![]() ![]() TONTO is the crown jewel of the Centre’s music collection that includes 2000-plus artifacts, instruments and pieces of music technology.įirst named by co-founder Bob Margouleff while on a peyote trip, the album TONTO’s Expanding Head Band was a breakthrough for electronica when it was first released in 1971. The instrument underwent four years of repairs for an upcoming week-long tribute starting Wednesday at its new home, Studio Bell at the National Music Centre (NMC) in Calgary, Alberta. Over a 10-year period, from the late Sixties through the late Seventies, TONTO also created a bed of revolutionary sounds for hits by the Isley Brothers, Minnie Riperton, Joan Baez, the Doobie Brothers, Quincy Jones, Randy Newman, Bobby Womack, Weather Report, Gil Scott-Heron, Dave Mason, Steven Stills, Little Feat, James Taylor, Diana Ross and Harry Nilsson.įifty years after it was first conceived, TONTO rides again. ![]() ![]() “The reason that I got into was that I had ideas in my head and I wanted those ideas to be heard,” Wonder explained in an A&E documentary.
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