If you are ready for the weekend the weekend is ready for you Saturday night Todd Rundgren will be appearing at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa. Sunday night Johnny Winter will be at St Petersburg's Bayfront Center. Todd Rundgren has wandered the "underground" music world for quite a while, with-standing the popularity urge to surface until recently. The song most heard on the radio lately. "Hello. It's Me," was initially done several years back when Rundgren was with a group called "Nazz" Rundgren has found a niche for himself in producing, as well as making records. He has engineered recordings for The Band (Bob Dylan's back-up group).
Grand Funk and an avante garde group called New York Dolls. His engineering prowess came brightly into light when he produced mixed and performed a solo album called "Runt." His latest album. "Todd." features more musicians but still the ever changing ever specifically abstract sound of Rundgren. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $5 for a limited advance or $6 at the door. Tickets may be bought at Rasputins, Budget Tapes and The Stereo Shop in Tampa: Stereo Tape and Bellas Hess in Clearwater; Slipped Disc if Largo; and Music Odyssey and The Real Place in St. Petersburg. Johnny Winter is rock and roll incarnate He will be appearing with another rock 'n roll group, Brownsville Station.
Winter although thrown into the recording limelight quite suddenly, wasn't quite an overnight success. He worked at it and he still works hard at bringing life to his music. Winter started when he was about 5 years old, playing the clarinet. When his dentist suggested he stop to prevent an overbite he switched to a ukelele until his hands were big enough to hold a guitar. With his brother Edgar. Johnny started a slow Texas route to fame. Edgar took a jazz turn along the line, while Johnny stayed with his rhythm and blues and rock. Now the two only occasionally perform together, as Edgar and Johnny both have reached high levels of success, fame and talent.
Brownsville Station is a '70s band with a '50s rock and roll flair. The group has been described as the cumulative development of rock music as it is today . . . Once four members the (vacancy left by departing Tony Driggins was not filled) the three remaining — Henry Week, Mike Lutz and Cub Koda — rock on. Tickets for the Winter-Brownsville show are $6 and are on sale at: Bellas Hess and Stereo Tapes in Clearwater: Slipped Disc in Largo: Music Odyssey and The Real Place in St. Petersburg and the Bayfront box office Showtime is 7:30 p.m.
PHIL ROGERS
Source: 74-03-01 St. Petersburg Evening Independent
