Shannon’s Perspective:

“Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way”

I really do enjoy this song and I am interested in hearing Larry’s point of view.  Not much else for me to say tonight.

Larry’s Pick: Under the Bridge

I guess it makes logical sense for this to be a continuation of The Way It Used To Be. Although I suspect both PSB and RHCP are thinking - what? We're nowhere near the same genre or target audience.

I think you need some perspective relative to this song first - and I openly admit I am plagiarizing Wikipedia.

Kiedis wrote many of the lyrics during a period of depression. After struggling with heroin and cocaine addiction, he had been sober for roughly three years. He felt that this had distanced him from his bandmates, who continued to use cannabis together; Kiedis felt that Frusciante was "no longer in [his] world".

Driving home after rehearsal in April 1991, Kiedis thought of his addiction during his relationship with his former girlfriend Ione Skye. He wrote in his 2004 memoir Scar Tissue: "The loneliness that I was feeling triggered memories of my time with Ione and how I'd had this beautiful angel of a girl who was willing to give me all of her love, and instead of embracing that, I was downtown with fucking gangsters shooting speedballs under a bridge."

Kiedis's alienation led him to feel that the city of Los Angeles was his only companion, and that "there was a nonhuman entity, maybe the spirit of the hills and the city, who had me in her sights and was looking after me".

I've always loved this song. I'm pretty sure I still have the UK CD Single from back in the day. As discussed previously, I am a loner by nature - and a deep thinker. This song just sets it up so I can knock it down while getting lost listening to it.

Honestly, this song goes out to everyone who's risen to the challenge of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, as it were. Addictions, Depression, Sickness - at some point, some people are fortunate enough to say:

I don't ever want to feel like I did that day
Take me to the place I love, take me all the way

So back to my logical sense comment at the beginning - Sometimes I need to see, the way it used to be in order to remember I don't ever want to feel like I did that day...

30th Anniversary

Our Story - Shannon's Perspective

Our Story - Larry's Perspective

Ghost of a Chance (Rush) and why?