About this song
- Page Hamilton said about this song “In New Orleans, there was a place called Wilma’s Rainbow. It was on Magazine Street, and I think it was a frozen ice and fried chicken stand. Soul food. Coincidentally, it was on the same block where Trent Reznor would later go on to buy an abandoned funeral home and turn it into a recording studio years later. I think I just saw it because I was within walking distance one night, just looking for somewhere to eat for dinner. I just wrote the name down without any context, and then it became a title. To me, the name brought up all these vivid colours, which I found really peaceful. The line about the richest junk dealer, I actually got from a newspaper article about Frank Zappa. I think the tag line was something like “Frank Zappa: Genius Or Junk Dealer?” I just thought it was a funny thing to say about one of my favourite music personalities." . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
