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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires
to be nitpicky, he said they didn't have to have a calling card. Which is a reference to back in the days before telephones etc existed, people had to go around to each other's houses to get in touch with each other. If someone came to your door and you didn't know them or you knew them but didn't want to see them, you had your butler or whoever answered the door say you weren't available and the person coming to see you left one of their cards with their name printed on it (like a modern business card, now also mostly obsolete) to let you know they had "called" on you. Making someone leave their calling card was a form of superiority... 'leave your card and maybe I'll get back to you'. Thus Mick's comment that these two men were famous in their own right and don't need to have a calling card was a way of saying they were not in any way less-than to anyone in FM and were peers and respected as such. So to me part of that respect is not telling either of these guys the stuff they did before FM is irrelevant and less important than FM songs. Why would those guys tolerate that ?
Anyway, sorry, I've been immersed in a history research project for so long now I can't help myself nitpicking details.   |
I think I understand you. I think being respectful to Neil would've been letting him play Distant Sun, Mean to Me, or anything besides Something so Strong, I Got You or DDIO.
Neil did say in his introduction to DDIO that he was asked to play it.