Predicts the future of media with 100% accuracy

One of the most insightful and intelligent views from an incredible musician. He was so ahead of his time this was 1978!

he's like a rock God for nerds ( I mean the in an amazingly awesome way).

Wow, the Philly accent is amazing. I am so fascinated by this guy.

Todd has always been so far ahead of the curve! This is 1978 and he nails it some ten yrs. before it happened! What a visionary!

I love Todd Rundgren. Some people have said that because they really dig "I Saw The Light" or something. I Love Todd Rundgren because I relate to him and his art in a way that I can't explain. I've never quite felt a kinship with another creative individual like I do with him. I don't even know how to really describe it.

Todd was on the money, this interview was from 1978, he predicted mass media storage smaller than a sink in everyone's home, look what we've got now and it produces HD quality, staggering!

I was wondering who Todd was looking at when he turned his head back and forth but than I realized Todd didn't want to exclude the camera man from the conversation so he was looking at him too.....what a down to earth dude.

If he'd said these things ten years later- 1988 - it would still be way ahead of its time. In 1978 the vinyl LP still ruled and, in the UK at least, the VCR was still a novelty - and the size of a sink!! I love Todd more each day!

The interviewer needs to SHUT UP and let Todd talk. Jeeeezus!

40 years later proves he knew what he was talking about.

I think it is funny that his two sons both were drafted by major league baseball teams (one nearly made it...got to AAA) and he never played sports. He probably would have been good at that too. He is exceptionally bright and apparently a diligent worker which accounts for his skill in musicianship and technology.....and he never sold out! Awesome.

I love how refreshingly PRACTICAL he is when it comes to technology. Look, no one beats Todd when it comes to the cutting edge--the difference is he knows how to USE it!

Dude was a visionary

I LOVE TODD RUNDGREN MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF!! I admire him in a number of ways.

Yes, you were absolutely right Todd, 2022, you called it ….. AND thanks for the music

I've often wondered (sice I've been a fan since 1974) what is his IQ? That's why I've often thought, even if I could sit down and have a conversation with him, I'd almost be embarassed, because I'm SO not near his league. I know it's been said many times, by many people, but his talents are so underrated. But when you think of the concepts he's embraced, and the music that he's done not only for himself, but engineered & produced for others...it really does make you stand back & say ...

I've said it before; Todd, a prolific musical genius......relative always.

Todd=visionary......& still rockin' on Maui. See/hear him on "LIVE @ Daryls House." His songs are timeless.

Genius

He is a genius, a gifted Artist/musician. ❤❤

Todd is not only a musical genius. Way ahead of his time. He could have been a titan in the tech industry.

a prophet a true star

I agree ! He was way ahead of everyone... Great interview...!

brainstorming with todd.

Todd predicted exactly what has happened 40 years ago.

At 4:05 in this in 1978 he's talking about computer interactive/ television which we now know as KZfaq. He talked about how lame video disc would become. His insight was spot on. What a genius Todd was! Way ahead of his time musically, conceptually, artistically, intellectually. Fantastic interview. Kind of makes me feel like Forrest Gump when he talked about investing in some fruit company back when the movie came out in 1993. If only I hadda shoulda woulda coulda. Great interview!

....I knew I was right to follow this guy. To keep an eye on what he's up to. Extremely talented, loves music...and totally loves his fans.

Brilliant Mind' Way ahead of Everyone,,Todd Rules,,, Lesson 423 Retrospect !!! :)

Too bad the interviewer keeps cutting Todd off, we want to hear Todd's intelligence not the voice or opinions of the interviewer

If you watch live interviews with Todd, you'll notice he is always rubbing and scratching his nose. I would bet it's more of a nervous habit than an actual itch.

I remember story that my dad told me that you created you this work of heart and you picked him out of the crowd and recognized his art and signed it. Then my mother now divorced from him many years ago destroyed it

What's interesting is he nails all this stuff, predicts streaming, the blowup of cable, the folly of media like discs, tapes, etc. He accurately pictures TB disk storage in each home..and so much more. But he blows it on SNL, lol...implies they might not be around for long. Here we are in July 2013, SNL going strong. Kinda funny. Otherwise tho, always a prescient dude.

Fucken hell. He seriously just called the downfall of CD and DVD's from 40 years away. How did he do that?

I had such a crush on him.

So forward thinking. This was 1978 and Todd’s talking about home computers and music videos, years before mtv even first aired. I could listen to Todd for hours.

Prophetic

he's correct about everything in this interview until the very end when he shares his thoughts on the longevity of SNL

This man predicted streaming in 78

Incredible insight for the time. How cool 😎

Fuck me Rundgren was on the money. Not just a damn good musician but clearly had a good brain on his head.

Those big old video discs , NEVER caught on. DVDs of today are 1/5th the size, Here it is 40 years later, Todd was, and still is, RIGHT ON ! except his face got fatter .

i think if he ever got a biopic Macaulay Culkin's a dead ringer. all he has to do is channel a HINT of Goldblum.

this is what a GENIUS sounds like he can project into the future using the information he has at the time an mazing human being and so important to American music AN NO ONE LISTENS TO HIM ANY MORE kids don't even know who he IS all the music that was so important to "us" really falls flat on the kids

Amazing prediction!!!

I Love him!!!! His daughter Liv looks just like him 👍🏻😉😉😉

Wizard a true prophet

Dude killed it....!

Curve, meet Todd.

The McLuhan of rock. Interesting to see how this made it to interactive streaming video. And also interesting and ironic that he doesn't use a smartphone.

I wonder who Steve Jobs listened to whilst working to late hour's for our future

"Computers will have a billion bytes of memory." Yes, we only have 1GB haha

Steve Jobs stole the idea of iTunes from Todd Rundgren.

Todd wasn't wrong - "billion byte" storage computers were available before the 25 years after 1978 he predicted. Gigabyte hard drives were becoming common in the late 90s, when we also had Winamp and Napster.

7:29 yup.........so freaking smart, it's painful

Impressive. He laid out 20 years of tech in 1978 like he’s a time traveler. He called software being key, he should have bought stock in Microsoft.

@sircorey...you could not have said it any better, this man was way ahead of his time!!

yeah thought that too. only person in 70's who didnt do coke err... Cliff richard!

wanna talk about a visionary?

James woods had long hair?

Seems preoccupied with his nose did he just do a line or something?

very accurate prediction shows Todd is an alien i mean he made the album Disco Jets come on!!

He sure does have an itchy nose

Todd was always just a bit too far ahead of his time. One thing he didn't see coming was that shortly after this interview was recorded music video production would rapidly change over to film. It started in Europe, where film allowed them to get out of the studio as well as ditch the inferior look of video. Todd's multimillion dollar video studio was obsolete nearly overnight.

Prescient, to say the least.

Does he look like robin gibb?

I never knew laserdiscs existed until I saw them mentioned on the toy story wikipedia page, of all places. They were available as far back as 1976 weren't they? Did they ever catch on much or was it something people generally didn't own, like the kind of thing a gadget fan might have?

i wonder what was causing TR's nose to be so itchy?

Wow! Dude was a bit of an oracle, it would seem.

I've never seen him with short hair except when he was younger. Just like Schwarzeneger never had a beard until of late.

I think Todd's hopped up on the "white stuff" here.

This dude looks like Ringo Starr sometimes

An intelligent, talented tommy wiseau !

Ahead of his time...

Not 1978. And he’s coked outta his mind

Smart sob!

Besides being a brilliant Musician and Songwriter, Todd's also been a Brilliant entrepreneur... But I disagree with some of this. I want to own the Films and Music I want to own. I don't want a situation where Disney tells me that a Movie I like, is no longer on the Servers. I'd go to the server and it tells me Buckaroo Banzai is no longer available. It happens all the time. AND... I live in SF CA and we have crap Internet. Our area has no DSL. We only have Cable, xfinity. And xfinity are slime and an undependable service. I lose packets constantly. It makes playing Diablo 4 a pain in my skinny arse.