While I was making All Things Must Pass in 1970, not only did I have Phil Spector going in the hospital and all this trouble...but also my mother got really ill. I was going all the way up and down England trying to see her in the hospital. Bad time. Shed got a tumor in the brain, but the doctor was an idiot, and he was saying, Theres nothing wrong with her, shes having some psychological trouble. When I went up to see her, she didnt even know who I was. [voice stiffening with anger] I had to punch the doctor out, cause in England the family doctor has to be the one to get the specialist. So he got the guy to look at her and she ended up in the neurological hospital. The specialist said, She could end up being a vegetable, but if it was my wife or mother Id do the operation - which was a horrendous thing where they had to drill a hole in her skull. She recovered a little bit for about seven months. And during that period my father, whod taken care of her, had suddenly exploded with ulcers and he was in the same hospital. So I was pretending to both of them that the other one was okay. Then, running back and forth to do this record, I wrote Deep Blue. I made it up at home one exhausted morning with those major and minor chords. Its filled with that frustration and gloom of going in these hospitals, and the feeling of DIS-ease - as the words meaning truly is - that permeated the atmosphere. Not being able to do anything for suffering family or loved ones is an awful experience. - Musician, Nov. 87
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:28:22 +0000
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