My best friend and bandmate Jeff, and also host of The Club, is sharing never-told stories only to The Club members. Here is an excerpt of the story about the song “Lavender Sky”.
“Alex went back to his room on the second floor. Everyone kept looking at the floor. Dead silence. Then Alex reemerged and said: “It’s morning, guys. We fought our nature all night just so we could see the light of that new day filled with all sorts of possibilities if we are willing to truly give it a try. We don’t even have to believe that we are now different; we are. So let’s make that night a foundational marker for everyone who was there to live it, but even more so, who wants to embody that freedom for good. Let’s make it eternal.” He then opened a bottle of Johnnie Walker Double Black. We all drank a shot to immortalize that moment. He invited us to the rooftop terrace, and we witnessed the sunrise. We took another shot, but this time it was to us, to this unit, to its fulfillment by being honest, by offering others the best of who we are. And this simple but powerful gesture is now part of our family tradition, sealing everything we feel is eternal and of the highest importance with a significant toast, all that in order for us to always remember what truly matters the most!
Not too long after we finished hugging each other, a process that can sometimes last at least another hour, exhausted but feeling way lighter than how arrived in Tangier, as we were converging towards our rooms, Alex asked Ben if he could play this piano part he had played before everything started to explode between each other. So we all suddenly stopped, we sat down on the floor of that rudimentary “studio”, the sun showering the whole room. Alex reached out to one of his notebooks, wrote a few words, and we heard him sing: “The trigger’s pulled… long-distance goodbye… the trigger’s pulled… the word’s confessed… the trigger’s pulled… one last embrace… the trigger’s pulled.” I guess those words have a different perspective for you now that you know part of the story behind it.
And that early morning we all knew there was no better place to be than being 1/6th of this fragile driven force, where love, compassion, forgiveness, brotherhood are the epicenter, the heartbeat of every note, rhythm, word we decide to be, way before we could even have the privilege to give birth to what “being” could inspire us to share with you…”