Tickets On Sale
December 10, 2018 at 10AM Local Time
Citi Presale Begins December 04, 2018 at 10AM Local Time
Los Angeles
- Current Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee Todd Rundgren will be embarking
on the world’s first hybrid concert/book tour this spring, highlighting both
his hits as well as “deep tracks” spanning his 50-year career.
Produced by Live Nation and presented by SiriusXM, the North
American leg of the tour starts in Atlanta, GA and hits major markets before wrapping in San Francisco, CA.
The North American dates will be preceded by dates in Europe/UK and followed by
dates in Japan.
Full itinerary is below.
Rundgren’s long-awaited autobiography, The Individualist:
digressions, dreams and dissertations, is being released by Cleopatra Press on
December 21, documenting his life through his 50th birthday. The concert set
list will mirror that time period, consisting of song selections from the
inception of his musical career through 1996, with intros & stories behind
the songs and Rundgren’s impressive career.
He will be playing back-to-back shows in the ten North
American markets in order to be available for books signings and local TV and
radio appearances on the second show day in each city. Tickets go on sale
Monday, December 10 at 10AM Local Time. Two-day ticket packages, along with
single-day tickets, will be available in each North American market.
Citi is the official presale credit card of the Todd
Rundgren – The Individualist Tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access
to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, December 4th at 10AM local time
until Sunday, December 9th at 10PM local time through Citi’s Private Pass
program. For complete presale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com.
The Individualist: digressions, dreams and dissertations is
available now for pre-order at:
Amazon.Com: Pre-order Todd:
https://www.amazon.com/Individualist-Digressions-Dreams-Dissertations/dp/0997205652
TODD RUNDGREN “THE INDIVIDUALIST TOUR”
April 1 - Theater am Mareintor - Duisburg, Germany
April 2 - Laeiszhalle - Hamburg, Germany
April 3 - Paradiso - Amsterdam,
Netherlands
April 6 - Eventim Apollo - London, UK
April 10 - Buckhead Theatre - Atlanta, GA
April 11 - Buckhead Theatre - Atlanta, GA
April 13 - State Theatre - Washington, DC
April 14 - State Theatre - Washington, DC
April 16 - Town Hall - New
York, NY
April 17 - Town Hall - New
York, NY
April 19 - Berklee Performance Center
- Boston, MA
April 20 - Berklee Performance Center
- Boston, MA
April 23 - Athenaeum Theatre - Chicago, IL
April 24 - Athenaeum Theatre - Chicago, IL
April 27 - Danforth
Music Hall - Toronto, ON
April 28 - Danforth
Music Hall - Toronto, ON
May 01 - Fillmore - Philadelphia,
PA
May 02 - Fillmore - Philadelphia,
PA
May 05 - Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square - Cleveland, OH
May 06 - Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square - Cleveland, OH
May 09 - The Wiltern - Los
Angeles, CA
May 10 - The Wiltern - Los
Angeles, CA
May 12 - Palace of Fine Arts - San Francisco, CA
May 13 - Palace of Fine Arts - San Francisco, CA
May 22 - Sumida Triphony Hall - Tokyo,
Japan
May 23 - NHK Hall - Osaka, Japan
TODD RUNDGREN
A Wizard, A True Star. The title of Todd Rundgren's 1973
solo album aptly sums up the contributions of this multi-faceted artist to
state-of-the-art music. As a songwriter, video pioneer, producer, recording
artist, computer software developer, conceptualist, and interactive artist
(re-designated TR-i), Rundgren has made a lasting impact on both the form and
content of popular music.
Born and raised in Philadelphia,
Rundgren began playing guitar as a teenager, going on to found and front The
Nazz, the quintessential `60's psychedelic group. In 1969, he left the band to
pursue a solo career, recording his debut offering, the legendary Runt. But it
was 1972's seminal Something/Anything?, on which he played all the instruments,
sang all the vocal parts, and acted as his own producer, that catapulted Todd
into the superstar limelight, prompting the press to unanimously dub him
'Rock's New Wunderkind'. It was followed by such landmark LPs as The Hermit of
Mink Hollow and the above mentioned A Wizard, A True Star, as well as such hit
singles as “I Saw The Light,” “Hello It's Me,” “Can We Still Be Friends,” and
“Bang The Drum.”
In 1974, Todd formed Todd Rundgren’s Utopia (renamed and
reconfigured in 1976 as Utopia), an entirely new approach to the concept of
interactive musicianship, and embarked on an extensive round of touring and
recording. Standout Utopia offerings included Oops! Wrong Planet, Adventures in
Utopia, and Oblivion. Along the way, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia combined technical
virtuosity and creative passion to create music that initially, for millions,
defined the term "progressive rock”, and subsequently, as Utopia, the term
“powerpop.”
Rundgren's myriad production projects include albums by
Patti Smith, Cheap Trick, Psychedelic Furs, Meat Loaf, XTC, Grand Funk
Railroad, and Hall And Oates. Rounding out his reputation as rock's Renaissance
Man, Rundgren composed all the music and lyrics for Joe Papp's 1989
Off-Broadway production of Joe Orton's Up Against It (the screenplay commissioned by The Beatles
for what was meant to have been their third motion picture). He also has
composed the music for the hit film Dumb and Dumber, as well as a number of
television series, including Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Crime Story.
In 2012 Rundgren performed his iconic 1973 album A Wizard A
True Star in concert in its entirety for the first time ever, and several years
later did the same with a double bill: Todd & Healing. He has toured with
Ringo Starr as an erstwhile member of the All-Starr Band since 1989, and
continues to perform with symphony orchestras both domestically and
internationally. His latest studio album, White Knight, was released last May,
and this past spring he toured North America
with original Utopians Kasim Sulton and Willie Wilcox for the first time in 33
years. His long-awaited autobiography The Individualist, will be in stores
December 21. He embarks on the world’s first hybrid concert/book tour this
coming April/May, highlighting music across his 50-year career.
Last year on successive weekends he was awarded honorary
doctorates from both the Berklee School of Music and DePauw University.
In 1998 Todd debuted his new PatroNet technology which for
the first time allowed fans of a musical artist to subscribe directly to the
artist’s musical output via the Internet. This caps a long history of
groundbreaking early multimedia "firsts", including:
• 1978: The first interactive television concert, broadcast
live over the Warner/QUBE system in Columbus,
Ohio (the home audience chose
each song in real time during the concert by voting via QUBE’s 2-way operating
system).
• 1978: The first live nationally broadcast stereo radio
rock concert (by microwave), linking 40 cities around the country.
• 1979: The opening of Utopia Video Studios, a multi-million
dollar state-of-the-art facility. The first project produced by Todd there is
Gustav Holst’s The Planets, commissioned by RCA Selecta Vision as the first
demonstration software for their new videodisc format.
• 1980: Creation of the first color graphics tablet, which
was licensed to Apple and commercially released as The Utopia Graphics Tablet.
• 1981: “Time Heals,” the first music video to utilize
state-of-the-art compositing of live action and computer graphics (produced and
directed by Todd), becomes the eighth video to be played during the launch of
MTV on August 1, 1981.
• 1982: The first live national cablecast of a rock concert
(on the USA Network), simulcast in stereo to over 120 radio stations.
• 1982: The first two commercially released music videos,
one of which was nominated for the first-ever Grammy awarded for “Best Short
Form Video” in 1983.
• 1992: The first commercially available music downloads via
CompuServe.
• 1993: The release of No World Order, the world’s first
interactive record album on CD-i.
• 1994: The release of The Individualist, the world’s first
full-length Enhanced CD.
• 1994: The world’s first interactive concert tour.
• 1998: Launches PatroNet, the world’s first direct artist
subscription service -- predicts that someday "music will be sold by the
pound".
• 2016: The production of the world's first full length
concert shot with multiple Virtual Reality 360º cameras.
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