My wife and I were driving home from a restaurant recently and I put on KLOS, a rock station based in Los Angeles where we live. But there was no crowding on it, despite everyone playing something that’s saying: “Me, me, me!”
The song is basically everything we had learned up to that point. Brian Eno said in his diaries that it was always exciting to hear a band playing at the edge of their skills, even if those skills are low, and he’s right. But what I played on Rio had power, I think.
While I was under no illusion I could play like their Bernard Edwards, I was trying to nod in that direction. ‘An extraordinary chemistry’ … Simon Le Bon and John Taylor pose on location for a video shoot.
