This was one of the BEST days of the tour despite having incredibly sore feet and completely exhausted by the end of the day. For more on this particular day, see the Scotland: Glasgow and Edinburgh Tattoo blog post. Yep, guy goes to a bar and tries to pick up girls, stays out and spends all his money so has to walk home…. I couldn’t ditch Kevin. He insisted on doing the walk with me. To be honest, he was actually good company for most of it. He had a small tantrum at one point because we took a wrong turn. The streets we had to walk were ALL OVER GLASGOW… no kidding. I’m sure Brian picked the street names to fit the song.. because no matter how drunk he was, there is ZERO way he walked 8km worth of streets that were on opposite sides and outside of the city center by MILES! The streets we needed to get a picture of (the street sign) were: Bath Street, Argyll Street, Duke Street, Hope Street, Dumbarton Road. Queen Street, Renfield Street, John Street, Sauchiehall Street, Great Western Road. Brian would give anyone walking all the streets a special gift… which I didn’t know until I had already done half of them (I wanted to do the walk… because it was in the song. Not for any reward). The chorus is as follows:
Way down 
and down
The song goes like this:
Bath Street, Argyll Street, Duke Street, Hope Street, way down Dumbarton Road.
Queen Street, Renfield Street, John Street Sauchiehall Street, and down Great Western Road.
I spent the whole night trying to talk to the girls, I wasn’t gettin’ very far
I had a few drinks, I had a few laughs, now I’m left leanin’ on the bar….
Chorus
I missed the last train just like last week, the last bus already gone
I find a Kabab shop, I talk with the boys, no money for a taxi home….
Chorus
I wandered around all over the place it’s my favorite time of day
It’s 3 in the mornin’ and everything still, and now I’ll be on my way…
Chorus
Well now it’s getting on, the sun’s comin’ up. My heads just startin’ to clear
I’ll say the same thing again, just like last week… I’ll never touch another beer…..
Chorus
I wandered around all over the place, it’s my favorite time of day
It’s 3 in the mornin’, everythings LOUD and now I’ll be on my way…..
Chorus many times….
I sent Brian all the pictures and headed to Edinburgh for the remainder of the day. When I got home… well, a friend sent me an Ipod movie trailer with a lot of my photos… it was SUPERB. It also got me thinking…
So I made my own video. I tried to find a similar app as I have an Android phone and Dina has an Ipod. Evidently, all the tools are in the Ipod but it isn’t compatible with an Android (go figure). I ended up, after several days of frustrations, using Adobe. I had it on my computer and evidently I have access to a lot of apps for just this purpose… but one needs a PhD in order to use them. Once I figured out how to get the music into it, I then started putting in pictures. Then I had to set timing for pic in pic out stuff. By the time I got done, the file was beyond GIANT. So I called my vocal coach and asked if I could borrow her husband. With his help (he is a graphics designer/video guru guy), he did a layering thing and it was GREAT! It took us 8 hours together, then Andy did a few more hours perfecting the timing (he’s adult diagnosed Autism). It was ready to gift to Brian for Sunday’s pub night.
I was soooo nervous to present this to him. We got a lot of the folks who had been on the tour to show up at the pub plus a few from the first year. Waited until the boys had finished for the night and then set up the computer and sat Brian down (a feat in and of itself since he doesn’t sit still or in one place very long). Once it started.. he was absolutely delighted! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
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