 According to Adam Duritz on "VH1 Storytellers", "It's really a song about my friend Marty and I.We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a Flamenco guitar player who lived in Spain (David Serva), and he was in San Francisco in the mission playing with his old Flamenco troupe.And after the gig we all went to this bar called the New Amsterdam in San Francisco on Columbus."