{"id":22403,"date":"2015-04-14T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22403"},"modified":"2015-04-14T12:10:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T16:10:02","slug":"please-explain-todd-rundgren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-todd-rundgren\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Explain: Todd Rundgren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22404\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ignorerundgren-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"ignorerundgren\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ignorerundgren-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ignorerundgren-795x1024.jpg 795w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ignorerundgren.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can somebody explain <strong>Todd Rundgren<\/strong> to me?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=980967281922616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=980967281922616<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a fan of some of his songs, but even the highly praised <em>Something\/Anything<\/em> I\u2019ve found to be uneven. A W<em>izard, A True Star<\/em> is frustrating \u2013 sounds really weird but has some amazing moments. I\u2019ve sometimes sensed maybe a mismatch between his musical concepts and his presentation of himself, that he\u2019s basically an earthy guy whose visual image often is disconnected from his musical concepts, or he\u2019s trying to force something. He is clearly extremely talented, his sense of melody and harmony can be amazing. But somehow, all together it has never really clicked for me beyond a song-by-song basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can somebody explain Todd Rundgren to me? https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=980967281922616 I am a fan of some of his songs, but even the highly praised Something\/Anything I\u2019ve found to be uneven. A Wizard, A True Star is frustrating \u2013 sounds really weird but has some amazing moments. I\u2019ve sometimes sensed maybe a mismatch between his musical concepts and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-todd-rundgren\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}