Fish - Just Good Friends

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Clipul Fish - Just Good Friends durează 4:03 și a fost văzut de 1.675 ori pe Clipmania, în categoria Muzica, din 2011.

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I wrote this song in 1990 with Frank Usher, Mickey Simmonds and Robin Boult and it was originally on the “Internal Exile” album . The lyric had originally been intended for a duet with Moya Brennan with her band Clannad and I spent a fruitless couple of days at Rockfield studios with them in late 1988 trying to put something together with my original lyric idea when I was still living down South and part of Marillion. Moya and Clannad loved the lyric I had back then but we couldn’t get it together mainly because we spent too much time in the pub and the work schedules were an afterthought.

Nobody got into the studio till late afternoon and then it was dinner then back to the pub and late, late writing sessions that achieved little. We mutually gave up on the idea and I headed back home to a band that was fast fragmenting and whom I’d leave a few weeks later. It was too late to even suggest it as a lyric for a Marilion song and was probably wrong for us then anyway as I always knew it needed a slight country and western approach musically and for that reason it never made the “Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors” album either as I felt it didn’t fit with the other lyrical ideas.

The lyric stayed in my little black book until I was inspired to take it out and re write for the “Exile” sessions. It wasn’t until Frank came up with the main riff that everything clicked into place and personal circumstances leant the song an edge and a feel that I knew was right for me to sing with conviction. The “Exile” album had a lot of different song writing styles as I was facing my “difficult second” solo album having used up a lot of material on “Vigil” that had been intended for the Marillion album that never happened. It could handle the inclusion of a song with a country vibe.

My producer Chris Kimsey and I wanted to go with it as a duet and a number of people were suggested including Kate Bush ( who my manager…