Todd Rundgren & Utopia
Live From Woodstock
Live From Woodstock
NBC The Source satellite broadcast
Recorded at:
Woodstock, NY
July 3, 1981
01 John McGhan - NBC The Source Intro
02 Utopia - One World
03 Utopia - The Road To Utopia
04 Utopia - Swing To The Right
05 Utopia - Last Dollar On Earth
06 John McGhan - Welcome To Stations
07 Utopia - Set Me Free
08 Utopia - Rock Love
09 Utopia - The Up
10 Utopia - Love Of The Common Man
11 Todd Rundgren - Welcome To Stations
12 Utopia - Always Late
13 Utopia - The Very Last Time
14 John McGhan - NBC The Source Break
15 Announcer - KDKB Station ID
16 Utopia - Studio audience
17 Utopia - Lysistrata
18 Utopia - Back On The Street
19 Todd Rundgren - Welcome To Stations
20 Utopia - Crazy Lady Blue
21 Utopia - Time Heals The Wounds
22 Utopia - Healer
23 Utopia - I Saw The Light
24 John McGhan - Welcome To Stations
25 Utopia - Caravan
26 Utopia - Love In Action
27 Utopia - Love Is The Answer
28 Utopia - Just One Victory
29 Announcer - Encore Break
30 John McGhan - Credits over Couldn't I Just Tell You
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music
From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
Recorded from the Rumble concert page.
Based on the station break from a disc jockey at KDKB-FM (Mesa-Phoenix, Arizona), I think we have a low generation recording of the original satellite broadcast. The commercials are edited out. There's about three minutes of audience noise and studio mucking about at the start, and someone telling the audience that in 30 seconds they'll be broadcasting to the entire country...then 10 seconds to air.
That disorganized bit of audience chatter makes it likely this isn't recorded off the air as the show was broadcast.
While it's "streaming audio" and therefore "lossy," it was recorded as a wav file. I chaptered it and compressed to flac for storage space reasons.
Most of the NBC The Source shows that we have are digitized from copies of the syndicated radio LPs. The Source also did satellite broadcasts.
I tracked down a news story in Cleveland's "The Plain Dealer" about EDR Media, the company that recorded the shows for The Source. While Westwood One equipped and staffed their own mobile recording studio, The Source contracted with an outside company EDR Media. Originally an acronym for "Educational Development and Research Organization, the company got its start developing textbooks, branching out into video and recording services.
The story mentions that the Rundgren show was recorded in a "secluded rustic home deep in the woods of Woodstock...we found 200 people gathered in a big living room."




























