[atlantaprog] Re: Rundgren

Andrew, Todd is playing the Roxy tomorrow night! 
According to the Roxy's ad in last week's Creative Loafing:
Todd Rundgren & The Liars
Friday May 14 
9:00 PM 
$26
Seated GA
404-233-ROXY (7699)
Box office and doors open one hour prior to show

Pollstar says The Liars are his backup band.  That's all I know about them.

I do like both albums you mentioned.  I've seen video of some nice improvs with 
TR/i interacting with talented audience members.  The interactive concept could 
(sometimes) work, but he had better results with it in the multi-day 
installations he did than in one-night-stand concerts (or remix-your-own CDs).

The one time I saw todd-in-a-pod live, Todd was great.  The "pod" had MIDI 
controllers and video cameras operable by audience members. The video cameras 
were suspended from arms 15 feet or so from the stage but the musical 
controllers were bolted to the outside of the pod/stage surrounding the solo 
performer.  I have a sort-of sad memory of standing next to a big, tall, 
talented drummer amongst a little cluster of musicians about 3 meters from the 
pod, gazing across an uncrossable crush of bodies to where deliriously ecstatic 
fans were beating on things with sticks like excited, rhythmless monkeys, while 
a frustrated TR-i would try coaching them, "one...two...three...four!" before 
fading the mindless monkeys out of the mix.

Nick

Andrew wrote:
>
>I dig a lot of Todd's stuff.  Ever heard "A Wizard, a True Star"?  Wow.
>And even though some of his sappy ballads are ill, "Something/Anything"
>is a pretty groovy one-man show.
>
>Not so sure about his whole TR-1 bit, with the interactive music idea.
>That sounds a little dumb.
>
>But I hadn't even noticed he was coming.  What are the details, Nick?

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