The secret to keeping a long term friendship is to never find yourself wondering what is so and so doing. Pick up the phone at least a couple of times a year and talk. Life long friendships are not an accident. They happen because two people put an effort into maintaining it.
an endothermic reaction requires that you always add energy .. an exothermic reaction will continue once started without the addition of more energy .. so what are friendships ??
It is more than just calling each other often enough to keep the friendship going. There are people with whom I have crossed paths and gotten to know that, even without being in touch for years, it is just like picking up where we left off. Some may call this a stunted friendship. But it has nothing to do with what each of us has been doing in the meantime or catching up on facts. It is a bond that is inexplicable. It cannot be planned nor is there a formula for keeping it alive. It stays alive on its own and it happens in ways we cannot describe. The bond and the "knowing" of one another is outside our current knowledge of interpersonal relations.
Neil’s so great. Chick Roberts who Neil mentions is my father! He’s still around, 90 years old. Confirms Neils story. Great memory Neil, thank you for appreciating my fathers support of your song Sugar Mountain, he was knocked out by your song. My Dad heard Neil play it at The Riverboat in Toronto at a 1965 “Hotennany” night. Artists got $10 to play three or four songs known as "Hotennany scale". The gigs were put on by the guild of Canadian Folk Artists in Toronto’s “Yorkville Village” (our 60’s folk scene, Canada’s Greenwich Village). Neil wasn't known then in Toronto, he was hanging in the village trying to break in as solo act. Neil likely met Chick/The Dirty Shames in Winnipeg at the Fourth Dimension. Toronto’s The Dirty Shames in 1966 signed with Albert Grossman’s office in New York City, recorded a few singles, Warhol booked them to open for the Velvet Underground at the Dom. m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Lg7scEkdXZRxWMWzF5DWVLo6KNm5vLy4ckdsMVEZz1j1riGmEBsximpYH5yVkxAQl&id=100070045892945&mibextid=Nif5oz
I'm going to try and find some Dirty Shame recordings. I like to find new (to me) musicians in comment sections and random RUclips feeds. Wow, 90 years old. Can he still do any kind of music?
Proud of nationality? I wonder how a human in one country is more valuable than if that same person were from another country... Or how they make you more worthy because they are from the same country as you?
@@AMEER-114- Everyone is proud of what they do. Being proud of what the people around you accomplish is part of that, otherwise, why would we help and encourage each other? Today, you can ignore borders and encourage everyone, of course, but that's very recent, and a threat to cultural diversity on a world level. A sense of national belonging contributes to the diversity of ideas and cultures on a global level. I hope I've cleared that up for you.
They played at The Riverboat in Toronto many times or you could walk down Yonge Street and catch The Hawks, and on and on. Some of the best musicians never left but went nowhere.
I would include Gordon Lightfoot as well. I've been listening to those three most of my adult life since they came on the music scene. Never get tired of listening to them and turned my adult kids into fans as well.
Yes, both produced fantastic music for so many years. Sadly, Neil hasn't produced anything worthy of his canon in about 25 years, his muse having left the building back then.
Neil has spoken about this before; he wondered about his talent, and worried about "How Good Was He?" And she told him to write more, and write all the time; because not all of his efforts were going to be Gems. He mentioned that he met Leonard Cohen a while later - but from NOW, it would be around the same time - and Leonard Cohen told him much the same thing; "Keep Writing!"
Here’s a fun memory for those of you who grew up around Philadelphia. I used to listen to Gene Shay on his Saturday morning show when I was a 15 year old cadet out at Valley Forge Military Academy in the 1960s…..and I remember Gene playing Sugar Mountain….and the very first time I heard it, it was like a musical transformative experience…..and then to hear this story now from Neil years later, after my radio career….after being Gene Shay’s producer and alternate host for several years…. to know that Joni wrote Circle Game after hearing Neil play Sugar Mountain……. is a double revelation.
Good on Neil for noting what I think is obvious... Joni is THE greatest singer/songwriter/musician of the past 60 yrs (too bad Robert Zimmerman!), in multiple genres ranging from folk and pop to world and jazz... Thanks very much Joni, for being the soundtrack of so many of our lives!
@@jackmabel6067 & who could forget the internationally popular Leonard Cohen? The trouble with people ranking musicians as " great" is that tendency to add "est" to the end of it. There is no ultimate finish line with music, there is no great- est, relax & keep listening to the music!
I hate these kinds sweeping declarations. Yes, Joni is great....and so are many many others. Must we have a ONE great musician? Can't we appreciate them all for how unique and individual they are?
And personally, for me, Tom Waits has written better songs than Joni has. His lyrics are astounding. Listen to 'Day After Tomorrow'. It's a masterpiece.
Thank you for posting this. I have always loved hearing stories over the years of his friendship with Joni Mitchell. You listen to him and you hear a true human being. Nothing fake, nothing put on.
Neil Young is dead to me after his flip out over Joe Rogan and I'm no Rogan fan. Funny how Mr. "Peace is all that Matters" doesn't have a problem with US funded Natssies torturing and murdering civilians in Ukraine. Hey Neil, why don't you get even more boosted?
Hey, Neil! Shouldn't you be boycotting the same platform that hosts Joe Rogan Content? Why aren't you on a "Cheer Up the Natssie Troops" in Ukraine tour?
Oh Canada we are so blessed with all the wonderful gifts you give the world Joni and you are the tops for me because of your loving of life and art Thank you
Wow! Is Neil Young ever in great shape. Hats off to you, man! I’ve never heard him or seen him look so clear-eyed and responsive. I’ll always think of Neil Young when I remember my Grade 10 & 11 years (my rebellious years, actually). Glad for CBC Radio & for when the Canadian content rule kicked in. The Great, Neil Young. So glad to hear him share his memories with us now. How cool is that?
I love the music of both Neil and Joni. I could listen to them indefinitely. I'm so glad I grew up at exactly the right time musically. These two have really influenced my own music.
I met Joni in Boulder Colorado in the spring time of 1976 when she was traveling through Canada and the USA getting inspirations for Hejira. I was in a funky little natural foods store on Broadway Avenue. A woman walked right up to me who looked exactly like Joni Mitchell. Besides being shockingly beautiful, she was super warm, friendly and flirtatious. I was just a young college hippie kind of guy who was totally in love with Joni. I was totally tongue-tied and geeked-out that she could possibly be Joni Mitchell. She kept trying to make small talk and be friendly to engage me conversation but all I could do is stutter and say goofy things. She kept saying that I looked like someone she knew and I kept saying she was mistaken. Finally, she gave me one last chance. She said: "Are you sure you don't know me?" I said: "Yes, you are mistaken." Then she just killed me dead when she said: "Well, that's just too bad then." She turned and walked away out the door of the natural foods store. I followed her discreetly for several blooks on Broadway and I convinced myself I was just imagining she was Joni. When I got home from that dream-like encounter the phone rang and a friend who was a friend of Robben Ford said: "Joni Mitchell is in town visiting Robben Ford." But anyway, I do feel lucky that I got to feel and experience how beautiful she is ,and how warm and flirtatious she could be to just some young hippie college dude.
@@gerrylavelle8433 Wow, that's a cracker of an experience you had. Saw Joni at the Palais in Melbourne Australia, quite a small venue, the year she turned forty, around 1982 or thereabouts. She was radiant and energetic and recently married to her bass guitarist Larry Klein. I was only a few metres away directly in front and scored some lovely smiles throughout the gig. I was only in my early twenties and was completely stoked.For me she is the quintessential and eternal earthmother, the embodiment of what was an incredible period during those Laurel Canyon years. Thinking about it again now, it's probably no coincidence that my wife bares a strong resemblance to Joni !!!. LOL. Love all Joni's work with personal standouts being the albums Blue & Hejira - just magical. Peace and best wishes to you Gerry.
I had a Joni encounter in Santa Fe summer of 1992. Joni was almost 50 and I was 37. She was strolling alone down Marcy Street near the Plaza. About a block away I started going a bit crazy wondering if this is Joni? Is it her twin sister? She's getting closer! WTF do I do?? I didn't want to invade her space. She's just out for a stroll and if I begin telling her I've got every album, I know the words to every song, I've drawn portraits of her, I've been in love with her since age 13... she'd be dragging me by her ankle down the sidewalk spraying me with mace. So we passed. I said "Hi" and she smiled and said "Hello." The next few hours I kept thinking that couldn't have been Joni. Then the phone rang. It was a local lady who plays guitar and writes her own songs. She was so excited to tell me she just had a glass of wine with Joni at a local pub called Club West. I think I screamed, or groaned, I definitely made noises of exasperation. I can still see the physical scenario of our encounter inside my head all these years now.
You are fortunate to have met Joni in person! But actually, teasing and flirting with you and then saying "Well, that's too bad, then" is very creepy. She was punishing you for not recognizing her - or admitting that you did. I absolutely love and adore Joni's music and lyrics, and think they are universally appreciated. But I also think she has never outgrown a "goddess complex" that started early in her career when she received so much recognition for her talent before she was ready to reconcile all of that attention into her life. She welcomes it and yet runs from it simultaneously, a conflict reflected in all of her music throughout the years. Perhaps that is the universal underlying appeal of her music.
@@BennyCFD You sound like someone who hasn't listened to Neil in decades. To act as if Storytone or The Monstanto Years, albums you more than likely have no knowledge, are nothing new in his catalogue reveals your ignorance. But, hey, maybe making the post makes you feel something, so rock on.
@@BennyCFDHis problem commercially is quite the opposite. He's constantly doing new things. As for "aging" - he's nearly 80 FFS! Hopefully no one throws you out like an old rag. 😕 And... Hipster 😄 Do you live in "Opposite Land" or something?
Neil's story about how his playing "Sugar Mountain" and Joni responded by writing "Circle Game" reminds me of a story told by Graham Nash recounting how he, just after the shootings at Kent State, and Neil Young got Crosby and Stills to all meet up at the Record Plant in Sausalito, Ca. and did "Ohio" and "Find The Cost of Freedom" as side A & B on a record released 2 days later. The song, "Ohio" 'came to' Neil when he, having just heard about the shootings, walked into a nearby trail with his guitar and when he returned, said "let's get those guys and record this". Everyone in this story knows how to live in the moment, which at times is not an easy thing to do, but there may be help in creative intent.
I am always moved by his song Ohio since I recall seeing that on the news where stupid national guards had turned and fired upon students as their commander was striking on their helmeted heads with his baton to stop it!!!
"I showed her a song. After listening to it, she wrote Circle Game." You know how Brian Wilson listened to Rubber Soul and then immediately wrote God Only Knows? This feels like the Canadian version of that.
I didn't know that Rubber Soul story. I know McCartney listened to "God Only Knows" and wrote "Here, There and Everywhere" in an (unsuccessful) attempt to replicate its greatness.
I LUV God Only Knows. Didn't know the Rubber Soul connection, thx for posting. Years ago I saw a terrific video of George Martin discussing God Only Knows with Brian Wilson.
Plenty of examples of this kind of thing. Another one I like is Jackson Browne writing “For Everyman” in response to “Wooden Ships”. David Crosby was moved enough to join JB and harmonize when he recorded his response.
It's my opinion too that she's at the top of the heap. Her work from 74-77, from Hissing, through Hejira to DJ'sRD is astonishing, lyrically, musically and vocally, and her live album Miles of Aisles is arguably the finest live album ever. . .
Neil...certainly hasn`t lost his past old stories/happenings and memory....good for you Neil !!! wishing you continued good health as the years pass.....dark cloud toronto, ontario
I can't think of any musical artists since my ears first opened up in the 1960s that I love, respect and admire more than Neil and Joni. How glorious would it be for a RUclipsr with clout to get them together to just have a recorded conversation for an hour or 10 while they are still with us.
Born hypersensitive, I startled/spooked easily and cried as a matter of self-expression all my life. Her "Blue" album taught me that crying was ok. Neil taught me to trust my Muse. Joni taught me to trust, period.
There are great artists...and then there are artists who are true gifts to the world. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are among the few "true gifts". In this brief video, Neil's comments about lasting friendships is a heartwarming example of why his presence is such a true gift to many of us.
These guys were so important / inspirational to loads of us , and as for joni i couldnt agree more . Ages ago i guy said to me about someones lyrics that they could be read like poetry.............for me thats Joni Mitchell , a talent that will never fade . Its great to see Neil Happy .
There is just one Joni Mitchell. Nobody else will have her talents. She is such a remarkable artist. Each of lyrical and vocal qualities of her are rare to find in their own individual right; and there she is with both. I am still not talking about the command she has on playing multiple instruments and painting.
Winnipeg back then was a deep well of musical talent. All high school, jr high, community club, church hall and entertainment club dances had live bands. There were so many that everyone knew someone who played in a band it seemed. The only time you heard recorded music was at home or in a record shop. Many of those bands and musicians went on to future fame. No wonder Winnipeg was called the 'Liverpool' of Canada.
@@michaeldonovan4793 Nope. I love Dylan, but he was never authentically himself. He doesn't even know who he is. He is a chameleon who created the "Bob Dylan" character to carry out his artistic vision. Like Springsteen, he may "seem" authentic, but that person you think you see is simply his carefully-crafted avatar. Springsteen readily admits this. I suspect Dylan would too if he's being honest.
Thanks for sharing this clip. Chick Roberts, who Neil mentions here, is still alive and well in Toronto. I interviewed him for my upcoming Yorkville book.
Mr. Young, you are very special as well. When I was a teenager, you were the world to me, your father was the world to my father. Lol. Great to see that you are well. Thank you for a life time of specialness!!!!
Saw Joni at the second fret in Philadelphia in the sixties she was just so sweet and appeared so innocent with a little mini skirt and that great voice it was about the time songs for a seagull came out. I'm 76 now but it seems like it was just last week.
@simon kenton why would I be jealous? When I was young I was beautiful and could get any guy I wanted. She talks about it in her autobiography so it’s not like I’m making it up. She obviously wasn’t innocent and neither was I.
wow Neil Young lavishing praise on another artist and without any odd side comments. This tells you something about her. In many ways I think he sees a kindred spirit with her "I'm going to make my music the way I want regardless of how my previous albums sounded like" .
Winnipeg! I remember reading this book by a guy who grew up in Winnipeg. When he was a teenager he had a paper route and this one house always had nonstop guitar practice coming from it. He'd knock on the door, the guitar would stop, the door opens and this lanky long haired kid would say his mom wasn't home, and could he come back later to get the collection money? Then he'd close the door and the guitar would start again. This happened over and over. Turns out the kid was a young Neil Young, growing up on Grosvenor Avenue.
That was Houseboat Chronicles by Jake MacDonald. I got to know him after reading the book and he was always good company. Unfortunately, his life ended far too early when he fell off a roof in Mexico.
Amazing talent and intellect came from Canada. Joni, Neil, and many, many more great musicians came from the North. Their songwriting unmatched. Deep. Thoughtful. Introspective. Enjoyable. !!
Neil plays harmonica on Furry Sings the Blues. The first few times I heard it, I thought "what is he doing doodling around there". But it's come to be an integral part for me of one of my favorite songs on my favorite Joni album.
🌹Ohh, ya'just touched my heart strings. I've been playing guitar since I was 12yo and the first song I learned to play by Neil Young was "Sugar Mountain" and the first song I learned to play by Joni Mitchell was "Both Sides Now". I♥️love "The Circle Game", played that game in circles. Joni's🖌🎨Artistry is as great as her musical talent. My Gen-Xer🖌🎨paints and is blown away by Joni's gifts, he never💭knew she was a musician before she was an🖌🎨Artist, I had to set him straight. 🤦🏻♀️Gen-Xers and Millenials are on my🤏🏻last-nerve, tbh. The🏫schools should be teaching music again, I don't know why music was ever taken out of the curriculum but I find it to be a damned🖤shame! I started playing Ukelele in Grade 5, my kids only know music history through me🤲🏻thanks to people like Joni and Neil. I'm no Neil Young or Joni Mitchell but I've been playing those songs for 40 years and will 'til my dying day. "Both Sides Now" was a prophecy to climate-change if you ask me. I believe both Neil and Joni to be the greatest musical Geniuses of the 20th and 21st century, making a positive impact on the music industry and raising up the level of🤲🏻humanity✍🏻written in both their lifetime's worth of🎶songs. 👏🏻Thanks for sharing. 🇨🇦✌🏻🎶♥️(+🇺🇦)✨🌎💫 ruclips.net/video/yXr2EFomFkU/видео.html
Actually, Joni started out as a visual artist before she switched to music. After she graduated from high school, she attended Alberta College of Art for one year before moving to Toronto to become a musician. She has two great talents, and she exercised both of them.
the secret to keeping friendships is being friends and returning calls and returning nice gestures to those who extended them to you in the first place
Neil and Joni two of the greatest artist of our time seen Neil a couple of times in Australia but missed Joni when she was there in l think 1986 at the Sydney Opera house found out years later ld missed out on probably the artist l wanted to see the most Dylan Neil and Joni were the main sound track to my life as a teenager of the 70s when music was real 👀👁
@Stevie's In Da House! I love America but it also scares me to many extreme right wing nut jobs with guns and they ain't afraid to use them l'll watch her on RUclips thanx.👁👀✌️
Whether or not you enjoy a Dylan concert probably depends on when you see him. My husband and I saw him more than years ago, maybe 1997, after he had a serious heart problem. Our thought was that he might not be around and touring much longer. His performance was disappointing. His voice was much worse than usual. Ani DiFranco, who was his opening act, was terrific.
Oh - so good - thank you for posting this interview - (History - VIP - this will form part of texts in the future. So many people hold these two song writers in their hearts - they are part of human history like - Mozart, Beethoven, Paul Simon, Lennon/McCartney - (Same level). THANK YOU
Beautiful moment. I love your expression of awe and wonder as you get this slice of history directly from Neal. BTW, I took the photo of Joni you use in the thumbnail; 1974, Universal Amphitheater, Court and Spark Tour. - Paul
When he changes "one of the greatest" to "maybe the greatest", it reminded me of a pretty recent interview where the interviewer said to Joni, "some have called you one of the greatest artists...", and she answered, "what do you mean one of?" and then after a pause she laughed a little.
In the Last Waltz Joni held Neil up the way she was with him stuck in my head that she treasured him even in his fkd uppedness. What a journey it's been with these two keeping us in check
Joni is the true artist of all living generations. It's a shame every generation goes further from understand the meaning of art. Beauty, truth, and compassion are not separate things but aspects of a single whole in which one aspect has no meaning without the others. If you don't have love and truth in your art it's not beauty.
Agreed. Joni is the greatest. The depth of her music and complexity in composition yet maintaining a sense of 'pop' even when playing jazz is the genius. She's adored by jazz people like myself as well as the other genres fans. l rarely see CSNY or Dylan in jazz record collections but EVERYONE has 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns' and 'Mingus' along side their Monk and Bird. She broke folk/pop music with 'Both Sides Now' . She blew the folk world away with a sweep and her 'Blue' album. She dominated the FM radio with 'Court and Spark' and then jazz w/ Summer Lawns and Mingus. She launched Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays and Jaco Pastorius's careers who were and are still all-time greats.
Jazz makes the skin on my back want to leave my body. I have Neil's two jazz albums but they're my least played of him. I like Van Morrison too but l won't listen to his jazz songs either.
Great points, but in addition to players like Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Wilton Felder, etc., Metheny, Mays, and Jaco were already well established in their own right, which is why they were recruited for their respective sessions. Wayne Shorter was Art Blakey’s music director in '63. I mean like their careers were already in orbit. I mentioned elsewhere, At 70 y/o, I feel her genius is continuing to stand the test of time, especially compared to other great artists.
@@Chapps1941 Like I said, check out some real jazz-some old Blue Note recordings, Lee Morgan's Search for the New Land, John Coltrane's Blue Train, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, etc. It sounds like you might be describing that crap that they call, 'smooth jazz.'
I'm here to tell you that back in the day there was another Fourth Dimension Neil Young (and the Squires) played at. It was in Thunder Bay (then Fort William and Port Arthur). The Fourth Dimension was a coffee house across the tracks outside of Fort William. In the summer of 1965, this band rolled into town in a HEARSE! What a great way for a band to travel! Lots of room in the back for equipment or sleeping quarters. Word spread like wildfire that this crazy band in a hearse had arrived. I was 14 and too young to get in at night, but me and a bunch of friends went to the Saturday afternoon matinee. They blew everyone's SOCKS off. They were amazing. I still remember it now. I think they were on their way to Toronto cuz a very short time later, Neil showed up in Buffalo Springfield! Rumour I heard that day at the Fourth Dimension: Neil was up on stage performing and there was a guy in the audience wearing the same sweater as the one Neil had on. Allegedly, after the set finished, Neil pealed off the sweater and went out and bought another one!
Hearses were fairly common band transportation because of the storage space yet they drive like a car instead of a truck and funeral homes would maintain them (until they died). It's also a conversation starter and hardly anyone would forget it.
FUNFACT: "Mandolin" Terry #RIP, who when asked, told NEIL he'd "never make it", lived with us here in Korea, before returning 2 Kanada a few years ago, & passing away. Lack of initial encouragement aside, pretty sure they kept in touch throughout the years. His wife, meanwhile, told us she gave Joni her first guitar. So, in this sense, it really a SMALL world :) p.s Aye. SUGAR MOUNTAIN is indeed a song which will LONG continue 2 stand the test of time.
Good to see old Neil still in one piece and lucid after all these years. Sugar Mountain is still a small masterpiece too so thank you Neil for that and all other great stuff, mainly the songs on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Paul, 72, South London UK.
I like to think of myself as a level-headed guy who doesn’t get starstruck by meeting celebrities but if I was in a club and saw Joni Mitchell talking to Neil Young i’d probably scream like a 1960s Beatles fangirl
I was in the 4th Dimension that night and will never forget hearing Joni. Chuck was there too but not the talent that she is. Special memories. Neil and his band played at high school dances in those days in Winnipeg.
Yes.....agreed. We were going thru Joni Mitchell songs today cuz we thought that one of the songs we are developing kinda sounds like one of her (JM) songs....and we were like "Holy song Batman! this lady is FANTASTIC!". Honestly, we are blown away in re-visiting these songs!
I’ve met Join once in passing, literally, I almost walked into her in a tiny grocery store on the West Coast of B.C. Never had the opportunity to meet Neil yet though.
I just turned 76 and here's my take. I think that the "secret" to any long-lasting and important relationship is that it must be based upon MUTUAL RESPECT. You may like each other or be attracted to each other for many reasons, but only when you develop deep respect in each other's gifts do you truly have something of lasting value. This is clear in Neil's words on Joni Mitchell. It's obvious.
I agree with Neil on Joni’s singular greatness. But Neil is one of the true greats too. I pass through Omemee, Ontario, every couple of summers or so and always make sure I have Helpless queued up for the occasion.
It's funny, whenever I see an interview with Neil he says something that I can somehow relate to. Nothing earth shattering or anything. I grew up in Detroit and Joni and Chuck Mitchell lived in Detroit for a couple of years, not far from the Wayne State University campus where two of my brothers went to school. They were doing the 'coffee house circuit' back then and played around Detroit quite a bit. This was before she was 'discovered'. That's where they would have been living when Neil met them that time. I never heard that story before about 'The Circle Game' and 'Sugar Mountain'. I was watching 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' a while back and heard a song I really liked. I didn't know what it was, found it was Buffy Saint Marie's version of 'The Circle Game'. So his story brought that back for me.
Neil Young ran into Joni. The eventual union of CSNY ( very short lived, not committed to it more than a Project interest) brought together David Crosby who dated Joni for a good while ... she broke it off ... met Graham Nash - Also CSN / CSNY member and lived with Joni for a time ... two very talented people in music ! Joni Mitchell can sing like a bird, compose like a Mozart .... play Guitar, Piano and sing songs so compelling, rich in flavor and flow one can only hang on in bliss. A rare talent.
Dig... Joni, Neil, Zappa, Santana, McGuinn, Stills, Lee, Joplin... Yea, there are a lot of other greats from the east coast to San Fran that rocked the way, And they all came into our living rooms - Like soft molten asphalt erupting from Keef and Mick or The Rutles. There are tons of musical artists out there that sparked the world. They all need appreciation. Peace on earth.
The secret to keeping a long term friendship is to never find yourself wondering what is so and so doing. Pick up the phone at least a couple of times a year and talk. Life long friendships are not an accident. They happen because two people put an effort into maintaining it.
an endothermic reaction requires that you always add energy .. an exothermic reaction will continue once started without the addition of more energy .. so what are friendships ??
Good advice…I’ve been trying to do that myself….
The secret is to know when to mind your own business and to know when to shut the fuck up. I.E. David Crosby.
Despite the energy expended it is not always reciprocated.
It is more than just calling each other often enough to keep the friendship going. There are people with whom I have crossed paths and gotten to know that, even without being in touch for years, it is just like picking up where we left off. Some may call this a stunted friendship. But it has nothing to do with what each of us has been doing in the meantime or catching up on facts. It is a bond that is inexplicable. It cannot be planned nor is there a formula for keeping it alive. It stays alive on its own and it happens in ways we cannot describe. The bond and the "knowing" of one another is outside our current knowledge of interpersonal relations.
Neil’s so great. Chick Roberts who Neil mentions is my father! He’s still around, 90 years old. Confirms Neils story. Great memory Neil, thank you for appreciating my fathers support of your song Sugar Mountain, he was knocked out by your song. My Dad heard Neil play it at The Riverboat in Toronto at a 1965 “Hotennany” night. Artists got $10 to play three or four songs known as "Hotennany scale". The gigs were put on by the guild of Canadian Folk Artists in Toronto’s “Yorkville Village” (our 60’s folk scene, Canada’s Greenwich Village). Neil wasn't known then in Toronto, he was hanging in the village trying to break in as solo act. Neil likely met Chick/The Dirty Shames in Winnipeg at the Fourth Dimension. Toronto’s The Dirty Shames in 1966 signed with Albert Grossman’s office in New York City, recorded a few singles, Warhol booked them to open for the Velvet Underground at the Dom.
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I'm going to try and find some Dirty Shame recordings. I like to find new (to me) musicians in comment sections and random RUclips feeds. Wow, 90 years old. Can he still do any kind of music?
Thanks for posting Paul! Wishing your dad all the best in life and his health! Enjoyed reading!
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That’s some story!
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Joni Mitchell wrote some of the greatest poetic lyrics. Just insanely empathetic and talented.
Poetry at a similar level as Bob Dylan but musically 10 times more skilled
@@krollpeter Not this shit again!
i wonder if her daughter thinks that she is so ' empathetic '
We don't say 'insane' any more. 'Loony' or 'bananas' or 'batshit crazy' are acceptable, however
@@nickb9162 OFCS!
I am in my seventies now they were my favourite two artists in the late sixties and still are, legends does not begin to describe them
Joni's body of work is so incredible. Very proud that she is Canadian, and thankful that she has recovered from her illness and is still with us.
Proud of nationality?
I wonder how a human in one country is more valuable than if that same person were from another country...
Or how they make you more worthy because they are from the same country as you?
@@AMEER-114- Oh God, lighten up.
@@johngoldfarb3655 you gotta be one of the juice/edomite
@@johngoldfarb3655 He just go his panties in a bunch over nothing.
@@AMEER-114- Everyone is proud of what they do. Being proud of what the people around you accomplish is part of that, otherwise, why would we help and encourage each other? Today, you can ignore borders and encourage everyone, of course, but that's very recent, and a threat to cultural diversity on a world level. A sense of national belonging contributes to the diversity of ideas and cultures on a global level. I hope I've cleared that up for you.
Neil and Joni . . .the combined talent is mind boggling. Would have been a dream to see them doing a joint acoustic gig in their prime.
Yeah and both Canadians👍
During the Last Waltz she was singing 'Helpless' with him and the Band. Spine tingling. ruclips.net/video/J2z7LXpAX3Q/видео.html
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Yeah, brilliant, have watched it several times over the years. Neil was feeling no pain - that's for sure!!!
They played at The Riverboat in Toronto many times or you could walk down Yonge Street and catch The Hawks, and on and on. Some of the best musicians never left but went nowhere.
I would include Gordon Lightfoot as well. I've been listening to those three most of my adult life since they came on the music scene. Never get tired of listening to them and turned my adult kids into fans as well.
Joni, Neil and Leonard were above the rest. Thank you for ever, Canada!!!
Don't forget Burton ?
And also Gordon Lightfoot and Gord Downie (both will be missed!).
Joni is an incredible artist and so are you Neil!
Yes, both produced fantastic music for so many years. Sadly, Neil hasn't produced anything worthy of his canon in about 25 years, his muse having left the building back then.
Neil has spoken about this before; he wondered about his talent, and worried about "How Good Was He?" And she told him to write more, and write all the time; because not all of his efforts were going to be Gems. He mentioned that he met Leonard Cohen a while later - but from NOW, it would be around the same time - and Leonard Cohen told him much the same thing; "Keep Writing!"
Here’s a fun memory for those of you who grew up around Philadelphia. I used to listen to Gene Shay on his Saturday morning show when I was a 15 year old cadet out at Valley Forge Military Academy in the 1960s…..and I remember Gene playing Sugar Mountain….and the very first time I heard it, it was like a musical transformative experience…..and then to hear this story now from Neil years later, after my radio career….after being Gene Shay’s producer and alternate host for several years…. to know that Joni wrote Circle Game after hearing Neil play Sugar Mountain……. is a double revelation.
The more seasoned the hero the more humble it seems. Love those Canadian icons
Joni isn't humble. She's well aware of her talent and she doesn't hesitate to let everyone else know about it too.
Good on Neil for noting what I think is obvious... Joni is THE greatest singer/songwriter/musician of the past 60 yrs (too bad Robert Zimmerman!), in multiple genres ranging from folk and pop to world and jazz...
Thanks very much Joni, for being the soundtrack of so many of our lives!
Don't forget Gordon Lightfoot. Thanks!
@@jackmabel6067 & who could forget the internationally popular Leonard Cohen? The trouble with people ranking musicians as " great" is that tendency to add "est" to the end of it. There is no ultimate finish line with music, there is no great- est, relax & keep listening to the music!
Dylan by virtue of his manifold differing writing styles beats all other comers. And he is the most peer-revered musical artist of all-time.
I hate these kinds sweeping declarations. Yes, Joni is great....and so are many many others. Must we have a ONE great musician? Can't we appreciate them all for how unique and individual they are?
And personally, for me, Tom Waits has written better songs than Joni has. His lyrics are astounding. Listen to 'Day After Tomorrow'. It's a masterpiece.
Thank you for posting this. I have always loved hearing stories over the years of his friendship with Joni Mitchell. You listen to him and you hear a true human being. Nothing fake, nothing put on.
Neil Young is dead to me after his flip out over Joe Rogan and I'm no Rogan fan. Funny how Mr. "Peace is all that Matters" doesn't have a problem with US funded Natssies torturing and murdering civilians in Ukraine. Hey Neil, why don't you get even more boosted?
Hey, Neil! Shouldn't you be boycotting the same platform that hosts Joe Rogan Content? Why aren't you on a "Cheer Up the Natssie Troops" in Ukraine tour?
@@bunsw2070 What the hell is a "NATSSIE" ?? Or do you mean "NAZI"? Do you realize out ignorant you sound?
@@roberthurley6860 I'm trying not to have my comment shadow banned by using certain key words that are frowned upon.
@@bunsw2070Because he's a leftist POS that's why
Oh Canada we are so blessed with all the wonderful gifts you give the world Joni and you are the tops for me because of your loving of life and art Thank you
Wow! Is Neil Young ever in great shape. Hats off to you, man! I’ve never heard him or seen him look so clear-eyed and responsive. I’ll always think of Neil Young when I remember my Grade 10 & 11 years (my rebellious years, actually). Glad for CBC Radio & for when the Canadian content rule kicked in. The Great, Neil Young. So glad to hear him share his memories with us now. How cool is that?
I love the music of both Neil and Joni. I could listen to them indefinitely. I'm so glad I grew up at exactly the right time musically. These two have really influenced my own music.
I met Joni in Boulder Colorado in the spring time of 1976 when she was traveling through Canada and the USA getting inspirations for Hejira. I was in a funky little natural foods store on Broadway Avenue. A woman walked right up to me who looked exactly like Joni Mitchell. Besides being shockingly beautiful, she was super warm, friendly and flirtatious. I was just a young college hippie kind of guy who was totally in love with Joni. I was totally tongue-tied and geeked-out that she could possibly be Joni Mitchell. She kept trying to make small talk and be friendly to engage me conversation but all I could do is stutter and say goofy things. She kept saying that I looked like someone she knew and I kept saying she was mistaken. Finally, she gave me one last chance. She said: "Are you sure you don't know me?" I said: "Yes, you are mistaken." Then she just killed me dead when she said: "Well, that's just too bad then." She turned and walked away out the door of the natural foods store.
I followed her discreetly for several blooks on Broadway and I convinced myself I was just imagining she was Joni. When I got home from that dream-like encounter the phone rang and a friend who was a friend of Robben Ford said: "Joni Mitchell is in town visiting Robben Ford." But anyway, I do feel lucky that I got to feel and experience how beautiful she is ,and how warm and flirtatious she could be to just some young hippie college dude.
Loved this story, Gerry. What a memory to retain for life - you lucky guy.
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Wow, that's a cracker of an experience you had. Saw Joni at the Palais in Melbourne Australia, quite a small venue, the year she turned forty, around 1982 or thereabouts. She was radiant and energetic and recently married to her bass guitarist Larry Klein. I was only a few metres away directly in front and scored some lovely smiles throughout the gig. I was only in my early twenties and was completely stoked.For me she is the quintessential and eternal earthmother, the embodiment of what was an incredible period during those Laurel Canyon years. Thinking about it again now, it's probably no coincidence that my wife bares a strong resemblance to Joni !!!. LOL. Love all Joni's work with personal standouts being the albums Blue & Hejira - just magical. Peace and best wishes to you Gerry.
I had a Joni encounter in Santa Fe summer of 1992. Joni was almost 50 and I was 37. She was strolling alone down Marcy Street near the Plaza. About a block away I started going a bit crazy wondering if this is Joni? Is it her twin sister? She's getting closer! WTF do I do?? I didn't want to invade her space. She's just out for a stroll and if I begin telling her I've got every album, I know the words to every song, I've drawn portraits of her, I've been in love with her since age 13... she'd be dragging me by her ankle down the sidewalk spraying me with mace. So we passed. I said "Hi" and she smiled and said "Hello." The next few hours I kept thinking that couldn't have been Joni. Then the phone rang. It was a local lady who plays guitar and writes her own songs. She was so excited to tell me she just had a glass of wine with Joni at a local pub called Club West. I think I screamed, or groaned, I definitely made noises of exasperation. I can still see the physical scenario of our encounter inside my head all these years now.
@@gonzoexpress9885 I think he choked! Oops.
You are fortunate to have met Joni in person! But actually, teasing and flirting with you and then saying "Well, that's too bad, then" is very creepy. She was punishing you for not recognizing her - or admitting that you did. I absolutely love and adore Joni's music and lyrics, and think they are universally appreciated. But I also think she has never outgrown a "goddess complex" that started early in her career when she received so much recognition for her talent before she was ready to reconcile all of that attention into her life. She welcomes it and yet runs from it simultaneously, a conflict reflected in all of her music throughout the years. Perhaps that is the universal underlying appeal of her music.
"Sugar Mountain" is the quintessential Neil Young song. It's all there. I can understand hearing it, and being able to envisage his entire career.
I would play & sing my version to my boy as a bed time lullaby still one of my favrites
@@alisonperry1786 That sounds like a great choice!
Wow, how lucky you are to speak with Neil Young and ask him such intelligent questions watching this give me the chills. Thank you.
Neil is just another aging hipster...........He hasn't done anything new for decades.
@@BennyCFD You sound like someone who hasn't listened to Neil in decades. To act as if Storytone or The Monstanto Years, albums you more than likely have no knowledge, are nothing new in his catalogue reveals your ignorance. But, hey, maybe making the post makes you feel something, so rock on.
@@BennyCFDHis problem commercially is quite the opposite. He's constantly doing new things. As for "aging" - he's nearly 80 FFS! Hopefully no one throws you out like an old rag. 😕 And... Hipster 😄 Do you live in "Opposite Land" or something?
I love you Neil Young even more from this honour of Joni and your wife..thankyou for opening my spirit with yout music when I was a teenager
Neil's story about how his playing "Sugar Mountain" and Joni responded by writing "Circle Game" reminds me of a story told by Graham Nash recounting how he, just after the shootings at Kent State, and Neil Young got Crosby and Stills to all meet up at the Record Plant in Sausalito, Ca. and did "Ohio" and "Find The Cost of Freedom" as side A & B on a record released 2 days later. The song, "Ohio" 'came to' Neil when he, having just heard about the shootings, walked into a nearby trail with his guitar and when he returned, said "let's get those guys and record this". Everyone in this story knows how to live in the moment, which at times is not an easy thing to do, but there may be help in creative intent.
Yeah. Too bad their account of Kent State was false. Hippies were just a violent as their so called “oppressors”.
It was Crosby who called Neil and got everyone together. That’s David at the end yelling “Why? How many more? Why!?”
I am always moved by his song Ohio since I recall seeing that on the news where stupid national guards had turned and fired upon students as their commander was striking on their helmeted heads with his baton to stop it!!!
Four dead then with one guy paralyzed forever by their bullets
"I showed her a song. After listening to it, she wrote Circle Game."
You know how Brian Wilson listened to Rubber Soul and then immediately wrote God Only Knows? This feels like the Canadian version of that.
I didn't know that Rubber Soul story. I know McCartney listened to "God Only Knows" and wrote "Here, There and Everywhere" in an (unsuccessful) attempt to replicate its greatness.
I LUV God Only Knows. Didn't know the Rubber Soul connection, thx for posting. Years ago I saw a terrific video of George Martin discussing God Only Knows with Brian Wilson.
Amazing how great artists can inspire other great artists.
Plenty of examples of this kind of thing. Another one I like is Jackson Browne writing “For Everyman” in response to “Wooden Ships”. David Crosby was moved enough to join JB and harmonize when he recorded his response.
And Ian Tyson wrote 4 Strong Winds after hearing Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a Changin
Joni is definitely THE greatest artist, musician and poet ever! Grew up with her starting early 70’s. I was 16. My children grew up listening to Joni.
It's my opinion too that she's at the top of the heap. Her work from 74-77, from Hissing, through Hejira to DJ'sRD is astonishing, lyrically, musically and vocally, and her live album Miles of Aisles is arguably the finest live album ever. . .
Neil...certainly hasn`t lost his past old stories/happenings and memory....good for you Neil !!! wishing you continued good health as the years pass.....dark cloud toronto, ontario
I can't think of any musical artists since my ears first opened up in the 1960s that I love, respect and admire more than Neil and Joni. How glorious would it be for a RUclipsr with clout to get them together to just have a recorded conversation for an hour or 10 while they are still with us.
Born hypersensitive, I startled/spooked easily and cried as a matter of self-expression all my life. Her "Blue" album taught me that crying was ok. Neil taught me to trust my Muse. Joni taught me to trust, period.
Intuition and inspiration are the backbones of genius.
There are great artists...and then there are artists who are true gifts to the world. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are among the few "true gifts". In this brief video, Neil's comments about lasting friendships is a heartwarming example of why his presence is such a true gift to many of us.
These guys were so important / inspirational to loads of us , and as for joni i couldnt agree more . Ages ago i guy said to me about someones lyrics that they could be read like poetry.............for me thats Joni Mitchell , a talent that will never fade . Its great to see Neil Happy .
Good interviewer
There is just one Joni Mitchell. Nobody else will have her talents. She is such a remarkable artist. Each of lyrical and vocal qualities of her are rare to find in their own individual right; and there she is with both. I am still not talking about the command she has on playing multiple instruments and painting.
Winnipeg back then was a deep well of musical talent. All high school, jr high, community club, church hall and entertainment club dances had live bands. There were so many that everyone knew someone who played in a band it seemed. The only time you heard recorded music was at home or in a record shop. Many of those bands and musicians went on to future fame. No wonder Winnipeg was called the 'Liverpool' of Canada.
Guess Who
sounds like you're a Peg CIty person perhaps?? :)
and here I've always thought Winterpeg was the Latke Capital of Canada...
I can't think of two artists who were more genuinely themselves throughout the entirety of their careers than Neil and Joni.
agreed...i'd have to add bob dylan to that
@@michaeldonovan4793 Nope. I love Dylan, but he was never authentically himself. He doesn't even know who he is. He is a chameleon who created the "Bob Dylan" character to carry out his artistic vision. Like Springsteen, he may "seem" authentic, but that person you think you see is simply his carefully-crafted avatar. Springsteen readily admits this. I suspect Dylan would too if he's being honest.
@@tomhazelton3070 Did you see what Joni said about Dylan in interview? That he was a plagiarist and she didn't like him.
My first concert ever was Neil Young and Joni Mitchell in Alabama 1972!
I love that he loves Joni, he’s sweet. Love his music too
You feel lucky Neil ? well I feel lucky to have your music in my life for 45+ years , and of course Joni too who shares the same birthday as me .
Thanks for sharing this clip. Chick Roberts, who Neil mentions here, is still alive and well in Toronto. I interviewed him for my upcoming Yorkville book.
Thats great! An interview with the legendary, Chick "Schick"! Oh, lucky you! Ugh
Mr. Young, you are very special as well. When I was a teenager, you were the world to me, your father was the world to my father. Lol. Great to see that you are well. Thank you for a life time of specialness!!!!
Joni IS the most significant of that generation, the next, & the next...
Saw Joni at the second fret in Philadelphia in the sixties she was just so sweet and appeared so innocent with a little mini skirt and that great voice it was about the time songs for a seagull came out. I'm 76 now but it seems like it was just last week.
Appeared innocent as she slept around with all the rock artists. They all did in addition to being high most of the time.
@simon kenton why would I be jealous? When I was young I was beautiful and could get any guy I wanted. She talks about it in her autobiography so it’s not like I’m making it up. She obviously wasn’t innocent and neither was I.
@@sassysandie2865 lf you were innocent back then you must have not been there
@@earllsimmins9373 I don’t understand your comment
When you are blessed, everyone around you is blessed also
wow Neil Young lavishing praise on another artist and without any odd side comments. This tells you something about her. In many ways I think he sees a kindred spirit with her "I'm going to make my music the way I want regardless of how my previous albums sounded like" .
High praise indeed from Neil in regards to Joni. I love hearing men revere their contemporaries. Heartwarming. Harvest Moon, my all time favourite. x
I love that these two met as youth in the fourth dimension. ☮🎸🕊 Both artists are out of this world talented.
Winnipeg!
I remember reading this book by a guy who grew up in Winnipeg. When he was a teenager he had a paper route and this one house always had nonstop guitar practice coming from it. He'd knock on the door, the guitar would stop, the door opens and this lanky long haired kid would say his mom wasn't home, and could he come back later to get the collection money? Then he'd close the door and the guitar would start again. This happened over and over. Turns out the kid was a young Neil Young, growing up on Grosvenor Avenue.
What an amazing story. Thx for sharing it!
That was Houseboat Chronicles by Jake MacDonald. I got to know him after reading the book and he was always good company. Unfortunately, his life ended far too early when he fell off a roof in Mexico.
Neil, Joni, Bob, John - All I really need.
Man, you've named a very good group down here lol
Amazing talent and intellect came from Canada. Joni, Neil, and many, many more great musicians came from the North. Their songwriting unmatched. Deep. Thoughtful. Introspective. Enjoyable. !!
yes, Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Diana Krall, k.d. lang, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Michael Bublé, ...
@@tlee035 ..Brian Adam's too !!
...and many great athletes, and intellects.
Robbie Robertson
@@mgermca ..he was awesome.
Neil plays harmonica on Furry Sings the Blues. The first few times I heard it, I thought "what is he doing doodling around there". But it's come to be an integral part for me of one of my favorite songs on my favorite Joni album.
The Song Woodstock Joni wrote that CSN&Y sang, is nothing short of a miracle song at the right time in our history. ❤
song was made better by Stills arrangement
@@PaulFormentos Gotta agree. But they're two very different experiences.
🌹Ohh, ya'just touched my heart strings. I've been playing guitar since I was 12yo and the first song I learned to play by Neil Young was "Sugar Mountain" and the first song I learned to play by Joni Mitchell was "Both Sides Now". I♥️love "The Circle Game", played that game in circles.
Joni's🖌🎨Artistry is as great as her musical talent.
My Gen-Xer🖌🎨paints and is blown away by Joni's gifts, he never💭knew she was a musician before she was an🖌🎨Artist, I had to set him straight.
🤦🏻♀️Gen-Xers and Millenials are on my🤏🏻last-nerve, tbh.
The🏫schools should be teaching music again, I don't know why music was ever taken out of the curriculum but I find it to be a damned🖤shame! I started playing Ukelele in Grade 5, my kids only know music history through me🤲🏻thanks to people like Joni and Neil.
I'm no Neil Young or Joni Mitchell but I've been playing those songs for 40 years and will 'til my dying day. "Both Sides Now" was a prophecy to climate-change if you ask me.
I believe both Neil and Joni to be the greatest musical Geniuses of the 20th and 21st century, making a positive impact on the music industry and raising up the level of🤲🏻humanity✍🏻written in both their lifetime's worth of🎶songs.
👏🏻Thanks for sharing.
🇨🇦✌🏻🎶♥️(+🇺🇦)✨🌎💫
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Actually, Joni started out as a visual artist before she switched to music. After she graduated from high school, she attended Alberta College of Art for one year before moving to Toronto to become a musician. She has two great talents, and she exercised both of them.
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That's what I said, ty.
the secret to keeping friendships is being friends and returning calls and returning nice gestures to those who extended them to you in the first place
Neil and Joni two of the greatest artist of our time seen Neil a couple of times in Australia but missed Joni when she was there in l think 1986 at the Sydney Opera house found out years later ld missed out on probably the artist l wanted to see the most Dylan Neil and Joni were the main sound track to my life as a teenager of the 70s when music was real 👀👁
Joni is playing Washington next year! Maybe you can see her there! 😀
@Stevie's In Da House! I love America but it also scares me to many extreme right wing nut jobs with guns and they ain't afraid to use them l'll watch her on RUclips thanx.👁👀✌️
Whether or not you enjoy a Dylan concert probably depends on when you see him. My husband and I saw him more than years ago, maybe 1997, after he had a serious heart problem. Our thought was that he might not be around and touring much longer. His performance was disappointing. His voice was much worse than usual. Ani DiFranco, who was his opening act, was terrific.
What a wonderful little interview!
Neil is my favourite entertainer, and Canadian to boot! He’s a very nice man and talented to the core! Way to go, Neil. Sing on, my friend! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
Oh - so good - thank you for posting this interview - (History - VIP - this will form part of texts in the future. So many people hold these two song writers in their hearts - they are part of human history like - Mozart, Beethoven, Paul Simon, Lennon/McCartney - (Same level). THANK YOU
Beautiful moment. I love your expression of awe and wonder as you get this slice of history directly from Neal. BTW, I took the photo of Joni you use in the thumbnail; 1974, Universal Amphitheater, Court and Spark Tour. - Paul
Wow Paul! 👌
I agree with Neil’s assessment of Joni, only a handful of such artists come along in a generation.
These are some of the greatest artists of our generation
two of the top five songwriters of all time and they're both from canada...
other three are Lee, Lifeson and Peart
Maybe Leonard Cohen should have been squeezed into that list . . to make it three
Two incredible musicians!!
Those two have written a number of great songs.
That goes both ways, Young is also an amazing artist 👏🏽
When he changes "one of the greatest" to "maybe the greatest", it reminded me of a pretty recent interview where the interviewer said to Joni, "some have called you one of the greatest artists...", and she answered, "what do you mean one of?" and then after a pause she laughed a little.
Such a Beautuful Soul!
Thank you! Love & Blessing All. Peace.🌈💜💖😇🙏🌻☮️⭐️💖🕊
Sugar mountain was one of my all time Neil Favorites
In the Last Waltz Joni held Neil up the way she was with him stuck in my head that she treasured him even in his fkd uppedness. What a journey it's been with these two keeping us in check
Joni is the true artist of all living generations. It's a shame every generation goes further from understand the meaning of art.
Beauty, truth, and compassion are not separate things but aspects of a single whole in which one aspect has no meaning without the others. If you don't have love and truth in your art it's not beauty.
Agreed. Joni is the greatest. The depth of her music and complexity in composition yet maintaining a sense of 'pop' even when playing jazz is the genius. She's adored by jazz people like myself as well as the other genres fans. l rarely see CSNY or Dylan in jazz record collections but EVERYONE has 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns' and 'Mingus' along side their Monk and Bird. She broke folk/pop music with 'Both Sides Now' . She blew the folk world away with a sweep and her 'Blue' album. She dominated the FM radio with 'Court and Spark' and then jazz w/ Summer Lawns and Mingus. She launched Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays and Jaco Pastorius's careers who were and are still all-time greats.
Jazz makes the skin on my back want to leave my body.
I have Neil's two jazz albums but they're my least played of him. I like Van Morrison too but l won't listen to his jazz songs either.
@@Chapps1941 Huh? Neil? Van Morrison? You might want to consider actually "listening" to some actual jazz. Just a suggestion.
@@larrysmac This Note's for You is a Jazz lite album.
I hate fucking jazz. Why would l listen to that Muffler Shop music. It's as shit as disco.
Great points, but in addition to players like Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Wilton Felder, etc., Metheny, Mays, and Jaco were already well established in their own right, which is why they were recruited for their respective sessions. Wayne Shorter was Art Blakey’s music director in '63. I mean like their careers were already in orbit.
I mentioned elsewhere, At 70 y/o, I feel her genius is continuing to stand the test of time, especially compared to other great artists.
@@Chapps1941 Like I said, check out some real jazz-some old Blue Note recordings, Lee Morgan's Search for the New Land, John Coltrane's Blue Train, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, etc. It sounds like you might be describing that crap that they call, 'smooth jazz.'
I'm here to tell you that back in the day there was another Fourth Dimension Neil Young (and the Squires) played at. It was in Thunder Bay (then Fort William and Port Arthur).
The Fourth Dimension was a coffee house across the tracks outside of Fort William.
In the summer of 1965, this band rolled into town in a HEARSE! What a great way for a band to travel! Lots of room in the back for equipment or sleeping quarters.
Word spread like wildfire that this crazy band in a hearse had arrived. I was 14 and too young to get in at night, but me and a bunch of friends went to the Saturday afternoon matinee. They blew everyone's SOCKS off. They were amazing. I still remember it now.
I think they were on their way to Toronto cuz a very short time later, Neil showed up in Buffalo Springfield!
Rumour I heard that day at the Fourth Dimension: Neil was up on stage performing and there was a guy in the audience wearing the same sweater as the one Neil had on. Allegedly, after the set finished, Neil pealed off the sweater and went out and bought another one!
Hearses were fairly common band transportation because of the storage space yet they drive like a car instead of a truck and funeral homes would maintain them (until they died). It's also a conversation starter and hardly anyone would forget it.
JONI, NEIL, LEONARD, GORDON ARE TITANS OF WRITING!! MY GOD!!
The meeting of genius. Both these people are wildly talented. Look at the repretroirs of these wonderful people!
FUNFACT: "Mandolin" Terry #RIP, who when asked, told NEIL he'd "never make it", lived with us here in Korea, before returning 2 Kanada a few years ago, & passing away. Lack of initial encouragement aside, pretty sure they kept in touch throughout the years. His wife, meanwhile, told us she gave Joni her first guitar. So, in this sense, it really a SMALL world :) p.s Aye. SUGAR MOUNTAIN is indeed a song which will LONG continue 2 stand the test of time.
I love both these artists Neil and Joni study their songs play them. Blows me away that they influenced each other like this
Good to see old Neil still in one piece and lucid after all these years. Sugar Mountain is still a small masterpiece too so thank you Neil for that and all other great stuff, mainly the songs on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Paul, 72, South London UK.
Nice clip nice man (Neil) THANKS! Good to hear such positive thoughts & words from him
"Sugar Mountain, that's a special song." There have doubtless been bigger understatements uttered, but none come to mine .
...to mind.
I am from Winnipeg. Love my city.
Yeah, more than 60 years there for me…
I like to think of myself as a level-headed guy who doesn’t get starstruck by meeting celebrities but if I was in a club and saw Joni Mitchell talking to Neil Young i’d probably scream like a 1960s Beatles fangirl
Love your show. Keep on rockin' in the free world ( Neil Young) Zach Sang !
one of my superheros!!! hippie to the core
I agree with Neil. Joni is in a class by herself. Neil is up there too. Been a fan of both since 1968.
I was in the 4th Dimension that night and will never forget hearing Joni. Chuck was there too but not the talent that she is. Special memories. Neil and his band played at high school dances in those days in Winnipeg.
He and the Squires were great at the River Heights Community Club!
Yes.....agreed. We were going thru Joni Mitchell songs today cuz we thought that one of the songs we are developing kinda sounds like one of her (JM) songs....and we were like "Holy song Batman! this lady is FANTASTIC!". Honestly, we are blown away in re-visiting these songs!
First impression is everything ! Nothing can compare to that first feeling ,can it ......!
And Neil is one of our greatest artists.
you folks Neal were ahead of the game brother the photo of jonnie looking out the window oh my what a beauty
I’ve met Join once in passing, literally, I almost walked into her in a tiny grocery store on the West Coast of B.C. Never had the opportunity to meet Neil yet though.
I just turned 76 and here's my take. I think that the "secret" to any long-lasting and important relationship is that it must be based upon MUTUAL RESPECT. You may like each other or be attracted to each other for many reasons, but only when you develop deep respect in each other's gifts do you truly have something of lasting value. This is clear in Neil's words on Joni Mitchell. It's obvious.
We're the same age, and with near-lifelong friends, I agree wholeheartedly. I'd add some mutual interests, and philosophies.
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Of course. If you don't share mutual interests it'd be a pretty boring relationship.
Love Neil Young. ❤️🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦
I agree with him. Joni is the best. Young, Dylan, Browne and Springsteen others up there who have given me so much joy the past 30 years.
I agree with Neil on Joni’s singular greatness. But Neil is one of the true greats too. I pass through Omemee, Ontario, every couple of summers or so and always make sure I have Helpless queued up for the occasion.
"Both sides now".... the quintessential poem/song about living and life
Every member of CSNY have praised Joni Mitchell.
and all slept with her as well
It's funny, whenever I see an interview with Neil he says something that I can somehow relate to. Nothing earth shattering or anything. I grew up in Detroit and Joni and Chuck Mitchell lived in Detroit for a couple of years, not far from the Wayne State University campus where two of my brothers went to school. They were doing the 'coffee house circuit' back then and played around Detroit quite a bit. This was before she was 'discovered'. That's where they would have been living when Neil met them that time. I never heard that story before about 'The Circle Game' and 'Sugar Mountain'. I was watching 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' a while back and heard a song I really liked. I didn't know what it was, found it was Buffy Saint Marie's version of 'The Circle Game'. So his story brought that back for me.
Neil Young ran into Joni. The eventual union of CSNY ( very short lived, not committed to it more than a Project interest) brought together David Crosby who dated Joni for a good while ... she broke it off ... met Graham Nash - Also CSN / CSNY member and lived with Joni for a time ... two very talented people in music ! Joni Mitchell can sing like a bird, compose like a Mozart .... play Guitar, Piano and sing songs so compelling, rich in flavor and flow one can only hang on in bliss. A rare talent.
Very sweet. Joini was the greatest writer and performer wrapped up in one.
"She may be the greatest artist of our time" - Neil Young
Nice save neil..tossing in the " I love my wife " at the end ! ..Hope it worked !
Wow! Neil is great, and still a real human, which is more than I can say fo
Yes , I saw Neil young in the RDS and the RHK
Dig...
Joni, Neil, Zappa, Santana, McGuinn, Stills, Lee, Joplin...
Yea, there are a lot of other greats from the east coast to San Fran
that rocked the way,
And they all came into our living rooms -
Like soft molten asphalt erupting from Keef and Mick or The Rutles.
There are tons of musical artists out there that sparked the world.
They all need appreciation.
Peace on earth.