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Ein wunderbares Fundstück, das hier festgehalten werden muss: Einer meiner all-time favourite Musicians (ein echter Musician's Musician*), Todd Rundgren, hat 2011 und 2012 Konzerte gegeben mit dem Metropole Orchestra Amsterdam im "Paradiso" (das kennen Sie vielleicht von den Stones: "Stripped").
Wenn Sie gerade oder später anderthalb Stunden Zeit haben, sollten Sie sich das nicht entgehen lassen.

Noch unter einem anderen Gesichtspunkt ist das Konzert interessant: This is the first ever -crowdsourced- multi camera concert video registration, created from video footage recorded by the audience and published on the internet.
Todd Rundgren is a pioneer and has many music industry 'firsts' to his name. Here is another one, this time offered to him by his fans in the Netherlands. For the first time: a full 1 hour and 30 minutes multicam concert video registration, created from video footage recorded by the audience and published on the internet. Enjoy! [Concert video concept/realisation - Lion Keezer]



Setlist:

Flamingo (orchestra only)
Property
God Said
Love Of The Common Man
Pretending To Care
Hello, It's Me
The Smell Of Money
If I Have To Be Alone
Onomatopea
Bag Lady
We're Gonna Get You A Woman
Mammon
Fascist Christ
Flamingo
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Wailing Wall
Can We Still Be Friends
I Saw The Light

Todd Rundgren and The Metropole Orchestra
Paradiso, Amsterdam Holland September 24, 2011
Conductor: Steve Sidwell

Ich empfehle besonders "Fascist Christ" (von dem Album No World Order, - hier ab 0:57:20):


I'm Mr. Blowy
Founding fathers and mothers left us a mandate
We've got to separate the church and the state
So get your head straight before it's too late
And you drop it in the plate, you must appreciate

Jesus and money make a man speak in tongues
Scream out his lungs, roll in the dung
And when the song is sung, he moves up another rung
And the deaf and the dumb are the ones who get stung

Here comes the sex police, they're at your bedroom door
Movin' in next door, searchin' from floor to floor
You know what they're lookin' for
Someone's always keepin' score every time you dip the oar

Love isn't fun no more

Fascist christ, come to the rescue
Gimme that old time religion, here it comes

Let's get fundamental about this strange philosophy
In which god and man are enemies
In which there is no serenity unless you happen to believe
Precisely what they want you to believe, and no diversity

Come join the army and learn the noises
That drown out the others' voices and please the devil
Who rejoices when mankind has no choices
And power exploits us, and peace avoids us

Guess who to the rescue on a holy mission
To uphold the tradition of the Spanish Inquisition
And preempt your decision by forcing your confession
Now let that be a lesson

Who do you think you're messin' with?

Somebody took our god away

See the 2012 Orchestral Extravaganza Phase II' here.
Listen to Talk Online Radio Shows for Rundgren Fans here: Rundgren Radio.
Oder hören Sie sich gleich unten nochmal "Hiroshima" an (oder hier).
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* Zur Typologie des »musicians' musician« - hier ein Beispiel: der kürzlich verstorbene J.J. Cale als der «Musicians' Musician» in der Rockmusik.