Todd Rundgren – Back To The Bars (Live) (1978/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Todd Rundgren – Back To The Bars (Live) (1978/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:43:18 minutes | 3,81 GB | Genre: Rock
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Live album featuring Utopia as backing band and all-star special guests Stevie Knicks, Hall & Oates, Rick Derringer, Spencer Davis and more!

Following a year of Utopia and the completion of The Hermit of Mink Hollow, Todd Rundgren hit the road with a musical retrospective on the advice of Bearsville president Paul Fishkin, who wanted a live greatest-hits record to plug. Ever perverse, that’s not exactly what Rundgren delivered. Culled from three shows — where he was supported by both Utopia and a carefully assembled band at New York’s Bottom Line, one at L.A.’s the Roxy, one at Cleveland’s the Agora — the resulting double album Back to the Bars was an idiosyncratic collection of hits and personal favorites, covering many (but not all) of his best songs, from “I Saw the Light,” “Couldn’t I Just Tell You,” “Hello It’s Me” and “Real Man” to “The Range War,” “Sometimes I Don’t Know What to Feel” and “The Verb ‘To Love.'” All of the performances are tough and persuasive — enough so that the songs that sounded like production numbers on record, such as large stretches of A Wizard, A True Star, reveal themselves as effective compositions and often sound a great deal more accessible here. That said, Back to the Bars isn’t an ideal introduction to Rundgren, simply because his studio wizardry is one of the main reasons his records are so interesting, yet it is true that the record has enough great songs and quirks to paint an effective portrait of Rundgren’s music. As such, it’s the rare live album that caters to both the casual and hardcore fan and should be equally enjoyable to either audience. ~~ AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:
01. Todd Rundgren – Real Man (Live) (04:48)
02. Todd Rundgren – Love Of The Common Man (Live) (04:25)
03. Todd Rundgren – The Verb “To Love” (Live Version – 1978) (08:01)
04. Todd Rundgren – Love In Action (Live) (03:44)
05. Todd Rundgren – A Dream Goes On Forever (Live) (02:33)
06. Todd Rundgren – Sometimes I Don’t Know What to Feel (Live) (04:23)
07. Todd Rundgren – The Range War (Live) (02:46)
08. Todd Rundgren – Black And White (Live) (05:34)
09. Todd Rundgren – The Last Ride (Live) (06:04)
10. Todd Rundgren – Cliché (Live) (04:13)
11. Todd Rundgren – Don’t You Ever Learn? (Live) (05:51)
12. Todd Rundgren – Never Never Land (Live) (02:49)
13. Todd Rundgren – Black Maria (Live) (05:42)
14. Todd Rundgren – Zen Archer (Live) (05:44)
15. Todd Rundgren – Medley: I’m So Proud / Ooh Baby Baby / La La Means I Love You / I Saw The Light (Live) (10:59)
16. Todd Rundgren – It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference (Live) (04:28)
17. Todd Rundgren – Eastern Intrigue (Live) (05:58)
18. Todd Rundgren – Initiation (Live) (06:35)
19. Todd Rundgren – Couldn’t I Just Tell You (Live) (04:05)
20. Todd Rundgren – Hello It’s Me (Live) (04:26)

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