Ultra Rare SYNAPSE MAGAZINE March 1977 TODD RUNDGREN

via this auction

You can find an online copy on the Cynthia site here. Fun to look through the ads. Note the Polyfusion joystick.

"SYNAPSE - THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC MAGAZINE - dated MARCH/APRIL 1977 featuring interviews with Roger Powell and Todd Rundgren and Steve Hillage of Gong and a feature article on "Synthesizers On The Eco-Front". Also many other interesting synthesizer-related articles and cool advertisements showcasing what are still the best synthesizers ever made. Synapse was the first and best synthesizer magazine. As it catered to a then very small audience, it was probably doomed from the start. They produced perhaps a dozen different issues over a three year period before their demise and is still considered a great publication by those musicians and analog synthesizer enthusiasts that are hip enough to be aware of its' existence. Each issue was produced in a very small press run and alas, very few remain so GRAB THIS NOW WHILE YOU CAN WITH THE "BUY IT NOW" OPTION.

This ultra rare issue features on its cover a photo of Utopia keyboardist ROGER POWELL and guitarist/vocalist TODD RUNDGREN. Of historical value, this issue is addressed to Peter Bergren and Sound Arts, the old Beaver and Krause recording studio in Los Angeles. Sound Arts used to be Synthesizer Heaven in the 1970's and I used to hang out at Sound Arts in the mid-seventies and this was an extra copy that Peter Bergren personally gave me in 1977. Sound editor Peter Bergren has won 2 Primetime Emmys and has thirteen other Emmy Nominations. The magazine has some minor wear and wrinkling and there is a tiny piece cut out of one of the ads. (See pictures.) Pages are bright. (The first three pictures are yellowish due to the absence of camera flash.) It has been stored for three decades in an archival plastic bag in a smoke-free environment."