And really, it was the worst thing I ever heard. And I went, what happened, you know? Then, I read this thing that'd been added on the album cover where this - with this engineering note that this had employed this technique. And they put it out like that, and I got the pressings back. And it would make it so you could play it both stereo or mono.īut in reality, I was a test case for this with my first album. You run it through this machine that this guy made, this little box or something. This is when stereo was just coming out, and there were - you know, a lot of people had monosets, and the stereo didn't sound right on the mono set. They did something to the sound back then. And then, they tried out this new scientific process that they'd invented called the CSG Haeco cog (ph) process, which is this unbelievable thing where you can make a stereo record play back on a monomachine just like it was a monorecord. YOUNG: No, I mixed myself right up there where I should be. But there are stories about how, you know, like, in your first solo album, you intentionally mixed yourself in the background. GROSS: Now, you say that you weren't self-conscious about your singing. So we did harmony, and we did everything, you know? But it didn't matter. YOUNG: Nobody in the band could sing, not nobody else in the band. GROSS: No one else in the band could sing? I mean, we could do a lot more songs if I sang them. I never really - I was just glad to be singing. GROSS: Were you self-conscious about your voice when you started to sing? Of course, now I'm like, you know, Caruso or something. I don't remember it, but I was so into it I guess I didn't notice that everybody was going, what the - what is that, you know (laughter), as I was starting to sing. YOUNG: People couldn't believe it, apparently. And I started singing, and that was, like, a milestone (laughter). So I really couldn't figure out who it was that made me want to sing - but one of them, you know, or both of them at the same time. YOUNG: Yeah, "Peepin' And Hidin'" and all these things, you know? He - about the same time as the British Invasion, all these groups singing harmony and playing guitars and everything - both of those things happened to me at once. And then, after the English Invasion, you know, in the - and also about the same time as Jimmy Reed became popular, the old bluesman Jimmy Reed, with "Going To New York" and. We used to do songs - instrumentals that I used to write, you know, melodies, and play them on the guitar, sort of like a group called The Shadows from England. TERRY GROSS: You were in high school bands. The first was in 1992 when his album "Harvest Moon" was released. We're going to listen to portions of two interviews Terry Gross did with Neil Young. He's played acoustic music, hard driving rock with the band Crazy Horse, rhythm and blues and grunge rock. Young later went off on his own and played a short stint with Crosby, Stills and Nash. He moved down to Los Angeles and hooked up with Stephen Stills in the band Buffalo Springfield. Neil Young joined his first band in Canada when he was 17. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: And someday, somebody'll be able to go to the theater and see it maybe.īIANCULLI: Neil Young has a new album produced by the legendary Rick Rubin, titled "World Record." There's also a new 50th anniversary edition of his "Harvest" album. There's really not a big plan about it, right? You're in it now, you know? It just keeps changing like that. YOUNG: We're just making a film about - I don't know - just the things that we want to film. What is - do you know - can you explain this? Well, you're filming a movie or something. Tonight, Neil Young dropped in to say hi. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "NEIL YOUNG: HARVEST TIME") In this clip from it, Neil Young is at a radio station. The movie is called "Harvest Time," and it's now in theaters. I've been a miner for a heart of gold.īIANCULLI: Fifty years ago, Neil Young released his album "Harvest," which includes such classic songs as "Heart Of Gold," "Old Man," "Alabama" and "The Needle And The Damage Done." A new documentary presents, for the first time, footage shot when he was making that album.
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