Bladecutter
"Pursuit of Shape"
I'd like to share the experience of a random evening i spent in the Presence of Niel Young, i stress Presence, because this night He was in Control. This will be somewhat long winded, i'll economize as much as i can........
1973...i had a 65 Buick special that i had bought off a lot in Tucson for 125.00 w/ a broke windshield which was 40.00 installed, straight beige car w/ V-6. i was on road headed back to Tucson from Bay Area....had a couple lbs of da wack colombo and an lb of actual acapulco gold. (statute of limitations is long ago passed on this, so i choose to set the stage correctly....i am an outlaw) When i fueled in Phoenix, i called a Friend i had grown with in Tucson to say wussup....He was headed down to colliseum to catch Niel Young on Harvest Tour(Love "A Man Needs a Maid")So being loose i said i'd head down and try to hook up.......$7.50 for show....got a decent seat about mid-ring...no opening band.......so i'm sitting there w/ my pipe and some of the chocalate wack lumbo, takin hits & spying for my Bud, saw His Sister on floor in center. Lights go down & Niel comes out to do His accoustic solo stuff before He and Crazy Horse shift into overdrive. This night was the night that PHX PD decides to jamb up people for smokin dope, a first.....so all these little skirmishes are busting out in various parts of colliseum,flaslights bouncing light all over and noise that was f$%^&n with Niel....He was having to interrupt Himself to address the situations repeatedly....He finally had enough, put His Guitar down and said give me the f$%^&n house lights. He was howling pissed off. He went into a diatribe about how we didn't have to take this ****, He sure wasn't going to, consequently He had everybody stomping that concrete bitch and chant shouting no, no ,no.....when the s*it was just bristling, about to scatter full chaos, He threw His arms & You could hear a pin drop & He sez, i'll be right back.......He went out there and told the cops how it was going to be....hey You got a lot of pissed off people out there right now, You're f$%^&n with my ART & living, i've been interrupted several times now and i'n not f$%^&n toleratin the s*it, so YOU f$%^&n back down or I"M LEAVING & that out there is all Yours to deal with. Niel came back out on stage and said OK, we had a set-to and the cops have agreed to stay on outer ring barring any physical disturbances, smoke dope, they're off that BS now....if i hear one more f$%^&n sound other than my guitar and own voice in my accoustic set, it's on You a$$holes & i'm leaving....i don't give a s*it what You do after crazY hOrSe fires up. That, as Ski-ster likes to say, My Friends is HORSEPOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jack Nietzche & Graham Nash were there too and the night cooked, hooked up w/ my Friend afterwards. for seven dollars and fifty cents........major....i wuz wondering for a minute if it was really going to get out of hand........the Guy is a Master of Reality & He has never sold out. He did a song in the 80's, can't place the title, but some lyric was, 'i don'tsing for miller,...i don't sing for bud....true blue ragbutt beat the city of phoenix......one of those Lucky moments in my life to have wittnessed the phenomenon.
As far as the animosity for Young that Lynard Skynard as,."Sweet Home Alabama"(not fond of tune) I'm in Niel's corner. Very best Skynard....Poison Whiskey.....i Know a Little.....Ain't No Good Life" As far as integrity...Skynard is now an also ran..they're so burnt out...lifeless performances..all mechanix.....Niel's still injecting Nitro into His performances & the Man does Good things with His money & influence......He plays an honest, durty guitar.......Hello Cowgirl in the Sand......
1973...i had a 65 Buick special that i had bought off a lot in Tucson for 125.00 w/ a broke windshield which was 40.00 installed, straight beige car w/ V-6. i was on road headed back to Tucson from Bay Area....had a couple lbs of da wack colombo and an lb of actual acapulco gold. (statute of limitations is long ago passed on this, so i choose to set the stage correctly....i am an outlaw) When i fueled in Phoenix, i called a Friend i had grown with in Tucson to say wussup....He was headed down to colliseum to catch Niel Young on Harvest Tour(Love "A Man Needs a Maid")So being loose i said i'd head down and try to hook up.......$7.50 for show....got a decent seat about mid-ring...no opening band.......so i'm sitting there w/ my pipe and some of the chocalate wack lumbo, takin hits & spying for my Bud, saw His Sister on floor in center. Lights go down & Niel comes out to do His accoustic solo stuff before He and Crazy Horse shift into overdrive. This night was the night that PHX PD decides to jamb up people for smokin dope, a first.....so all these little skirmishes are busting out in various parts of colliseum,flaslights bouncing light all over and noise that was f$%^&n with Niel....He was having to interrupt Himself to address the situations repeatedly....He finally had enough, put His Guitar down and said give me the f$%^&n house lights. He was howling pissed off. He went into a diatribe about how we didn't have to take this ****, He sure wasn't going to, consequently He had everybody stomping that concrete bitch and chant shouting no, no ,no.....when the s*it was just bristling, about to scatter full chaos, He threw His arms & You could hear a pin drop & He sez, i'll be right back.......He went out there and told the cops how it was going to be....hey You got a lot of pissed off people out there right now, You're f$%^&n with my ART & living, i've been interrupted several times now and i'n not f$%^&n toleratin the s*it, so YOU f$%^&n back down or I"M LEAVING & that out there is all Yours to deal with. Niel came back out on stage and said OK, we had a set-to and the cops have agreed to stay on outer ring barring any physical disturbances, smoke dope, they're off that BS now....if i hear one more f$%^&n sound other than my guitar and own voice in my accoustic set, it's on You a$$holes & i'm leaving....i don't give a s*it what You do after crazY hOrSe fires up. That, as Ski-ster likes to say, My Friends is HORSEPOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jack Nietzche & Graham Nash were there too and the night cooked, hooked up w/ my Friend afterwards. for seven dollars and fifty cents........major....i wuz wondering for a minute if it was really going to get out of hand........the Guy is a Master of Reality & He has never sold out. He did a song in the 80's, can't place the title, but some lyric was, 'i don'tsing for miller,...i don't sing for bud....true blue ragbutt beat the city of phoenix......one of those Lucky moments in my life to have wittnessed the phenomenon.
As far as the animosity for Young that Lynard Skynard as,."Sweet Home Alabama"(not fond of tune) I'm in Niel's corner. Very best Skynard....Poison Whiskey.....i Know a Little.....Ain't No Good Life" As far as integrity...Skynard is now an also ran..they're so burnt out...lifeless performances..all mechanix.....Niel's still injecting Nitro into His performances & the Man does Good things with His money & influence......He plays an honest, durty guitar.......Hello Cowgirl in the Sand......
