Following the model of Bearsville Studios, he could now offer Utopia Sound clients housing as well as recording with unrestricted studio hours, rolling the final costs into a larger production advance for himself. Maybe some listeners thought that the sonic trip 40).Albums that Rundgren produced at Bearsville Studios includes Meat Loaf’s Rundgren’s reputation as a studio wunderkind began to circulate after he worked with Grossman’s clients The Band, whose third album According to [guitarist Robbie] Robertson, The Band had initially intended to record After the studio came Grossman’s record label, Bearsville Records, in 1970. You’d drive into town and there’d be all sorts of head shops and bead stores, even though the actual Woodstock festival had been miles down the road, in Bethel. It was a great time – a high point in an otherwise tragic tour.I just stumbled across this site and it brought back some fond memories of recording at Todd’s A frame studio. Todd Rundgren, Soundtrack: Dumb and Dumber.
Todd was raised in the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) area, and his first professional bands, Money and Woddy's Truckstop, achieved much regional success. Todd Rundgren turns 72 on Monday, June 22. The title of his eighth solo album, 1978’s By the late 1980s, Rundgren moved to the Bay Area, where he increasingly became involved with Silicon Valley’s hacker/entrepreneurial community.
“I was always problematic that way and it probably would have been worse for a different kind of manager than Albert, who was used to dealing with people who could be very self-directed, temperamental, or mercurial, like The Band, Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin. When I was a member of The Grandmothers in the 90s, we were up in Woodstock for about a week, and I remember going to Tinker Street to jam with The Bugs, the house band, which featured a guitar player known as “Flash” who was every bit as advertised. He was buried behind Bearsville Theater. He wasn’t managing me anymore and I was looking to move on from the label, and he just became completely unscrupulous with me. It was stupid to have all this money and not invest it in something. grew up in upstate new york, so exciting to hear some of my favorite records were made around the bend I too just stumbled across this site from the spirit of “Big Man” Al.I was a member of the Woodstock Youth Theater which did many shows at Bearsville Theater through out the 90’s. 41).Far from it—with his third record, the double album Grossman was never the easiest of label bosses to deal with; his indifference to Rundgren’s group Utopia, who recorded some dozen studio albums between 1974 and 1985, was an especially sore spot with Rundren. What’s clear, however, is that his recording clients invariably made their way down and their presence known. But the first thing he did was build this little wooden A-frame house, so that he had a place to live while he was building a fancier house, a little further up the hill. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Interestingly, Rundgren never recorded his own albums primarily at Bearsville Studios, despite his familiarity with the facility.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio. A one-man studio wiz proficient on any number of instruments, he chose, at the height of his popularity, to record and p
8 I remember the building very well. I’m not sure who owns the property today, butAs early as 1974, Rundgren was excited by the artistic promise of music video and eager to try his hand at video production work; predictably, he sought to develop a video production facility that would give him greater control and unrestricted studio time. It was an interesting combination of “hands on” and “hands off” and everybody was really comfortable with that” (pg.
Discovering that he was taking work on that he wasn’t excited about just to keep the facility afloat, he finally gave up on Utopia Video Studios in 1983.Myers doesn’t report much about how often and where Rundgren would drive into the village from his Mink Hollow residence. I have acted in many a show on the stage there. The Joyous Lake was the hang out I recall in Woodstock.Jackie Hamilton, Bass Guitarist and singer songwriterits amazing to come across you here on this site!
Many great memories. And I wasn’t concerned with satisfying record company demands. The Psychedelic Furs’ Tim Butler recalls their local haunts:we used to go down into the town of Woodstock and sort of carouse around, getting drunk and stuff. After his relationship with Albert Grossman had cooled somewhat, Rundgren’s day-to-day management was now being handled by Susan Lee at the Grossman Organization, who advised him that it would be wise to reinvest a portion of his prodigious production income into real estate. So that’s when I bought the house on Mink Hollow Road in Lake Hill, New York.”Recalling the history of the Mink Hollow Road location, high up in the woods, near the foot of the Catskill Mountains, [Utopia keyboardist] Roger Powell says, “The property had originally been purchased by this architect, who was going to build a big house on it. He made his first three albums in Los Angeles; the first three sides of Over the following ten years, Rundgren shifted much of his recording activity (solo and with Utopia) and production work, as well as his personal life, into a house and studio on Mink Hollow Road in the Lake Hill section of Woodstock.Heading into the summer of 1975, Rundgren’s growing disdain for the social demands of New York City life had resulted in he and [then girlfriend Bebe] Buell leaving their three-story Manhattan brownstone for a woodland sanctuary in upstate New York. Headquartered in the rustic hamlet of Bearsville (part of the Town of Woodstock), the facility offered Grossman’s clients and other recording artists high-end recording technology and a staff who understood the rock and roll lifestyle, all at an easy two-hour drive from New York City.Todd Rundgren was hired Bearsville Studios’ staff producer and engineer. Despite early misgivings from Grossman, Rundgren quickly established himself as Bearsville’s “boy wonder,” as Grossman’s wife Sally called him. He is hunkered down in Hawaii but has not stopped working.
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