Todd Rundgren has produced big albums for the Band, Grand Funk Railroad, Badfinger, Hall & Oates, the New York Dolls, and Meat Loaf. Now, at 74, he performs in a David Bowie tribute band.
Todd Rundgren, the record producer, sound engineer, songwriter, and recording artist, has had such a strange career in the music business that it somehow does not seem strange that, at seventy-four, he has been performing in a David Bowie tribute band. This on the heels of a few Beatles-tribute tours. A giant covering giants.
He was in a bar in Chelsea, on a day off from the Bowie tour , sipping what he called a Ukrainian Mule. Known in his youth as Runt, he’s sturdier now, with long two-tone hair and a vibe that manages to be both beatific and bearish. He arranges his own travel, to avoid the tour bus and therisk. He doesn’t own a cell phone. “I actually have my wife’s spare in case I need an Uber,” he said. They live on the island of Kauai; his wife owns a tiki bar.
Rundgren, originally from the Philadelphia area, came to New York in late 1967 with his band, Nazz. “We were a dress-up band, a glam band,” he said. “I recall our excursions starting in Brooklyn, looking for an affordable place, and by the time we found something it was in Great Neck, on Long Island.” He left Nazz after a year and a half. “I was spending my days in the Village with clothing designers. There was a boutique down on Christopher Street called Stone the Crows.
Meanwhile, at Secret Sound, and then in a home studio upstate , Rundgren, eschewing earlier pop success, made experimental records of his own. “For most artists, it would always be in the back of their minds that if they didn’t sell records it would be the end of their career,” he said.
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