Then the playlist committee said it was “too slow for radio”. The ceiling was low anyway, so I thought I was hallucinating, but we clicked.
It’s funny, when we left Ambleside, we were in two vehicles, so we made two copies of At the River “just in case” anything happened to one of us on the journey. Live at River Plate is a live concert film documenting AC/DC’s Black Ice World Tour.The DVD includes footage from three concerts performed in December 2009 at the Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is the home stadium of Argentinian football club River Plate.It was directed by David Mallet, with Rocky Oldham as producer. At the smiling of the river, I think I sang it, Andy thinks he played it spontaneously, but either way we were in a room and the riff came out. He shared a stage with The liner notes to his "Greatest Hits" album contain the following explanation of this song's meaning written by Bruce Springsteen, I think I sang it, Andy thinks he played … "The River" is written about Bruce Springsteen's sister, who got married very young, and her early life with her husband. Share. The man had left his wheelchair and climbed into the river… The song was based on conversations Springsteen had with his brother-in-law, after the latter lost his job but never complained and tried hard to find ways of providing his family. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A park ranger saved a man that went into the river at the point on Thursday night. A farming family battles severe storms, a bank is threatening to repossess their farm, and there are other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm. It was the chill-out classic that beguiled the 90s – and it all started in a 50p bargain bin in AmblesideA schoolfriend suggested Andy and I meet, so he came up to my attic in my parents’ house. I expected it to sound shit, but it gave the sound a real vintage character, so we put it on the record. I had a jazz gig coming up, so I took it up to the Lakes with me to practise. On the margin of the river, Washing up its silver spray, We will talk and worship ever, All the happy golden day. I guess we had a feeling that it was a special tune.‘We argue to this day about who wrote the trombone riff’ … Tom Findlay, left, and Andy Cato of Groove Armada in 2001.‘We argue to this day about who wrote the trombone riff’ … Tom Findlay, left, and Andy Cato of Groove Armada in 2001.‘We had a feeling it was a special tune’ … Groove Armada in 2002. Video: At the River by Groove Armada Andy and I argue to this day about who wrote the distinctive trombone riff. Before I saw The trombone melody just came to me when I was blowing over the chord sequence with the equipment set up on the dining table, before we started recording. A piano rendition of the theme from the film "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) was frequently performed before this song during the River Tour of 1980â81. I was lying on a beanbag and a bit stoned when he walked in, all 6ft 8 of him. Bruce Springsteen performed "The River" for the first time on the 21st of September 1979 at the "No Nukes" concert at Madison Square Garden.
While we were recording, Rob da Bank gave our seven-inch to Zoe Ball, and she started playing it on the Radio 1 breakfast show. The song was based on conversations Springsteen had with his brother-in-law, after the latter lost his job but never complained and tried hard to find ways of providing his family. The River Lyrics: Oh my lord / Take this soul / Lay me at the bottom of the river / The devil has come to carry me home / Lay me at the bottom / The bottom of the river / Oh my lord / Take this hand A river begins at a source (or more often several sources), follows a path called a course, and ends at a mouth or mouths. The house was in the middle of nowhere, so I made one out of the cottage’s hi-fi system, by swapping the wires around in an Alba speaker.
Luckily, various producers played it anyway, and there was such positive feedback from the listeners it ended up on the playlist. This song was originally recorded for the album "The Ties That Bind" in 1979, but that album has never been released.