{"id":805747,"date":"2020-03-27T07:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=973903"},"modified":"2020-03-27T07:45:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:45:32","slug":"todd-rundgren-recruits-joe-walsh-daryl-hall-for-democratic-campaign-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/todd-rundgren-recruits-joe-walsh-daryl-hall-for-democratic-campaign-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Rundgren Recruits Joe Walsh, Daryl Hall for Democratic Campaign Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Song.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/todd-rundgren\/\" id=\"auto-tag_todd-rundgren\" data-tag=\"todd-rundgren\">Todd Rundgren<\/a> and an all-star crew are re-recording his 1973 anthem \u201cJust One Victory\u201d and giving it away for free to Democrats all over America running for public office this year. It\u2019s still early in the process, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/joe-walsh\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joe-walsh\" data-tag=\"joe-walsh\">Joe Walsh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/daryl-hall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daryl-hall\" data-tag=\"daryl-hall\">Daryl Hall<\/a> and Paul Shaffer have already pledged to join the effort along with producer Don Was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is trying to figure out what they can do to get that maniac out of the White House,\u201d Rundgren says on the phone from his house on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. \u201cMore importantly, to get the banana Republican party out of governing wherever possible. The song will be available to any Democratic candidate that\u2019s been approved by the DNC to use at for campaigns and at their rallies. They can also use it in a commercial if they so desire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust One Victory\u201d originally appeared as the final track on Rundgren\u2019s 1973 LP <em>A Wizard, a True Star.<\/em> The former Nazz singer had just scored huge solo hits with \u201cHello It\u2019s Me\u201d and \u201cI Saw the Light,\u201d but he was eager to take his music in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ItI3ONdRAA?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to stop writing so-called \u2018love songs\u2019 because I had been writing about a relationship I had in high school that was long over,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was insincere songwriting. I didn\u2019t want to write \u2018babe you broke my heart\u2019 over and over. And \u2018Just One Victory\u2019 was one of the initial stabs I took at writing something that was meant to address a larger audience rather than just the lonely person inside you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust One Victory\u201d wasn\u2019t a single, but it became a fan favorite over the years and is often the last song Rundgren plays at his concerts. When he started thinking about a song he could give to Democrats for the election, it became the obvious choice. \u201cIt first came up in conversation with Richard Foos, formerly of Rhino Records,\u201d Rundgren says. \u201cHe has a Political Action Committee and he showed a lot of interest in it. The idea quickly gained a lot of traction.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Joe Walsh, Daryl Hall, Paul Shaffer and Don Was signed on quickly, but Rundgren hopes that is only the beginning. \u201cLet\u2019s go for \u2018We Are the World,&#8217;\u201d he says. \u201cNot many people know about it at this particular moment, especially because just as we were getting into the project this huge distraction [of the virus] came along. We are waiting for everyone to settle down from that before we refocus on the political and start actively soliciting some performances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BpTOua8YZxc?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Guest artists on the song don\u2019t need to be musicians or even musically inclined. \u201cWe\u2019ve spoken to a number of non-musicians that just want to sing along to the chorus at the end,\u201d Rundgren says. \u201cThey can carry a tune, but they don\u2019t have to be known as a musician or even have any prowess as a musician. It\u2019s never really been about that. It\u2019s been about showing some unity behind a candidate or a slate of candidates that are trying to turn things back around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rundgren is essentially stranded in Kauai until the Coronavirus situation winds down, which means that Was will play a large role in assembling the various guest contributions into a completed track. \u201cHe and I will go over everything and figure out who goes best in which part of the song,\u201d Rundgren says. \u201cBut I don\u2019t imagine that this project will be finished or nearing completion until June or so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once that happens, any Democrat will have access to the song; they won\u2019t have to pay a dime, not even too ASCAP or BMI. \u201cIt\u2019s really the kind of thing to get people hyped up and ready to go out and vote,\u201d Rundgren says. \u201cThat\u2019s because we cannot go on like this. The banana Republican party is an organized crime syndicate and it has permeated every level of government at this point. And so it isn\u2019t enough to get rid of Trump. You have to get rid of all of them. They all have to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/todd-rundgren-victory-democrats-973903\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Rundgren and an all-star crew are re-recording his 1973 anthem \u201cJust One Victory\u201d and giving it away for free to Democrats all over America running for public office this year. It\u2019s still early in the process, but Joe Walsh, Daryl Hall and Paul Shaffer have already pledged to join the effort along with producer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 04:16:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}