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In reply to the discussion: Song covers that are better than the originals. [View all]DFW
(54,378 posts)We had sort of a long-distance romance for the first few years. My job had me constantly on the road already starting in the 70s. That is still mostly the case, but I have managed to re-structure that so that I now live here "full time," though I am still in a different country almost every day (except then there some nasty virus going around).
I met my wife in Berlin July of 1974, on a European trip. I was playing in a folk music cabaret near the Ku-Damm on Bleibtreustraße. I went into the audience to catch the performances of a few friends, and sat next to a girl I had met the night before, who told me she was leaving for China the next day, but that I should meet her girlfriend from the north. I said, sure, where is she? She said right here, and leaned back. I saw this tall blond exquisitely beautiful vision, and just thought," WOW! But a nerd like me never has a chance with a girl like that." Fortunately, it finally dawned upon me that if I maintained that attitude, I never WOULD have a chance with a girl like that. So, having no clue what lines to use, I used none, and just struck up a normal conversation. Whaddaya know, that was exactly what she was looking for, and the rest (helped along by a LOT of persistence on my part), is history.