You know that longing, earnest saxophone that opens behind the chatty greetings of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” You're hearing it in your mind now and your head is starting to nod like you’re saying “No!” to everything other than the riff, the song, and its ideas. Right?
Eli Fontaine, a session sax player, was just warming his chops in the studio over the track when Gaye told him to go home. Gaye said, “We’ve already got what we need.”
Somewhat incredulous and probably taking it as a dismissal, Fontaine insisted that he was only “goofing around.”
Gaye responded with, “Well, you goof exquisitely.”
Goof exquisitely.
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