![]() You want, Highway One, Highway 101, Pacific Coast Highway. My family had a friend down there that we’d visit, and we’d go to Vandenburg Air Force Base, which is in Lompoc, in the middle of the state We lived about a year and a half in California, when my dad was stationed at Wake up in the morning and start on a song orįinish a song, or talk about songs, because that was what we did.Īll my imagery was based on my history, my life, my past experiences in the U.S. We were all writing songs in those days, it Started looking at making our second album. Gerry and Dan, I know, they didn’t even hardly unpack, and they flew Photo by Henry Diltz.Īlbum took off, we had done a six-week club tour, and then we came back toĮngland. We’d already decided on the songs we wanted to record for the first album, so it was just shelved. We were in the studio at Trident Studios recording the first album. I had the chord structure and some of the lyrics. Afterwards, we spoke about another enigmatic Dewey classic, “Tin Man.” We’ll bring you that next week.īut first, from our recent talk this May of 2020, here’s the great Dewey Bunnell with the story behind “Ventura Highway.”ĭEWEY BUNNELL: I wrote “Ventura Highway” in England during that first rush of songwriting. ![]() Dewey’s used to it, of course, and patiently answered all our questions. We’ve been wondering about this stuff for year. Did Prince discover purple rain in “Ventura Highway”? (Where else?) Like that famous horse nobody named, this one has Joe, leading to the inevitable question, What’s with that guy? Not to mention those alligator lizards up in the air, and of course, the first appearance of purple rain in a song, written when Prince was all of 14. But he’s the guy, after all, who wrote “Horse With No Name,” after all ( discussed here), and also “Tin Man.” So he’s one of the kings of enigmatic songs, the kind which people have been obsessing over forever – especially those who might have listened back in the day while enjoying some of “God’s herb,” (to quote our friend Henry Diltz). “Now, we’re really getting deep into this,” he said with a slight laugh, in regard to the endless barrage of questions about this and other enigmatic facets of this song.
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