I know better, you shoulda known better and Todd Rundgren sho’nuff knows better.
Entering our National Park system tonight at DC’s Wolf Trap (if you pay taxes in the US, you’re a part-owner), is a monstrosity of an idea: It Was Forty Years Ago Today. The Beatles tribute concert is on national tour and features Rundgren, Foreigner’s Lou Gramm, Denny Laine, Christopher Cross, and Bo Bice.
Where to begin?
Rundgren is a public Beatlemaniac whose music is often infused with the Fab Four. By infused, I mean influenced by, not ripped off like he was a lost Gallagher brother prepping a new Oasis album. He knew better than to tackle 1967’s (yes, that’s 41 years) Sgt. Pepper. He must have known that mogul Robert Stigwood tried to do the same thing twenty years ago with artists actually on the charts and horribly failed despite Marurice White with EW&F creating the definitive version of Got To Get You Into My Life.