Written by: Neil Young
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This is really a great place. Upstairs they've got pictures of everybody that played here. Great people played here. I think that Segovia was up here playing the guitar. Here goes nothing ... Neil Young Falkonerteatret, København, Denmark March 16, 1976
This is an old song about being on the road, coming off tours and traveling around. Something happens to your mind. You got to take care of it. Neil Young Sporthalle, Köln, West Germany March 20, 1976
This one here is ... this is from an album ... I didn't know whether to put it out or not. I finally decided I better put it out. Then the record company said, "Neil, are you sure you want to do this?" I said, "Yeah, I like this. I know it's kind of off-key and not very well recorded." I liked it! Neil Young Velma V. Morrison Center For The Performing Arts, Boise, Idaho, USA October 18, 2007
This next song here - when I recorded it - for the first time ever - I sang three notes at once. And I never heard myself do that before. The shape I'm in tonight, that could possibly happen again. This could be one of those golden moments. But what the hell, you know - bring it on voice! Neil Young United Palace, New York City, New York, USA December 18, 2007
[after playing the song] That was on an album called Tonight's The Night. It's one of my favorite ones that I did. I've got this old, old friend of mine who I had dinner with a couple of weeks ago. His name's Mo Ostin and he's the former chairman of Warner Bros. records. And I don't know exactly what the title was. He was the heaviest of the heavies. He's got a huge vibe. He hasn't got a huge body - he's pretty small - but his vibe is gigantic. And he never gets in the way of anything. I don't know how he got to be the leader of all these things. When I handed in that record, you know, it was a pretty sloppy piece of production. I'd just had "Harvest" and some pretty nice hits. And he said, "Neil, do you wanna ... you could damage your career with this record." I said, "Well, I like it." And he says, "Yeah, I can see you do. And that's good. But do you really want to put it out?" And I said, "Sure - I really do." And he said, "Well OK. We're going to give it everything we got. We're behind you 100%." And that's cool. It didn't make any difference. Nothing makes a difference. But it was cool the way it was - that people wanted to do things because they thought about ... the music is what you want to do and that's what you think, that's good. And away we go. Neil Young United Palace, New York City, New York, USA December 19, 2007
I'd like to do a song for my old friend Constant [Meijers] who is here tonight. He's from here - he's a writer. He wrote a story about me and the band once. Apparently it was not a very glowing review, but it looked so cool to me because I didn't understand a damn thing it says It looked great to see people writing about me in a language I didn't understand at all. So I used in my album cover. I still love it when I look at it. I saw him backstage and he looks great. Must be a healthy lifestyle here. So this song's on the album that we were doing at that time. This note's for you Constant. Neil Young RAI Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands February 17, 2008
That one is from an album called Tonight's The Night. I advise you to go to a used place and get the vinyl version of that. Because of course it is not going to do anything for me, but it might do something for you. I would actually have to listen to that myself. They trashed me when I put that out 'cos it was no good. I thought I was real. You're slanted though, you're a slanted audience. There were a lot of technical musicians who did not feel good about that. They couldn't play out of tune if they tried. We love them all though, we really do. Me and my guitars love them all. Everybody does. And all my personalities we all love them. I don't want to be nicked. I already did that. Neil Young Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA October 9, 2014
This is a song about being on the road. It's a song about wanting to stop after a long tour - just wanting to be able to slow down. Even though it's over you can't stop because you get going so fast from place to place. Then when it ends you keep on going for awhile. Neil Young Sportpaleis Ahoy', Rotterdam, The Netherlands March 24, 1976
What we were doing was playing those guys on the way. We all got that high – not that high, but we got as close as we could, without doing it. I mean, I’m not a junkie and I won’t even try it out to check out what it’s like, But we’d get really high’ – drink a lot of tequila, get right out on the edge, where we knew we were so screwed up that we could easily just fall on our faces, and not be able to handle it as musicians. But we were wide open also at that time – just wide open. Because you know how you feel when you got it. So we’d just wait until the middle of the night and get like that and just do it. We did four or five songs on the first side all in a row one night, without any break. We did ‘Tonight’s the Night’, ‘World on a String’, ‘Mellow My Mind’, ‘Speakin’ Out’, and ‘Tired Eyes’ without any break between ’em, we just changed the order. We’d wait till the vibe hit us. Neil Young Creem/Bud Scoppa November 1975
Mellow My Mind (version 1 of 16)
Session Date:August 26, 1973
Studio:S.I.R., Hollywood, CA
Produced by:David Briggs & Neil Young with Tim Mulligan
Recording type:Studio
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:09
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, guitar, harmonica Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar Nils Lofgren: piano Billy Talbot: bass Ralph Molina: drums
Available on:
Tonight's The Night Neil Young Released: 1975-06-20

Side 1 Track 6

Neil Young Archives Vol. II 1972-1976 Neil Young Released: 2020-11-20

Disc 3 - Tonight's The Night (1973) Track 29

Neil Young Archives Vol. II 1972-1976 Neil Young Released: 2020-11-20

Disc 9 - Look Out For My Love (1972-1976) Track 115

Mellow My Mind (version 2 of 16)
Session Date:September 20, 2000
Studio:Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado, USA
Produced by:L. A. Johnson
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:mono
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Available on:
Red Rocks Webcast Neil Young Released: 2000-09-20

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Mellow My Mind (version 3 of 16)
Session Date:September 19, 2000
Studio:Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado, USA
Produced by:L. A. Johnson
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
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Red Rocks Live Neil Young Released: 2000-12-05

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Mellow My Mind (version 4 of 16)
Session Date:December 10, 2007
Studio:Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
Produced by:Jonathan Demme
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
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Musicians:Neil Young: banjo, harmonica, vocals
Available on:
Neil Young Trunk Show Neil Young Released: 2008-09-24

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Mellow My Mind (version 5 of 16)
Session Date:August 14, 1974
Studio:Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, USA
Produced by:Graham Nash & Joel Bernstein
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:2L32
Musicians:Neil Young: lead vocals, banjo-guitar, harmonica Stephen Stills: vocals David Crosby: vocals Graham Nash: vocals
Available on:
CSNY 1974 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Released: 2014-07-08

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Mellow My Mind (version 6 of 16)
Session Date:September 20, 1973 Early
Studio:Roxy Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA
Produced by:Neil Young and David Briggs
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:11
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, electric guitar, harmonica Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar Nils Lofgren: piano Billy Talbot: bass Ralph Molina: drums
Available on:
ROXY - Tonight's The Night Live Neil Young Released: 2018-04-24

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Neil Young Archives Vol. II 1972-1976 Neil Young Released: 2020-11-20

Disc 4 - Roxy: Tonight's The Night Live (1973) Track 38

Mellow My Mind (version 7 of 16)
Session Date:July 3, 2018
Studio:Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Produced by:
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:6:38
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, banjo
Available on:
NYA Livestream - Live At The Fox - Solo Neil Young Released: 2018-07-03

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Mellow My Mind (version 8 of 16)
Session Date:November 20, 1976
Studio:Palladium, New York City, New York, USA
Produced by:Joel Bernstein, Cameron Crowe, David Briggs & Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:2:30
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, banjo, harmonica
Available on:
Songs For Judy Neil Young Released: 2018-11-30

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Mellow My Mind (version 9 of 16)
Session Date:March 14, 2008
Studio:Hammersmith Apollo, London, England
Produced by:Bernard Shakey / Elliot Rabinowitz
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:mono
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Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, banjo
Available on:
Neil Young In London Neil Young Released: 2019-09-24

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Mellow My Mind (version 11 of 16)
Session Date:December 8, 1973
Studio:Studio, Broken Arrow Ranch, CA
Produced by:Neil Young
Recording type:Studio
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:2:43
Notes:outtake - added to NYA 2021-01-21
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, banjo, harmonica Ben Keith: dobro
Available on:
NYA Outtakes and Demos Neil Young Released: 2021-01-23

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Mellow My Mind (version 12 of 16)
Session Date:March 24, 1976
Studio:Sportpaleis Ahoy', Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Produced by:Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:mono
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1976-03-24 - Sportpaleis Ahoy', Rotterdam, The Netherlands Neil Young Released: 2022-03-03

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Mellow My Mind (version 13 of 16)
Session Date:May 8, 1997
Studio:The Trocadero, San Francisco, California, USA
Produced by:Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
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1997-05-08 - The Trocadero, San Francisco, California, USA Neil Young Released: 2021-08-11

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Mellow My Mind (version 14 of 16)
Session Date:June 30, 2018
Studio:Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Produced by:Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
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Available on:
2018-06-30 - Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA Neil Young Released: 2022-07-25

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Mellow My Mind (version 15 of 16)
Session Date:November 5, 1973
Studio:Rainbow Theatre, London, England
Produced by:Neil Young & Niko Bolas: "The Volume Dealers"
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
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Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, electric guitar, harmonica Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar Nils Lofgren: piano Billy Talbot: bass Ralph Molina: drums
Available on:
Somewhere Under The Rainbow Neil Young Released: 2023-04-14

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Mellow My Mind (version 16 of 16)
Session Date:November 5, 1973
Studio:Rainbow Theatre, London, England
Produced by:Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
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Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, electric guitar, harmonica Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar Nils Lofgren: piano Billy Talbot: bass Ralph Molina: drums
Available on:
1973-11-05 - Rainbow Theatre, London, England Neil Young Released: 2023-08-28

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