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Admiral Television?

I was recently listening to the CD "War Babies" by Hall & Oates. It features some absolutely screaming guitar solos, so I checked the liner notes. Guitars are credited to Hall, Oates, Richie Cerniglia, Todd Rundgren and "Admiral Television". A web search for Admiral Television turned up nothing. Anyone know who this is?

TIA.

Marty
martykl
donjr
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Im such an idiot. I have an in. My wife works with a guy who knows Todd Rundgren. Actually my wife works with two guys in their early 50's who travel to most of Todd's shows and know him very well. Ill keep you posted.
martykl OP
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Looking forward to hearing about anything Todd's got to say.

Marty
donjr
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Okay, so he texted Todd's wife. She said that it is actually a television. She told him that there's a lot of funky things they put on the War Babies album cover and they even quoted people that didn't exist. This answer is coming from Todd Rundgrens wife this morning.

My wife works with these two guys that worhship Todd Rundgren like you cannot believe. These guys take vacation time to follow him around. They've been doing this their entire lives together and have become very good friends with Todd and his wife (obviously).
donjr
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Oh, and Todd's wife said that your guess of Rick Derringer was a good one because he and Todd have always been such good friends.
martykl OP
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Thanx, Don.

So it seems that Todd actually did that wild solo on the track "70s Scenario", after all...

I wouldn't have guessed that (and I'm only a half step behind your wife's Todd worshipping buddies). I've seen him perform a couple of dozen times over the years and I must say that the "Scenario" solo is definitely a different direction for Todd.

Live 'n learn. Thanx again for the inside info.

Marty
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