This song is completely my favorite Guess Who song, I expected more comments. But yeah, I'm thinking that song is about being on drugs, as how it references a walrus(?) doing funny things to the veins in his left arm, and also the poppies(opium). This is pretty much the best conclusion I could come to, but I think the real meaning of the song is, like a Doors song, multiple and interpretable.
"Kurt" is Kurt Winter, band member and co-writer of their songs.
"Kurt" is Kurt Winter, band member and co-writer of their songs.
Magical Mystery Tour is a Beatles album released a few years before Friends of Mine. "Kurt is the Walrus" refers to a song on that Beatles album, "I am the Walrus". At the time, there was a lot of speculation about who was in the walrus suit on the album cover (it's too complicated to detail here), but that fact was parodied in a later Beatles' dong, "Glass Onion", in which Lennon says "The Walrus was Paul".
Magical Mystery Tour is a Beatles album released a few years before Friends of Mine. "Kurt is the Walrus" refers to a song on that Beatles album, "I am the Walrus". At the time, there was a lot of speculation about who was in the walrus suit on the album cover (it's too complicated to detail here), but that fact was parodied in a later Beatles' dong, "Glass Onion", in which Lennon says "The Walrus was Paul".
This song is completely my favorite Guess Who song, I expected more comments. But yeah, I'm thinking that song is about being on drugs, as how it references a walrus(?) doing funny things to the veins in his left arm, and also the poppies(opium). This is pretty much the best conclusion I could come to, but I think the real meaning of the song is, like a Doors song, multiple and interpretable.
"Kurt" is Kurt Winter, band member and co-writer of their songs.
"Kurt" is Kurt Winter, band member and co-writer of their songs.
Magical Mystery Tour is a Beatles album released a few years before Friends of Mine. "Kurt is the Walrus" refers to a song on that Beatles album, "I am the Walrus". At the time, there was a lot of speculation about who was in the walrus suit on the album cover (it's too complicated to detail here), but that fact was parodied in a later Beatles' dong, "Glass Onion", in which Lennon says "The Walrus was Paul".
Magical Mystery Tour is a Beatles album released a few years before Friends of Mine. "Kurt is the Walrus" refers to a song on that Beatles album, "I am the Walrus". At the time, there was a lot of speculation about who was in the walrus suit on the album cover (it's too complicated to detail here), but that fact was parodied in a later Beatles' dong, "Glass Onion", in which Lennon says "The Walrus was Paul".