From My Red Chair Part Four: Make Memories! (Mellow Rock)

Hello Grafted in Readers,

Today is Wednesday June 25, 2025 in my corner of blog land.

We have had a multi-day heatwave here with temps in the mid nineties most afternoons and low seventies overnight. Cooler today as I send this blog post into the blogosphere.

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Making Memories

I woke to a radio station playing traditional jazz and song standards this morning, WBGO in Newar, NJ. The host played a song by Stevie Wonder from 1972, and mentioned that same year he and the Rolling Stones toured together in the U.S.A.

I found this little snippet describing their concert from RollingStone.cxom

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 In the spring of 1972, Stevie Wonder released Music of My Mind and the Rolling Stones put out Exile on Main Street. Both albums were instant hits, with the former’s reaching Number 21 on the Billboard 200 and Exile reaching Number One. So when the Stones recruited Wonder, then just 22, to open up their summer tour that year, it was an unstoppable combo that became even more exciting when Wonder joined the Stones at four dates for a medley of his 1966 hit “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” and the Stones’ hit from the previous year, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” as the encore.

On July 26th, the second of two nights at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Mick Jagger helped Wonder to his piano and the horn section got loose. Eventually they kicked into “Uptight” with its trumpet flourishes and Wonder sang the song with his own band backing him up. Jagger snuck up behind Wonder and clapped his hands, and eventually helped him to center stage when the song transitioned into “Satisfaction,” which Jagger took the lead on. Wonder joined in on the “and I try” parts, and the two singers started dancing in one of the most jubilant onstage rave-ups of their respective careers, jumping and holding hands and throwing things around the stage.

I recall some memories of my own in 1972 when but twenty years-old. Most are fond recalls, extraordinary to me at the time, but in hindsight ordinary for a twenty-something person. Thankfully, we humans may focus on our good, joyful, embraced memories more than the darker, dissatisfying memories of life.

This concludes our little series giving some focus to mental health. Make memories worth keeping!

Until next visit, may God bless and keep us!

David C. Russell, Author

Mellow Rock