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was recorded. The band did a few shows as a trio, with temporary bassists taking Van Osten's place, but before long
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barred the Nazz from recording in the United
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the Nazz (Stewkey and Mooney) both pushed for it to be pared down to a single disc, feeling that it was pretentious for such a new and unknown band to release a double album. The record label acceded to their wishes. Much of the leftover material was used on the posthumous
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Rundgren said "A Beautiful Song" "was the obligatory epic. Each record had a tune at the end you could skip if you wanted to. I made the assumption - and therefore imprinted it into the band - that one of the things that made
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a lot of time practicing. It wasn't like he was classically trained or strove to be a soloist." Stewkey, however, maintained that
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Guitarist and songwriter Todd
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The recording of the keyboards was another major point of contention. Mooney said that he once caught
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