Icarus @ 59 # 98

Now here is a curious one. Yesterday I wrote about Southpaw, which were one of the best groups I ever played in. And we had such a time growing up with the music and learning to play. And then today I wrote a new song, used a whole different set of chords to the ones I have been using recently and out it popped - a Southpaw song; a song I would have presented to the band. And I can hear it now, Brian Anderson picking out the bass notes and asking me if I am sure I want to make that major, minor to a seventh shift, and Davie Jack would be feeling his way around the chords on his twelve string and looking for a way to make the vocals his own, sorting out where he wanted the harmonies, John (Lightning Slim) Stirling would be working out whether to play slide or mandolin, probably settling on the mandolin, and I would want to play my Strat on it (in the picture its second from the left - 1961, genuine original, 14 years old when I bought it and now, goodness, its 53 - because I always wanted to play my Strat and harmonica when they would let me) and then within ten minutes or so the whole thing would come together. I will put it up online some day, after I have sorted it and recorded it and all that - its called, It Was Only A Tuesday. But its a band I would like to write for again - maybe its time for a Southpaw @ Sixty reunion - how nostalgic is that, Alex Sharp and Davie Jack? Almost as nostalgic as this song which we used to play...