What's the meaning of your avatar? (NO. The meaning of your absence of one.)

a reply to: NarcolepticBuddha

I had to come up with a name and this seemed good enough, which is Krusty the Clowns seal of approval.



Seems Songfact's didn't read the House of Blue Light tour program. Ian states giving one the "Spanish Archer " means giving someone the "elbow", or, more precisely, "giving some lump the heave-ho!"

Songfact's says this:

Written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, "The Spanish Archer" runs to 5 minutes 31 seconds and is Track 7 on the 1987 album The House Of Blue Light. According to the band's biographer Michael Heatley, Gillan didn't want the song to be included on the album because it wasn't properly arranged and was just a series of verses with jamming in between. Jon Lord said it was "Ritchie at his finest," the saving grace of the track, and indeed it is hard to disagree. Whatever the lyrical content, "The Spanish Archer" contains some fine work from one of rock's legendary guitarists. >>
The identity of the Spanish Archer is in question, but the song is clearly about a relationship that coming to a bitter end:

Is there someone somewhere waiting in the wings to take my place?
Let's not drag it out like a Cagney death scene

The Cagney death scene refers to the 1938 movie Angels With Dirty Faces, where Cagney's character gets the electric chair.

IOW, the name means nothing except I really dig Deep Purple and they had a title that seemed ok to run with.

This is my Crass Action Suit. You might have to be a longtime resident of Los Angeles to really feel what I am trying to lay down here with this pic, but maybe not.

"Keep walking into the light, son. I don't mean "go into the light" at your last moment, like these miserable old hippies keep telling me here as I rot. I mean walking in the prime of life. Don't stop walking into the light. It's good that you are normal, not a freak like your old man, but never get so normal that you stop walking into the light."

-From my dad's last letter to me before dying, 2006