008: Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star (1973)
Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast
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Todd Rungrin Chord Changes on Sunset Boulevard
This is the song that sounds most like what Todd would become when he was experimenting with Prague a couple years later. He actually did not change a lot in 40 years between writing this and taking that version of Utopia out on tour. And I'm just showing off the little kind of harmonic as he's singing the chorus reminds a little bit of like the Wichita lineman harmonic. The reason I let that clip go on so long is because we get more of those lovely unpredictable Todd Rungrin chord changes That I like so much in the Sunset Boulevard section. It probably could have been a single if it didn't have the S word all over it. But on the other hand, that never stopped
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