I got this off the Guardian and here it goes, ready? “Young didn’t merely use White’s studio: the two men made “[the] entire album together”. The prospective tracklist allegedly features music such as Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ In The Wind, Tim Hardin’s Reason To Believe, Phil Ochs’ Changes, Gordon Lightfoot’s Early Morning Rain and Ivory Joe Hunter’s Since I Met You Baby. It’s also likely to incorporate a version of Needle Of Death, by the late Bert Jansch, which Young covered last Spring.“So that explains not only the Fair Aid gig, but the two songs Neil covered at Carnegie Hall.
But more importantly, what do I think of it? Well, I was fond enough of the Mirror Ball exercise with Pearl Jam and have gone from thinking jack White is a little shit to thinking Jack White is a little shit but a first rate rocker and also, speaking of people who you probably shouldn’t get stuck in an elevator with: NEIL YOUNG.
I mean just think about it, you’re in an elevator and in comes Neil with his battered guutar and wide brim hate hitting everything in sight, including the bridge of his nose and then you say: “Wow, you’re neil Young” and this is so lame he doesn’t answer at all, Neil doesn’t even look at you but if you could see below the brim of his hat you know he’d be really angry. His eyes would be flashing red and they are rolling back like he is an extra in “The Exorcist”.
Neil has had over 40 years of fools like and you and frankly he is sick of even pretending to make an efort, he can’t even stand to spend he time to think of you, all he wants is to get out of this fucking elevator and be among people he understands: musicians.
Him and Bruce and Jack and Bono: they all hate people, they hate em even when they are playing charity gigs for em, they’ve all been around for so long it is too hard to even feign indifference. Indifference is too much for Neil Young, Jack won’t even speak to the audience at an encore. Neil does it through gritted teeth but Jack just wants to deal with the proles when they are delivering his pizza after the show.
Neil could spend an hour with you stuck in an elevator and he wouldn’t say a word, he’d just pull his hat down and take a snooze.