Neil Young's "Long May You Run" - Historical Background
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2010
- I was having breakfast in Blind River Ontario and decided to do a quick bit of research into Neil Young's reference to the town. Apparently, Neil's hearse ("Mort") broke down outside of town with transmission troubles. He and his band spent 4 or 5 days there and drove out of town, in Mort, once the repairs were finished. Germaine, Bert's wife, confirms that it was 1962, not 1963 - she was pregnant with her son at the time and is, therefore, certain of the date.
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One of my favorite Neil Young songs !
Beautiful song!
I've been enamoured of Neil Young's creative genius since 1st time seeing him play "Hurricane" on evening music show (Midnight Special?) when I was in 3rd grade. Even as a child, I sensed magic in his music & lay there in my sleeping bag, transfixed before the boob-tube, until foamy echoes of band's last notes faded to silent mist. That one performance earned Neil & Co. a lifelong fan. "Long May You Run," as well, Mr. Young! 🤠
I was never a big neil young fan, but this song reminds me of the '72 Harley FLH I bought in 1980 and still have.
Neil Young is like your cool next door neighbor....but only a genius
Wanted to have a neighbour like Him, 🙏👩🦼🐕‼️Caroline from 🇧🇪(Belgium)
Thanks for your reply 👩🦼🐕🇧🇪😂👋
Great song and cool story, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the video! James Deagle (from Blind River)
Thank you so much !!!
Last time I was in Blind River a couple years ago, I saw an old hearse parked in some grass. I should have taken a photo.
Always seemed a mystical place when growing up as a bairn in Edinburgh and I was 100% correct after watching the wonderful clip.
Neils dad lived up the road from me in Omemee
Oh What Times/ What customs....Thanks for the video from Eve G.
How you can tell this was filmed in Ontario: "Holy jumpin'!"
Oh thats fantastic😂😂
Pushing 80 now! Thinking of my first car in 1962. ( 56 Ford Victoria ), 312 four barrell! Did a lit of drag racing and it didn't run long!! lol
@frank bennett Yep! Swallowed a valve in the middle of a race! Bought a 53 Merc 255 ci, for 75 bucks, and that flatty ran smooth!
Hope you spanked some Chebys !
"Neil drove a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse he named Mortimer Hearseburg
Neil's beloved Pontiac hearse, "Mort" (a.k.a. "Mortimer Hearseburg"), was the inspiration for this song. Neil drove "Mort" from Toronto to Los Angeles, where he met Stephen Stills and formed Buffalo Springfield.
Neil was in Canada driving to Sudbury when 'Mort' broke down in Blind River, June 1965. (Which is contradictory to the lyrics; "well it was back in Blind River, in 1962, when I last saw you alive")."
ya that is the story I have read too
I play guitar, and this song is usually on my set list..Always thought he said Pine river..
Neil told my Old Man that the song was mostly about a dog that he had, and had died suddenly on him...But as with Neil and my Old Man, the stories only depended on which side you got out of the bed that morning...Everything thing is relative, I guess!?!?!?...LOL
My home town always heard the car was left behind some where guess not
So there is really a place called Blind River. How nice that Neil paid tribute to his car
interesting factoids!
it's about the old herse isht it going down a long hill after having a service, "therezwas a new noise" " missing the shift on the long decline"
Paws Up !!!!
No more running away from Wawa 🤠
Sounds suspicious...all the written accounts say it was actually Iron Bridge (Neil apparently got it wrong) and they definitely weren't heading to Wawa but were going the other way down to Toronto. If my memory serves me, the rest of the band chickened out and headed back to Winnipeg via Wawa and Thunder Bay while Neil headed south to follow his obsession.
Agree. There's a long hill up west of Thessalon heading east...around the "Round Barn" area and then a long hill back down just west of Iron Bridge.
Pretty sure there were 2 Morts...
@@robbob235 Mort #2 was a Barnette bodied '48 Pontiac. The one in "Long May You Run" was a Flxible bodied '46 Buick.
Maybe Neil liked the word "three" better than the harsher "two" poetic license.
That seems very plausible, now that you mention it.
@@ToyotaGuy1971 I thought the same ... it may sound better than 62 .....🤗😆
Similarly, Omemee is nowhere near "North Ontario". But "South Ontario" just doesn't have the same ring.
What city and state was this?
The "city" was/is Blind River. The "state" was/is Ontario.
Blind River is a town in Ontario Canada
About two hours east of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario on Highway 17 TransCanada.
@@normruttan look for his song called "Bound for Glory "..
a Subway billboard to ruin the scenery lol
He is Canadian. Stay in your country and be patriotic.
He became U.S citizen years ago...
@@garybrinker4522 as are many “ citizens” in document only, sadly. He doesn’t display any proud patriotism for our flag nor his oath to it
@@normanmcneal3605 I guess you never heard his album 'Living With War' or his Farm Aid Work. He tells it like it is !
@@garybrinker4522 he is not my idea of a hero, by any ideaology, either country. You can laud him for me. Nite