Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including a personal story behind the song. There will be a new Top 5 online every day in January. Read the stories, watch the videos and listen to the songs in our Spotify playlist. Episode 5: Ross Clark (Three Blind Wolves).
1. Neil Young – Heart Of Gold
I found it really difficult to pick my favourite Neil Young song, this is mainly because the man is my hero. He is the musical artist that I respect the most, both in his fierce and beautiful guitar playing and his dreamy lyrics. ‘Keeps me searching for a heart of gold, and I’m getting old..’ is one of my all time favourite lyrics, for me, it means hope. Life is not always going to be an easy ride but you have to keep searching and looking for your own happiness. I suppose this song taught me how to be on my own, and to follow my own way of doing things both musically and personally. When I put this song on it transports me to this place where i can be the traveller, the lover, the singer and the man that hopes for love and happiness down the line.
2. The Band – The Weight
The Band mean alot me to as they are a group that have a big influence on the sound I like to have when playing with my own group. There is a distinct closeness in The Bands music, its like, it’s musically tight but loose and relaxed at the same time, they can make me cry and dance in the same vocal line. This is song is definately one of my favourite tracks as it reminds me of when I started playing with the band properly, we all started singing harmonies and looking at songs like little hands pointed out to the listener. This song to me is about friendship, doing your neighbor a good turn to keep the world turning in the right direction. It’s a happy song about how people can be such fantastic creatures and if we all hold hands and sing along we can escape all the bullshit that goes on around us and be somewhere else.
3. Mercury R