Q: Some of your songs seem to have been written while you were drunk... NY: Tonight's the Night... The whole record I was drunk. Q: What about "Barstool Blues"? NY: Very drunk for "Barstool Blues". As a matter of fact when I wrote "Barstool Blues" I was so drunk that I woke up the next morning and it was like someone wrote it for me. I couldn't remember writing or anything. But I had the chords written, and when I started to play I realized that whoever wrote it sang much higher than I did. Neil Young Press Conference Hotel Hilton Rome, April 29, 1987

“Barstool Blues”—we came home from the bar and I wrote that song. I woke up and I went, “FUCK!” I couldn’t remember writing it. I couldn’t remember any of it. I started playin’ the chords and it was so fuckin’ high—I mean, it was three steps higher than the fuckin’ record. Neil Young "Shakey" by Jimmy McDonough 2002