his Stephens 16-track machine. Depending on the track, he played all of the instruments alone or with assistance from Moogy & the Rhythm Kingz, a band that included drummer John Siomos, keyboardist Ralph Schuckett, and bassist John Siegler. Rundgren encouraged the musicians to contribute any ideas they felt would benefit the music. According to Siegler, "when Todd needed guys to play on his record, we were already there. It was like a club. Secret Sound was our clubhouse, and suddenly Todd was the leader of the club." He said a typical session involved Rundgren arriving with a piece of music, written on piano or guitar and often untitled, to which the band would learn by ear and create charts if necessary. Vocals were not recorded until after a basic track was completed. Rundgren was also the sole engineer, as Klingman recounted, "he would go in the control room and set levels and come out and then he would run back in and adjust the levels. It was astonishing to watch, but that's how he liked to work." Wizard was one of the longest single-disc LPs ever cut, as its 55:56 playing time stretched the technical limits of how much music could fit on a vinyl record. Each side is much longer than the typical 17 to 20 minutes of a typical album. Therefore, the groove spacing is narrower, causing a significant drop in volume and sound quality. Rundgren acknowledged this issue on the album's inner sleeve and advised listeners to turn up the volume on their speakers to compensate. All of the album's recording was at Secret Sound, except "Just One Victory", which was recorded earlier at Advantage Studios. Style and concept Rundgren wrote, under the album's title in its original liner notes, that he was "not a real star ... just a musical representative of certain human tendencies: the Quest for Knowledge and the Quest for Love." Although he denied that the record should be considered a concept album, Wizard was envisioned as a "flight plan" with all the tracks seguing seamlessly into each other, starting with a "chaotic" mood and ending with a medley of his favorite soul songs. The album's first side is titled "The International Feel (In 8)". Its tracks pivot radically between different musical moods and includes Rundgren's rendition of "Never, Never Land", from the 1954 musical of Peter Pan, as well as "Rock N