re: Odd history or little known facts about your hometown.

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As a teenager, I got to meet Kansas who stayed at the Sportsman Inn where my Mom was a desk clerk. I also remember Stevie Wonder giving a concert while he recorded there as well.

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I visited the studio a couple of times around that same era. The first time I got to hear some of Masque right after they recorded it but I never got to meet the band. The second time was when Stevie Wonder was recording there (but was not present that particular day). The entire room was filled with keyboards. One of them was one of the first polyphonic synthesizers ever made. It might as well have been the Ark of the Covenant for me because I was completely geeked out on electronic music at the time.

I also got to hear some of Leftoverture on that visit. It hadn't even been mixed down yet. They played it for me on the big Sony 24 track tape machine.

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They never really knew their home town was a shite hole...

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It really wasn't a shite hole until the 70's. In the 60's it was a pretty nice place to grow up.