As I entered the examining room, a couple were arguing about a Peter Frampton song, Do You Feel Like We Do ? This song appeared on the album Frampton Comes Alive!, released in 1976.
As I was opening the patient chart on the computer, I listened to their discussion of a particular verse in that song. He was claiming that the verse was
Spunk Mann on the keyboard, Spunk Mann
She was insistent that the verse was
Chuck Mann on the keyboard, Chuck Mann
Before I could get started with the patient, I was asked if I knew the song. Yeah, I know the song … real well. I grew up with it and can play it on my drums. In 1976, my grandmother heard me listening to that song on my stereo, and she said in her Austrian accent while raising her index finger and shaking it in the air, “You should a not listen to dat music, you are a gonna take a da dope”. But I didn’t tell them any of that, I just responded “I’ve heard it”.
OK, then, she asks, “which is it, is it Chuck Mann or Spunk Mann?” I suppose, perhaps, that I would be elevated to the grandmaster of music knowledge if I took her side. “Well”, I said, “I got news for ya … you’re both wrong”. That line in the song is
Bob Mayo on the keyboards, Bob Mayo
I don’t know how they got Chuck or Spunk Mann out of that song. But, maybe it’s because there’s a bad moon on the rise, or … was that a bathroom on the right.
