Long May You Run is one of my favourite tracks. Also mentioned on the last page of my website (page down to get to it). Used to play this many moons ago with Charlie and Fred in countless dives and last-chance saloons. Not the most sophisticated places to be but you sure as hell get to meet the most interesting people there. There was Elvis the dishwasher, Big Red Russell the biker, King Tut who was a serialised comic strip/cartoon writer for a newspaper in Cape Town, Frankie the manic depressive who had a penchant for cocaine-fuelled threesomes, Kelly (Johan Kellerman) - a rugby fanatic and a real ladies man who used to organise all things behind the scenes and many, many other interesting characters, including some professor-types who used to love hanging out in these joints because it gave them an escape from their own realities. Then there was the girl with the hammock-style bed swinging from the ceiling on ropes - in the back room of her restaurant, which only had 1 table with 12 chairs - you booked 2 seats - for you and your partner - but you did not know who the other 10 patrons were going to be. You could be sitting next to a nymph or a nut-job. The conversation was never boring...
Wrote a song about all of this carry-on many years ago called 'One For The Road' - never recorded or published it. Should have but was too busy making a living.
Big Red, the biker, was also the inspiration for a song I wrote about the native American people. I was watching 'Dances With Wolves' at the time and it obviously made an impact because I took the time to write song about it. But I could not think of a title and the chorus was all screwed up. Anyway I went to the pub one day and as I walked through the door Russel, the aforementioned biker, was standing at the bar with his back to me. On the back of his leather jacket - Brothers of the Wind' - their motorcycle club. So the title of the song became 'Brother Running Wind' and the chorus just fell into place.
Wrote a song about all of this carry-on many years ago called 'One For The Road' - never recorded or published it. Should have but was too busy making a living.
Big Red, the biker, was also the inspiration for a song I wrote about the native American people. I was watching 'Dances With Wolves' at the time and it obviously made an impact because I took the time to write song about it. But I could not think of a title and the chorus was all screwed up. Anyway I went to the pub one day and as I walked through the door Russel, the aforementioned biker, was standing at the bar with his back to me. On the back of his leather jacket - Brothers of the Wind' - their motorcycle club. So the title of the song became 'Brother Running Wind' and the chorus just fell into place.
'The purpose of life is a life of purpose' - Athena Orchard.