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...first result was Wonder's 1972 album Music of My Mind, in which he showed complex new textures with the Moog and Arp synthesizers and a fresh repose in his love ballads. He had just married Syreeta Wright, a Motown secretary, and they collaborated on the lead song, Love Having You Around ("And when the day is through/ Nothin' to do, just sit around groovin' with you"). Alas, the groovin' lasted only 1½ years. Stevie and Syreeta are now divorced...
...SUPERSTITION, Stevie Wonder. Number one in January. Neat chord changes, good use of moog...
...week, most of which is gobbled up by food expenses. They eat separately, since their early effort at communal cooking failed, partly because Buzz Quarles, the lead guitar, is a vegetarian. For equipment, they usually all give evenly, though keyboard artist Glen Bickle borrowed heavily to buy his new moog synthesizer...
When the band plays the Oxford Ale House--about one weekend a month--they jam the moog and the rest of their equipment onto the tiny stage for the whole booking. The group simply comes with their guitars at about 9 each night for the first of four 40 minute sets. Carrying their own cases, they joke about the burdens of stardom...
...only disappointments of the program were the Buxtehude setting of Ein feste Burg, an uninspired set of variations, and the postlude, the brilliant Sinfonia from Bach's Cantata #29 known in solo violin, solo organ, full orchestral, and Moog synthesizer versions. The Sinfonia was played brightly by strings and brass only to be let down by the organ. There was not enough bass registration to carry through the Church--in part, a design flaw of the Fisk instrument--but even the upper voices were too thin to compete with such a healthy orchestra. Coupled with a number of fingering lapses...