Thumbs up on Eight Days A Week. Entered my life when I was ten. My mom took us to the record store, I got the just released Revolver, my brother got Beatles VI. Great stuff.
For some reason, I woke up today with a song I hadn't thought of in decades in my head, a pop duet sung by two people who died too young, Steve Goodman and Nicolette Larson. The One That Got Away. Not sure how many know that Steve wrote City Of New Orleans. He died at 36 of Leukemia. Nicolette was all over Neil Young's Comes A Time album, and while suffering over-production in her solo career, managed to get in at least one Lowell George song per album, which were always great. She passed away at 45 of cerebral edema.
They were both great. Don't know why I thought of that one today.
) but last night I got a hair up my ass to break down the entire song and learn all of it properly. It proved to be a more daunting task than I had anticipated. David Gilmour has such a great sense of phrasing and touch and it is difficult to capture exactly. I can fake it pretty good at this point though! Anyways, I dissected that song for about an hour and a half, piece by piece, so it is very stuck in my head today. I not talking about the words either, just the solos.
