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>>My favorite SR songs were "Love Fire" and "Holding Back the Years."
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>They could not leave without "Holding Back the Years"
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>>The sad thing is I didn't see them live even though I was working in Manchester during their rise to fame. They were on tour at the time. I did see Lone Justice and Steve Earle, in exactly their heyday, in a great club in Manchester. Club Manchester? Something like that. Earle was still young and not an addict at the time, or at least he was still hiding it well. I was missing the U.S. at the time, although I liked Manchester enough.
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>Never went above Nottingham in GB. But one of the greatest memories is from the time I went on a small motorcycle touring the South: There were roads that gave you the feeling of being in a cathedral or semi-transparent green tunnel, as only a bit of sky showed through. There I was chugging along on a small Honda, feeling pretty smug, and came to Stonehenge, built by "primitives". Awesome...
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>>"I was drivin' into Texas with the hammer down" -- that hit home.
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>Hmm, drivin' songs... Undisputed top place still goes to Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild , Sniffi'N'Tears Dirver's Seat battling it out with Golden Earring's Radar Love for second and third. Deep Purple gets honorable mention for Speed King, BTO falls short. What songs did I miss ? Cocker's Letter disqualified for wrong modes of transportation... Spent way too much time on the autobahn from midseventies to early nineties<g>.
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"Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight."