>>> JUST DIG IT -- That spring I recorded the Jack Johnson album, the soundtrack to the movie about the boxers life. When I wrote these tunes I was going up to Gleasons Gym to train. I had that boxers movement in mind, that shuffling movement boxers use. Theyre almost like dance steps, or like the sound of a train. In fact. it did remind me of being on a train doing eighty miles an hour, how you always hear the same rhythm because of the speed of the wheels touching the tracks, the plop-plop, plop-plop, plop-plop sound of the wheels passing over those splits in the track. That train image was in my head when I thought about a great boxer like Joe Louis or Jack Johnson. When you think of a big heavyweight coming at you its like a train. - Miles Davis
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