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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglVMxLUrJ0

Forgotten experimental documentary, directed by Young himself...somehow
slipped my mind to look this up until recently. The stream is of
mediocre quality, but I'm well-used to digging through lo-fi rarities.

It's not too bad for this sort of woolly, DIY project...the rhythm of
the editing feels right. Strangely, it promotes Buffalo Springfield and
CSNY more directly than his own work. Maybe his groups were still more marketable than his own name back then.

Some sights from the film: street-corner Christians, black riders, a
mysterious religious figure, someone shooting up, Young's love for old
cars, offstage musician banter and a brash, precocious kid. Contemporary footage of Young performing tends to be in an informal, woodshed mode
rather than anything onstage.

Someone groans that it's "insane" for certain rock concerts to be asking
$7.50 or $8.50 for a ticket...oh, those were the days.

Warning: At one early point, there is a silent patch for a couple of
minutes while Buffalo Springfield performs "Rock & Roll Woman" on The
Flip Wilson Show. I'm guessing that lawyers from Wilson's estate
demanded this, since other Buffalo Springfield clips are intact. I found
this isolated performance with sound elsewhere on YouTube, so I didn't
mind. There also is some irregular silence within the final eight
minutes that seems like a flaw in the stream. Though I note the credits
mention the Beach Boys' "Let's Go Away for Awhile," and I didn't recall
hearing that during the film.

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On 6/16/2016 9:41 AM, Michael Black wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, poisoned rose wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglVMxLUrJ0

Forgotten experimental documentary, directed by Young himself...somehow
slipped my mind to look this up until recently. The stream is of
mediocre quality, but I'm well-used to digging through lo-fi rarities.

I saw this once in the late seventies, I guess it was at the local rep
house, unless it was when one of the universities here did one of their occasion selection of "rock movies". But I have no memory of the
contents, it was something to see, I think especially since at the time
you either had to see it right now, or likely not have a chance to see
it again (the days before VCRs). I think my friend knew about it, I
wasn't uninterested in Neil Young but wasn't paying attention to movies
back then. But I did get to a lot of films like this at the time.

The only real image I remember is Carrie Snodgrass, who he was married
to or living with at the time. And I'm not even sure she's in it, her
name pops into my mind when I see you mention this movie.

Michael

Thanks for the weird dreams I got last night after watching this pr!

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