Totally Solid Dudes #1

Todd Rundgren is shit-hot. Dude is totally solid. I'm totally feelin' Todd Rundgren right now.

If it could be done in music, Todd Rundgren probably did it.

A total pop-"maverick" (to use the parlance of our VP debate times), in the 60's he fronted The Nazz, whose song "Open My Eyes" kicked ass and took names, overblown with phasing and a fat ass Motown beat.

In 1973, dude then went solo, coked out, and wrote the gorgeous "I Saw The Light," a top 40 U.S. hit, which kind of sounds like Carole King in dude form. Solid.

All the while Rundgren was in a synth-prog band called Utopia (uh, kind of solid) and started producing other bands. Who else can say they produced Meat Loafs most popular album and Hall and Oates?

But album music just wasn't enough for the Toddster. Dude made the music to PeeWee's playhouse and, oh man, Dumb and Dumber. In the oughts he's since gone on to be a touring member of the re-formed Cars. That's a career.

Also, who else this side of Bowie, could play piano as a warlock?