Photo: Scott Sheppard, Todd Rundgren, Sheryl Sheppard — courtesy of Michele Rundgren
It’s Friday, so let’s talk about something besides Autodesk Forge. At work this week, I was asked about my recent (August 30, 2017) “meet and greet” with Todd Rundgren at The Chapel in San Francisco. This got me to retell a story about my first meet and greet from long ago.
I moved to Alameda, California in June of 1990. I was here exactly one day when Todd was recording his Second Wind album at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. So Eric Wagner and I drove over there to watch the album get recorded. I had been a fan for a long time, and believe it or not, I was a pen pal with Todd’s mom, Ruth Rundgren. Utopia albums (Todd’s band) had the address of the record company on the back cover. So in 1978, I wrote the record company. Ruth, worried that the record company, ignoring the incoming mail, would result in Todd getting a bad name with his fans, so she took it upon herself to…