Notes
Audience: I could die now
NY: No no not yet. You gotta hear me do that when I am 90. We'll put you in a box with a Hoar's catalogue on it. So a while ago I did a record that sounded like a record I did really a long time ago. A record I made in a recording booth that they used to have in State fairs, I really enjoyed making it. It was a record, you know this thing could only record for, I think, a 1 min 40 seconds or something, then your record was over. It was for making records to send home to mum or your girlfriend or something. A way of communicating, like a 1941 email or something. And, yeah so, we, I, recently read, speaking of emails, someone said, it's a fake record - they couldn't really do that because the records could only play for 1 40 seconds. and some of the songs are 5 minutes long - "it's a fake, how did they do it?" OK - Well we did it. we played and I played for 1 40 then I played past that and i'd stop. We put in another disk and I played the rest. Kept going and we cut it all together with the magic of digital magic. Copied it and we cut it together and it still sounded like a record cos it was recorded on a record. so it was pretty cool. But the best thing about that was the fact that it was all these old songs by all these old guys, people I really loved when i was just starting out - people made a big difference in my life, cos they were great songwriters. So I was trying to pay respect to these people. Thank god I got the right harp. So here is one of them now - written by a great writer named Tim Hardin.
Neil Young
Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
October 8, 2014
So I made a record a while ago, another terrible record I love. It sounded like, you know, it was made in an ancient place, where they made records. So I am going to do one of those songs - my favorite singers and songwriters are on this record. I didn't write anything on it cos I kinda lost it. Yeah - that's it, no more for me. "What was that other thing, that other song - where did that come from anyway? Who wrote that sucker. Woody, did you write that?" That's OK - we shouldn't talk to inanimate objects.
Neil Young
Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
October 5, 2014
NY: Tim Hardin wrote that song, a great song. A while ago I did a record of people that impressed me and made a big difference in my life, songwriters. And he was certainly one of the best ones. And so it felt good to be able to let people know who I relate to, thought were the greatest. So all of the writers on that record - which I recorded in a little funky recording booth used at state fairs. It sounded like it was done a long time ago and I kinda liked the sound of it. All the people on that record who wrote the songs were all my favourite writers - they were great.
Audience: What about John Lennon?
NY: What about John Lennon?. That wouldn't work.
Neil Young
Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
October 9, 2014