Written by: Neil Young
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There are a lot of science fiction overtones, time travel overtones, in Misfits at different places geographically, it could all have been happening at exactly the same time. All of the scenes in that song could have been happening simultaneously, and yet they're also separate. It's an interesting thing.... I dunno, it only took me a few minutes to write it. I picked up my electric guitar one night in the studio, I was by myself and I turned it up real loud and started playing and, I wrote it just that night. Just got into it. Jotted it down on a piece of paper. I try not to think about the songs that I write, I just try to write them. And I try not to edit them, because I think editing is a form of, ah..., I know there's a source where the music comes through you and words come through you, and editing is really, uh, something you do to something that you've thought about. If you think about it and you try to put it down, then you can edit it. If you're not thinking about it, you just open up and let it come through you, then editing it is... you're really taking a lot of, what's the word, ah, a lotta liberties by editing. Neil Young Melody Maker/Adam Sweeting September 7, 1985
This one's for you called Dakota. I like to throw in these new ones every once in a while. Neil Young Entertainment Centre, Perth, Western Australia, Australia March 1, 1985
Misfits (Dakota)
Session Date:April 30, 1985
Studio:Castle Recording Studios, Franklin, TN
Produced by:David Briggs, Ben Keith & Neil Young
Recording type:Studio
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:5:06
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, acoustic guitar Waylon Jennings: vocals Joe Allen: upright bass Hargus "Pig" Robbins: piano Bobby Thompson: banjo Farrell Morris: percussion Marty Stuart: mandolin Terry McMillan: harmonica Doana Cooper: backing vocals Carl Gorodetzky (leader), George Binkley, John Borg, Roy Christensen, Virginia Christensen, Charles Everett, Larry Harvin, Mark Hembree, Lee Larrison, Betty McDonald, Dennis Molchan, Pamela Sixfin, Mark Tanner, David Vanderkooi, David Vanosdale, Carol Walker, Stephanie Woolf: strings
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Old Ways Neil Young Released: 1985-08-12

Side 1 Track 5

Get Back To The Country/Misfits - 12inch single Neil Young Released: 1985-08-28

Side 2 Track 2

Get Back To The Country/Misfits Neil Young Released: 1985-09-02

Side B

Neil Young Archives Vol. III 1976-1987 Neil Young Released: 2024-09-06

Disc 15 - Grey Riders (June 1984 to September 1985) Track 8

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