Stevie Wonder
The Secret Life of Plants tour
The civic Auditorium
Pasadena, CA
12-18-79

Taped by: Robert Collins
Stereo AUD Mas Cass > CD > EAC > FLAC (lvl 8)




Disc 1

1. Earth's creation
2. The First Garden
3. Voyage To India
4. Same Old Story
5. Venus Flytrap & The Bug
6. Seasons
7. Power Flower
8. Send One Your Love (inst.)
9. Race Babbling
10. Send One Your Love
11. Outside My window
12. Black Orchid
13. Ecclesiastes
14. Come Back As A Flower
15. A Seed's A Star / Tree Medley


Disc 2

1. Fingertips
2. For Once In My Life >
3. Uptight >
4. I Was Made To Love Her
5. Signed, Sealed, Delivered....I'm Yours
6. My Cherie Amour
7. If You Really Love Me
8. Superwoman
9. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
10. You & I
11. Garden of Love > I Can't Help It > Never Let You Down >
12. I Can See The Sun In Late December >
13. All Is Fair In Love
14. Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing >
15. Higher Ground

Disc 3

1. Golden Lady >
2. Boogie On Reggae Woman >
3. Work Like You Intro w/ crowd
4. Work Like You
5. Living For The City
6. Sir Duke
7. I Wish
8. You Are The Sunshine of My Life
9. Superstition >
10. As >
11. Visions >
12. Secret Life of Plants





Notes: I was on e-bay the other day and saw a horrible representation of this show for sale for a whopping fifty bucks, this is most likely a superior source and hopefully will thwart people trying to profit on Robert's fantastic work recording this truly astounding and historical Stevie Wonder performance. The Secret Life of Plants tour, only six shows long was quite a departure from what Stevie had normally been doing. The first set was played with a large screen above the band which showed portions of the film The Secret Life of Plants which many of these pieces were written to. He pretty much plays the entire album in a tighter form, it's simply amazing to hear Stevie weave this mesh of melody throughout the set. The second part of the show is more of a usual Stevie Wonder show, many of the usual classics, there is, however, a lot of new material during this set as well. There is a about a 8 minute segment of unreleased compositions sandwhiched between the piano ballads and also a very early live version of Do Like You which at this time is still called Work Like You. The Unfortunate thing about this recording is due to it's length the original taper didn't have enough media to cover the final minutes in which Stevie spoke for awhile about the album, film, tour and concept before moving into Tree & Finale.

The sound on this recording is beautiful. I'm sorry but I couldn't track down the original equipment recording info for this recording, I know that it is out there somewhere so if anyone can help it would be huge, but this is a 3 mic recording using Nakamichi's from what I remember if that makes any sense.