To the Editor : Re '' Home Sweet Studio '' by Jon Pareles -LRB- March 20 -RRB- : Without taking anything away from Bruce Springsteen 's magnificent '' Nebraska , '' the precedent for a home studio providing the atmosphere for a young artist to find his or her sound was set back in 1972 , when a skinny Philadelphia transplant named Todd Rundgren holed up in his Los Angeles apartment to produce the double-album magnum opus '' Something\/Anything . ''