Sort of O/T, but...
Highlander trivia:
The brandy scene with Macleod and Brenda was inspired by Russell Mulcahy's dinner with Jim Steinman who, as a wine bottle from 1949 was being opened, sniffed the air between the cork and the bottle and told Mulcahy that he had just sniffed air from 1949.
> The song's called Willie Brown Blues & was written
> specifically for the movie by Ry Cooder & Joe Seneca in
> 1986 (or thereabouts).
>
> So, could be coincidence, or (given Cooder's involvement
> in Streets of Fire) could be that he was aware of Bad For
> Good and just liked the line. It is a pretty cool lyric
> after all.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_(1986_soundtrack)
>
> > I was watching the movie Crossroads a 1986 movie directed
> > by Walter Hill, who of course directed Streets Of Fire,
> > and at about 1 hour 5 minutes there is a Blues number
> > being played and it has the lyric "not built for comfort,
> > built for speed" or something very similar...
> >
> > Curious - is that line from a traditional Blues song? Or
> > somehow the line from bad For Good has ended up in the
> > songwriters consciousness and ended in a non
> > traditional-Blues song? OR the reverse a line from the
> > past has slipped into Jims consciousness and made it onto
> > Bad For Good?
> >
> > Anyways a pretty good movie
> >
> > heres a link to clip of the song
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Lo7hgcKic
> >
> >
> >
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