One Day At A Time by R&W Penney

The coffeehouses were then called basket houses since the only pay

was what was collected in a straw basket passed around at the end of

each 20 minute set. Steve Stills (Crosby,Stills & Nash),saying "I love you guys music",

dropped $20 in, which more than half covered their $35 /month rent.

Midway through that first year Wendy bought a bass guitar, a Hofner clone.

They often played 2 different coffeehouses, or even 3, in one night,

running up and down Macdougal St. To make the next set on time. Twelve

20 minute sets at 3 clubs in one night was the record. The Freudian Slip.

Four Winds, the Basement, Fat Black Pussycat, Rienzi"s, Cafe Wha?,

The Underground, Folk City, Bitter End, Kenny's Castaways, Speakeasy.

Too many to remember.

Greenwich Village was booming. Every night Macdougal and Bleecker Sts.

were so jammed with people shoulder to shoulder that no cars could get through.

Live music pumped from every third doorway. Friends hung out on stoops,

fire escapes, leaned out windows. The air was thick. The pavement vibrated.

Yet it really started when Roger was 7 and sang "Don't Fence Me In"

on a radio show, followed by 6 years of piano and elocution lessons, and

then buying an autoharp. On the other hand, there was Wendy with one year

of comic/tragic piano lessons and 1 single cello lesson.Her bent was

painting. A lifetime member of the Art Students League in NYC, she was

awarded 1st prize for one of her paintings in a prestigious juried

exhibition (see PHOTO section.).

R&W were drawn to each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hitchhiked

and tented in North Africa and Europe for 5 months, then studied mime

and acting. During a Theatre Company of Boston performance of Shakespeare

Roger managed to chip a tooth and stab a fellow actor while fencing.

Since every actor seems to end up in NY or LA, they moved to NYC

where Roger was a member of The Harlem Theatre Company and

did 4 Off-Broadway plays, one of them with James Earl Jones.

It was then that they encountered the 3-fingered flamenco player mentioned

above, and they committed to music.

R&W moved from coffeehouses to clubs after a year and a half, and

eventually played every single club in Greenwich Village, perhaps 40 or more.

Roger has redesigned the autoharp's chord structure and given the

new design to Oscar Schmidt. Now all major autoharp manufacturers

worldwide have switched to making autoharps using his design.

He then developed a way to play live digital drums simultaneously with

the electrified autoharp, using triggers he built into the harp. The sound

is shaped with wah, phasing, fuzz, and delay.

The College Concert Circuit courted the band and arranged several

very successful tours. R&W then joined with Sharon Alexander and Tom

Pacheco to form EUPHORIA and released an album on the MGM/HERITAGE

label titled "EUPHORIA". The single "You Must Forget" was a top 10 hit

in The Netherlands and Italy.

Wendy bought her 2nd bass guitar, a 1968 Hofner Special Limited Collectors'

Edition, natural blonde, active electronics, pearl inlaid, bound, with gold

Plated hardware.

EUPHORIA played a concert with Van Morrison at the Felt Forum (Madison

Square Garden), a few college dates, and were booked on the Johnny Carson

Show but disbanded before appearing.

R&W then continued with college tours, giving more than 3000 concerts as

ROGER & WENDY and then as BERMUDA TRIANGLE (see reviews on PRESS

page). For part of that time they engaged a second female member,Sam; as

Drummer/fiddler.

Three more albums were released, "ROGER AND WENDY", "BERMUDA

TRIANGLE" and "BERMUDAS II"

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They just released a CD, "ONE DAY AT A TIME", with all songs written by

Roger Penney. And now they are back in the studio.

A copy of their first vinyl entitled "ROGER AND WENDY sold recently on

the internet for $750.

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