Todd Rundgren back to guitar rock on tour
The News Review:
- Todd Rundgren back to guitar rock on tour
- TV Q&A
- Doc Watson The Gray Eminence of Bluegrass
- Quick Study
- Small bringing his passion for music to concert in Salt Lake
- A composer’s lifelong quest: Moving the music forward
Todd Rundgren back to guitar rock on tour
Toronto Star – Jan 27, 2008
"The idea actually dawned on him during a seven-date tour of Canada with monster prog-rock bassist Levin in 2006 said Rundgren 59. He’s bringing his own outfit ? with bassist Kasim Sulton from his 1980s band Utopia and drummer Prairie Prince from the Tubes ? to the Danforth Music Hall tonight. "I was known as something of a guitar player back in the early 1970s but later when I went out on the road I was usually out front just strumming rhythm guitar. When I got into producing I lost the urge. It was probably the best move I could have made at the time. I was able to liberate myself from the act of making rock music. "That was in the period ? after leaving the band Nazz and before his solo debut Runt ? when the rigours and meagre rewards of endless touring moved him to look for alternatives… When I got into producing I lost the urge. It was probably the best move I could have made at the time. I was able to liberate myself from the act of making rock music. "That was in the period ? after leaving the band Nazz and before his solo debut Runt ? when the rigours and meagre rewards of endless touring moved him to look for alternatives. " The two-album set yielded the Top 20 hits "I Saw The Light" and "Hello It’s Me" and launched him as a musical phenomenon and a pop visionary. He still plays those songs ? and other Rundgren trademark pieces that fit the guitar-band format including "Black Maria" "Bang the Drum All Day" "Mammon" and "Can We Still Be Friends?" ? as well as material from his politically charged 2004 album Liars and some timely covers including Tom Cochrane’s "Lunatic Fringe.
TV Q&A
Tulsa World – Jan 27, 2008
We recently bought a DVD of ?Petticoat Junction?episodes which was a favorite sitcom of oursgrowing up. But we were disappointed that thetheme song was replaced by simple guitar music. Are they not allowed to use the theme song on theseDVDs? Can you also print the words to the song?A. The most likely explanation for the absence ofthe theme music is that the folks who paid the rightsto put the shows on DVD weren?t able to reach anagreement with the composer of the song so theyjust put in something else. Did the wife on ?Still Standing? also appear on?Square Pegs?? Also is ?Square Pegs? on video orDVD? My husband thinks I am crazy since hedoesn?t remember ?Square Pegs.
Doc Watson The Gray Eminence of Bluegrass
Washington Post – Jan 27, 2008
– Doc Watson is at an age when the old-timey songs he plays have a particular poignancy particularly the church songs that tell of being “carried away” or “going over to the other side. ” r think of “Gonna Lay Down My ld Guitar” the song by one of his favorite groups from the… At a recent concert Stuart watched in awe as Watson led several other musicians in an encore: "Here was this silver-haired man looking like the patron saint of mountain music. "Doc Watson then cannot be ordinary. But when asked some hours before performing here on a Friday night earlier this month whether this is indeed his last ride he gave a deep sigh. He locked his blind eyes on his questioner and said finally quietly "I haven’t the faintest idea.
Quick Study
Washington Post – Jan 27, 2008
Cute right? By the end of the day I could alternate between the song’s F and C chords with competence but I didn’t exactly feel comfortable exploring further on my own. Afterward my fingers hurt. Can you learn the guitar using just this book? I wager yes but only if you’ve got music theory under your belt and are an unflagging do-it-yourselfer who can focus on Crebs’s detailed blueprints. There’s enough back and forth and repetition to make the book seem like an animate companion nagging you to get it right but it will be no substitute if you learn best by example. I prefer to watch and learn rather than read and learn so this was a tough go from the start. I can play the starting chords of "Imagine" but I wasn’t able to create much confidence for m yself all alone in my room. Now as for that banjo in the corner.
Small bringing his passion for music to concert in Salt Lake
Deseret News – Jan 27, 2008
Story continues below He will bring that passion and accomplishment to Salt Lake City for aconcert sponsored by the Utah Classical Guitar Society on Friday Feb. 1at the Salt Lake Recital Hall. Small performs most often as part of a guitar duo. For this concert hewill be joined by Steve Lin a doctoral student at New England Conservatoryof Music in Boston who also tied for first prize in the prestigious 2006Boston GuitarFest competition. The concert will also feature local flutist Jane Wadsworth and vocalistMegan Small a student at Brigham Young University who is also Mark Small’sdaughter. Selections will include numbers from Small’s most recent CD”Fast Falls The Eventide” which he recorded with duet partner PeterClemente on Deseret Book’s JoySpring label as well as a variety of otherofferings including Renaissance Baroque Brazilian folk and film-scoremusic. Small will also conduct a master class the following evening It is a treat to come to Utah and perform he said.
A composer’s lifelong quest: Moving the music forward
San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 27, 2008
It's this old stuff and they don't get further than that. ”Waters is intent on closing the gap between Mozart and Eminem. While in regon (where he taught at Lewis & Clark College) he founded the NWEAM (New West Electro-Acoustic Music rganization) which is devoted to forging “connections between the composers performers and lovers of avant-garde classical music and the DJs MCs guitar-gods troubadours and gourmets of experimental popular music. ”Since Waters' move to San Diego NWEAM has broadened its reach and now presents an annual festival in about a half-dozen cities worldwide including San Diego (this year in ctober at SDSU) and has hopes of presenting concerts on the online virtual world Second Life (where the organization's board of directors already holds its meetings). At San Diego State Waters collaborated with like-minded faculty members Todd Rewoldt and violinist Felix lschofka (and “guest percussionist” Joel Bluestone) to form SWARMIUS which is dedicated to Waters' most potent weapon: his genre-defying music. And Waters has started a new major at SDSU in Electro Acoustic Composition intended for composers who in the words on the university's Web site began “their creative experiments within so-called 'Popular' genres such as rock metal hip-hop electronica. ” The program calls itself “one of the most forward looking in the world.
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