Who are the “boys back in 628” mentioned in Badmans Song?
As the story goes, TFF had just played a show at Denver Red Rocks on the Big Chair tour, and were back at their hotel. Now generally, the band booked a party room at each stop, and it just so happened that this night the room was adjacent to Roland’s. The noise was keeping him up, so before he called over to tell the loudmouths to shut up, he put his ear to the wall just to make sure he had the right people – and when he did, he heard certain members of the crew slagging him and the band. Hence the line “here’s to the boys back in 628, where an ear to the wall was a twist of fate.” Roland came up with the chorus the next day, and was actually complimented on the lyrics by one of the offending crew members at that evening’s soundcheck!
