TODD RUNDGREN & UTOPIA - Black & White '77 (LP)

Category: ECHOES LPs

• Brilliant live performance at Brown University, Providence 11th November 1977
• Includes the entire KRO-FM radio broadcast
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
• Full colour insert



Todd Rundgren's pedigree had always been enforced by his playing ability, but in retrospect, his legacy also has a psychedelic foundation built with The Nazz whose own reputation was formed with Open My Eyes when it appeared on Lenny Kaye's celebrated Nuggets series in 1972.

1977 saw the release of Oops! Wrong Planet with his band Utopia, in some ways, a return to the form he found with Nazz back in 1968. Utopia's appearance at Brown University in Providence offers a departure from their more extravagant performances earlier in the year where strobes and lasers were applied to accompany the progressive fanfare for the Ra shows.

Brown University witnessed a shift in his musical approach opening with Trapped. The familiar orchestral introduction misleads the audience and soon buckles under the weight of a riffing assault laid on by Rundgren's terrifying and shredded Gibson attack.

Echoes proudly presents the entire KRO-FM broadcast of Todd Rundgren's Utopia Performance at Brown University, Providence on 11th November 1977.

Professionally re-mastered original broadcast with background liners and rare archival photographs.


TRACKLISTING

Side One
1. DJ Introduction
2. Trapped
3. The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
4. Abandon City
5. Love Of The Common Man
6. Back On The Street
7. Black And White

Side Two
1. Communion With The Sun
2. Utopia Theme
3. Love Is The Answer
4. Crazy Lady Blue
5. Love In Action
6. The Death Of Rock And Roll

 

Artist TODD RUNDGREN & UTOPIA
Title Black & White '77
Catalogue No ECHOLP2039
Format 180g LP with insert
Barcode 5291012203922