Where: Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA
When: October 27 , 2003 (time mark 15:20)
From Adam Duritz from a concert at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco, October 27, 2003
"I should tell you this story, because it has to do with this song because
I had this friend Betsy and I had been begging her to go out with me for like a year,
and every time I saw her I'd ask her "come on" and she said no.
and then we had this gig here that night.
and her friends were leaving and she decided to stay
and we went up to her house in Berkeley
she had a big, a big boulder behind the house
and we went up and sat on the boulder all night long, and any ways.
It was very nice, I was just remembering a really dumb joke she told me
It was like two in morning and we were sitting on this enormous rock behind her house
and I said man this is so cool, I wanna rock
and she goes Adam, you do rock
So anyways she ended up being my girlfriend, not because of jokes like that
and I thought that my life had just completely come to fruit
you know we had a successful band
we had signed a record contract
our record was coming out
we went out on tour
I had a great girlfriend
but Christmas it was all, it was all gone
being away on the road just screwed the whole thing up
and so I came home at Christmas, very bitter and wrote this song
I think it was the first song written for Recovering the Satellites
but I wrote it that Christmas
and its called Goodnight Elisabeth"