Editing Todd Rundgren (section)

===The Fool guitar===
[[File:The Fool guitar body (replica), HRC San Antonio.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Throughout his live performances in the 1970s and 1980s, Rundgren often sported [[The Fool (guitar)|The Fool]] guitar originally owned by [[Eric Clapton]] and given to Rundgren by [[Jackie Lomax]].{{sfn|Myers|2010|p=61}}]]
During the mid-to-late 1970s, Rundgren regularly played the eye-catching [[psychedelic art|psychedelic]] [[Gibson SG]] (known variously as "Sunny" or "[[The Fool (guitar)|The Fool]]"), which [[Eric Clapton]] had played in [[Cream (band)|Cream]]. After he had stopped using it ca. 1968, Clapton gave the guitar to [[George Harrison]], who subsequently 'loaned' it to British singer [[Jackie Lomax]]. In 1972, after meeting at a recording session, Lomax sold the guitar to Rundgren for $500 with an option to buy it back, which he never took up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Legendary%20Guitar_%20The%20Saga%20of/ |title=Steven Rosen, "Legendary Guitar: The Saga of Eric Clapton's Famous Fool SG" |website=Gibson.com |access-date=October 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008193834/http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Legendary%20Guitar_%20The%20Saga%20of |archive-date=October 8, 2011 }}</ref> Rundgren played it extensively during the early years of Utopia before retiring the instrument for a short time in the mid to late 1970s, which in that time he had the guitar restored having a lacquer finish applied to protect the paint and replaced the tailpiece and bridge to stabilize tuning, bringing the guitar back out on tour during the 1980 [[Deface the Music]] tour and using it on and off throughout the 1980s until 1993 when he permanently retired the guitar, eventually auctioning it off in 1999; he now uses a reproduction given to him in 1988 by a Japanese fan.<ref name="TheFool">{{cite web| title = Fool Guitar: Psychedelic Gibson SG |url=http://www.whereseric.com/ecfaq/guitars-amps/fool-guitar-psychedelic-gibson-sg.html | access-date = September 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502160144/http://www.whereseric.com/ecfaq/guitars-amps/fool-guitar-psychedelic-gibson-sg.html  |archive-date = May 2, 2008}}</ref>