I love Todd ...

What year is this? I remember him from the early seventies.

re: #2 BatGuano

It's 2009. I remember him from the early seventies too.

/

Excellent song, and a brilliant vocal performance. I never heard this before.

It looks like this was recorded in 1990.

I have listened to much of his music over the years ... and I believe this is absolutely one of his best songs ...

re: #3 sngnsgt

It's 2009. I remember him from the early seventies too.

/

Thanks. I should have been more specific:).

re: #4 Last Mohican

He certainly doesn't look like a fifty something. Fifty something! Thirty something 20 years on.

Great performance and a cool song too!

re: #6 BatGuano

Thanks. I should have been more specific:).

Sorry, it's just been a sarcastic Sunday. ;-)

re: #7 BatGuano

Well he was about 42 when this was recorded. 60 now.

So talented. Somehow I missed exploring his music more during my life.

Da*n this piece has me wanting to get my sax out from under the bed. Must resist the urge, the neighbors might shoot me. LOL

re: #9 sngnsgt

Sorry, it's just been a sarcastic Sunday. ;-)

I absolutely deserved it. :)

User 'Watcher' posts in the spinoff:

North Korea Sentences 2 American Journalists to 12 Years in Labor Prison

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's state news agency says the country's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison.

The Korean Central News Agency says the Central Court tried American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from June 4 to 8.

It said Monday the trial confirmed an unspecified "grave crime" against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea.

The report says the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor."

re: #10 Last Mohican

re: #10 Last Mohican

Well he was about 42 when this was recorded. 60 now.

So talented. Somehow I missed exploring his music more during my life.

Thanks. I was afraid I was the only one aging. Seems like it sometimes.

Why is there an anger management banner ad from Google up in the top page? What exactly are they implying!? If they have something to say, why don't they just COME RIGHT OUR AND SAY IT! AAAAARGH!!

*out

re: #14 BatGuano

re: #10 Last Mohican

Thanks. I was afraid I was the only one aging. Seems like it sometimes.

"Something/Anything" was the first album I ever bought. 1972. I was 13-14 years old. :-)

re: #13 pink freud

Well that's a "Todd Rundgren feel good music" BUZZ-KILL!

North Korea is absurdly evil.

re: #15 Fenway_Nation

Why is there an anger management banner ad from Google up in the top page? What exactly are they implying!? If they have something to say, why don't they just COME RIGHT OUR AND SAY IT! AAAAARGH!!

Hulk smash keyboard?

re: #19 Zimriel

Oh yeah....Hulk; the other Green Monster.

re: #18 IslandLibertarian

Well that's a "Todd Rundgren feel good music" BUZZ-KILL!

North Korea is absurdly evil.

I can't even imagine what hell those women will go through.

OT:

North Korea's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists, and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison, the country's state news agency reported.

The Central Court tried American TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee and confirmed their unspecified "grave crime" against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea.

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

re: #13 pink freud

User 'Watcher' posts in the spinoff:

North Korea Sentences 2 American Journalists to 12 Years in Labor Prison

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's state news agency says the country's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison.

The Korean Central News Agency says the Central Court tried American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from June 4 to 8.

It said Monday the trial confirmed an unspecified "grave crime" against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea.

The report says the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor."

More taunting of the US by the scumbag norks. Will our "dear leader" act in any way? Mr Obama: the whole world is watching! Time to "man up."

re: #23 _RememberTonyC

More taunting of the US by the scumbag norks. Will our "dear leader" act in any way? Mr Obama: the whole world is watching! Time to "man up."

Maybe Kim is gunning for his own iPod.

re: #22 ArchangelMichael

That's what I get for not clicking "New Comments" before posting something.

re: #24 Fenway_Nation

Maybe Kim is gunning for his own iPod.

the world is testing Obama on an almost daily basis. and so far, with very few exceptions, he has come up short. punks like kim respect only strength. and what the world sees in Obama is weakness. God help us ...

re: #24 Fenway_Nation

Maybe Kim is gunning for his own iPod.

Don't forget the DVD collection.

OT, but AemJeff has managed to score the top ten bottom comments!
Congratulations, to all who fought today!

re: #28 Floral Giraffe

OT, but AemJeff has managed to score the top ten bottom comments!
Congratulations, to all who fought today!

that must be a record.

re: #27 Pvt Bin Jammin

Don't forget the DVD collection.

"Team America World Police"
Blueray
We throw in a home theater.
And a Translator.

/"ronery little prick............

re: #28 Floral Giraffe

OT, but AemJeff has managed to score the top ten bottom comments!
Congratulations, to all who fought today!

Hey, that's a clean sweep. I don't think we've seen that before. Congrats, AemJeff!

re: #30 IslandLibertarian

LOL

re: #28 Floral Giraffe

OT, but AemJeff has managed to score the top ten bottom comments!
Congratulations, to all who fought today!

Need more troll competitors? How can we have the best trolls, without competition?

re: #30 IslandLibertarian

"Team America World Police"
Blueray
We throw in a home theater.
And a Translator.

/"ronery little prick............

That's "Team America Wowrd Porice" on Brueray

Here's my musical contribution for the night:

This album won the Grammy for best album this year, so it may not be new to everyone. But I've just been rediscovering how great it is today.

Allison Krauss is performing tonight at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, in a benefit for Challenge America, which "works with communities across America to support the development of recreational and occupational programs for returning injured military and their families." I really wish I had known earlier. I would have tried to go.

Apparently she and Robert plant are releasing another album together this year. I'll be sure to catch the tour this time. It's really a fantastic collaboration. I never would have guessed how well they'd work together.

In light of the political developments today, I give you Psycho Killer:

re: #31 Charles

Hey, that's a clean sweep. I don't think we've seen that before. Congrats, AemJeff!

the Lizards threw everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink at him ... he reminded me of the character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that kept losing limbs but continued taalking smack to his superior opponent.

Goodnight Lizardia.

re: #37 _RememberTonyC

the Lizards threw everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink at him ... he reminded me of the character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that kept losing limbs but continued taalking smack to his superior opponent.

King Arthur: Your arms's off!
Black Knight: No, it's not.

re: #28 Floral Giraffe

I'm just finding out about this, but doing my part.

re: #31 Charles

Hey, that's a clean sweep. I don't think we've seen that before. Congrats, AemJeff!

It/He, and the valiant lizards fought a LONG fight! Lizards did not give in, even to fatigue! (There was some three stooges posted for relief, towards the end of the battle!) He has earned his bottom ten.

Hey, since this is a music thread - walking through Tarjay today, I noticed they have two acoustic guitars, one is "parlor size", the other is "dreadnaught". Both steel string. Developed with whatzhisname from Maroon 6. Kewl. So, ... what's a "parlor size" guitar? That borrowed Martin I used to play, that's "dreadnaught" size?

My musical skills are such, that an acoustic guitar from Target is just about the right speed.

(and actually, they had a couple of other acoustics and several electrics, too, fwiw)

re: #38 Alouette

Goodnight Lizardia.

Sweet dreams.

re: #39 BatGuano

King Arthur: Your arms's off!
Black Knight: No, it's not.

"Come back here so I can taunt you some more."

All threads lead to Monty Python: Life is good.

re: #31 Charles

Hey, that's a clean sweep. I don't think we've seen that before. Congrats, AemJeff!

I think Maximu§ clean-sweeped the Bottom 10 the day he was booted.

"'Tis only a flesh wound"

re: #31 Charles

Hey, that's a clean sweep. I don't think we've seen that before. Congrats, AemJeff!

Damn, I've been working on that one myself. That's a rare prize.

almost 1:00am in New England ..... time to say goodnight ... sweet dreams "Lizard Nation."

And thanks again to Charles for providing this island of sanity in a messed up world!

re: #46 ArchangelMichael

I think Maximu§ clean-sweeped the Bottom 10 the day he was booted.

Someone should keep statistics on these things. Most up-dings for a single comment, most down-dings for a single comment, most popular spinoff link, etc.

re: #50 Last Mohican

Doesn't the downding record still go to annefrance?

re: #40 Fenway_Nation

I'm just finding out about this, but doing my part.

Was trying to do my part too and accidentally dinged one up. OMG Thankful that we can change it now.

re: #50 Last Mohican

I'm still trying to get on the top ten and bottom ten on the same day. Haven't managed yet, but I'll make it.

re: #49 _RememberTonyC

almost 1:00am in New England ..... time to say goodnight ... sweet dreams "Lizard Nation."

And thanks again to Charles for providing this island of sanity in a messed up world!

'Nite. Have a great day tomorrow.

Anyone caring to look, AemJeff is number 1 through 10 on the Bottom Comments list. Quite an accomplishment!

... ranks right up there with farting in public. :(

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What's up, Jeff?

re: #53 Killgore Trout

I'm still trying to get on the top ten and bottom ten on the same day. Haven't managed yet, but I'll make it.

If anyone can do it, you can! I'm rooting for you.

re: #31 Charles

Hey, that's a clean sweep. I don't think we've seen that before. Congrats, AemJeff!

Sheeeeeesh! *Red with embarrassment* I just redefined the phrase "Late to the party!"

re: #58 SteveC

Sheeeeeesh! *Red with embarrassment* I just redefined the phrase "Late to the party!"

Well glad you could make it anyway! Good to see you on the late night thread. Four hours till fruitcup ....

re: #59 pink freud

Well glad you could make it anyway! Good to see you on the late night thread. Four hours till fruitcup ....

Do I gotta sing for my supper?

*Grabs guitar and strums a happy tune*

re: #53 Killgore Trout

I'm still trying to get on the top ten and bottom ten on the same day. Haven't managed yet, but I'll make it.

KT, but you're trying to get ONE on each of the top ten & the bottom ten in the same day, right? Not SWEEP them! LOL! You can do with your body what your mind sets out to do!

These Journalists ( or whatever) Did the visit the State Department website?

[Link: travel.state.gov...]

re: #58 SteveC

Sheeeeeesh! *Red with embarrassment* I just redefined the phrase "Late to the party!"

Eh, it happens to us all sometimes.

Can we come up with a new award to give AemJeff? Maybe we could call it the Anti-Zeppelin award. Because at one point in the 1980's, Led Zeppelin albums held nine of the top ten albums on the Billboard chart at the same time. It would have worked better if it was all ten.

Gotta share this ...

A Stimulus Story. It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea, it is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher. The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel. The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her services on credit. The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there. The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything. At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town. No one earned anything.

However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

re: #60 SteveC

Do I gotta sing for my supper?

*Grabs guitar and strums a happy tune*

If you could do something from 'Fiddler on the Roof', I bet it would get you extra-special fruitcup from littleoldlady. ;-)

re: #65 pink freud

If you could do something from 'Fiddler on the Roof', I bet it would get you extra-special fruitcup from littleoldlady. ;-)

I can not fiddle and the roof leaks when the rain is heavy. I'm scared I may fall through!

re: #64 Bobibutu

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

Nice. Except you left out the part about everyone in the whole town still owes the Chinese $20 each.

Really happened this week: Old couple in the store looking over a lamp, the man turns it over and exclaims "Made in China!" (He pronounces it "Chiner")

The wife asks "Who makes it?" - referring to the manufacturing company, I think - and the old guy rolls his eyes and exclaims "Chinermen!"

re: #64 Bobibutu

I think the old Mash tv show used a similar plot line about five times.

If I owe you $100 and you owe me $100, then I guess a $700,000,000,000 stimulus program is just what we need.

re: #69 itellu3times

I think the old Mash tv show used a similar plot line about five times.

It worked a lot better on TV.

re: #64 Bobibutu

It's funny and also an old vaudeville routine.

G'nite all.
And b/c it's cool and for no other reason, here's Heart's Barracuda:

re: #71 BatGuano

It's funny and also an old vaudeville routine.

I wonder who the genius was that first put it together? Probably a few thousand years back. Good humor/satire just evolves.

Unseen photographs reveal the private life of Adolf Hitler

re: #72 Irenicum

G'nite all.
And b/c it's cool and for no other reason, here's Heart's Barracuda:

I think we can dance to this. Alright lizards let's get our buns out of our computer chairs. I'm hijacking this thread into a dancing thread. LOL

I have to stay off of youtube ... I get lost on there ... saw him once in the early 80s ... great ... Grover Washington, Jr. ...

Good Night Ya'll ...

9/11 truibute, and we can dance too.

re: #74 pink freud

One EVIL motherfrakker....

Gee, I'm confused about this save the planet recycling myth. I spent the past few years in NW Pennsylvania where we separated and recycled everything except kitty litter and kitty poop. I now live in SW Nevada, and here we dump everything in the same can and roll it out to the street once a week. Cans, bottles, plastic, paper, garbage, kitty poop, it all goes into the same can. What's up with that?

re: #74 pink freud

Unseen photographs reveal the private life of Adolf Hitler

OMG I only got through a few of those. Too sickening to even think about, much less look at. I'll bet the photographer's family will make a fortune on those pics.

re: #73 Bobibutu

There were giants in those days.

I can't believe I am watching the Tony Awards. I haven't seen a play in over four years. "Hair" is out again.

re: #74 pink freud

I see he had a fondness for orchids.

re: #82 Pvt Bin Jammin

I can't believe I am watching the Tony Awards. I haven't seen a play in over four years. "Hair" is out again.

Congratulations on your 2000 Karma!

re: #83 freetoken

Should I look at the pictures? I don't think so.

re: #84 BatGuano

Congratulations on your 2000 Karma!

Ooops. Too late, you're at 2001: A Karma Odyssey.

re: #84 BatGuano

Congratulations on your 2000 Karma!

What!? I don't look at that much. Sounds cool to me.

re: #87 Pvt Bin Jammin

I've got the "Space Odyssey Karma now". LOL Thanks, Hal.

re: #85 Pvt Bin Jammin

Should I look at the pictures? I don't think so.

Try this one, PBJ. They do not all show the man himself; there are sevearl depicting the furnishings of his home surroundings, etc.

[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

re: #89 pink freud

I'm going to look. I just get so creeped out. In high school I decided to do my term paper on "Adolph Hitler and the Persecution of the Jews". I read everything, including "Mein Kampf". I got so scared I almost didn't finish the project.

re: #88 Pvt Bin Jammin

I've got the "Space Odyssey Karma now". LOL Thanks, Hal.

I enjoy working with people. Zzzt.Zzzst

re: #91 BatGuano

LOL I have to look at the pics and then I am upstairs.

re: #85 Pvt Bin Jammin

Well, I'm thinking of posting the link to the larger collection (more than the Telegraph shows), in the overnight spin-offs.

I'm more interested in the "photography" end of things... how the photographer chose to portray his subject - easily the most important person to which that photog would have access for the purposes of documenting a life.

I feel very far removed from the subject, or at least far enough, that the subject matter doesn't stop me from looking at the collection. But it is interesting that the whole collection of 2000 photos have never been made available, even up till now.

re: #93 freetoken

That is also how I feel about it, freetoken. They have great historical significance. Please go ahead and make the spinoff post.

re: #93 freetoken

I'll look for your post but I am still that freaked out high school kid. "Strength through Joy". That was weird. I am moving upthread because I don't want to dream about the North Koreans or Hitler.

This is a Beautiful arrangement, played spotlessly by the musicians. I luv Todd's strength, smoothness and clarity of his sung words.
A Timeless song.