Wondering Where the Lions Are

Werewolves of London is after that.

And to close it out, Wondering Where the Lions Are by JB, of course.

And Wondering Where the Lions Are is another one I like a lot off that one, too.

It's a really good Buffett deep cut.

So go over to YouTube, find this album, and give it a listen.

Speaking of which, Bruce, did you...

You know, in the 80s, when songs like Rocket Launcher and Lions and Dangerous Time and stuff like that are getting a little bit of radio play, were you ever encouraged to play the pop game? Because you seem like somebody who's always done exactly what they wanted and never really had to, you know, rein it in or change or...

But I wondered if a record label was like, Bruce, we want to sign you, but we want you to play the game.

And you're like, well,

There's no need to sort of wave the flag around, but it, but, um, it's, uh, A polar opposite that would be an example of a different approach is Michael Akapindi is a Toronto jazz guitar player who did an album of It's All My Songs.

Really? I don't know this one.

In some cases, you have to listen a lot before you realize, oh yeah, that is Wonder Where the Lions Are.

He just kind of mixed and matched different the songs in different ways.

So I will play a little bit of, if I had a rocket launcher from Stealing Fire from 1984, usually I sort of play the biggest hit, but you have too many.

This is just the one that I knew from when I was a kid, but I understand wondering where the lions are, which is slightly before my time, was maybe a bigger initial radio thing.

I don't know, your sound is so constantly moving.

I did read your autobiography in prep for this, so I kind of got to see how, well, okay, you were big in Canada, and it's just a matter of, you know, breaking in steadily to the U.S.

But I'm curious about your breakthrough in the United States.

I'm sure this was important, just even for no other reason than your accountant is like, have you seen the size of that country? But it's wondering where the lions are that breaks you in the U.S.

So what is it like when suddenly, because you're already a big deal in Canada.

We love you already.

First places I could go were in California, actually.

There was a radio station in Santa Rosa that was ahead of the curve.

They were playing my stuff before Wondering Where the Lions Are.

And so I had a little audience in that area, which is just north of San Francisco.