Bob Forrest
Robert O'Neil "Bob" Forrest (born February 15, 1961) is the lead vocalist and lyricist for Los Angeles bands Thelonious Monster and The Bicycle Thief. In September 2006 he released his first solo album, Modern Folk and Blues Wednesday. He is also a drug counselor, appearing alongside Dr. Drew Pinsky on Celebrity Rehab and Sober House.
He contributed the song "Moonshiner" to the I'm Not There soundtrack.
Forrest is the former Chemical Dependency Program Director at Las Encinas Hospital. In 2010, he and co-founder Shelly Sprague launched Hollywood Recovery Services.
Forrest is also well known as a close friend of Red Hot Chili Peppers bandmates Flea and Anthony Kiedis who was once a drug buddy to Forrest and who later got clean with Forrest's help. The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Forrest's bands also have a longtime connection. In 1988, John Frusciante was originally intended to join Thelonious Monster however he joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers instead while current Chili Peppers guitarist, Josh Klinghoffer played with both Thelonious Monster and The Bicycle Thief. Forrest has performed many times with the Red Hot Chili Peppers dating back to the mid-1980s and most recently in 2009 at an awards event honoring Kiedis for his commitment to helping other addicts with the addiction and recovery process. Forrest was also one of the last people to see actor River Phoenix alive the night he died of a drug overdose.
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- Modern Folk and Blues Wednesday released: 2006
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by Bob Forrest
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Modern Folk and Blues Wednesday
by: Bob ForrestIf I can just make it down to Memphis all my troubles would go away
If I can get down to Memphis maybe I’ll be OK
They got a city that’s just waiting to let me open up and breath
If I can get down to Memphis where they’ve got a place for me
Cause that’s where people go you know when they got nothing left to
lose yeah
That’s where you end up down there when you’ve got nothing better to
do
If I could just make it down to Memphis maybe I could pull through
Lord
If I can just make it down to Memphis maybe I could pull through
Well Elvis ah Elvis never meant a fucking thing to me
If I can get down to Memphis I’ll be the king
They got a river runs right through there well maybe I’ll just take a
swim
If I can get down to Memphis and start all over again
Maybe I could pull through
Maybe I could pull through
Maybe I could change
Maybe I could (change)
You don’t love me (I hate everything*) I can’t stop drinking I’m almost
50 years old But If I could make it down to Memphis well God who
knows
And so there’s babies in Africa with their bellies all swolled up
Well doesn’t it make you ashamed of all of us
Well Memphis is where you go you know when you got nothing left to
lose yeah That’s where you end up down there when you’ve got nothing
better to do
If I could just make it down to Memphis maybe I could pull through
Lord
If I could just make it down to Memphis maybe I could pull through
*Album version
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