DZ: The first song on the Bluenotes album, “Ten Men Workin’,” seems to embody this feeling. NY: Yeah. That’s a cool thing, “Ten Men Workin’.” I had this groove going through my head and I was playing it on my guitar, which is actually my wife’s guitar, which she’s had since she was just a little teenybopper, I guess. She took it everywhere with her. And it really feels like her, so I wrote every song on this album, except one, on that guitar. (Young gestures towards the backseat where the guitar is lying.) It’s an old Gibson, like a J-45 or something. It just feels so good. I’d be walking around the house playing. (pause) And I had this groove going, didn’t have any lyrics, but I don’t try and make up words. I figure something’ll happen and I’ll start singin’ the words. Until then, I don’t have any words. I never just try and think of something clever. So the way “Ten Men Workin’“ came to me was ... one morning I was gettin’ ready to go into where we recorded the Bluenotes record, on Melrose Avenue across from the Hollywood Cemetery. One of the guys, the engineer of my boat, had a Men At Work T-shirt on. I just kept lookin’ at that T-shirt and started thinkin’, “Yeah, that’s me. I’m workin’ and we’re workin’.” It’s like we were building something. We had this job to do. It’s like it was our mission to make people feel good and to make ’em dance. Neil Young BAM Magazine/Dave Zimmer April 22, 1988