A RUNAWAY WIND appreciation thread

[who?]

Haven't been in the car in a few days, so I forgot what was in the CD player. This song came on when I pushed play and what a moment. I love this song, another 'Dad song'....and I think I read somewhere once that old Elrod said something about Prince being impressed by the guitar solo. Any one else ever read/hear that? Bueller? If so, as usual....Prince was on to something.

[nyc1lkg]

Don’t have much value to add here other than I love that track. It’s a good song and a good recording. It wouldn’t surprise me if Prince Rogers Nelson liked it.

[FreeRider]

Huh, interesting. I hadn't heard that Prince commented on the solo that he dug it. Pretty cool.

There was a certain kind of wistfulness to the song that I liked and how it kind of built itself up by the time he belts out "You don't blow like the wind that you used to be...." .

Despite being out of college for awhile, I especially identified with the lyric of:

don't know what to do with your life...

And funny how Paul said the even he wasn't quite sure what the song was about. Maybe about his dad, he said.

[mudbacktodirt]

Playing that song now. I caved in and bought 14 Songs on CD in that package where it looks like a book on eBay. It arrived today. Literally, I opened the package 15 minutes ago and just started playing it.

I remember seeing that book/CD version at the university bookstore when I was in college. I owned it on cassette (didn't even have a CD player in fall 1993). Thought it looked pretty cool though. Hard to believe it's been nearly 27 years since then.

I got out of the collectible buying on eBay business years ago. But, I made an exception for this.

[thematsarealive]

Jun 3, 2020 16:53:58 GMT -5 who? said:

I think I read somewhere once that old Elrod said something about Prince being impressed by the guitar solo.

Where the heck is that guy? I have not seen him around here in a while.

This is a great track. The production may be a bit heavy but it is an amazing song