I saw Neil on the Blue Notes tour in Toronto - CNE - outdoor gig. Played only Blue Notes material. Some of the crowd were a little fickle about that. I remember the radio adds were playing classic songs, so that may have mislead the crowd leading up to the show a bit. I couldn't care less. I knew I was watching something great! He gets to the encore and pulls out After the Gold Rush!! I will never forget this next moment - He hits the line "I was lying in a burned out basement with the full moon in my eye" Right at that moment the clouds broke and all you could see in the sky was this great big full moon. The crowd went absolutely bat sh!t crazy. The clouds had covered the sky the whole night and waited for Neil's cue. It was truly magical!!!
@@gtbones Yup. Same here. Seen Neil numerous times with a number of his many bands and it's always been great. As long as you realize Neil is gonna play what he wants not what you might want, or expect, then it will always be a damn fine time. ✌🇨🇦
My favorite Neil song is Revolution Blues, and a close second is Pushed it Over the End. Then, there's Barstool Blues, Albuqurque, and I Believe in You. 😃
Impossible to give just one song. But side 2 of On The Beach is as near to perfection as it’s possible to get without the universe imploding. Oh, I should also mention… no I have to stop or this post will go on and on.
This is just Otis, but it would be freaking cool if Neil found this video and ended up connecting with you and some other great musicians you know. In today’s world the internet has a funny way of connecting people for the better. As always love the videos, love the content, and keep on digging that garden known as life. I definitely dig the garden you got going.
74 year old guy whose been listening to Neil since the 60's. Like most of his stuff but still feel the intensity when he sings Ohio! Lots of emotion tied to that song. Old Man means a lot more to me since I've grown into the lyrics, lol.
Talk about synchronicity! What a great story, thank you!! This is one I don't have to think twice about, my all time favorite Neil Young song is After the Goldrush.
True that. But all Dan's solo records are fantastic. The stuff he did with his band Homemade Sin. Such a loss that he retired from the road. But I understand. Good thing is ,he still makes great records. The one from last year, with former Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch , an instrumental album, is a perfect RnR record.
@@otisgibbs DAn Baird is under rated period! I have more of Dan's music than I do of Neil Youngs, so I guess you could say I like Dan better than Neil Young.................Oh Well It's my Party!!
My favorite Neil Young song is Old Man. I listened to it when I was in my youth and now I can relate to the lyrics from a different perspective having lived long enough to become the proverbial old man of which Neil wrote back in the day. His music is timeless and very relevant to life.
I love Dan Baird (and Neil Young). I do a video of my CD collection for each of them. Dan Baird in my Unsung Heroes series. He rocks. Thanks! Cool video.
Ambulance Blues, Here We are in the Years, Out on the Weekend, and The Old Country Waltz are among my favorite Neil songs. Thank you for sharing this story and video - love this channel!
Neil is in my top 5 all time I think. Too many songs to love to pick just one but after the gold rush is first to come to mind in this moment. Got to meet Neil many moons ago backstage at a show in LA when I worked for Tower Records. Very cool guy. Nice for no reason to us.
I saw Dan play at Third and Lindsley with a band called The 28s, for Chuck Berry’s birthday. Totally blew the place to pieces, best club gig I ever saw. Great work Otis, keep ‘em coming!
Another cool story. Thanks Otis and Dan. Saw the Blue Notes at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on short notice. Neil used to use that club as a warm up/rehearsal gig. All us banana slugs up at UCSC would hear about a run of shows the same day and line up outside the club starting around Noon. Stray Gators gig the same way. As good as they were, nothing like those critical mass Crazy Horse shows. Neil was and is one of the greatest!
I just got to shake Neil's hand and say "Thanks for so much great music!" once.. but i spent a month just as ecstatic as you expressed. Great story Dan!
Neil is a monument. Only Dylan is in the conversation of greatest career. I think Neil edges it out. Dan Baird is fantastic. His name pops up in stories (The Replacements we’re running buddies with him for a time) and no one has anything but nice things to say about him. I love these talks Otis. Thanks
Citizen Kane Jr. Blues, and Razor Love. You got that Boxcar and the whole Zuma and incredible Time Fades Away albums. So many mind-bending shows like 73 at the Garden with the Stray Gators and in 88 at the Royal Hawaiian with the Blue Notes- in this room with about 50, 6' tables. Life-altering tunes and events. Thanks for asking. Once we went to see CSNY in 74 at Roosevelt Raceway and stayed at the nearby Hilton thinking we could find him and jam! No Neil, but my sister and her friend partied with his roadies there, and they gave her one of his Herco picks for me! Good times (are coming).
That was awesome Otis and thank you for your entertaining and great contributions to country history and it’s music thank you thank you thank you once more so much and it was an awesome story by your friend! 👏👏👏👏🍀🍀🍀🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹❤️
What a great story! I am a big Neil Young fan, I remember when I was in high school and the album After The Goldrush came out. I think that is one of his best albums, I have worn it out and still have it. One of my favorite songs Neil did was Cowgirl In The Sand.
Me too , I wore it out a few times and after my girl friend died up on the Kern river , tonight's the night was something that saved me , along with The song Kern River from Merle Haggered which I think are the same type of song writers ....and sooths me in some way in times of trouble......in mind....
That has to be the coolest story I have ever heard about anything like that. If anyone doesn't appreciate this then I don't can guarantee you Will Rogers never met them. Thank you for this it makes my day.
Hey, Dan, I want to thank you (get the song reference?) for the best times of my life you and the Ga. Satellite’s provided me early on when you guys played around Atlanta, particularly at Hedgen’s in Buckhead!
Wow great story. I have so many Neil favorites,over 50 years of listening to him. Buffalo songs are some of my favorites. I guess I track with him through the years.
Absolutely amazing, anything Neil Young is great and to be told by Dan Baird only adds to it He looks great for all he has been through. Another home run Otis.
As I'd like to think most Neil Young fans are, my fav neil songs are interchangeable, constantly evolving, always dependant upon multiple different aspects. But ifiwere to chose ONE, i reckon it would be Ambulance Blues....and I have no idea why. Just is. I had a similar experience with the keyboard player from Widespread Panic, John Herman. I was sitting in a bar in Memphis shortly after a WSP show at mud island, and got to chatting about Neil Young, as a matter of fact. He told me a great story about how he learned to play "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" on piano. Was a mesmerizing feeling, being able to talk face to face with someone that inspires me, but to connect with him on a mutual admiration for Neil young's music was truly priceless and something I'll never forget.
I still think the definitive version of Powderfinger is the Live Rust version. Those solos - and pretty much every note on that whole album just soar. That first note Neil plays on his harmonica in After The Gold Rush still gives me chills. I listened to Live Rust so much, it's part of my DNA.
I was at that Neil Young and the Blue Notes show as well. And a good one it was. However, my walk home was a bit shorter than Mr Baird's journey of shame. About a minute and a half, tops. I lived right around the corner in a building on Ave C btwn 2nd & 3rd Streets, which shared a wall with the late, great World. The World is gone but its boom lives on. After all these years, I think I can still feel the bass pumping in my bones as I drift off to sleep But that's okay, I'm a bass player.
Love these stories, Otis! As a lad from Northern Ontario, "Helpless" will always be my fave Neil tune. Hits me in the feels every time. That being said, I just gotta say to Neil, Omemee (ON) is NOT "North Ontario", lol!
I grew up in Wawa, Ontario and always thought Helpless was about my hometown. I went to Omemee to see house he grew up in . It is Southern Ontario. Lol
@@johnmitrikas7303, Wawa and the North Shore of Superior is some pretty amazing country. I used to work for ON Parks & MNR and our zone took in that whole area. I did quite a bit of work in the Chapleau area (Ivanhoe Lake), a number of years ago. I too had initially heard that "Helpless" was about that area (I had heard Blind River - had hear his family had a cottage in the area), but saw an interview with Neil talking about it being about Omemee. I grew up in North Bay and went to college in Lindsay, only about 20 km from Omemee on the way to Peterborough (Hwy 7) - definitely Southern ON, lol. Cheers!
Ya I hear ya. Glad you enjoyed the North Shore. I talked to Ian Tyson on little tour we did and he said it was above Wawa. So did a friend of mine in Toronto who knows Neils sister. Crazy stuff huh?
Powderfinger. I could listen to Dan Baird stories all day long. They guy is not only underrated as an artist, but he is also so well-spoken. What a cool cat.
Throughout my life my favourite Neil Young song has changed now and then, but for the last few years ‘Ambulance Blues’ has been my favourite. It’s easier to say a top 5 or top 10 than your favourite cause it’s difficult to edge out some others.
All of "Way Down In The Rust Bucket!" When you get the circumstances surrounding it, it has to be Him and the Horse at the top of their game. I've seen Dan Baird several times and spoken with him after shows. The biggest cheer I saw him get is when they did "Helpless" funnily enough.
Tonight's the Night always touches a nerve with me. It's almost like it could have been on Tom Waits Rain Dogs album.... but that song off Comes a Time with I feel like going back, back where there's nowhere to stay...(I forget the title) sticks in my head lyrically and I think it's a beautiful poem. There are so many ...Old Man is another...Neil really owns an E minor chord like nobody's business
Dan Baird is such a cool guy. After the Gold rush, still my favorite Neil Young song. Ever since I was a kid, I love the third verse about the silver spaceships flying. Sparks the imagination
I met Neil once, mid 80’s, he was wind surfing on a Lake here in Montreal, you couldn’t miss his tour bus, looked like a rolling log cabin with Buffalo Springfield written across the back of it. Sat at the same table as him and had a beer. Never been speechless for so long in my life, afraid to say something stupid I guess, my much older brother who was Neil’s age at the time ‘39 ish’ eventually said, I like some of your stuff Neil but I’m a bigger fan of Dylan, I was in shock, Neil’s response was Dylan’s my favourite guy as well, I get it…… Funny how these moments in time sick with us 😎
Neil on the road. “I’ll find a place where they don’t care who I am “ so effortless so simple describing his personal life. so somewhere in a small cafe in Albuquerque he probably wrote it there on a napkin. Beautiful song,
I just likes Neil from the first time I saw him. Buffalo Springfield was the first album I ever bought. I just felt him to be a kindred spirit and always felt he was just sitting in my living room and playing. Ohio was probably my favorite song of his and gave me strength to fight my draft board to get my conscientious objector status.
Thanks for the story Otis. I have met only a few of my heroes but similar to Mr. Baird I couldn't engage correctly or with coolness intact. Usually in the same kind of situation too, somewhere backstage in a hallway when they are soaking wet with sweat and a publicist is saying something while someone else is shouting about something. Sometimes it's just better to meet them when they are buying the work socks bundle at Wal-Mart. Pick a favorite Neil song is rough. I would opt for When you dance, I can really LOVE.
Hey man shit happens ! things happen fast and sometimes lines don’t cross but if you keep aiming the right direction sometimes they do ! Great video ! wish I could catch a ride to Indianapolis to see you and the Queen Cook !! Hope it goes well !! Much love in Texas 💜🙏💜
For the Turnstiles is pretty great. Pocahontas. Honestly, I really love Star of Bethlehem. Like Hurricane is one of the great songs of all-time. He really is one of the Olympians.
🎸i felt the pain and then the humor. jamming along to N.Y.&CrazyHorse is like Warm Pie & Ice Cream here. Dan'l seems like a reasonable type crazy Rocker Friend ✌🏼
That was awesome, great stuff! Favorite Neil song...is that possible?! Down By The River? Last Trip To Tulsa? Don’t Let It Bring You Down? I’ve Been Waiting For You? Cowgirl In The Sand? The list goes on, on any given day it could be just about any! ✌️
I remember the Bluenotes tour. It wasn’t my favorite part of his career but it wasn’t half bad. It’s hard to have a favorite because it would depend on what mood I was in. One of my long time favorites is Cinnamon Girl. Good video- Dan is a real character!
Saw niel with csny and crazy horse a couple times really love psychedelic pill caught a show from that tour in seattle it was incindere also otis loved the song ghosts of our fathers i added it to my playlist
"Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and Me"...But Neil is so good it's crazy to pick a favorite right. The wife and I saw him back in the early 80's in Las Cruces NM...It was the Neil Young and the Pink Cadillac's Tour....Loved every minute of it...I can't remember now when in the show he played it but he did "Ohio"...I had been taking note of the crowd and it was a very diverse group. Young to old & everything in between...The second he started the intro to Ohio everyone in that place where up on there feet and stomping the floor and singing along, throwing fist into the air...etc. Talk about unity in a building...WOW!!!...Felt like an earthquake and the building was going to come down...Ed Brashear...PLH-ELB
@Harry The Hat Well I can't say that I know that one way or the other, I was only out there 1981 through 1986 and it was a busy time in my life, just starting a family...etc. so I didn't go to but two concerts during that period, Neil in Las Cruces & we got to see the Guess Who in a real small venue in Alamogordo NM where we were living at the time. Ed Brashear
@Harry The Hat Thanks Harry glad you enjoyed it...I haven't been back out there since moving back to KY in 1986...Retired about four years ago & am hoping too go back out and spend about a week or two there. The area I was in was truly an amazing place. Alamogordo, Cloud Croft, Tularosa, Ruidoso...The Mescalero Reservation, The Trinty Site, White Sands, Dog Canyon...etc. Can't weight Good Lord Willing.
Such a great story! So many songs to pick from. Our band does a good rendition of mr soul (Buffalo Springfield style) but every time I listen to the unplugged version I get goosebumps. Mr Soul is my favourite
You asked us to tell you what our favorite Neil Young song was, but that's impossible. But I will say this - all of my cool friends, me included, had and worshipped Decade growing up. It was a life changing record.
Great story man! Hard to pick a favorite Neil Young song, because there are so many, but maybe ill say it's either Hey Hey, My My (into the Black) , Rockin in the Free World, or something like Thrasher, as I live in Swift Current, Saskatchewan Canada, just Porvince over from where Neil grew up, where I see thrashers every Harvest time like he might have outside Winnipeg
Favorite songs must include "Through my sails", beautiful harmony's, so light and powerful, you can feel the sea breeze. "Albuquerque" truly a deep need to escape song. And "Walk On" from On the Beach, just killer. Listen to Lucinda Williams "Walk On" she must have been inspired.
Dan Baird live is something you don't wanna miss!! So energenic and melodic!
I saw Neil on the Blue Notes tour in Toronto - CNE - outdoor gig. Played only Blue Notes material. Some of the crowd were a little fickle about that. I remember the radio adds were playing classic songs, so that may have mislead the crowd leading up to the show a bit. I couldn't care less. I knew I was watching something great! He gets to the encore and pulls out After the Gold Rush!!
I will never forget this next moment - He hits the line "I was lying in a burned out basement with the full moon in my eye"
Right at that moment the clouds broke and all you could see in the sky was this great big full moon. The crowd went absolutely bat sh!t crazy. The clouds had covered the sky the whole night and waited for Neil's cue. It was truly magical!!!
I saw that tour, too. Enjoyed the hell out of it!
I was at that show too.....!!
@@gtbones Yup. Same here. Seen Neil numerous times with a number of his many bands and it's always been great. As long as you realize Neil is gonna play what he wants not what you might want, or expect, then it will always be a damn fine time. ✌🇨🇦
Cool story !
Neil did some weird shit at bonaroo a decade ago to get the clouds to break. Some shaman type stuff...lol
My favorite Neil song is Revolution Blues, and a close second is Pushed it Over the End. Then, there's Barstool Blues, Albuqurque, and I Believe in You. 😃
Dan Baird and his band Georgia Satellites almost single-handedly saved us from synth-pop in late 1986 with their song "Keep Your Hands To Yourself."
What's your favorite Neil Young song? I'm partial to Tired Eyes, Lotta Love, Mr Soul and a hundred others. How about you?
Thanks friend.. so many favorites! But on a given day.. Cortez the Killer for that into, Tonight’s the Night, probably all time favorite is Helpless
Impossible to give just one song. But side 2 of On The Beach is as near to perfection as it’s possible to get without the universe imploding. Oh, I should also mention… no I have to stop or this post will go on and on.
Cinnamon girl for now. I rediscovered this song a few months back and kicked myself for never learning it. So I did. Great song electric or acoustic!
Completely agree, the first side of On The Beach is good, the second is greatest of all time quality
Fave Uncle Neil # "Don't Let it Bring You Down" LIVE from CSNY '4-way Street' album 😎 it's ASTONISHING... (+ a hundred others 😉)
Wonderful story.
It's impossible to have only one favorite Neil Young song. But Powderfinger is one of them.
Absolutely loved this Otis & Dan! Beautiful!
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Thank you, James!
@@otisgibbs Love from England! ✌️🖤✨
This is just Otis, but it would be freaking cool if Neil found this video and ended up connecting with you and some other great musicians you know. In today’s world the internet has a funny way of connecting people for the better. As always love the videos, love the content, and keep on digging that garden known as life. I definitely dig the garden you got going.
More stuff from Dan! That was a great story. Love your channel Otis.
Thank you, Greg! There's more to come from Dan in the next few weeks, so stay tuned.
looking forward to more
74 year old guy whose been listening to Neil since the 60's. Like most of his stuff but still feel the intensity when he sings Ohio! Lots of emotion tied to that song. Old Man means a lot more to me since I've grown into the lyrics, lol.
just saw him play that solo in Bend, was tremendous 🤘🏼
What a great story! I wish we would all get a second chance to redo a situation or conversation. Glad that worked out!
Fantastic story! So often it doesn't turn out that way but it sounded like Dan really needed that and the universe intervened. Beautiful!
Talk about synchronicity! What a great story, thank you!! This is one I don't have to think twice about, my all time favorite Neil Young song is After the Goldrush.
Thank you, Susie!
Oh man, that was hilarious. I'm a huge Dan Baird fan, and he is awesome too, not just Neil :-)
My Neil favorites are,
“Are you ready for the country” &
“From Hank to Hendrix”
Thanks Otis, great segment!
Thank you!
“Love songs for the hearing impaired” is a very underrated album. Very, very underrated.
I'm with ya, Mike!
True that. But all Dan's solo records are fantastic. The stuff he did with his band Homemade Sin. Such a loss that he retired from the road. But I understand. Good thing is ,he still makes great records. The one from last year, with former Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch , an instrumental album, is a perfect RnR record.
@@otisgibbs DAn Baird is under rated period! I have more of Dan's music than I do of Neil Youngs, so I guess you could say I like Dan better than Neil Young.................Oh Well It's my Party!!
My favorite Neil Young song is Old Man. I listened to it when I was in my youth and now I can relate to the lyrics from a different perspective having lived long enough to become the proverbial old man of which Neil wrote back in the day. His music is timeless and very relevant to life.
I love Dan Baird (and Neil Young). I do a video of my CD collection for each of them. Dan Baird in my Unsung Heroes series. He rocks. Thanks! Cool video.
my favorite ga satellites song is ' tell my fortune '.. that first e.p. is just the best.. that version of ' six years gone ' is great as well.
All over but the crying is my favorite satellites tune!
Old Man, and Mr. Soul are my favorite Neil songs. He does do a great version of Mystery Train. Lots of great songs.
Yep! Right from the early "Nowadays Clancy..." 'n' "Sugar Mountain" to Rockin' in the Free World" and beyond, Neil adds a lot to music!
Ambulance Blues, Here We are in the Years, Out on the Weekend, and The Old Country Waltz are among my favorite Neil songs. Thank you for sharing this story and video - love this channel!
Neil is in my top 5 all time I think. Too many songs to love to pick just one but after the gold rush is first to come to mind in this moment. Got to meet Neil many moons ago backstage at a show in LA when I worked for Tower Records. Very cool guy. Nice for no reason to us.
I saw Dan play at Third and Lindsley with a band called The 28s, for Chuck Berry’s birthday. Totally blew the place to pieces, best club gig I ever saw. Great work Otis, keep ‘em coming!
Another cool story. Thanks Otis and Dan. Saw the Blue Notes at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on short notice. Neil used to use that club as a warm up/rehearsal gig. All us banana slugs up at UCSC would hear about a run of shows the same day and line up outside the club starting around Noon. Stray Gators gig the same way. As good as they were, nothing like those critical mass Crazy Horse shows. Neil was and is one of the greatest!
That's beautiful, Andrew! : )
I just got to shake Neil's hand and say "Thanks for so much great music!" once.. but i spent a month just as ecstatic as you expressed. Great story Dan!
Neil is a monument. Only Dylan is in the conversation of greatest career. I think Neil edges it out. Dan Baird is fantastic. His name pops up in stories (The Replacements we’re running buddies with him for a time) and no one has anything but nice things to say about him. I love these talks Otis. Thanks
Thank you, Thomas!
I love this. What a great story. Thanks for this, guys.
Citizen Kane Jr. Blues, and Razor Love. You got that Boxcar and the whole Zuma and incredible Time Fades Away albums. So many mind-bending shows like 73 at the Garden with the Stray Gators and in 88 at the Royal Hawaiian with the Blue Notes- in this room with about 50, 6' tables. Life-altering tunes and events. Thanks for asking. Once we went to see CSNY in 74 at Roosevelt Raceway and stayed at the nearby Hilton thinking we could find him and jam! No Neil, but my sister and her friend partied with his roadies there, and they gave her one of his Herco picks for me! Good times (are coming).
I can't begin to narrow down my favorite Neil Young songs, but just wanted to say that's an awesome story. Thanks for doing these videos, Otis.
Thank you!
That was awesome Otis and thank you for your entertaining and great contributions to country history and it’s music thank you thank you thank you once more so much and it was an awesome story by your friend!
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Thank you, Brian!
What a great story! I am a big Neil Young fan, I remember when I was in high school and the album After The Goldrush came out. I think that is one of his best albums, I have worn it out and still have it. One of my favorite songs Neil did was Cowgirl In The Sand.
Me too , I wore it out a few times and after my girl friend died up on the Kern river , tonight's the night was something that saved me , along with The song Kern River from Merle Haggered which I think are the same type of song writers ....and sooths me in some way in times of trouble......in mind....
That has to be the coolest story I have ever heard about anything like that. If anyone doesn't appreciate this then I don't can guarantee you Will Rogers never met them. Thank you for this it makes my day.
Thank you!
What a great story! Really happy that things worked out even better than what you may have imagined! Thanks for sharing!!!
Otis. This is one of my favorite videos of yours - and I've seen quite a few. Dan's rendition is priceless.
OMG - The Blue Notes is my FAVORITE Neil stuff !!! This is HILARIOUS !!!
Hey, Dan, I want to thank you (get the song reference?) for the best times of my life you and the Ga. Satellite’s provided me early on when you guys played around Atlanta, particularly at Hedgen’s in Buckhead!
Great story , Otis, your channel is takin off, I am happy for you , I hope that it doesn't lose that family atmosphere
Thanks, Bruce!
Now that was quite enjoyable. We like stories with a happy ending. Keep on rockin Otis & Dan.
Wow great story. I have so many Neil favorites,over 50 years of listening to him. Buffalo songs are some of my favorites. I guess I track with him through the years.
Absolutely amazing, anything Neil Young is great and to be told by Dan Baird only adds to it He looks great for all he has been through. Another home run Otis.
Thank you, William!
Loved this! Had the pleasure of working with Mr Baird in the glorious 80’s. A real gentleman. And The World! In NYC. Yeah not a great venue.
Hey bud!
@@danbaird7414 hey there bud! How ya hangin’? Some good times we had.
As I'd like to think most Neil Young fans are, my fav neil songs are interchangeable, constantly evolving, always dependant upon multiple different aspects. But ifiwere to chose ONE, i reckon it would be Ambulance Blues....and I have no idea why. Just is.
I had a similar experience with the keyboard player from Widespread Panic, John Herman. I was sitting in a bar in Memphis shortly after a WSP show at mud island, and got to chatting about Neil Young, as a matter of fact. He told me a great story about how he learned to play "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" on piano.
Was a mesmerizing feeling, being able to talk face to face with someone that inspires me, but to connect with him on a mutual admiration for Neil young's music was truly priceless and something I'll never forget.
It's all one song........
great human story, down to earth and great to hear it! ty p.s. wished Dan would put out more vinyl!
Thanks for what you do,Otis
Thank you Otis and Dan Baird for sharing your stories with this channel; it was a good way to start my morning. :)
This is absolutely hilarious!!! Loved hearing the story haha.
cortez the killer - live rust version is epic.
I still think the definitive version of Powderfinger is the Live Rust version. Those solos - and pretty much every note on that whole album just soar. That first note Neil plays on his harmonica in After The Gold Rush still gives me chills. I listened to Live Rust so much, it's part of my DNA.
Otis you know so many cool people, your a blessed man
Thanks, Curt!
Great story… glad Dan got to feel better about his Neil encounter…👌🎶👌
"Everybody knows this is nowhere" has to be one of my favorites
Old man ... that was me and my old man .... now ... I'm the Old Man ... how the world turns ... love this trip you're taking us on. !!!!
Excellent story. Thanks. Out on the Weekend.
Once and only Once is a great bluenotes live show! Favorite NY tunes, Ordinary People, L.A. Crime in the City
This was a great story, thanks for sharing (as always). My fav Neil song is Old Man.
Thank you!
This was fantastic! For me, Harvest Moon. Cinnamon Girl, honestly it changes constantly.
Thanks, Michael!
such an excellent story so excellently told! Thanks Otis and Dan!
Thank you, Britt!
A Man Needs a Maid -- I know, I know, not very of the times. But stunning.
Don’t forget Stupid Girl from Zuma. Not very acceptable today, either.
I was at that Neil Young and the Blue Notes show as well. And a good one it was. However, my walk home was a bit shorter than Mr Baird's journey of shame. About a minute and a half, tops. I lived right around the corner in a building on Ave C btwn 2nd & 3rd Streets, which shared a wall with the late, great World. The World is gone but its boom lives on. After all these years, I think I can still feel the bass pumping in my bones as I drift off to sleep But that's okay, I'm a bass player.
Love these stories, Otis! As a lad from Northern Ontario, "Helpless" will always be my fave Neil tune. Hits me in the feels every time. That being said, I just gotta say to Neil, Omemee (ON) is NOT "North Ontario", lol!
Thank you!
I grew up in Wawa, Ontario and always thought Helpless was about my hometown. I went to Omemee to see house he grew up in . It is Southern Ontario. Lol
@@johnmitrikas7303, Wawa and the North Shore of Superior is some pretty amazing country. I used to work for ON Parks & MNR and our zone took in that whole area. I did quite a bit of work in the Chapleau area (Ivanhoe Lake), a number of years ago. I too had initially heard that "Helpless" was about that area (I had heard Blind River - had hear his family had a cottage in the area), but saw an interview with Neil talking about it being about Omemee. I grew up in North Bay and went to college in Lindsay, only about 20 km from Omemee on the way to Peterborough (Hwy 7) - definitely Southern ON, lol. Cheers!
Ya I hear ya. Glad you enjoyed the North Shore. I talked to Ian Tyson on little tour we did and he said it was above Wawa. So did a friend of mine in Toronto who knows Neils sister. Crazy stuff huh?
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what a great story to start the day....great story, thank y'all...
Thank you!
Powderfinger. I could listen to Dan Baird stories all day long. They guy is not only underrated as an artist, but he is also so well-spoken. What a cool cat.
Haha, what a rig, love this man. Otis, you have the greatest friends.😃
Thanks, Caper!
Throughout my life my favourite Neil Young song has changed now and then, but for the last few years ‘Ambulance Blues’ has been my favourite. It’s easier to say a top 5 or top 10 than your favourite cause it’s difficult to edge out some others.
All of "Way Down In The Rust Bucket!" When you get the circumstances surrounding it, it has to be Him and the Horse at the top of their game.
I've seen Dan Baird several times and spoken with him after shows. The biggest cheer I saw him get is when they did "Helpless" funnily enough.
Tonight's the Night always touches a nerve with me. It's almost like it could have been on Tom Waits Rain Dogs album.... but that song off Comes a Time with I feel like going back, back where there's nowhere to stay...(I forget the title) sticks in my head lyrically and I think it's a beautiful poem. There are so many ...Old Man is another...Neil really owns an E minor chord like nobody's business
Dan Baird is such a cool guy. After the Gold rush, still my favorite Neil Young song. Ever since I was a kid, I love the third verse about the silver spaceships flying. Sparks the imagination
Dan is the best!
Love it when tells his stories.could listen for hours. In a backstage, he told me about when he met Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, oh man...
I met Neil once, mid 80’s, he was wind surfing on a Lake here in Montreal, you couldn’t miss his tour bus, looked like a rolling log cabin with Buffalo Springfield written across the back of it. Sat at the same table as him and had a beer.
Never been speechless for so long in my life, afraid to say something stupid I guess, my much older brother who was Neil’s age at the time ‘39 ish’ eventually said, I like some of your stuff Neil but I’m a bigger fan of Dylan, I was in shock,
Neil’s response was Dylan’s my favourite guy as well, I get it……
Funny how these moments in time sick with us 😎
Best story ever! My favorite Neil Young song is Albuquerque.
Neil on the road. “I’ll find a place where they don’t care who I am “ so effortless so simple describing his personal life. so somewhere in a small cafe in Albuquerque he probably wrote it there on a napkin. Beautiful song,
GREAT story..!!!👍🏼❤️
I just likes Neil from the first time I saw him. Buffalo Springfield was the first album I ever bought. I just felt him to be a kindred spirit and always felt he was just sitting in my living room and playing. Ohio was probably my favorite song of his and gave me strength to fight my draft board to get my conscientious objector status.
Awe man what a great story, by a great story teller. I want to hang with this guy.
Thanks, Jerry! Dan is definitely a great hang. : )
Great Stuff, Otis, thanks 🙏
Thanks, David!
Thanks for the story Otis. I have met only a few of my heroes but similar to Mr. Baird I couldn't engage correctly or with coolness intact. Usually in the same kind of situation too, somewhere backstage in a hallway when they are soaking wet with sweat and a publicist is saying something while someone else is shouting about something. Sometimes it's just better to meet them when they are buying the work socks bundle at Wal-Mart. Pick a favorite Neil song is rough. I would opt for When you dance, I can really LOVE.
Thanks, Steve!
Hey man shit happens ! things happen fast and sometimes lines don’t cross but if you keep aiming the right direction sometimes they do ! Great video ! wish I could catch a ride to Indianapolis to see you and the Queen Cook !! Hope it goes well !! Much love in Texas 💜🙏💜
The Live Rust album was my favorite. But I could listen to anything Neil Young. Cool story.
For the Turnstiles is pretty great. Pocahontas. Honestly, I really love Star of Bethlehem. Like Hurricane is one of the great songs of all-time. He really is one of the Olympians.
🎸i felt the pain and then the humor. jamming along to N.Y.&CrazyHorse is like Warm Pie & Ice Cream here. Dan'l seems like a reasonable type crazy Rocker Friend ✌🏼
Current Neil favorite - Comes a Time - #2 is everything else - including all the experimental
The Needle and the Damage Done was the first song I learned all the way through on guitar in the eighties. Neil Young was one of my favorites.
Long may you run my all time favorite from Neil
That was a great story, I enjoyed every word of it. Dan Baird sure knows how to tell a story.
Thank you, Rylie!
Hahaha, great story. I love Dan’s band Georgia Satellites too.
Old Man and Over and Over are the first two that come to mind, but I love too many of Neil's songs.
Round and round has an interesting backstory-and it’s often overlooked as filler- great song- thanks!
That was awesome, great stuff! Favorite Neil song...is that possible?! Down By The River? Last Trip To Tulsa? Don’t Let It Bring You Down? I’ve Been Waiting For You? Cowgirl In The Sand? The list goes on, on any given day it could be just about any! ✌️
Great story. Beautifully told.
Thanks, John!
@@otisgibbs You're welcome. Call me Jack.
I remember the Bluenotes tour. It wasn’t my favorite part of his career but it wasn’t half bad. It’s hard to have a favorite because it would depend on what mood I was in. One of my long time favorites is Cinnamon Girl.
Good video- Dan is a real character!
Thanks, John!
Dan Baird is so frickin’ cool. I am a HUGE Georgia Sats fan. You should get him to tell more stories!
Wow! That story is mind blowing! What's the chances? I can't imagine how Dan must have felt after their last conversation at the gym. So cool.
LOVE ya ottis . Hilarious video
Thanks, Kevin!
Saw niel with csny and crazy horse a couple times really love psychedelic pill caught a show from that tour in seattle it was incindere also otis loved the song ghosts of our fathers i added it to my playlist
"Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and Me"...But Neil is so good it's crazy to pick a favorite right. The wife and I saw him back in the early 80's in Las Cruces NM...It was the Neil Young and the Pink Cadillac's Tour....Loved every minute of it...I can't remember now when in the show he played it but he did "Ohio"...I had been taking note of the crowd and it was a very diverse group. Young to old & everything in between...The second he started the intro to Ohio everyone in that place where up on there feet and stomping the floor and singing along, throwing fist into the air...etc. Talk about unity in a building...WOW!!!...Felt like an earthquake and the building was going to come down...Ed Brashear...PLH-ELB
@Harry The Hat Well I can't say that I know that one way or the other, I was only out there 1981 through 1986 and it was a busy time in my life, just starting a family...etc. so I didn't go to but two concerts during that period, Neil in Las Cruces & we got to see the Guess Who in a real small venue in Alamogordo NM where we were living at the time. Ed Brashear
@Harry The Hat I grew up in Western KY and am back here now. Being in such a rural area we were blessed to have Evansville IN just 50 miles away.it was a great concert town the whole time I was growing up in the 70's & still is. So sorry to hear of your wife's passing. As for NM I absolutely loved it but was out there for a year or so before I realized it. Probably would have never moved back to KY but for starting our family and the wife and I felt guilty with our families not getting to see our kids but once a year. here's a poem I wrote while living there that shows you how it went for me
Double Rainbows
New Mexico...it’s a strange land
A land of Anglos, Blacks, Mexicans, Indians
A new state that is on the one hand
A hundred years behind the times
And on the other hand
A hundred years ahead
It is a land of endless variety
A land that seems at first
To be the end of the world
You arrive and can’t imagine
Why you would stay
Then you stay and can’t imagine
Why you would leave
The sunrise is never the same
The sunset is never the same
Double rainbows over the mountains
After an all too precious rain
The miles are longer than they should be
The sky is an open endless kind of free
Words just cannot begin to explain
How it’s always changing, never the same
Camp out in the mountains
Beneath the pine trees
Sounds like running water
The never ending mountain breeze
Climb to the top, look down below
Realize how small you are
What you do not know
I’m living in the desert
Waiting for double rainbows
Edwin Lewis Brashear ©
@Harry The Hat Thanks Harry glad you enjoyed it...I haven't been back out there since moving back to KY in 1986...Retired about four years ago & am hoping too go back out and spend about a week or two there. The area I was in was truly an amazing place. Alamogordo, Cloud Croft, Tularosa, Ruidoso...The Mescalero Reservation, The Trinty Site, White Sands, Dog Canyon...etc. Can't weight Good Lord Willing.
Such a great story!
So many songs to pick from. Our band does a good rendition of mr soul (Buffalo Springfield style) but every time I listen to the unplugged version I get goosebumps.
Mr Soul is my favourite
Thanks, Steve!
You asked us to tell you what our favorite Neil Young song was, but that's impossible. But I will say this - all of my cool friends, me included, had and worshipped Decade growing up. It was a life changing record.
Excellent
Thank ya sir! : )
Down by the River 🤟🏽
Great story man! Hard to pick a favorite Neil Young song, because there are so many, but maybe ill say it's either Hey Hey, My My (into the Black) , Rockin in the Free World, or something like Thrasher, as I live in Swift Current, Saskatchewan Canada, just Porvince over from where Neil grew up, where I see thrashers every Harvest time like he might have outside Winnipeg
Thanks, Neville!
Old Man.
Just watched a Dan B interview on Everybody Loves Guitars the other day, which was also good. A fellow gearhead for sure.
Favorite songs must include "Through my sails", beautiful harmony's, so light and powerful, you can feel the sea breeze. "Albuquerque" truly a deep need to escape song. And "Walk On" from On the Beach, just killer. Listen to Lucinda Williams "Walk On" she must have been inspired.