{"product_id":"initiation-4","title":"Initiation","description":"Personnel: Todd Rundgren (vocals, guitar, sitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion); Rick Derringer (guitar, bass); Bob Rose (guitar); Dave Sanborn, Edgar Winter (saxophone); Roger Powell (nose flute, synthesizer); Moogy Klingman (organ); Ralph Schuckett (clavinet); John Siegler, Dan Hartman (bass); Kevin Ellman, John Wilcox, Roy Markowitz, Bernard Purdie, Rick Marotta, Chris Parker, Barry Lazarowitz (drums); Barbara Burton, Lee Pastora (percussion).\u003cbr\u003eINITIATION took a lot of notice when it was first released in 1975, because of its technical oddity: at 68 minutes, it was and remains the longest single-disc-vinyl pop album ever, longer than some two-LP sets. Over half of that length is taken up by the 36-minute exploration \"A Treatise on Cosmic Fire.\" Bookended by pyrotechnic guitar solos, most of the piece consists of a lengthy synthesizer solo that actually sounds like a lot of the electronica acts that appeared two decades later.\u003cbr\u003eThe other half of the album contains a pair of Rundgren's trademark pop-soul gems, \"Real Man\" and the title track; the SMILE-era Beach Boys homage \"Eastern Intrigue,\" which foreshadows the genre exercises of Rundgren's next album, FAITHFUL; and an odd layered-vocals experiment called \"Born to Synthesize.\" INITIATION is the first taste of the restless stylistic exploration that dominates the rest of Rundgren's career.","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47258963968287,"sku":"740155503239","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/dfcb9a2fb33ee0337991692bb23430ca_dc08c672-f240-471f-8ca6-8d997d816738.jpg?v=1777811571","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/initiation-4","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}