Brother Where You Bound (song)

Song_infobox
Name = Brother Where You Bound


SorA = album
Artist = Supertramp
Album = Brother Where You Bound
Released = May 14, 1985
track_no = 5
Recorded = 1984
Genre = Rock
Length = 16:30
Writer = Rick Davies
Composer = Rick Davies
Label = A&M Records
Producer = David Kershenbaum and Supertramp
Chart position =
prev = Better Days
prev_no = 4
next = Ever Open Door
next_no = 6

Brother Where You Bound is the epic length title track to Supertramp's 1985 album of the same name. Written and sung by keyboardist Rick Davies, it is the longest song Supertramp ever recorded clocking in at 16 and a half minutes (surpassing the Hodgson-penned epics "Try Again" from their 1970 self titled debut album and "Fools Overture" from the 1977 album Even in the Quietest Moments).

The introduction to the track featured readings from George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The lyrics spoke about the Cold War that was happening at the time of the recording 1984/85.

This epic length track featured drummer Bob Siebenberg's then brother-in-law Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy on rhythm guitar. The searing guitar solos throughout the track and especially at the end were performed by Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour who used his own mixing system where he controlled every sound that went from his guitar onto the album.

In a 2002 radio interview on Rockline, Davies explained how Gilmour got involved on the title cut: "I remember saying to the guys, 'We need to find somebody that can play a bit like Gilmour' for the guitar stuff, and I think it was someone at A&M - it might have been Jordan Harris or somebody, one of those guys - and he said, 'Well, I know David - maybe he would like to come over and do it,' and he sent him a demo and he decided he'd like to do it and he was very reasonable. Came over, brought all his gear and straight to the studio. It was a home studio, my studio, and we did it."