David Wilcox - Eye of the Hurricane

[MrRover3500S]

The early Honda 600 CBR's were equipped with Keihin Carb's....with the best power to weight ratio they won every SSrace in the 600cc class in '87....

Cool bike...cooler song.

[48nixie]

So mr wilcox so how are you doing do you remmber me from z while back so tell me where are you playing now because i love your music you are really amazing player.

[kevman1ification]

Very cool intro there. Great song, great artist.

[MrTahitijack]

Thanx ....

[perry475]

David Wilcox is a legend with a sense of humor

[LiamCapt]

Does anyone know the tuning for this song?

[forkman22222]

@LiamCapt open c tuning



[easterbunnyhelps]

why is he making this a joke??? its about a girl dying on a motorcycle crash

[KameronKincadeMusic]

@easterbunnyhelps It's a double meaning for a girl who gets caught up in drugs and gets past the point of no return. It ends up killing her.

[dw298]

Terrific song. Been awhile since I have seen David Wilcox--need my once every other year fix!!

[misanthrope8]

One of my favorites of his. Fabulous. He brushed my arm as he walked by at Music Millennium. I fled.....

[misanthrope8]

One of my favorites of his. Fabulous.

[john9944]

One of the great songs ever. We all live in the "Eye."

[DrummerHead4242]

David is an amazing musician! So amazing that he needs TWO capos for his one guitar.

[tekman7d0]

David is the purest form of artist. The only objective of an artist is to make you feel the emotion that he/she wants you to feel. David takes that to the next level and makes you feel that the emotions are yours.

[humbler5]

after watching my ex wife have an on/off affair for 17 odd years......I was silent.....like the eye of the hurricane......but the wind is about to blow....evil is easy...and infinite....I fight every day to keep it at bay......

[TheAlbourgeois]

i herd this sound 20 years ago awesome

[TheAlbourgeois]

i herd this sound 20 years ago awsome

[rredhawk]

"....when you lay your dreams to rest, you can get what's second best but it's hard to get enough..."

Man, that really hits home! Powerful straight-forward lyrics.

[saintofconsequence]

wow. thats a goosebump song.

[mandmbestbuds]

my orchestra teacher (eric wenstrom) is david wilcox's conductor

[Drummajorofdoom]

and only one capo?

[JazzmanJibilla]

One of the great motorcycle songs, I put it right up there beside Black Vincent.

[LIVE2RD]

I don't know why but this song always moves me amazing song....

[thedeem0N]

this song really speaks to me...I wasn't riding a motorcycle, I was driving a 1995 Honda Del Sol VTEC & I crashed into some woods next to Oak Street in Ashland, MA on August 19, 2003...I didn't die but I've been coping with the Traumatic Brain Injury that I sustained every second of my life since...not to mention that my father has treated me like I'm a useless 4 year-old that's incapable of anything ever since it happened...I've spent every second coping ever since...

[haiizel]

@thedeem0N

amen brother, i had a major head injury in 08 and you have to keep the faith!

[MrMldillman]

Thanks for all of 'em, you're a wizard....That's what keeps it real, everyone hears it different.

[john9944]

I remember the first time I heard this song. My wife and I were driving between Austin and Houston. When ever I hear this song I remember. It seems like a lifetime ago. It was.

[TheDCAWILDCATS]

David has so many stories- that need to be heard. Thanks for doing your art, David. I'm listening.

[suprafan99]

This is the great thing about music. As long as it means something to you when you hear it.... true genuis is being able to write a song like this one, that can speak to so many about so much.

[oddlyshapedarsenist]

@suprafan99 like taylor swift. dont really care for her music but good lord every girl thinks it is about her own life.

[robthebuilder321]

the masterpiece starts at 1:46

[ludaluc]

i love this song , i love this man

[Rizdo71]

Grew up listening to my old man pick this tune for me and my sister on his guitar when we were kids. Thanks for the tune, Dave.

[jjmsk23]

Hi Leah :)

[ItsHannahBabayy]

I love this song..

I never thought it was about drug addiction!

[rosiechatinenglish]

me neither, I mean I got the bike being some kind of metaphor for living dangerously ... but now I hear the line

'explain to me/how you got this need for speed.... '

I see how people would think it..

[bigjayl]

As I've seen David perform for about 25 of my 28 years on this planet, I've heard him introduce this song many times. So, I can say without a doubt, this is about his friend who died on a motorcycle crash. The bike was one that when you went fast enough in the rain, despite the lack of windshield, you didn't get wet. However, when you get going that fast you are dry and can forget who dangerous what your doing is. Like, you might forget just how hard it is to stop, literally & figuratively.

[BrainBlast]

It's not ....

It can be seen as either a NEED for speed, or the drug addiction, but he really meant for it to be about his friend who died on a motorcycle.

Therefore it's called Eye Of A Hurricane,

Because he is saying that his friend can see a eye of a hurricane from Heaven.

[rredhawk]

Not a motorcycle buff myself but I'd heard of the Honda Hurricane high-performance motorcycle before I first heard this song. It made sense that if such a bike were driven fast enough, the air-flow over the ferring could easilly create "this place inside where you can hide from the pouring rain"--as the lyrics indicate. I never thought the song was about drugs.

[bigjayl]

I am not going to negate your idea, as I think the image is beautiful, seeing the eye of a hurricane from Heaven. However, he is saying, you get a such a need for an addiction and get going "so fast" that you can't tell how much danger you are in because everything looks calm, like when you are in the eye of the hurricane it is calm, but you're in the most danger.

[landyachtfan79]

I heard it is about abuse.

[poetryforthemasses]

I love this man

[jevoshawke13]

One of the all-time greatest singer/songwriters, we're lucky to be around while he lives.

[lordchair]

How right you are!

[Emxsaysxscream]

My parents used to play this song all the time, and now to listen to it... is really relaxing.

[bryans002]

Mr. Wilcox. . . . if you had ANY idea of the countless hours I have spent listening to your songs. . . . you would simply. . . .well. . . write more. When it becomes midnight. . . . and everybody else that wanted to hear Freebird has left. . . . I put on David Wilcox. . . . and I listen with all of my heart. I wish you had more videos out. Thank you. . . .from the depths of my heart.

[tootyfruitybabe]

he is so funny in concert. i wish more people would know who he was. I'm going to see him in concert at the coach house for the second time comming up on the 15th. he is the greatest song wrighter of all times

[kaleenboston]

Saw David at the Boston pavillion in the early 90's.. What a storyteller- and what a voice... Under the full moon and star's and the Boston skyline.. Loved him then, love him now... Come back to us soon.... Boston loves you...

[damianeastwood]

I discovered David Wilcox in the mid 90s when I was travelling the world on a shoestring. His music and especially his lyrics are magical, he is a true bard.

[magnuschubb]

@damianeastwood i discovered David Wilcox about 30 seconds ago :D

[timduzit]

Terrific song. There was a whole flock of singer/songwirters who came up in the '80's that were ignored by the general public and music industy. Wilcox qualifies as one. Their loss