While in Bukhara with our friend Rich who, sadly, was only with us for a week, we had one spectacular night. After dinner in town we returned to Farkhad and Maya’s beautiful courtyard of their hotel in the old town and proceeded to neck the vodkas with much frivolity and raucous laughter. Chris just before bed decides to ring his recent girlfriend, my cousin, for a quick ‘clear up some issues’ call and Rich and I head off to his room for me to play him “one more fast one before bed”, as he was insisting. He has been in Afghanistan for three weeks straight with no music at all, so I thought it only fair to bang out ‘That’s Alright Mama’ one more time, double time, away from the disturbed eyes and ears of Maya and her sister. As my flashing fingers came to a stop, Rich insisted on another, I kissed him goodnight and slipped away to bed….
In the morning Rich comes bounding into mine and Chris’s room totally bemused as to why he had woken up with my guitar in his bed, at which point Chris surfaces, and after inquiry, says he remembers nothing of his phone call and that the 10 minutes he thought it had lasted was in fact 45 minutes. And the bill… $150.
‘That’s alright lads…….. as Elvis might sing……. any old way you choose.
Written by Phil Wake on Friday, April 26th, 2002
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