WBLM welcomes back the great Todd Rundgren TONITE at Aura in Portland. This will be Todd's third trip to Maine. His last visit was in 2004.

Tickets On Sale NOW :: 18+ :: Doors open at 7pm :: Show at 8pm

Tickets range from $25.00 to $49.50 plus fees

Meet & Greet VIP Package ($175.00 plus fees) includes:

• One premium ticket
• Exclusive preshow meet & greet with Todd Rundgren
• Personal photograph with Todd Rundgren
• Specially designed Todd Rundgren tour shirt (exclusive to VIP package only!)
• Collectible tour poster autographed by Todd Rundgren (numbered; limited print)
• Exclusive Todd Rundgren VIP merchandise item
• Official VIP meet & greet laminate
• Commemorative ticket

The Blimp is so pumped for this show, we showed up at Aura at sunrise today. Just as the Todd Tour Bus showed up!

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Todd is one of the MOST innovative people in all of Music. Here's a list of TODD RUNDGREN "FIRSTS" from the Aura website:

• 1978: The first interactive television concert, broadcast live over the Warner/QUBE system in Columbus, Ohio (the home audience chose each song.in real time during the concert by voting via QUBE’s 2-way operating system).
• 1978: The first live nationally broadcast stereo radio concert (by microwave), linking 40 cities around the country.
• 1979: The opening of Utopia Video Studios, a multi-million dollar state-of-the-art facility. The first project produced by Todd there is Gustav Holst’s The Planets, commissioned by RCA SelectaVision as the first demonstration software for their new videodisc format.
• 1980: Creation of the first color graphics tablet, which was licensed to Apple and released as The Utopia Graphics Tablet.
• 1981: Time Heals, the first music video to utilize state-of-the-art compositing of live action and computer graphics (produced and directed by Todd), becomes the second video to be played on MTV (after Video Killed the Radio Star).
• 1982: The first live national cablecast of a rock concert (on the USA Network), simulcast in stereo to over 120 radio stations.
• 1982: The first two commercially released music videos, one of which was nominated for the first-ever Grammy awarded for “Best Short Form Video” in 1983. • 1992: The first commercially available music downloads via CompuServe.
• 1993: The release of “No World Order”, the world’s first interactive record album on CD-i. The first commercially available music downloads via CompuServe. • 1994: The release of “The Individualist”, the world’s first full-length Enhanced CD.
• 1994: The world’s first interactive concert tour.
• 1998: Launches PatroNet, the world’s first direct artist subscription service
• 2016: The production of the world’s first full length concert shot with multiple Virtual Reality 360º cameras.

 

 

 

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