Declaring the San Francisco Bay Area as a home base, Maze reflected the best of the Bay Area soul sound. A perrennial family picnic pleaser, "Joy and Pain" is easily one of their most known smashes. It was not the big chart single from the "Joy and Pain" album. That distinction goes to the #9 R&B "Southern Girl". In concert, the charts just don't matter to his core audience. "joy and pain, is like sunshine and rain......".