Re: (TV) Interview from 87: Back to Walker

[Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

Right on. Tom's song is a bit more like the more or less contemporaneous
"(Don't Go Back to) Rockville"... "Your home town is crap, are you sure you
wanna go back and deal with that?"
 So I wonder if this is a slight homage, and if so whether or not it was
conscious or sunconscious on Tom's part. Most of us agree that there's
little to nothing rootsy or bluesy about Tom's guitar playing, but we know
from his interviews and choices of covers that where rock is concerned he
likes the Stones, the Troggs, the Count Five... basically recycled garage
band R&B, so The Animals fit that mold. Thoughts?
 I may be alone in this, but I hear country tinges on "Flash Light"... check
out the string bend at the intro to "At 4AM", for example, and the
colloquialism "San Antone"... cross reference with the Johnny Cash covers at
the acoustic shows... are Tom's roots showing?
 -Rex

 On 9/18/05, BlackMonk <BlackMonk@email.msn.com> wrote:
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> From: "Rex Broome" <rexbroome@gmail.com>
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> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 12:10 AM
> Subject: Re: (TV) Interview from 87: Back to Walker
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> > Weirder still! Why did Burdon & Co. change it to "Walker"-- is that an
> > English town?-- and is that what Tom was riffing on in his song (pun
> > basically intended)?
> >
>
> I always assumed it was a town in the UK, though I never investigated. (So
> why not do it now? There is a Walker in Newcastle, where the Animals are
> from. Maybe that's how they won over their early audiences.) Lyrically,
> there seems to be a connection. The earlier song has the singer telling
> his
> girlfriend "the big city is too much for you, you'd better go back to your
> small town," and Tom is telling Janey "You don't want to go back to the
> small town, it's a lot worse than you think."
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