, into a house and studio on Mink Hollow Road in the Lake Hill section of Woodstock.Heading into the summer of 1975, Rundgren’s growing disdain for the social demands of New York City life had resulted in he and [then girlfriend Bebe] Buell leaving their three-story Manhattan brownstone for a woodland sanctuary in upstate New York. It was a great time – a high point in an otherwise tragic tour.I just stumbled across this site and it brought back some fond memories of recording at Todd’s A frame studio. Initially he worked on setting up a facility within Bearsville Studios, sometimes while producing artists at the same time, as Jay Dee Daugherty of the Patti Smith Group recalls:On some tracks, we would just start recording and he’d wave through the glass and leave to work in his video studio for a while. So that’s when I bought the house on Mink Hollow Road in Lake Hill, New York.”Recalling the history of the Mink Hollow Road location, high up in the woods, near the foot of the Catskill Mountains, [Utopia keyboardist] Roger Powell says, “The property had originally been purchased by this architect, who was going to build a big house on it. Next, Rundgren set up his own studio out of keyboardist Moogy Klingmann’s Manhattan loft on 24th & 8th: Secret Sound, where Rundgren recorded his psychedelic double-albums A Wizard A True Star (1973) and Todd (1974) and the first Utopia record (1974). As it turned out, A Wizard was the launch pad for further dementia, and, depending on your point of view, indulgence. When I was a member of The Grandmothers in the 90s, we were up in Woodstock for about a week, and I remember going to Tinker Street to jam with The Bugs, the house band, which featured a guitar player known as “Flash” who was every bit as advertised. Notorious for the 25% fee he charged his clients (15% was traditional for managers), he also fiercely defended their careers and promoted their art in an often uncomprehending, out-of-touch music industry, and Bearsville Studios was an important part of his arsenal. Then, he’d pop back in, later, to see how it was going and, at crucial moments, he’d shepherd us through the process. 221).“Oh yeah, adds, [Bun E.] Carlos, “We were up on Cripple Creek there, in the Catskills, in that crappy little dumpy old farmhouse then we’d go up the hill and record at Todd’s tiny A-frame studio.”Sometimes, [Rick] Nielsen admits, cabin fever would set in. What’s clear, however, is that his recording clients invariably made their way down and their presence known. By 1977, Rundgren began diverting the considerable income he had earned from producing hit albums for Meat Loaf and Grand Funk Railroad into this new venture. White Knight is the 25th solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren.The album was released on May 12, 2017, by Cleopatra Records.. Critical reception
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