Just started reading Barney Hoskyns tell-all-social-history of the LA music scene Waiting For The Sun. Jumped right into the early 1970s chapters and quickly found myself reading about Neil Young. And that led to walking around with Tonight’s the Night blasting in the headphones. I knew the basic story behind Tonight’s blisteringly bleak songs about drug abuse and Young's grief over the deaths of his friends Danny Whitten and Bruce Berry (both overdosing on heroin), but Hoskyns details a scene truly overwhelmed by sweet cousin cocaine and the inevitable egomania, paranoia, and jagged “friendships." No wonder Neil wanted to roll another number and get the hell out on the road to anywhere it could take him.
i've been flying
down the road
and i've been starving
to be alone
independent
from the scene
that i've known
Neil Young - Albuquerque [buy]
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