New Music "The Pursuit of Happiness" 1995 (VHS)

His hair was like heavens. It was love at first sight. [music] Now she monkeys twice a night. [music] Hey, guess what? Moberg isn't just writing about sex anymore. On Where's the Bone? The fifth release from The Pursuit of Happiness since their 1986 debut. Mo's writing reflects on the media dominated world we live in. Pop culture references abound on Where's the Bone? Along with the signature sound that made even Axel Rose confess that he too is a Pursuit of Happiness fan. [music] >> You don't have to spill your guts in front of everyone. There's no reason. There's no reason. There's no reason to be so [music] reason. Don't you care? There's no reason. There's no [music] reason at all. [singing] If somebody didn't know your music and you were telling the pursuit of happiness story and it was a short story, how would you [music] tell it in terms of the high points from your point of view? We had a really good experience with that. We were sitting around in a in a bar one night before our show having some cocktails and we started playing one of those casino games and and that's kind of been like our career. Put the quarter in. It spins around. Things come up. Great shot. Cherries everywhere. And then they spin around again and there's bombs. And then it spins around again. The cherries are back up again. That's kind of >> that's the story there. >> People always ask [music] you why you're so serious cuz your woman's got a body [music] delirious. Yeah, she's got a body that you're painfully aware every time you [music] find. >> Okay, so tell me a time and a place that [music] would have been all cherries. We've had lots of exciting times, but the love jump, but our first album that was pretty overwhelming. I mean, just all of a [music] sudden we were traveling all over the world and, >> you know, going to places we'd never been, seeing things we'd never seen and um playing in huge stadiums, opening up for bands and, you know, it's a real blast. It's fun for anyone. >> All lemons, >> all everything else that's happened since then. >> Yeah. Boys used to pick [music] on me, call me names. Girls used to [music] shut me. Don't take my fame. [music] Don't take my fame. Don't take my fame. I don't want to go back to how it used to be, how the world treated me. Is that a a comment on what it's like for people who reach the pinnacle and then have to go back to being ordinary people or is it something you looked at yourself? >> It's a well I mean it's it's a it's sort semi-autobiographical. I mean I was a complete dweeb. I still am but I mean the fact that I'm in a band and you know then you know people tend to overlook that you know a lot of what the song is about is about how exactly what we were talking about before that is amazing. um that that um how people are treated like you know I how people are treated because they're famous rather whether instead of how people are treated if they're just regular people who might have a million virtues over the famous person. So it's like and the way that the way that sort of regular people are treated by each other which is usually in in general I think sort of a nasty way and then and then the difference between that and the way that someone who has some sort of celebrity is treated which is usually you know ridiculously uh nice Americans [music] don't [singing] understand the national sport of the Northland the world's fastest game they're always [music] but they don't know what they are missing but they just watch Wayne Gretzky play and they watch [music] me every day Actually, I like the Hawks, but boy oh boy, Wayne rocks. The reason why [music] you do it is because you have, like I said, this sort of very unnatural need to uh uh sort of bore people with your opinions and um and uh and and also display them like in this wide sort of scale. So, so yeah, I I um and and also I think that I'm as I get older, I'm starting to become increasingly more uh angry. And so I I when I think of when I was younger, I wasn't I wasn't the angry young man. I think I'm becoming the angry old man. So I think the records will progressively uh progressively sort of uh reflect that. >> Got to get up and [music] take on that world. When you're an idol, it's no cliche. It's the truth. I [music] want to go now. I want to go now. I've got [music] the problems on my headers. >> Losing your youth and having to let go of your youth is a hard thing to do for anyone. And but you know, I'd rather look at it from a funny perspective and and you know, I mean, and that's what I did in the song. >> Okay, you all set there, guys? and roll playback. >> Rolling. [music] [music] [singing] >> Did you want to be a psychologist at one time? >> No. No. >> No. >> I don't want to. No. I I just Yeah. I I The last thing I want to do is try and help anybody. Like I mean I don't mean that I mean that sounds funny but I mean I don't what I mean by that is that I don't I don't really feel like I have like anything that I don't feel like I can help anybody. I guess that's that's part of my problem. I guess >> that's your perspective now. >> My perspective is I'm you know and so I I don't I just I'm just sort of call them as I see them. [music] >> I can't give you the moon or the stars [singing] but you can [music] have the contents of mine. It go [music] hard. But [music] what could be more than a kiss right now? If you need a grand gesture, close your eyes [music] and show me how. >> You just start having fun with the playing again. You start [music] just the process becomes more important than the outcome. And it's like that's that's the reason why this band [music] has survived. And that's the reason why I mean that's why I'll keep always be doing this. should always be doing it just because I like, you know, cuz it's fun to do it. And and um >> no matter what, we can have a fun time. No matter what crappy news we get, 2 minutes before we go on stage, we can walk on stage and for that 40 or 50, whatever minutes, no one can touch us. Like a white man, [music] like a white man. Like a white man. Like a white man. Like a white man. You like a white man. Just like a white man. Like a white man. Like a white [music] man. Like a white man. Like a white man. Like a white man. Like a white man. Just like a white man. Find the