”There is nothing to do, he just can’t say no to beer. And to be able to sip a “blonde” in peace, without having to worry about the usual paparazzi ready to throw him in the newspapers, Adriano has seen fit to come up with a diversion: to have his beloved beer served in coffee cups.” Adriano Seu (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Jeff Fuccillo has described the collaboration with Wio like this: “Wio’s idea was to play ping-pong. 15 minutes of doing something and send it back across the table. We basically stuck to it but we sometimes cheated. That’s sports!”
He continues: “One of my smacks back was just writing lyrics. Wio welcomed the idea to sing lyrics I wrote, including a tribute to DC Berman in Japanese.”
David Berman passed shortly before the time when they were doing this.
The lyrics:
I fall
You fall
We fall
Then we crawl
Crawling to the light of all
I am
You are
We are
All so far
Far flung into the light of all
二十七 (Ni jū nana)
年で (nen de)
五万 (go man)
ビール飲んで (bīru nonde)
波で涙だ、光へ (nami de namidada, hikari e)
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Translates as:
In 27
Years
I’ve drunk
50,000 Beers
Tears in the Waves, Into the Light
(From Silver Jews Train Across the Sea)
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In response to this I took a paper and a pen and I began to do calculations.
27×365=9.855 days (not considering leap years)
50.000/9.855=5,07356672 per day
I’m far, but not too far.
Listen to ”27年で5万ビール” here.
