Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren has a few words to say about the state of the music business, but none of them are kind. "It still isn't known to the public at large what's known to the industry, which is that the dark-robed figure with the sickle is at the door," he says. "When no one cares about the new stuff, and they aren't buying the old stuff, the business dies." Rundgren's had plenty of time to think about this stuff.

Todd Rundgren had a message for The Who's Pete Townshend, whose 1965 youth anthem, "My Generation," gave rock 'n' roll the immortal line "I hope I die before I get old." "We didn't die," declared Rundgren by telephone this week. "We got old."

There wasn't much need to worry that Todd Rundgren's fine concert Thursday at the Wiltern Theatre wouldn't live up to his latest album. "Second Wind," though not sounding like a live album, was recorded on stage before an audience, with most of the same musicians as on this show.

The Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana has added George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars on Nov. 22 and Todd Rundgren, doing an unplugged show, on Nov. 24. . . . New to the schedule at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano is a Nov. 14 show by Michael Schenker Story.