Some of my best guitar playing ever, yeah! NK: Was being recorded and you had several other verses written and you were playing this one perfect take when... NY: ... When there was a power-cut in the recording studio, yeah. They missed a whole verse, a whole section! You can hear the splice on the recording where we stop and start again. It's a messy edit. But yeah that's true ... incredible! NK: What I'm asking is was the whole effect of that song its pacing, the lyric flow, everything - just an accident based around that powerfailure? NY: Yeah it was a total accident. But that's how I see my best art, as one magical accident after another. That's what is so incredible. You see, with lyrics I try not to edit anything. I just let it all come through. I actually believe that if it was meant to be written down in the first place, it has a place there. I only ever edit at all after I've actually performed a song live. And I like to record 'em fast. Record 'em quickly and move on to the next batch Neil Young The Vox/Nick Kent December 1990