Todd Rundgren Live in N.Y.C '78 is the first of Nippon Crown's Todd Archive
series, containing ten songs from a concert in The Bottom Line on June 30
1978. No surprise there's a lot of conformity with the official live double
album Back to the bars being recorded in 1978 too. Todd's backed by the same
bandmembers (Willie Wilcox, Moogy Klingman, John Siegler, together with The
Hello People, but without guests like Hall & Oates and Stevie Nicks), the
tracklist (only ten songs) is nearly the same and the songs are played much
in the same way, including introductions like in Never Never Land. Reasons
enough to consider the release of the Bottom Line concert as not really
necessary. On the other hand it certainly is a nice concert, including Can
we still be friends, the track I always miss on Back to the bars and the
sound recording is allright, so there's no real reason for disappointment
too.
René Bosman, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
