![]() ![]() ![]() The song was it?and everything else was supporting it.”Īnd what songs he had. ![]() Just rhythm guitar, bass and drums - that’s all there was. “There was a s**tload of room on those recordings,” recalled Young, “because there wasn’t anything else goin’ on. Because there was no room for echo plates or other processors, the sound would be unusually arid - which was just fine with Young, who’d come full circle from his echo-drenched excursions with the Springfield. Young’s modest gear collection included a Scully 8-track, a small mixer, and a handful of mics. A few hapless comrades were enlisted to haul a pile of lead for soundproofing up Young’s steep driveway Young himself paneled the walls with pine milled from the trees in his backyard. To avoid the usual studio intrusions, Young decided to set up shop in the basement of his new home in the Topanga Canyon hills of Los Angeles. “At that point, I didn’t like seeing other musicians in the hallways,” Young later told writer Jimmy McDonough. Anyone else would’ve played it safe instead, Young characteristically decided to follow his instincts. A tour-de-force of spontaneous energy, Everybody Knows made good on producer David Briggs’ assertion that when it comes to rock & roll, “the more you think, the more you stink.” Everybody Knows eventually went platinum - and Young’s days of meticulous overdubbing were gone for good.Īn affiliation with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash left Young poised for superstardom as he made plans to cut a third solo album in early 1970. But when Neil Young failed to crack the album charts, Young immediately went back to work, recording Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere at Wally Heider’s Los Angeles studio in less than two weeks with new backing band Crazy Horse. In January 1969, 23-year-old singer/songwriter Neil Young released his self-titled solo debut album, its layers of guitars reminiscent of Young’s work with the Buffalo Springfield. ![]()
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