You may know Todd Rundgren as the six-stringer and founder of Nazz and Utopia, or from his celebrated solo catalog. However, the multi-hyphenate guitarist also has an accomplished string of production credits under his belt. That includes Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell – the conceptual, “Wagnerian rock” debut album that, perhaps puzzlingly, was often compared to Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run.
“Meat Loaf was just plain weird. By the standards of the time, he was just a plain weird act,” says Rungdren in a new no-holds-barred interview with Guitar World.
