Neil Young's Elvis, Left the Tour Bus

During a 1992 live show at Los Angeles' Greek Theater, Neil Young, introduced his song about his favorite hound Elvis, "Old King" with a wonderful true tale about his hound.

..."And uh, so, I said, 'Okay Elvis, take a shot.'"

"Naw, really. . . he took off, I let him go. And uh, there's only one thing that can go wrong if you do that. That's if it rains, then, and then he can't find his way back, 'cause he can't smell over the little rains, you know. He just loses it.
"So, he lost it, he got lost. It's like three o'clock in the afternoon, we're still waiting for him to come back, and we gotta go to the gig pretty soon or we're gonna be late, you know, and I'm going, 'Shit, I lost my dog. What am I gonna tell everybody?' You know, I can't leave him behind, I can't, you know, what can I do? So I went out hunting for him.

..."So I went back to the bus, and uh, I got out my lucky shirt, which I don't have with me tonight, you may have noticed. I know, but it's too hot for my lucky shirt. So anyway, I, he, I took it out there and I put it down by the bowl, put his bowl out there, and left the shirt, he'd come back eventually, you know, find his way back to the shirt. And I'd figured after the gig I could come back.

"So, I get back on the bus to take off. So I'm leaving, and this guy in a pick up truck pulls up and says, 'Hey Neil, what're you doing?' Well, so, I told him, I'm not gonna tell it again here, I told him, and then, uh, then uh, he said 'Well that's okay, Neil, I'll, me and, I'll go get my wife, and we'll wait, we'll wait right here until he comes back, and then we'll bring him to you in Eureka.'

..."So, uh, so I, so I got there. Ah, hey, that's rock n' roll, you gotta do what you do. And ah, you know, just as I was going on he called me and said they found him.

Hounded by Love

It wasn't until Kate Bush built a private studio near her home in 1985, that she claimed to finally have the ability to work at her own pace and have the freedom to experiment. The results was the beautifully realized self-produced effort highlighting her exceptional songwriting and performing talents entitled, Hounds of Love.

The album’s concept features a Side B of songs about a heroine lost at sea facing the threat of drowning and a Side A of pop masterpieces, including the title track, devoted to exploring the different aspects of love. Kate explains the meaning of these hounds in a 1992 interview with BBC Radio 1, stating that, "When I was writing the song I sorta started coming across this line about hounds and I thought "hounds of love" and the whole idea of being chased by this love that actually... when it gets you it’s just going to rip you to pieces, you know, and have your guts all over the floor! So this very sort of... being hunted by love, I liked the imagery, I thought it was really good."