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Quote of the Day: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


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Jackson Browne on the Eagles Glenn Frey coming up with the key lines to help complete Browne's composition, "Take It Easy":

"Girl, Lord, and Ford all in one line! That's ingenious!"

Frey's contribution:

"It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowin' down to take a look at me."

The Eagles doing Take It Easy with the author of the song, Jackson Browne, on piano:

 

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2 hours ago, Philander Seabury said:

One of my top misconstrued lyrics.  I heard it as flat red ford for years until I learned better, here of course. :D  )I did think it was a bit odd of a reference - who has a flat red car?

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Where I grew up, if the lyric had truly said, "flat red Ford", we would have heard it as, "flatbed Ford".  Everyone I knew was very familiar with the concept of a flatbed truck.   :)

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6 hours ago, Philander Seabury said:

One of my top misconstrued lyrics.  I heard it as flat red ford for years until I learned better, here of course. :D  )I did think it was a bit odd of a reference - who has a flat red car?

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Oh, yah! Flat red oxidation with rusty lace trim on the wheel wells and a crackle effect on the steering wheel. Vintage! 

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