NEIL YOUNG - The Lost Interview (November, 1968)
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In this rare interview, Neil discusses the reasons behind the breakup of Buffalo Springfield, the recording of his new self-titled album, his thoughts on groupies and more.
Awesome to hear him from over 50 years ago, young Neil!
“I’m not putting down goldfish.” Probably the best Neil interview I know of - just great to hear him so relaxed, trusting and open about everything. And the questions about groupies, the breakup of the Springfield, and the rottenness of the rock biz really hit the mark.
Awesome cool! Thank you for sharing this!!! I loved Neil's description of groupies! Hysterical! He was SO young and already SO ASTUTE! Obviously, Neil is a very intelligent man and it showed during this interview. I've always loved his honesty. The way he says pretty much whatever he is thinking, no filters in-between. That's a man who doesn't give a damn if what he's saying isn't considered popular. His only concern is to be accurate in what he says and truthful. There's no bullshit in anything about Neil from his personal, private life to his very non private public life. I think he's a quality man of the highest caliber and it showed from the very beginning. I SO LOVE him.
I love him too, always did. His music, the way he is, his lyrics, feelings, honesty... helped me grow up
@NeilYoung12goodmusic Dear Neil, if that’s really you, I would like to take the chance to express my deep gratidute for your special gift. Your lyrics and music are part of my life since the seventies and I can relate to your way of saying it in a few words, that hit the feeling of life. I have always wanted to meet you to just say Thank you! Raimund, Germany.
That was a historical interview. He had a clear vision and was in the right frame of mind, the right place, and the right time. He was right on all points.
Wow. What an interesting, revealing interview of Neil, the best I've ever heard. Simultaneously incoherent, contradictory, refreshingly honest, naive, brilliant and full of himself. That's Neil in a nutshell. The best bit was finally hearing (honestly) why the Springfield broke up. It was pretty much Neil's ego. It's so interesting to hear his assessment of the Springfield as a "failure".
We should all be such failures, I still listen to their music quite regularly, it was remarkable. Neil is truly one of the greatest enigmas of the rock era, also one of the greatest artists.
@Neil Young Well, if it is really "you", thanks for the response, it's a great honor!
You're the only artist that ever made me cry (during the Powderfinger solo on Live Rust).
Thank you for everything you've done, even though I'm still not over you pulling the plug on the Springfield reunion in 2011.
Keep on rockin' in the free world! (real original, I know!). Best regards, Jay
@@jaykay6387 Come on Jaykay, that's just one more fake account, you should know that, after all those years.
Always such a refreshing authenticity with Neil.
He's 23 and sounds 43. I just saw him shopping with Daryl in my hometown here in Ontario. cool as F!!!
Amazing how realistic and mature he sounds here and already blaze about the pitfalls of music industry. He might be 22 or 24 here
Yes indeed. Such wisdom and a very clear view on things.
Listening to Young in a long interview at such an early age, you could clearly tell that there was so much more to come.
Neil is very driven and real.
"I think I have a little more endurance than most."
It took me a while to figure out who his speaking voice sounded like.
I think I've got it: Bruce Dern.
Not bad !
Finally...the connection has been made....
Always been in my subconscious thoughts...
That those 2 voices matched up...
There's no equivocation here--he sounds exactly like Brice Dern. : ) I think Dern hails from the Chicago area, so we can't pin the accemt on a region.
Wonderful interview with Young Neil. Thanks!
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@@NailYoung2024Neil would never say those things. He wouldn't come on here to talk to women. He's married. Nail. Nail. Nail. I think I should take you to court
I LOVE all of your interviews...always so much perceptive.
Great !
Wow, that was great! "I'm not putting down goldfish. I know many groovy goldfish." HAHA
Neil's been searching for a heart of gold(fish).
That was great. Thanks for sharing
Been watching this for 6 min so far and have had 8 ads…I think I’m down with yt soon
Wow
Thanks for uploading this!
Young really was a solo musician that's why he didn't stay with Buffalo Springfield or CSN he loved doing his own stuff and was great at it
But yet he does most of his performances with others. His other friends, musician buddies, musicians he put together for special projects, and bands he hooks up with like POTR or Pearl Jam. I don't consider him as mainly a solo artist. Yes, he does love doing his own stuff, but I think he plays more shows with his music buddies and peers than he plays solo.
Here's just a few musicians that have played music with Neil. Add some of your own. McCartney, Springsteen, Dylan, Petty, Metallica, Eddie Van Halen, Jennings, Cash, Nelson, Mumford,Parton,
Ronstat, CSN, the list goes on and on and on.
@@artvallejos1460Joni Mitchell, Pearl Jam
@@Jasondurgen
Led Zeppelin.
Neil could make a song just by reading a phonebook. Love it
He does sound bitter but he is also very funny. This is Young before the real fame hit
It was the beginning of the aloofness and distance he was later known for. But given the right circumstances, he could really open up and really have a wonderful sense of humor.
If that's what bitterness sounds like I want some!
✌🏻🎸 Darn, this is so cool hearing Neil so long ago. From his opinions & dislikes, to how complex he seems, even in his simplicity & honesty.
His songs are to the heart, his own, and all his truest fans !! GROUPIES don't count !! HaHa I loved his thoughts on them.
I used to want to overdub my voice in songs I wrote. But the equipment needed as well as cash flow, wasn't readily available to me back then. I wrote around 15 or so songs, played them on individual cassettes (that should hint at my age range lol) and sent them to record companies. (No takers 😂) All you heard on my tapes was my acoustic guitar and me singing. I didn't have but one cassette recorder ! 😉
It was the age !! Though I was a few years late for the hippie era. Closer to a boomer I guess.
Rock on, my fellow Rockers !! Thank you Neil Young, for giving us a thrill for all time !! ✌🏻😍🙋🏻♀️🌟
You have to bear in mind that at this point, 1968, no one from a great band had went solo and had great success, better success than they had in their band. Neil was taking a massive risk in going solo, he might have faded away... but he didn't, he created amazing, mind-blowing music for the next 50 years and he is still going strong.
When Neil left BS to play solo, he didn't take such a massive risk, because he wasn't so well known as you think. The band was kinda famous in California, mostly for For What It's Worth, and people remember the singers, they just don't know the rest of the band, they knew Stephen Stills and Richie Furay name, at the best, but they had no clue about who Neil Young was. So when Neil started to play solo, the newspapers had to mention he was the guitar player from Buffalo Springfield, because no one would know him yet.
@@billenplum Just going off the books on Neil, he wasn't signed to Warner Records (Reprise) when he left Buffalo. He was also in USA illegally, not receiving his Green Card until 1970.
He's lucky that Warner Bros had faith in him, Ahmet Ertegun and Mo Ostin looked after him very well. Without those guys, he would not have had the career he had and he has thanked those men many times. Let's face it, Neil put out weird records back then and most other labels would have dropped him. If he had never wrote "Heart of Gold" (and changed it from a piano song to a guitar song) he would never have been so successful, famous, he would have been a cult figure like Townes Van Zandt.
I'm not doing him down, he's a legend, a true great, I love him, but he was very lucky to end up being worth $400 million and never been dropped by his label, because his records were weird back then. He could have wrote endless songs like "Heart of Gold" but he chose not to.
A way to contrast it, is to look at John Denver, who was bigger than Elvis in 1974, his greatest hits sold 400,000 copies per week that summer. His career went weird after 1983, but he hung in there. Neil is unique, no one else has walked the path he has, except the Master and he's weirder than Neil! (Bob Dylan).
@@GordonCaledonia Yes, Ertegun wanted to bring Neil back to Atlantic records, reason why he was the one who suggested to add him to CSN. Of course he knew what he was doing.
And yes, the troubles with Buffalo Springfield was the risk to be arrested and sent back to Canada, like Bruce Palmer. Neil also had the experience before, with Rick James , in the Minah Birds.
Stills was already into drugs a lot back then, and not calm at all, it was at risk for Neil.
When Neil fears the crowds of fans, he mostly fears that the police would arrest him cause they're disturbing.
@@GordonCaledonia Besides, Neil didn't really sign with Warner, but with Reprise. It's a bit different, because Reprise was created by Sinatra to have the guaranty of the artistic freedom, so that would fit with Neil peculiar style perfectly well. When Warner bought Reprise records, Mo Ostin didn't change that rule of the label, reason why they signed the weirdest guitarist ever at that time : Hendrix !
No one wanted to sign Hendrix in the USA, so he had left to UK, to be free to play his own style, and the only american label who finally agreed to sign his music, recorded in London, was Reprise. They don't fear the weird music. 😄
And 1 year after Hendrix, Mo Ostin signed Neil first solo album. That one didn't make good sales, but as I said, he was still unknown, but Everybody Knows and After the Gold Rush turned out to sell very well.
Then Neil played with CSNY for Atlantic on Deja Vu, and then 4 Way Street, and at that point, they all became super stars.
So when Harvest was released after that, Neil was already very famous, it's been the jackpot for Reprise.
@@billenplum 100%. It's like Frank Zappa said, "in the old days, it was just some old guy who owned a label and he left you alone."
I can picture an alterbative 1960s where Bob Dylan remained an obscure folk singer, no Byrds, no Hendrix, no Neil Young, no Frank Zappa. It was just that the right risk-taking moguls took a risk on "weird" music by (weird?) talented artists. That all ended by 1985.
His mother raised a very confident son was the first thing I thought hearing this.
Comitted artist !
If you listen to Neil Young, imagine it's Bruce Dern singing
And who else thinks that the band America, song, "horse with no name" vocals sound so much like Neil young
Groovy goldfish
Crazy he thought Buffalo Springfield was a failure.
Well, the band started pretty well, but most of their shows were openings for other greatest bands, and it didn't really went further than that. So that's what he means with failing to be successful.
More than this , from spring 67 to spring 68, the members have been under several arrests for drugs, so the line up had to change a lot of times, nothing was permanent enough to go on longer that way.
Actually, if Stills and Neil didn't became so famous after Buffalo Springfield, not many people would remember this band nowadays IMO .
Neil would finally discover what stardom means in the 70s, and finally decide that he doesn't really wants that anyway. 😅
Huge Neil solo fan but I still prefer Springfield songs if I had to choose.
@@davidhopler4287 I prefer Sprinfield songs when Neil sings then, rather than Richie though. But the good thing is that we don't have to choose !
Im the opposite. I like Richie singing Neil’s songs.
@@davidhopler4287 That's the good thing with Neil : there's sooo many different versions of his songs that we can always find our favorite one.
BS made the charts, were on many TV shows and did Monterey. More than many a band I'm sure. He kept leaving and coming back. He should have left once and given the other band members a break. He is 23 years old here, sounds like 47.
I wish I knew what you mean with " kept on leaving and coming back ". Can you please tell me how many times did he left Buffalo Springfield, when, and for how long ?
Actually, the band started in May 1966, Neil left just a few weeks in June 1967 - replaced by Doug Hastings, then Crosby for Monterey - and that's all, untill the band officially broke up in May 1968. Nothing lasts forever at 23 years old you know ?
Neil wasn't the only one who had left the band in spring 67, as Bruce Palmer was gone first, and Dewey Martin missed some shows as well. There's really no reason to blame it on Neil, who only left because the two others were gone. Then the 3 of them came back.
When Neil finally quit in 68, he was replaced by Jim Messina, so the band could go on, but BS finally broke up anyway, and Neil wasn't even there no more back then. So he wasn't the problem at all.
For what we've seen about Stills after this, getting violent under alcohol and drugs, you can bet the bad relationship in the band came from him, much more than Neil.
Stills left for CSN, Neil went solo, Furay and Messina left for Poco.
@@billenplum Take a look at the sugarmountain website and see how many different line ups there were of BS. He wasn't at Monterey. And I am a big fan of his !!!
That first solo album is my favorite NY album. Love it.
Too many lies and exploitation 🍷😎👌
Neil has a heady ego.
I don't care much for Neil young.
Leftist Democrat.
Yeah he needs to shut up and sing
Maybe ... but I also hear some humble talk as well. Heck, he's earned his stripes in his field, dude ! There are so many other performer's out there bragging it up, who aren't nearly as talented as Neil !!! 🤷🏻♀️😌✌🏻
@@cynthiacupler8005I’m sure he doesn’t care much for you, Cynthia