NBC The Source (satellite broadcast) Todd Rundgren & Utopia Live From Woodstock

Todd Rundgren & Utopia
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."  

https://mega.nz/file/HMgEkKYA#JayoFlZv13JXtmiDZkwsqAwIBGX4PGwjU-kJ6R1HV1k

Todd Rundgren & Utopia / NBC The Source 1980 - Tarrytown, NY 11/14/1979

Todd Rundgren & Utopia
First Concert Of The Decade
NBC The Source CMV 46636
Broadcast date: January 1-2, 1980
Recorded November 14, 1979 at the Westchester Premiere Theatre, Tarrytown, NY.

01 John McGhan - NBC The Source 1980-01 Intro
02 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Last of the New Wave Riders
03 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Back On The Street
04 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Love Of The Common Man
05 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Caravan
06 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - 96 Tears
07 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Trapped
08 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Shot In The Dark
09 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - The Last Ride
10 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - The Road To Utopia
11 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Gangrene
12 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Rock Love
13 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - The Death of Rock and Roll
14 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Love In Action
15 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Couldn't I Just Tell You
16 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
17 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Love Is The Answer
18 Todd Rundgren & Utopia - Just One Victory
19 John McGhan - NBC The Source 1980-01 Outro

Matrix / Runout (Side 1, Etched): Ach CM V 46636-1 12049
Matrix / Runout (Side 2, Etched): Ach CM V 46636-2 12049
Matrix / Runout (Side 3, Etched): Ach CM V 46636-3 12049
Matrix / Runout (Side 4, Etched): Ach CM V 46636-4 12049

This is a fresh digitization as of April 2024, right off off the original vinyl records.
Once again, the Voodoo Wagon solves a rock and roll mystery.  The Discogs listing reads, "This concert was recorded in November, 1979. Possibly on 11/14,15, or 16 based on the set list including “96 Tears...." 

The Voodoo Wagon Research Team...working from our secret headquarters, uncovered a picture of Rundgren from the January 5, 1980 issue of Billboard captioned, "Rundgren's concert from a Westchester, N.Y. performance is mixed for Jan. 1 broadcast on the new NBC radio network." 

That gives us the likely location.  Cross referencing location with tour calendar reveals the show was recorded at the Westchester Premiere Theatre, Tarrytown, NY on November 14, 1979.  That matches up with the Discogs dates sourced from the set list inclusion of "96 Tears."

Quod erat Voodoo-demonstrandum, folks.

Other things to note about this show:  It is LIKELY to be the second Source broadcast.  The boys in Research found proof of an earlier Santana concert with a broadcast window of December 14-15-16, 1979.  While most Source concerts would list a three day "broadcast window" covering the Friday/Saturday/Sunday weekend, this one only lists January 1-2 on the disc labels.  For the record, January 1 was Tuesday and you can probably figure out the 2nd was Wednesday.  

Also of note is that this show is TITLED. Most Source shows are given obvious designators: The Eddie Money Band Concert, the Robert Plant/Led Zeppelin Special, The Doors Profile.  But every so often, they sprinkle a little bit of promotional magic fairy dust and add a title to the discs, such as "War Is Declared - The U2 Concert" or "April Fixx Day."  Uh...yeah.  That first one is epic, the second is awful.  "Fixx" and "Fools" aren't homophones. 

But you get the point: THEY WERE TRYING TO TELL YOU THIS WAS A BIG DEAL when they added a name on the disc label.  The first broadcast by a new network in a new decade!  Are you ready for the Eighties?

We managed to track down a full page print ad from Radio & Records magazine promoting the show, two weeks prior to the syndicated broadcast.  The ad says the concert was "on more than 175 radio stations throughout the country."

You get: FLAC FILES OF WAVS!  300 DPI SCANS OF DISC LABELS AND CUE SHEET!  A COPY OF PRINT AD! YES!  PRINT AD!  COULD THIS BE MOST EXCITING BLOG POSTING OF YEAR?!  HULK...HULK SMASH!!

(Meanwhile, in the background, Jobe quietly asks SilentWay to get out the tranquilizer rifle and darts, "Just in case he doesn't calm down.  You know what happened last time...)

https://mega.nz/file/WIQVnAiK#OKWNeSXQQtROomj0g0pnrXTCrXpHuQHmU5ywZGEK6p8

Todd Rundgren-Live In Mink Hollow

The next in my series of discs. See scans

SOME MEN'S WORLD IS ONLY HATE AND MONEY AFRAID OF EVERYTHING AND THEY LAUGH AT NOTHING

Todd Rundgren / Westwood One In Concert #89-18, The New Ritz, NYC, Aug. 1989

Okay, gang, here's the latest project.  I've been running slow as the needle on the turntable went kablooey and I had to track one down.  In the meanwhile I promised the boss I'd get an Aerosmith show done while he was on vacation and I was totally wrong, I end up finishing off the Todd Rundgren show instead.

Todd Rundgren
The New Ritz, New York
Westwood One In Concert 89-18
for broadcast the week of August 21, 1989

Rundgren played at least two nights at the New Ritz, Saturday Aug. 5, 1989 and Sunday Aug. 6, 1989.

Produced by Lynssey Guerrero,  Production and engineering by Ray Hubbes Cline and Michael Jordan
Mobile recording engineer: Dale Peters
Concert material mixed by Todd Rundgren
Executive producer Norm Paddiz




Sides 1 and 2:
01. Westwood One In Concert 89-18 Intro - Steve Downes
02. Commercial - Volkswegen
03. Commercial - Snickers
04. Real Man
05. Unloved Children
06. Parallel Lines
07. Commercial - Listermint
08. Commercial - Volkswagen
09. Westwood One In Concert 89-18 Break - Steve Downes
10. Can't Stop Running
11. Compassion
12. Commercial - Listermint
13. The Who Tour Update
14. Secret Society
15. Something To Fall Back On
16. Can We Still Be Friends
17. Mated
18. Commercial - Budweiser
19. Commercial - Listermint
20. Commercial - Snickers
21. Westwood One In Concert 89-18 Break - Steve Downes

Sides 3 and 4:
22. Lost Horizon
23. Marvin Gaye Medley: What's Going On, Mercy Mercy Me, I Want You
24. Lost Horizon Reprise
25. Feel It
26. Commercial - Head & Shoulders
27. Commercial - Snickers
28. Commercial - Budweiser  (Toots & the Maytals)
29. Westwood One In Concert 89-18 Break - Steve Downes
30. Love In Action
31. Rock Love
32. Want Of A Nail
33. Westwood One In Concert 89-18 Break - Steve Downes
34. Commercial - Snickers
35. Commercial - Budweiser
36. Commercial - Volkswagen
37. Westwood One In Concert 89-18 Break - Steve Downes

38. Hello It's Me
39. Westwood One In Concert 89-18 Outro- Steve Downes
40. Westwood One In Concert 89-18 Promo - Steve Downes

https://mega.nz/file/eMRigBAB#XKvcBToFFrbQyRY3SpZk80dasoru7llZn7gQhKwMq3A

Flac files of wavs!  You get a 300 dpi scan of the cue sheet and all four disc labels!  I found a snooty New York Times review of one of the two concerts and tossed that in, too!  I found a scan of a ticket for you!

THE ANNOUNCER:  Steve Downes, American disc jockey and voice actor...famous as the voice of MASTER CHIEF Petty Officer John-117 in the video game HALO.

THE COMMERCIALS:  Hey!  That's Toots & the Maytals doing a Budweiser commercial!  What a voice!

THE VENUE:  While announcer Steve Downes calls it "the Ritz in New York," this was recorded at the NEW RITZ, at 254 West 54th Street, New York City...the former site of STUDIO 54, the famous 1970's disco.  The Ritz was at 119 East 11th Street from 1980 to April 1989...three miles away from where this was recorded.

The revamped New Ritz opened on April 6, 1989, with a show by the Radiators. Capacity was about 3,000 seated and standing, roughly double that of the old Ritz.

THE RECORDING CREDITS:  First of all, Todd Rundgren actually mixed the show.  It's unusual for an artist to mix their own syndicated concert.

But take note of the recording engineer for Westwood One!  It was DALE PETERS, from the James Gang!

Todd Rundgren / Kosei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan - January 20, 1988 FM

Todd Rundgren
Kosei Nenkin Hall
Tokyo, Japan
January 20, 1988
FM

01.  There Goes My Inspiration
02.  Love Of The Common Man
03.  Hammer In My Heart
04.  Lysistrata
05.  Cliché
06.  It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
07.  I Saw The Light
08.  Can We Still Be Friends?
09.  Drive
10.  One World
11.  Love Is The Answer

This is from a first generation tape I got from a tape trader in Tokyo in the late 1980s.
3/4 of this is Todd "unplugged" with either guitar or piano....note that this was a full year before
the MTV "Unplugged" trend which started in 1989.

Wikipedia tells me that "Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan (厚生年金会館) or Koseinenkin Hall were public halls in Japan supported by welfare pension funds.

Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan halls existed in the following locations:

Naka-ku, Hiroshima
Kanazawa
Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū
Aichi Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya
Orix Theater (formerly Osaka Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan) in Nishi-ku, Osaka
Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan in Shinjuku, Tokyo (1961 – 31 March 2010)
Hokkaido Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan in Chūō-ku, Sapporo"

https://mega.nz/#!eJIUQJKB!0XwRR8VKjIbNEhgQ15gRRUzDVgrUBtUnOnYKJov8QEs

Remember to click "download through your browser" unless you want to install Megasync.

Todd Rundgren & Utopia / Brown University Nov. 11. 1977 FM

Todd Rundgren & Utopia
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
November 11, 1977

Hans Devente digitized his FM recording of a Todd Rundgren 1977-11-11 show from a Dutch radio station in the Summer of 2014. There was already a circulating version of a tape recorded by Dan Lampinski from an American radio station. Hans' tape has better audio quailty, but the first song cuts in during the first chorus, the start is missing.

The two versions also seems to have different ambiance; Hans tape has slightly wider stereo separation (to my ears...).

I chaptered and normalized Hans' tracks and did some other minor editing (removed a few pops, made the between song edits less jarring by getting the volume levels closer to each).

I have set this up so you have several options for dealing with the problem with the first track:

1:  I've included the unedited Hans Devente tape version of Trapped, which cuts in after the song has started.  
2:  I made a version of Trapped that edits together the Lampinski and Devente versions for a complete show using all of the better audio quality on the Devente tape.
3:  The unedited Lampinski version of Trapped, so you can do the edit yourself if you find my edit to be too jarring.  If you don't like it, do it yourself! :)
4:  The original American DJ intro from the Lampinski tape, to be included or discarded as you see fit. If you include it, you get a show introduced in English and with the show credits in Dutch.

Todd Rundgren: guitars, vocals
Roger Powell: keyboards, synths, vocals
Kasim Sulton: bass, vocals
John "Willie" Wilcox: drums, vocals


01a.  American DJ intro 

01.  Trapped (three versions of this file, all clearly labeled)
02.  The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
03.  Abandon City 
04.  Love Of The Common Man
05.  Back On The Street
06.  Black And White
07.  Communion With The Sun
08.  Utopia Theme 
09.  Love Is The Answer
10.  Crazy Lady Blue
11.  Love In Action
12.  The Death Of Rock 'n Roll
13.  Dutch Radio Outro

https://mega.nz/file/aNAHWaST#1B9reEb3tDIKOyhMYJnlOYAZihxX2aIia2uRf4amAJE

If you like this old radio broadcast, Cherry Red records has issued a great show from a year later, Todd Rundgren & Utopia Live At The Electric Ballroom 23rd October 1978.

If we get lucky, Cherry Red will put out an official release of the full version of this edited Brown University show.

Todd Rundgren & the Liars -The Starlite Room, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, August 29, 2006

(Actually starts on track #3; tracks #1/2 were crowd noise.)
And I'll be damned if that isn't Flo & Eddie on b/g vocals in the video.

Todd Rundgren & the Liars
The Starlite Room
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
August 29, 2006

Todd Rundgren - vocals, guitars, more vocals
Jesse Gress - guitar, vocals
Tony Levin - bass, vocals
Jerry Marotta - drums, vocals

Very good audience recording

crowd
Buffalo Grass
I Hate My Frickin' ISP
Black Maria
Soul Brother
Mammon
Fascist Christ
I Saw The Light
Black And White
Lunatic Fringe
No1 LCD
Drive
Slut
The Walls Came Down
One World
encore applause 1
Hawking
World Wide Epiphany
encore applause 2
Love Of The Common Man
crowd
 
320kbps/mp3
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T7FH9RGE