Ain't No Midnight Cowboy

I was invited to The Toff In Town by a boss... (Sweet Venue/Bar with great sound but a slightly pretentious vibe on Swanston Street's most exciting building)
It was late afternoon business meeting.
A bunch of people in my industry were to have an informal Q&A session to talk about an exciting opportunity/venture.

Sounded exciting and intriguing.

John Voight and Dustin Hoffman

The meeting was made up of about a dozen people that were kind of famous (within our industry). All very well respected and highly regarded.
They were people that I admired.

I was introduced to them all. I knew who they were but they didn't know me. I wasn't scared or intimidated, in fact they all made me feel very welcome...
But i felt I was there really just there to take it all in and learn (and look handsome).

We all grabbed a beer/wine/g&t and sat around a table and had a question and answer session. Some pertinent questions were asked...
some pointed answers were made...
it was food for thought.

Remember this meeting was in a bar so it was it was a bit hard to hear (my hearing is crap anyway but the music was just above comfortable conversation level)

I sat and listened with respect, nodding my head and grunting agreeably (and lookin handsome), taking notes until the stereo started blaring a few notches higher in volume... playing an incredible piece of music.

it was loud. awesome. and very distracting.
12/8 time signature. Corny strings, synths, accordian, drums, guitar. Not much subtlety. A bit of an epic vibe. I've loved it for years.




We had to wait until the climax of the song had died down untl we could actually speak again.
Every one at the stopped meeting was like.

"what the f*ck is this song"?

I knew exactly what it was.
In my head I said with enthusiasm

"It's Faith No More's Cover of the theme from Midnight Cowboy! Off their 1992 album Angel Dust (2nd last track, just before their cover of Lionel Ritchie's 'Easy')! Midnight Cowboy was A classic but wildly controversial 1969 movie starring John Voight and Dustin Hoffman! There's thousands of versions of this song around! This one's great!"

I knew all this. I could have told them all how much I knew. I could have risen above my observing roll and taken center stage...

but i didn't.

the moment passed.

I wonder if they would have been impressed with my knowledge of Faith No More and 60's cult westerns? I've wondered this ever since that afternoon at the toff.

Anyway, in the second of two amzing reunion announcements a coupla months ago I found out that Faith No More were reforming!

F*CKIN YEAH WOOOOOHHHHOOOOOO! I'm pretty excited about the prospect of seeing them. I'm going to tackle the issue of mike patton (lead singer extraordinaire who doesn't even appear in the midnight cowboy cover) in a future blog... I imagine it'll be some of my best material.

OK...

ADDED ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN BONUS SONGS!!!!!!!

Henry Mancini's original version of the Midnight Cowboy theme song. Infinately classier than Faith No More's version. Oh yeah...




Harry Nilsson's Classic Song off the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack "EVERYBODY'S TALKIN At ME... i can't here a word they're sayin..."