RB: Songs like "Down By The River" and "Cowgirl In The Sand", which feature extended instrumental breaks, how many takes were cut in the studio?
NY: Maybe three or four overall and the final version was usually an edited take. So, you know, maybe what you hear on the record would be take one, but with a couple pieces of something else in there. I could look it up. We have all the track sheets. All that information could be made available through "Archives" updates. We could make it so you could go in and figure out exactly what take you're listening to of a specific song.
Neil Young
Guitar World/Richard Bienstock
October 2009