![]() ![]() ![]() Elliot Mazer, who produced Neil, produced “Harvest,” came down to the shore of the lake and he shouted out to Neil: How was that, Neil?Īnd I swear to god, Neil Young shouted back: More barn! And I heard “Harvest” coming out of these two incredibly large loud speakers louder than hell. He has his entire house as the left speaker and his entire barn as the right speaker. So I’m thinking I’m going to wear headphones and listen in the relative peace in the middle of Neil’s lake. Now, I think he’s got a little cassette player with him or a little, you know, early digital format player. I said get into the rowboat? He said, yeah, we’re going to go out into the middle of the lake. And he asked me if I wanted to hear his new album, “Harvest.” And I said sure, let’s go into the studio and listen. ![]() I was at Neil’s ranch one day just south of San Francisco, and he has a beautiful lake with red-wing blackbirds. The man is totally committed to the muse of music. In the interview above with NPR’s Terry Gross after the publication of his book Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life, Young’s erstwhile CSNY bandmate Nash recounts the day Young first played him Harvest: His talents stretch beyond intensely impassioned songcraft and delivery to a holistic appreciation of sound in all its forms (and a loathing for technology that does sound an injustice). And when he’s on-in masterpieces like 1972’s Harvest-Neil does no wrong. ![]()
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