Saturday 11 May 2013

In The Sunshine Of my Love For Music

Music and songs are like friends, you keep meeting new ones, some become really close, some you have fights with but patch up over a cup of hot coffee, some grow on you and influence the way you think, some just leave you, and sometimes you just forget about some of them. And then one fine precious day you get just a hint of them and your crazily searching for them remembering them and just wanting their presence right with you. 

One such friend of mine is Sunshine of Your Love by the amazing "Cream". I had just forgotten about this classic. Yes that's a crime that deserves the death penalty but the infestation of other classics just wiped this song out of memory for some reason. That's what I thought apparently as a few days back I just happened to to stumble upon that fantastically simple to remember guitar riff. 

So it started out with the riff coming to me but the actual song just missing my strain of thought. I searched from all possible ways that I could muster(humming to my phone even, apparently the app thought my taste delved on the Justin "NOT SO MUSICAL" Bieber variety). I did loose all hope of getting to the root of that song.  

But browsing through YouTube I stumbled upon the Eric Clapton collection, and behold there was my song, my friend waving his arms in a frantic dash to meet me. That moment was joyous, found a song which moved me many years ago and it was blissfully sublime to hear to that riff once again. The cigarette tucked away on the guitar strings, Eric Clapton playing a little bit of heaven as usual and that fantastic rhythm just making things merrier. 

I missed you my friend...

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