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#1662036 - 03/11/04 07:08 PM Personal Glimpses
Tedster
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Reader's Digest has a little feature called "Personal Glimpses" wherein little highlights of your favorite personalities are revealed.

That can apply to audio heroes as well. I came across this "Personal Glimpse" of musician/producer Todd Rundgren. It was on his former keyboard player's (Mark "Moogy" Klingman) website:

On Todd Rundgren's session persona...

Moogy writes...

"9/14/99 A few comments about TR's engineering and production style. He moved quick. Everything was always done quickly. Recording the trax... overdubs, vocals... and mixing... He moved a mile a minute and if you didn't wanna keep up with him. Too bad! TR liked to finish any album he worked on in about two weeks. He sometimes mixed whole albums in a day. (I think the first Utopia album was done that way)... If you wanted to spend whole sessions trying to get a good or better vocal... he just didn't wanna tolerate that. His style was to move fast and capture the moment. He did all his vocals that way. Moving faster than a speeding bullet. He'd come into secret sound (my loft) and go to the control room and in a couple of hours all the lead and background vocals for a song would be done... He moved fast and he expected others to do the same. That's why most artists didn't want to do a second album with him. They wanted to do things slowly, meticulously, and perfectly. Mix a song in a day and not a whole album. Record one song vocal in a day... punching in and doing track after track. Not TR... He moved fast as hell and onto the next thing. You didn't like the Vocal? too bad..... the train was leaving the station and onto the next thing. Even his trashy sounds and mixes were some kind of artistic statement. Remember - he built secret sound out of home audio equipment and crazy wiring... and no engineer in the control room when we did trax. But the sounds - like the songs themselves - made their own statements.

- Moogy"
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#1662037 - 03/18/04 04:50 AM Re: Personal Glimpses
Philip O'Keefe
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This post deserves to be bumped.

I love Todd's work. I love the sounds he gets on some of his recordings and I especially appreciate his pop sensibilities. I really appreciate you posting this Tedster!

I'd love to hear other "personal glimpses" - either about other famous producers and engineers, or even about not so famous producers and engineers. Maybe even your own.

Anyone else want to share?
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#1662038 - 03/18/04 02:27 PM Re: Personal Glimpses
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FWIW Im seeing Todd live in a small venue her in Roch next month. Cant wait.

I also saw him once in a very small venue in tokyo. This was a few weeks before the most recent woodstock show at which he played solo- with a bunch of MIDi gear and a laptop as backup. Very daring /original approach - as always.

Glad to see him doing music again- I understood he was into Software development for a while.

Wonder what his IQ is???
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#1662039 - 03/18/04 09:48 PM Re: Personal Glimpses
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Originally posted by Philip O'Keefe:
I really appreciate you posting this Tedster!

I'd love to hear other "personal glimpses" - either about other famous producers and engineers, or even about not so famous producers and engineers. Maybe even your own.

Thanks, Phil...yeah, I'd love to hear some stories of other producers/engineers/etc...to catch an idea of how they work...
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#1662040 - 03/18/04 10:21 PM Re: Personal Glimpses
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Shooting from the hip!!! That's fine if your successful all of the time, but that doesn't sound too personal. I would be a little upset too I guess. He probably was just upset with artists that can't make up their mind. Did he get paid by the hour or by a lump sum! Sounds like a lump sum project to me. Is that a true statement with his work?? Just courious. I'm sure his work was good. Maybe he didn't spend a lot of time on the small time artist, but the bigger fish required more of his attention. What do you think?

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#1662041 - 03/19/04 11:21 AM Re: Personal Glimpses
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Kendrix wrote:
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FWIW Im seeing Todd live in a small venue her in Roch next month. Cant wait.
Wow, reading the original post just now, I was just thinking to myself "didn't my local freetime rag mention something about TR playing here in Rochester next month?" - How 'bout this snow?? Where is he playing?

-Paul
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#1662042 - 03/19/04 01:10 PM Re: Personal Glimpses
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Originally posted by mound:
Kendrix wrote:
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FWIW Im seeing Todd live in a small venue her in Roch next month. Cant wait.
Wow, reading the original post just now, I was just thinking to myself "didn't my local freetime rag mention something about TR playing here in Rochester next month?" - How 'bout this snow?? Where is he playing?

-Paul
I believe its the water street music hall on April 20.
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