Here's another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. This one stars Todd Rundgren. Most of it is from 1975. Rundgren never actually hosted an episode of this show. However, in early 1975, the show had an unusual episode that featured three musical acts, each of them getting one third of the time, uninterrupted. The three were Neil Sedaka, Spinners, and Todd Rundgren. (What an odd combination.) The show's host, Wolfman Jack, said this would be the first of many shows using this format. But it turned out to be the only one. I've used Rundgren's third of that show as the main part of this album. That makes up tracks 6 through 11. Tracks 1 through 3 come from a December 3, 1973 episode hosted by the Four Tops. The 1975 episode didn't really have a proper intro for Rundgren, given the weird format, so I used an intro spoken by various members of the Four Tops as the intro for this album. Tracks 4 and 5 come from a February 8, 1974 episode hosted by Ike and Tina Turner. As I usually do with albums from this show, I added applause between songs to help with the flow. Often, the applause gets cut off by a commercial break or someone else talking, so I'll put in some extra applause until it tapers off to silence. Unfortunately, the last song, "Do Ya," a cover of a song originally by the Move, got cut off about two minutes into the song due to the TV broadcast ending. I found another live version from the 1975 album "Another Live," and used that to finish off the last two minutes of the song. Note that for some of these songs, Rundgren was singing live to backing tracks he had prepared in advance. He mentioned that in track 6. But also, there was some more talk by the Four Tops in the 1973 show that I didn't include where they mentioned that as well for the two songs he did then. However, if you watch the video for the 1975, it's only "Real Man" where there's a backing track. For "Freedom Fighters," "The Seven Rays," and "Do Ya," he was backed by his band Utopia. For the two songs from the 1974 show, one can see he has a backing band then as well. It worked out very nicely how there were no repeat songs between his three appearances in 1973, 1974, and 1975. He hosted the show in 1978, plus another 1978 appearance. So when that eventually gets rereleased on YouTube, I look forward to making an album out of that as well. The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. As an aside, Rundgren got the seventh most votes in my poll asking people which albums they most wanted to see made out of this Midnight Special material. This album is 39 minutes long. 01 talk by the Four Tops (Todd Rundgren) 02 Black Maria (Todd Rundgren) 03 Hello It's Me (Todd Rundgren) 04 Couldn't I Just Tell You (Todd Rundgren) 05 The Dream Goes On Forever (Todd Rundgren) 06 talk (Todd Rundgren) 07 Real Man (Todd Rundgren) 08 Freedom Fighters (Todd Rundgren) 09 The Seven Rays (Todd Rundgren) 10 Born to Synthesize (Todd Rundgren) 11 Do Ya [Edit] (Todd Rundgren) https://pixeldrain.com/u/w7CiRSvb alternate: https://bestfile.io/en/2RF5zWQuRWKVB0r/file The cover photo is from Rundgren's 1973 appearance on the TV show.

Here's another guest post by Mike Solof. It's a 1977 Genesis concert, with lots of bonus tracks from the same time period. This is part of Mike's relatively new "studiofied" series. The idea is to take a high quality concert bootleg and completely remove all the banter and crowd noise, so it sounds like a studio recording. This way, one can better appreciate the nuance in the performance. There's lots more detail in the PDF Mike has included with the download zip, like he usually does. I'll just quickly note that tracks 1 through 15 come from the Zurich concert mentioned in the title. The rest are bonus tracks, given the same treatment, from 1976 or 1977. Further details about them can be found in the PDF. The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. This album is two hours and 38 minutes long. 01 Squonk (Genesis) 02 One for the Vine (Genesis) 03 Robbery, Assault and Battery (Genesis) 04 Inside and Out (Genesis) 05 Firth of Fifth (Genesis) 06 The Carpet Crawlers (Genesis) 07 In that Quiet Earth (Genesis) 08 Afterglow (Genesis) 09 I Know What I Like (Genesis) 10 Eleventh Earl of Mar (Genesis) 11 Supper's Ready (Genesis) 12 Dance on a Volcano (Genesis) 13 Los Endos (Genesis) 14 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis) 15 The Musical Box (Genesis) 16 Your Own Special Way (Genesis) 17 All in a Mouse's Night (Genesis) 18 The Cinema Show (Genesis) 19 White Mountain (Genesis) 20 Entangled (Genesis) 21 The Knife (Genesis) 22 It - Watcher of the Skies (Genesis) https://pixeldrain.com/u/uP9yJeKZ alternate: https://bestfile.io/en/Nk5EZeo2G1Ahmco/file The cover was selected by Mike. I don't know where he got it from. I added the subtitle text.

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