Back to the Bars is a live album by rock musician Todd Rundgren, which was released as a double LP in 1978. Each of the four sides of vinyl was recorded at a different location during week-long stints in NYC, LA, and Cleveland, OH. The music featured the best of Rundgren's most commercial work spanning seven of the eight solo albums released in the '70s up to, but not including his most recent at the time. This effort was in place of rumors of a re-release of his out-of-print first two LPs, "Runt," and "Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren." The only offering from those being "The Range War," and the bulk for material coming from Something/Anything?, A Wizard/A True Star, Todd, and Faithful. The finale included past and present members of Rundgren's Utopia: Roger Powell, Kasim Sulton, John Wilcox, John Seigler, Ralph Shuckett, and Moogy Klingman. Also joining in were the Hello People: Norman Smart,Greg Geddes, Bobby Sedita, and Larry Tasse. Special guest stars were Rick Derringer, Spencer Davis, Daryl Hall, John Oates, and Stevie Nicks. Despite a hard push to replicate the success of "Frampton Comes Alive!", "Back to the Bars" did not generate any significant singles or lift for Rundgren.
Famous quotes containing the words back to and/or bars:
“I was ten when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peering through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, ‘Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)