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Apr 22, 2022 · Neil Young had endured a fraught split from the mother of his first child Zeke, actress Carrie Snodgress in 1974, and her infidelities became the basis of On the Beach and Zuma. At some point after the break-up, she and Nitzsche started a relationship, which was itself a rocky one.
- It Was Based on A Screenplay For A Movie That Never Happened
- It Was Young's Last Ride with The Original Crazy Horse
- The Album Wasn't An Instant Classic
- Young's Pianist Had Never Played Before
- 'Southern Man' Kicked Off A Rock 'Feud' with Lynyrd Skynyrd
The title of the album was a direct reference to a screenplay of the same name by Dean Stockwell (any Quantum Leap fans out there?) and Herb Bermann. It was an end-of-the-world film, with the final sceneapparently featuring a tidal wave crashing toward a popular hippy hangout in Topanga Canyon, whose regulars included Young and Joni Mitchell. Young...
Young's intent was to combine band members from both CSNY, which had just released its second album, Déjà Vu, and Crazy Horse, which played on Young's 1969 album Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. You can hear it on songs like "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," which features members of Crazy Horse alongside CSNY bass player Greg Reeves and Stephen St...
When After the Gold Rush was released, it was critically panned, particularly by Rolling Stone, which called it "half-baked." "Neil Young devotees," the critic wrote, "will probably spend the next few weeks trying desperately to convince themselves that After the Gold Rushis good music." It took Rolling Stone a little longer to convince themselves ...
While most of the band was made up of seasoned musicians from CSNY and Crazy Horse, there was also newcomer Nils Lofgren, who was 19 at the time. Young met him at the Washington, D.C., club the Cellar Door and invited him to play piano for the After the Gold Rushsessions. There was only one problem — Lofgren had never played before. "I was back Eas...
One of the most angry and pointed songs onAfter the Gold Rushwas "Southern Man," a vivid portrait of anti-Black racism in the U.S. South. "I saw cotton and I saw black, tall white mansions and little shacks," Young sings. "Southern Man, when will you pay them back?" The song is told from the point of view of a white man from the South, and many Sou...
The careers of Nitzsche and Young have criss-crossed a number of times over the years - from Young's 'Expecting to Fly,' which Nitzsche produced and arranged on the second Buffalo Springfield album, to Young's last solo tour which featured Nitzsche on back-up piano.
He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and others. He worked extensively in film scores for the films Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Apr 17, 2005 · Even in his earlier, more anonymous assignments in the early 1960s, Nitzsche often managed to assert his individuality. In Bobby Darin’s “Not for Me,” a crazed piano solo drops in from nowhere.
May 11, 2005 · Hearing is Believing: The Jack Nitzsche Story is a career retrospective that covers much of that ground. It’s a jaw-dropping collection of 26 songs that show off the breadth of Nitzsche’s ...
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Sep 11, 2015 · Produced by the multitalented Jack Nitzsche (1937-2000), who played keyboard on the album, it features only Young, harmonizing with himself along with a full orchestral backing: the rest of the band simply wasn’t there.
