"I was a smart-ass kid, like calling Garth Hudson 'old man,' thinking he was too old to stay awake, not realizing he had narcolepsy. I wasn't into that kind of music and not cognitive of the fact that the Band were one of the biggest acts in the world. They suddenly had all the money, drugs, drink, and sycophants available to them and it affected some of the guys."
"Levon got into opiates," Rundgren said, "so while he may have chased me round the studio, he spent as much time underneath a pile of curtains, dead to the world."
"In later years they all became my friends except Robbie Robertson," Rundgren added, "who was kind of a snob."
Todd Rundgren engineered the Band's 1970 album Stage Fright after his group Nazz dissolved and helped shape its ten tracks, including "The Shape I'm In" and "Stage Fright." Rundgren acted as a sounding board for the quintet but did not personally favor that musical style. He mocked Garth Hudson as 'old man' without knowing Hudson had narcolepsy. Levon Helm chased Rundgren around the studio at times and struggled with opiate addiction, often unconscious under curtains. Rundgren was not invited to The Last Waltz and later became friends with most Band members except Robbie Robertson, whom he described as a snob.
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