One of the songs we intend to record in the near future.
Here comes a wall of text.
“Gung-ho men are no longer around,
the train ran them over.”
So sang Manolis Rasoulis in 1979, through Nikos Papazoglou.
Five years later,
in 1984 — which was not Orwellian in the slightest, truth be told —
lyricist Vasilis Papadopoulos, the creator of many great hits and originally from Filiatra, gave him a fitting reply (in the form of rhetorical questions), through Stratos Dionysiou.
“Who said the gung-ho men had disappeared? Who said the trains had run them over?”
He felt obliged to reply, as he himself has said, because no train passes through Filiatra!
So he answered him, more or less in a collegial tone, saying:
“Manolis… the lads’ street spirit is holding strong here, since HELLENIC TRAIN and the rest don’t pass through here!”
It is even said that when the two of them met as guests at Akis Panou’s wedding, Rasoulis asked him what had inspired him to write that song, to which Vasilis Papadopoulos replied:
“I’m from Filiatra. The train stops at Kyparissia. So I wrote the song for us!”
Today, then, when we sadly know that, tough guy or not, you don’t need a train to run you over — you can simply buy a ticket and board one —
we too felt obliged,
not, of course, to answer,
but to take the story a little further.
Like Carmen in Athens, who tells us that Antonis the boatman is living the dolce vita in Piraeus.
So, 42 years later,
Kato Volta
have come to tell you
where they go and what they do,
the gung-ho men when they leave
and are no longer around.
That’s all for now. 
P.S. I remembered this story when we were playing it and thought it would be fitting to share it here, along with the song. More than anything, because of how tragically comic it is to listen to it today, when trains are, well, the trains we know
Kato Volta / Oi Kato Volta
Enjoy listening 
