I’ve made it no secret that building audience is a critical thing for me. And so I won’t be dealing with that issue.įifty years into your career, you’re touring much more frequently than you ever did. And it’s as much of a surprise to me as it is to them, you know, when they show up expecting certain a thing to happen and then it doesn’t happen, and they become somehow indignant about and say, “I’ll never buy another ticket for his show again.” I’m making the assumption that eventually all those people will have come to that realization - or, they will have gotten too old to even care. Yeah, there’s still some small slice of the audience who for some reason thinks the last record I made was “Something/Anything?” and that all I’ve done is work that record for the past 40 years or so, 40 or 50 years. RUNDGREN: Well, we’re hoping to weed them out in the long run. Hardcore fans love the variety, but more fair-weather followers are not always prepared for what they’ll get when they buy a ticket. You’ve had all-hits tours, no-hits/new-album tours, “unpredictable evening” tours, a Utopia tour and, now, this book-based tour. VARIETY: Every time you’ve toured in recent years, there’s been a different format from one to the next. Rundgren spoke with Variety in early December about “The Individualist,” the upcoming tour and the Hall of Fame nomination. (Dates for the tour, including shows May 9-10 at L.A.’s Wiltern, can be found here.) Then the Kaiju rolls over and smiles at you and says it loves you and you tell yourself you can tame it.”)Ĭoming a few months after the book release will be what Rundgren is billing as a combined book/music tour, where he will play a two-night double-header for fans in each city and hit bookstores on the afternoons in-between. (“One morning you wake up and realize you’ve been sleeping with a Kaiju, a Godzilla-like creature that destroys things out of blundering ignorance with no particular goal in mind.
(“Somehow this naive klatsch of Canadians managed to reinvent themselves as Levon’s neighbors, misdefining the American South as a place where slavery was an anecdote.”) And former paramour Bebe Buell. Your life then revolves around peanut clusters.”) His first major engineering experience, with the Band. Maybe the problem is when you decide that all you want is peanut clusters and throw the rest of the box away. It had everything: war, sex, drugs, prog rock and disco, stacks of Marshalls and Max’s Kansas City.”) Substance abuse. (“Any objective historian would have to admit that the ‘70s kicked every other 20th century decade’s ass. Crotchwise, my pistil is suddenly pollinating at a previously unimagined rate.”) The decade that followed. (“The faux British style I had assiduously cultivated was paying off in spades in the hinterlands. to have an effect on me and I think Patti saw it… I kind of treated my best friend like shit and didn’t have the balls or brains to see what my new lifestyle had done to me.”)Īlso: Rundgren as a loner kid with sudden access to 1960s promiscuity.
(“Was I jealous of Paul for snagging a girl who had just weeks before spent an inordinate amount of time with me? Actually I was envious of Linda who now got to hang with the Beatles.”) His on-and-off BFF-ship with Patti Smith.
(“All of my previous experience as a troubled loner would not help me with the diplomatic and psychological nightmare of post-adolescent personality management.“) A flirtation with Linda Eastman. (“When he asked for surrenderees to Christ, I took him up on it, thinking I’d become a member of some society of Theremin players in the process.”) His first hit band in the ‘60s, the Nazz. Among the topics broached: How he attended an evangelical church as a child just because there was a Theremin player on the pastoral staff.
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