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M4 8 Daily Record, Morris County, N.J., Sunday, April 22, 2007 0 UW Life I I I 1 II i I' I 1 i'l fa II 1 1 I I -q- 'J f-Ui J'fiUii .1. Actress Charlotte Rae is 8t. Actress Estelle Harris Is 75. Singer Glen Campbell is 71. Actor Jack Nicholson Is 70.

Singer Mel Carter Is 64. Singer Cleve Francis is 62. Director John Waters is 61. Singer Peter Frampton is 57. Rocker Paul Carrack (Squeeze) is 56.

Actor Joseph Bottoms is 53. Actor Ryan Stiles is 48. Comedian Byron Allen is 46. Actor Chris Makepeace is 43. Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan is 41.

Actress Sheryl Lee is 40. Actress Sherri Shepherd is 40. Singer Heath Wright is 40. Singer Kellie Coffey is 36. Actor Eric Mabius is 36.

Rocker Shavo Odadjian (System of a Down) is 33. TO mfc-rrfl' vpy'lK 'l I lrMjpPpl jgW'JB. yip! i 1 ivi y. f-N a IK J- tin) SPOTTED AT "The Hoax" premiere in New York: 11 Amber Tamblyn. f2J Ingrid Seynhaeve.

3j Carey Lowell and Richard Gere, associated press photos 7 ICS'- mm SPOTTED AT the Colleagues' SPOTTED AT "The Tripper" premiere in Los Angeles: 4 Patricia charity luncheon and fashion Arquette. 5 Porn star (and 2003 California gubernatorial candidate) show in Beverly Hills: (8 Mary Carey and actress Rena Riffel. 6J Bai Ling. 17 Onetime Brooke Shields. 9 Molly "Friends" co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox-Arquette.

Sims. 10 Nancy Reagan. ASSOCIATED PRESS photos ASSOCIATED PRESS photos 1 iVP, V7MI 02 fliv UK IS XL- SPOTTED AT the "Perfect Stranger" pre- miere in New York: 11 Halle Berry. SPOTTED AT the "Year of the Dog" premiere in Los Ang- eles: 1 3 TiaCarrere. 14 Drew Barrymore.

15 1 6 Florence Henderson, Susan Olsen, Maureen McCormick, Lloyd Schwartz and Ann B. Davis of "The 12 Paula Miranda, associated Christine Taylorand Ben Stiller, associated press photos Brady Bunch" are honored at the TV Land Awards in Santa Monipa, Calif, associated press photo press photos nodi's first geek: Iddi! Rundgren I By MARK VOGER CELEBS WRITER CALL HIM ROCK'S first geek. Decades before obsession with technology was fashionable, singersongwriter Todd Rundgren was constantly pushing technological limits. In the 1970s, you see, such strides were usually made by behind-the-scenes people such as recording engineers and producers not rock stars. Rundgren and his current band guitarist Jesse Gress, bassist Tony Levin drummer Jerry Marotta are due in Sayreville on Tuesday.

was that I was pretty much on a nearly 24-hour schedule of making music. "When I was in the thick of it, I would get up in the morning and write. I would go to the studio and record until the late evening, and then I'd come home and, with the aid of some stimulants," he laughed again, "I would stay up until the wee hours of the night, writing and recording at home as well. "So it wasn't like I simply did a couple of hours a day of sessions. I did nothing but record all day long when I made 'Something Any 'and that's why it was possible to complete the whole thing in something like a month." Li laugh, "but since I was playing everything myself, I suppose I knew what my limitations were and didn't struggle to go too far beyond them." Rundgren reckons his unusual schedule in those days may have had something to do with the relatively short recording time.

Said the musician: "The' other aspect wl)ich contributed I 4 7. V' WW, Musical heroes OVER THE past decade, Todd Rundgren has regularly performed onstage, including a stint as guitarist for Ringo Starr's all-star touring ensemble, the All-Starr Band something Rundgren found challenging. "I had to do some things that I didn't expect to have to do, or that I hadn't done for a very long time, like play slide guitar," Rundgren said. "I used a wah-wah (sound-effect) pedal probably for the first time in my career onstage, on (Cream's) 'White It's an essential part of that song. So there were some challenges for me." Rundgren's participation was his way of saluting his musical heroes, such as Starr and Cream bassist Jack Bruce.

"I know what I feel about Ringo and about all of those he said. "I've loved the music that's come out of every single one of them. So I felt like the kid in the band. "I didn't even have the sense of being In the same historical category maybe because I did my thing in the '70s, and most of the material we were playing were signature tunes of the '60s. I grew up with all of that music." Todd Rundgren (center) flanked by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr (left) and Cream bassist Jack Bruce.

Photo: kathy voglesong Living alone Solo breakthrough Rundgren's breakthrough as a solo artist was "Something Anything?" (1972), an overdub-overboard album that cemented Rundgren's reputation as rock's technological wizard. "Something Anything?" yielded one of Rundgren's biggest hits, "Hello, If Me" (which was a cover of a song by the Nazz, Rundgren's pre-solo band). Rundgren produced, sang and played most of the Instruments on the double album. As such, "Something Anything?" sounds like It was years in the making. "Oddly enough," said the 58-year-old native of Upper Darby, "it' didn't take that long, as compared to what It would take to make a double-album nowadays.

"At the time, I was not being too meticulous about the performances," he added with a well. So I was in the studio half the day and in the house the rest of the day and everything was being captured." Rundgren said working this way eventually led to a differ- Rundgren allows that "SomethingAnything?" was a solitary type of project. "I living alone in L.A.; it would have to be solitary," he said. "There was no real human distraction. There was no one in house with me, so that "i could keep my own hours and not be disturbed in the process of writing and arranging and, in some cases, recording in my own house; I brought some recording gear into the house as i I ent method of songwriting: He developed the ability to craft and arrange a track without having properly "written" It first.

"But that wasn't true when i I was doing 'Something Any-j Rundgren clarified. "When was In the middle of 'Something all i the songs were written before I went into the studio, and then I would kind of skulk out the i arrangement In the process of i performing It. "It worked for me. 1 T0D0 RUNDGREN 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Starland Ballroom, 570 Jernee Mill Road, Sayreville $35 and $45: all ages to enter, 21 to drink (732) 238-5500 www.starlandballroom.com "SomethingAnything?" (1972) 33 183' Daw..