Live in Chicago '91

by Todd Rundgren

Overview

Issued as an archival album eight years after the fact, Live in Chicago '91 finds Todd Rundgren on tour promoting what would turn out to be his final major-label album, 2nd Wind. That album had been released seven months prior to his Chicago concert at the Riviera Theater on August 26, and it had long since slipped off the charts. But that didn't keep Rundgren from performing seven songs from it, along with four songs from its 1989 predecessor, Nearly Human, and another four from 1985's A Cappella. Thus, the bulk of the show represented Rundgren's then-recent output, although, as usual, he found room for such concert favorites as "Real Man," "Love of the Common Man," and "Hello It's Me." Fans will be especially interested in the unusual selections, which include two Utopia numbers, "Secret Society" and "Rock Love"; the "Marvin Gaye Medley" of "What's Going On," "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)," and "I Want You" that Rundgren had been appending to A Cappella's "Lost Horizon" since 1985; the Tubes' "Feel It," which Rundgren had co-written; and, particularly, "Jesse," an unrecorded song on which Rundgren flipped the bird in explicit terms to Jesse Helms, Tipper Gore, and Pope John Paul II before recommending that his listeners register to vote. Although A Cappella, Nearly Human, and 2nd Wind were not among Rundgren's most popular recordings (none of them producing a hit single or crossing number 100 in the charts), the concert demonstrated that they were full of catchy Rundgren songs that deserved a chance to be heard. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	05/10/2024
Label:	Cleopatra
UPC:	0889466551222
Rank:	3256

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Todd Rundgren   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Keyboards
Max Haskett   Horn
Shandi Sinnamon   Vocals (Background)
Michele Gray   Vocals (Background)
Robert Sabino   Keyboards
Larry Tagg   Guitar (Bass)
Scott Mathews   Percussion
Prairie Prince   Drums
Byron Allred   Keyboards
Bobby Strickland   Horn
Jesse Gress   Guitar

Technical Credits

Yasushi Asai   A&R
Eric Gardner   Executive Producer
Leon Ware   Composer
Marvin Gaye   Composer
Kasim Sulton   Composer
Renaldo Benson   Composer
Al Cleveland   Composer
Bruce Hawes   Composer
Vince Welnick   Composer
Joseph B. Jefferson   Composer
Roger Powell   Composer
The Tubes   Composer
Arthur Ross   Composer
Todd Rundgren   Mixing,Composer,Producer
John Wilcox   Composer
Yoshimi Hishino   Coordination
Jose Blanco   Assistant
Michinari Yamada   Liner Notes
Mickyah Inouwe   Art Direction
Charles Simmons   Composer
Takayoshi Manabe   Mastering