{"id":10327,"date":"2018-12-05T06:23:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=10327"},"modified":"2018-12-05T06:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:23:59","slug":"todd-rundgren-announces-the-individualist-world-tour-presented-by-siriusxm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2018\/12\/05\/todd-rundgren-announces-the-individualist-world-tour-presented-by-siriusxm\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Rundgren Announces \u201cThe Individualist\u201d World Tour Presented By SiriusXM"},"content":{"rendered":"
Current Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee Todd Rundgren will be embarking on the world\u2019s first hybrid concert\/book tour this spring, highlighting both his hits as well as \u201cdeep tracks\u201d spanning his 50-year career.<\/div>\n
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Produced by Live Nation and presented by SiriusXM, the North American leg of the tour starts in Atlanta, GA and hits major markets before wrapping in San Francisco, CA. The North American dates will be preceded by dates in Europe\/UK and followed by dates in Japan. Full itinerary is below.<\/div>\n
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Rundgren\u2019s long-awaited autobiography,\u00a0The Individualist: digressions, dreams and dissertations, is being released by Cleopatra Press on December 21, documenting his life through his 50th birthday. The concert set list will mirror that time period, consisting of song selections from the inception of his musical career through 1996, with intros & stories behind the songs and Rundgren\u2019s impressive career.<\/div>\n
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He will be playing back-to-back shows in the ten North American markets in order to be available for books signings and local TV and radio appearances on the second show day in each city. Tickets go on sale Monday, December 10 at 10AM Local Time. Two-day ticket packages, along with single-day tickets, will be available in each North American market.<\/div>\n
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Citi is the official presale credit card of the Todd Rundgren \u2013 The Individualist Tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, December 4th at 10AM local time until Sunday, December 9th at 10PM local time through Citi\u2019s Private Pass program. For complete presale details, visitwww.citiprivatepass.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The Individualist: digressions, dreams and dissertations\u00a0is available now for pre-order at:<\/div>\n
Amazon.Com: Pre-order Todd:\u00a0https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Individualist-Digressions-Dreams-Dissertations\/dp\/0997205652\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542659768&sr=8-1&keywords=the+individualist+todd+rundgren<\/a><\/div>\n
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Europe:\u00a0https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Individualist-Digressions-Dreams-Dissertations\/dp\/0997205652\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543342108&sr=8-1&keywords=todd+rundgren+the+individualist<\/a><\/div>\n
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TODD RUNDGREN \u201cTHE INDIVIDUALIST TOUR\u201d<\/div>\n
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April 1 – Theater am Mareintor – Duisburg, Germany<\/div>\n
April 2 – Laeiszhalle – Hamburg, Germany<\/div>\n
April 3 – Paradiso – Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/div>\n
April 6 – Eventim Apollo – London, UK<\/div>\n
April 10 – Buckhead Theatre – Atlanta, GA<\/div>\n
April 11 – Buckhead Theatre – Atlanta, GA<\/div>\n
April 13 – State Theatre – Washington, DC<\/div>\n
April 14 – State Theatre – Washington, DC<\/div>\n
April 16 – Town Hall – New York, NY<\/div>\n
April 17 – Town Hall – New York, NY<\/div>\n
April 19 – Berklee Performance Center – Boston, MA<\/div>\n
April 20 – Berklee Performance Center – Boston, MA<\/div>\n
April 23 – Athenaeum Theatre – Chicago, IL<\/div>\n
April 24 – Athenaeum Theatre – Chicago, IL<\/div>\n
April 27 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON<\/div>\n
April 28 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON<\/div>\n
May 01 – Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA<\/div>\n
May 02 – Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA<\/div>\n
May 05 – Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square – Cleveland, OH<\/div>\n
May 06 – Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square – Cleveland, OH<\/div>\n
May 09 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA<\/div>\n
May 10 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA<\/div>\n
May 12 – Palace of Fine Arts – San Francisco, CA<\/div>\n
May 13 – Palace of Fine Arts – San Francisco, CA<\/div>\n
May 22 – Sumida Triphony Hall – Tokyo, Japan<\/div>\n
May 23 – NHK Hall – Osaka, Japan<\/div>\n
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TODD RUNDGREN<\/div>\n
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A Wizard, A True Star. The title of Todd Rundgren’s 1973 solo album aptly sums up the contributions of this multi-faceted artist to state-of-the-art music. As a songwriter, video pioneer, producer, recording artist, computer software developer, conceptualist, and interactive artist (re-designated TR-i), Rundgren has made a lasting impact on both the form and content of popular music.<\/div>\n
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Born and raised in Philadelphia, Rundgren began playing guitar as a teenager, going on to found and front The Nazz, the quintessential `60’s psychedelic group. In 1969, he left the band to pursue a solo career, recording his debut offering, the legendary\u00a0Runt. But it was 1972’s seminal\u00a0Something\/Anything?, on which he played all the instruments, sang all the vocal parts, and acted as his own producer, that catapulted Todd into the superstar limelight, prompting the press to unanimously dub him ‘Rock’s New Wunderkind’. It was followed by such landmark LPs as\u00a0The Hermit of Mink Hollow\u00a0and the above mentioned\u00a0A Wizard, A True Star, as well as such hit singles as\u00a0\u201cI Saw The Light,\u201d\u00a0\u201cHello It’s Me,\u201d\u00a0\u201cCan We Still Be Friends,\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cBang The Drum.\u201d<\/div>\n
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In 1974, Todd formed Todd Rundgren\u2019s Utopia (renamed and reconfigured in 1976 as Utopia), an entirely new approach to the concept of interactive musicianship, and embarked on an extensive round of touring and recording. Standout Utopia offerings included\u00a0Oops! Wrong Planet,\u00a0Adventures in Utopia, and\u00a0Oblivion. Along the way, Todd Rundgren\u2019s Utopia combined technical virtuosity and creative passion to create music that initially, for millions, defined the term “progressive rock\u201d, and subsequently, as Utopia, the term \u201cpowerpop.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Rundgren’s myriad production projects include albums by Patti Smith, Cheap Trick, Psychedelic Furs, Meat Loaf, XTC, Grand Funk Railroad, and Hall And Oates. Rounding out his reputation as rock’s Renaissance Man, Rundgren composed all the music and lyrics for Joe Papp’s 1989 Off-Broadway production of Joe Orton’s\u00a0Up Against It\u00a0 (the screenplay commissioned by The Beatles for what was meant to have been their third motion picture). He also has composed the music for the hit film\u00a0Dumb and Dumber, as well as a number of television series, including\u00a0Pee Wee\u2019s Playhouse\u00a0and\u00a0Crime Story.<\/div>\n
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In 2012 Rundgren performed his iconic 1973 album\u00a0A Wizard A True Star\u00a0in concert in its entirety for the first time ever, and several years later did the same with a double bill:\u00a0Todd\u00a0&\u00a0Healing. He has toured with Ringo Starr as an erstwhile member of the All-Starr Band since 1989, and continues to perform with symphony orchestras both domestically and internationally. His latest studio album,\u00a0White Knight, was released last May, and this past spring he toured North America with original Utopians Kasim Sulton and Willie Wilcox for the first time in 33 years. His long-awaited autobiography\u00a0The Individualist, will be in stores December 21. He embarks on the world\u2019s first hybrid concert\/book tour this coming April\/May, highlighting music across his 50-year career.<\/div>\n
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Last year on successive weekends he was awarded honorary doctorates from both the Berklee School of Music and DePauw University.<\/div>\n
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In 1998 Todd debuted his new PatroNet technology which for the first time allowed fans of a musical artist to subscribe directly to the artist\u2019s musical output via the Internet. This caps a long history of groundbreaking early multimedia “firsts”, including:<\/div>\n
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\u2022 1978: The first interactive television concert, broadcast live over the Warner\/QUBE system in Columbus, Ohio (the home audience chose each\u00a0song.in<\/a>\u00a0real time during the concert by voting via QUBE\u2019s 2-way operating system).<\/div>\n
\u2022 1978: The first live nationally broadcast stereo radio rock concert (by microwave), linking 40 cities around the country.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1979: The opening of Utopia Video Studios, a multi-million dollar state-of-the-art facility. The first project produced by Todd there is Gustav Holst\u2019s\u00a0The Planets, commissioned by RCA Selecta Vision as the first demonstration software for their new videodisc format.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1980: Creation of the first color graphics tablet, which was licensed to Apple and commercially released as The Utopia Graphics Tablet.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1981:\u00a0\u201cTime Heals,\u201d\u00a0the first music video to utilize state-of-the-art compositing of live action and computer graphics (produced and directed by Todd), becomes the eighth video to be played during the launch of MTV on August 1, 1981.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1982: The first live national cablecast of a rock concert (on the USA Network), simulcast in stereo to over 120 radio stations.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1982: The first two commercially released music videos, one of which was nominated for the first-ever Grammy awarded for \u201cBest Short Form Video\u201d in 1983.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1992: The first commercially available music downloads via CompuServe.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1993: The release of\u00a0No World Order, the world\u2019s first interactive record album on CD-i.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1994: The release of\u00a0The Individualist, the world\u2019s first full-length Enhanced CD.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1994: The world\u2019s first interactive concert tour.<\/div>\n
\u2022 1998: Launches PatroNet, the world\u2019s first direct artist subscription service — predicts that someday “music will be sold by the pound”.<\/div>\n
\u2022 2016: The production of the world’s first full length concert shot with multiple Virtual Reality 360\u00ba cameras.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Source:\u00a0www.citiprivatepass.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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