The chair in the doorway

Another reference, from an interview in Guitar Player magazine with Vernon Reid from Living Color about the title of their new album, The Chair in the Doorway.

"It came out during the press we did for Collideoscope [their previous album]. Corey and I were in Paris waiting to do an interview and I said to him, 'You're always saying 'The chair's in the doorway.'' It's his way of saying there's a gorilla in the room...there's an obstruction there that no one's bothering to move. I love the title because it's both concrete and physical as something you envision but it's also abstract. A lot of the record talks about 'Why do we put up barriers in the way of our own progress?' and 'How do we get these things out of our way?'"

"Vernon Reid" by Anil Prasad, Guitar Player November 2009, page 31