His original songs are lyric poems and real. The orange landscape on his album cover comes to mind. An old man and a dog. Why do tears come to my eyes?
I don't know when this was recorded (alas!), but I like Ronnie's voice a lot since the Faces and the Barbarians (with Keith Richards) and all. Let alone his incredible guitar playing.
Always go back to this version of this song… it has so much more meaning! Creole can be agreed or not… that, as everything these days be argued upon… this song is beautiful and really hits me with those that have past in my family. The words are beautiful, I am put in a place and a feeling that I have not felt for a good while.
Hey Chris are your parents watching? I don't mean the ones you finally met a few years ago, I mean the ones you ignore now, you know, the ones who paid for your upbringing and nurtured your talent to allow you to have a successful career. But no, you ungrateful bastard, you don't talk about them, you only want to to talk about the scum that abandoned you until they found out that you had money!!
Nice impersonations. It's a shame he could impersonate a brilliant guitarist who went on to have a glittering career. Instead, guitarist who just got by with a band of losers , but was happy enough to earn enough money to stick loads of coke up his nose, was a softer option.
