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Interesting they came up with the name The New Cars as opposed to The
New Utopia? Two against two...with the drummer from The Tubes being
the tiebreaker if the decision ever came to that. Who has the most
hits versus the most albums? Were The Cars just more popular than Todd
and/or Utopia?

Maybe the members of the Utopia that were the spin off of Amon Duul 2
that did that one LP on United Artists some 30 years ago plan have
plans to reunite.

I see a great marriage between Rundgren and the members of Utopia, The
Cars and The Tubes. I'm not a wordsmith in describing the similarities
between the five of them that will make it click, but I'm sure over a
century's worth of collective talent has got an elpee's worth of toons
for starters worth checking out. A sense of humor, a sense of punchy
songwriting, some precision playing...it's just I'm just a little,
uhm...apprehensive of any band calling themselves "The New (whatever
they used to be in their heyday)". Implies more of a marketing ploy,
at least to me.

If Keith Richards and Mick Jagger teamed upwith Ringo and Sir Paul and
then brought along Nicky Hopkins or Billy Preston as the fifth member...