Stevie Wonder question ...

Stevie Wonder's a musical genius, motherfucker!!!

 

Every now and then, you regress from dickhead to douchebag.

 

Oh stop.

It's a lot more than every now and then and you know it.

Edit: Plus, everyone else is riffing on my joke and it's been, like, days since I did. So forgive me for my lapse, oh wizened one!

 

sp, you aren't the only one who can't recall parts of the '70's...live and learn, but not again, not that way...

The only reason I think I remember Led Zep is because they took the stage 90 minutes late and the things I had 'timed' had worn off, if you know what I mean...Page threw up on stage, and I remember that..

Would have loved to see Stevie.

 

I don't remember the 70s, either. Any century's.

 

Here's some video of Stevie in the 1970s giving singing lessons on Sesame Street

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He up and decided to tour last October and he came to Montreal for the first time in something like 25 years. I think the tickets went on sale just two weeks before the show.

I remember the last one: the Hotter than July tour, with like a 20-piece ensemble, Wonderlove. In the round. That kicked ass.

This one was pared down, and the band wasn't real tight given it was put together in a hurry. Stevie said he'd been sitting at home, mourning the death of his mother, and just up and decided to get back to doing what he does best.

He came out to open the show, sat at the piano and his daughter, a beautiful, tall woman (Aisha, from the song) came out and they started singing "Love's in need of love" together, so simply.

Chokes me up just to remember it. He sang everything. God, it was restaurant quality, and priced far below what all the "reunion" gigs are charging these days.

He said he'd come back and play for free and donate all the proceeds to the local institute for the blind, if local organizers could set it up. He still rules.

 

He kept getting lost.

 

I agree, but I have a fondness for the two albums he released prior to those classics (Where I'm Coming from in 1971 and Music of My Mind in early 1972). Neither album had a particular direction or a hot chart single, but the seeds were definitely planted for the blossoming of his legend.

 

Jammin' on the one.

 

Big Stevie fan, too ... so I'll briefly defend some of his stuff from the 1980s. "Overjoyed," I think, was one of the better (and most underrated) songs of his career and "Ribbon in the Sky" and "That Girl" were solid tunes even by his standards. He did a lot of experimenting with emerging technologies (especially early on) in the 80s, so much of his stuff from that period doesn't stand he test of time as well as most of his catalog. And then there's "I Just Called to Say I Love You," which is to Stevie what "Last Kiss" is to Pearl Jam.