Todd Rundgren

Role

Singer Guitarist Keyboardist

Genre

Rock Pop Funk / Soul

Group

Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band Utopia The New Cars

Credits

Defiance Part 1 Baby Blue State

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Role

Singer Guitarist Keyboardist

Genre

Rock Pop Funk / Soul

Group

Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band Utopia The New Cars

Credits

Defiance Part 1 Baby Blue State

Social

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EMS VCS 3

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You’ve done a lot of synth stuff. On a song like “Breathless,” was that material sequenced?

It was pre-sequencing, as we now know it. You could get a sequencer back then, but sequencers in those days were way different. You’d have a wall of synths, and the way you would get these instruments sequenced would be by patching everything through a trigger device. You’d have rows of devices that would trigger one synth after the other. It was complex, but this was 1972. There was no MIDI. You could only sequence and record a little chunk of music at a time and then you would have to splice it into the piece. I would have been manually sequencing with an EMS “Putney” [VCS3] with a little keyboard.

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E-Mu Emulator II

Synthesizers

The credo on Todd Rundgrens current tour, according to an entourage member, is: ''You cant get on the bus unless you sing.''

There are, however, exceptions.

''Well, weve got two stage guys who dont have to sing,'' Rundgren said from his Cleveland hotel room. ''And the bus driver, I haven`t auditioned him yet. But if he can sing. . . .''

Singing is such a big deal because Rundgren and his group of 11 vocalists are out supporting his latest album, ''A Cappella.'' It`s pretty much what the title indicates: an all-vocal record, with Rundgren doing all the singing and using an Emulator, a computerized keyboard instrument, to synthesize his voice into the sounds of various instruments.

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Fender Rhodes Mark I Stage 73 (1969-1975)

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Rundgren can be seen in this live photo playing a Fender Rhodes Mark 1 Stage 73.

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Fairlight CMI IIx

Synthesizers

Fairlight CMI IIx is in this photo. He had it in his personal studio.

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