Anyone know what Live said about "Selling the Drama?" Options

[Godiva]

I am looking for some commentary by Ed on Selling the Drama... but I prefer stuff he said back in the day when the song was popular and before that album was released.

Thanks!

[WaiterAtCliftons]

ummm they got "Throwing Copper" because they were throwing bb's around a sporting good store

[FishOutaWater]

ummm they got "Throwing Copper" because they were throwing bb's around a sporting good store

I did originally address that issue, but unfortunately, I removed my discussion of that issue from my post in the interest of conserving space. I am aware that someone has stated that there is some interview somewhere that mentions the BB gun thing, although I have never seen or heard that interview myself. But as I said, what I described as the meaning of Throwing Copper is just what I think it is.

As for the BB gun explanation, I think that sometimes Ed gives a milktoast answer in promotional interviews because it isn't the right place to give a deep explanation. I've heard at least 3 different explanations of The River. Sometimes he says "it's about sex". Sometimes he goes into the whole flowing consciousness and sacred feminine explanation. But as for Throwing Copper, maybe that interview wasn't the place for Ed to say "yeah, I think most Christian leaders are self-interested hypocrits out to make money and accrue power." Throwing Copper is in large part a deep, sardonic social commentary that questions conventional authority and belief systems, and, I may be wrong, but I personally find it hard to believe that after the band put together such a creative masterpeace that stands as one of the top 20 albums of all time, they said "hey lets name it in honor of shooting BB guns at each other." I don't believe that any more than I believe that they named The Distance To Here because they were playing with rulers one day.

[sellingthdrama]

I don't believe that any more than I believe that they named The Distance To Here because they were playing with rulers one day.

Excellent line, there. I'd like to think Throwing Copper has some deeper meaning, but I've heard the BB gun story a lot.

As I've been moving along my own path and reading on various spiritual topics, it hit me one day what "The Distance To Here" actually means (at least, what I think it means). I've never quite understood it or thought about it - but then it just hit me. I think it is about the Now, and how we are all so close yet so far from the Now, or the Here. The "distance" to here, is not a physical distance but a spiritual one. And after this long journey, where do you end up? You end up here. So what is the distance to here? ...

This may have been obvious to some of you, but I was pretty psyched when it all clicked in my head. My apologies for going off topic.