Neil Young goes record shopping, finds his own bootlegs (1972)
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In this video allegedly filmed in 1972, Neil Young goes shopping at a record store and finds his own bootlegs, confronting the clerk and walking out of the store with the record before calling the manager. If anyone knows where/when exactly this takes place I'd love to know. - เพลง
This video made me feel like I was actually standing in that record store in 1972 watching everything take place. What a great piece of historical footage.
Definitely
Exactly! Really nice, and Neil Young is the same asshole in 1972 that he is in 2022
Yea i can smell Neil Young through my computer.
100%
100% felt like I was standing in there seeing shit go down. It's like peering thru a window in time, Neil was not having that bootleg.
That note from Neil to the store owner would now be worth a lot more than a bootleg LP.
Well, yeah...but he didn't know, poor guy lol
That note ain’t worth a roll of toilet paper
@@andrewcross8244 whatever you’re paying for toilet rolls, you must have the world’s most pampered bottom.
Yep
@@andrewcross8244 if it had his autograph on it its about 300 bucks.
The most uncomfortable moment of that poor record store clerk's life captured on 16mm film 50 years ago.
I don't think that was 16mm film. I think it was video and probably a professional video company Young hired going by the brief shot of the boom mic. Probably shot on 3.4" U-matic.
@@gregduffell234 It looks like film. It has dirt specks and it appears to be playing at 24 frames per second which is the standard frame rate for film.
@@studio11_ I stand corrected. I also noticed that in the opening footage, and carrying on for a little while, there's a hair fluttering in the gate at the bottom. Also, a flash frame is visible between the shot of the record store without Young and the one of him in the store. There is a frame line visible in the early footage. Interestingly, the hair in the gate disappears (which is a little unusual because once present they almost never go away on their own). I see the 24 FPS you speak of (the repeated 4th frame going frame by frame). I also notice what might be an A-B roll edit artifact on the cut when he's showing the bootleg to the guy over by the bin. But otherwise this is extraordinarily clean 16mm footage with very little grain noticeable. The dirt specks you refer to occur very rarely. I also find it odd that the transition from the lighting of the record store and the outdoor night footage is so seamless. Usually with film there would have to be a major adjustment. Also, in filming under florescent light, there's usually a green tinge. 16mm reversal stock was common in this era (no negative). It would be very interesting to know how this footage survived in such a pristine condition for so long and how it was transferred to video.
@@gregoryduffell71 also, at 10:03 the roll of film runs out and you can see them quickly putting the camera down to change the film before Neil gets on the phone with the manager.
he seemed to handle it alright. I suspect he was worried it would be deducted from his own pay.
The fact that Neil Young is walking around a record store and no one is freaking out or hounding him shows how different life was back then.
This was in LA. Even now that would not happen with the biggest stars… That why they like it here, they can go on with their lives and not really be hounded
They didn't even know who he was..lol The one guy says 'What's with the camera?' lol
@@jissanhuq3792 ....Not true, it depends on the artist. You think if Beiber walked around by himself people would leave him alone...not a chance.
@@Johnnywhamo in a record store in LA. Yes. I’ve seen huge pop stars in grocery stores. Nobody does anything cuz it’s just not cool unless you’re a tourist
@@jissanhuq3792 ......Really, exactly which huge pop stars have you seen alone in grocery stores?
Imagine Neil Young walking into the Spotify headquarter offices pulling this shit
He did haha
@@evancrouch9939 some men just stick to their guns 💪
The part of his catalog he still owns?
It would take forever to violate their servers
Neil Young = Good music and bad politics.
Neil Young berating a record store employee about a bootleg while "Your Mother Should Know" plays in the background is the perfect summatioon of 1971.
If Neil was berating him, it would have been a lot more severe. Neil was pretty level throughout.
@@robertmcmanus9185 he was absolutely berating him, way more than an hourly employee there deserved
@@southernbreeze3278 Look, if you work in the record world (and I have for many decades) and you're not prepared to acknowledge that bootlegs exist, I just don't know what to say. That said, as I mention further on, I don't believe this clip is "as represented". It all seems staged to me. Someone comes into the store with a camera (they were large and impossible to hide in the 70's and there's not a single reference to "What are you doing with a camera in here?"). Neil walks out and then the employee follows slowly and Young is just sort of hanging around. I didn't get it at first, but I think we've been conned! Hahahaha.
Imagine if Croz had walked in instead.
@@robertmcmanus9185 Just stop. Neil Young is an a-hole and every objective person understands this.
For anyone curious, this shop existed for several years in the late 60's/early 70's. It was called "Stereo Cartape", which originally had the address of 1454 N McCadden Place, around the corner from Sunset Blvd, which is the side entrance of this building. By 1972, the main entrance was on Sunset Blvd. Due to its proximity to Sunset Strip, it actually wasn't all that unusual for a Neil Young to stop in. The building has since been demolished.
Great information, thanks. I love the small size of the shop, but very, dunno 'attractive,' that little shop.
I like how he respected the shop worker enough to not want to get him in trouble that he brought the record back.
He didn’t give a FUCK. Young was being his typical dick self…
Well, I don't like how he took the record in the first place. I think he realized he was stealing something and could get in serious trouble.
@@skyhigh6089it was an illegal Live Bootleg. The only person getting in trouble would have been the store owner
Plus a broken candle that one of the film crew knocked off the shelf.
@@vinto34 Neil paid for the broken candle
The atmosphere of this video is amazing and represents the 70's more than Taxi Driver.
Just watched Taxi Driver for the 1st time, amazing movie
The 'atmosphere' is the tracking shot. No edits. No cues. It was a 70's staple to achieve cinematic realism.
Scorsese would be proud of this cinematography
Probably because it’s real life…..
Without a .44 magnum inside a woman’s cunt
I would be more worried if I wasn't finding my stuff bootlegged
Yeah, maybe not back on 1972. Record sales were the way bands made their money, as opposed to touring like today. My September 1982 ticket for The Who and The Clash (with David Johansen) was $15.
@@robertmcmanus9185 And today it's iTunes and Spitify who milk the money as the bands slave away touring. Sad how the whole music game flipped
@@leokimvideo Spitify. Hmmm I love that! Did you coin the term? Copyright it now, it's great. That said, lots of one hit wonder bands (okay, some of them had some minor hits to be sure) back from the 70's got the gold ring with that one killer 45 that is still played every day across North America and they still make a living off their catalogue. Minor bands can play 10-20 dates in a small geographic region hitting the larger bars and get $30,000+++ each night. If they keep their road costs down they can do very well. That said, leokimvideo, Spitify should be against the law. They need to pay bands a fair share.
@@robertmcmanus9185 Man, 30k a night is a stretch for a minor band. Last show I played at a "major bar" in a big city paid out 300 dollars. Split that three ways and it doesn't matter what your road costs are.
Yes..he should be proud!
I have bootlegs that you simply can’t get…period! Worth a fortune to a collector!
I was dying when the dude came in to sell bootleg 8 tracks.
surprised neil didnt ask if he had any young or CSN tapes
Same 😂... I know he drove away in a camero
Meanwhile the dude standing there waiting has a box full of his bootlegged 8 track tapes he's delivering.
I was thinking the same thing.
Totally! 😂
Yes, Neil let that one go I think he might have sensed trouble otherwise.
"Hey man you buying Neil Young bootleg 8-tracks?"
I wish we had more footage like this from the past. It’s a snapshot of history and I love it.
Theres TONS of footage from then. What on earth are you talking about lol Acting as if the 70's were a hundred years ago
@@Humma_Kavula They mean more along the lines of the candid type stuff like we have nowadays. Most of what everyone sees from the past are in books, news broadcasts, or government curated snippets of the world state. What a lot of people really take for granted right now is the fact that we are going to have TOO MUCH documentation of this era because everyone now has a half-professional camera in their pocket. Options like that did not exist until a little over a decade ago. This is the immersive type of footage that really puts you there in that moment. Kind of the same effect videos have on me that are just a guy walking around Japan, at night, in the rain.
Same vein th-cam.com/video/PO0Z3SYx8Tw/w-d-xo.html
@@TheYoungVulnerableAnimeGirls yall need to look into the internet archive
Well said man@@TheYoungVulnerableAnimeGirls
Big fat nugget of gold is this. I grew up in L.A.; 16 at that time, so in a flash I'm right back there. Giant hit of nostalgia to my core.
You see people? THIS is the correct usage of the word nostalgia. This person was alive at the time and experienced the world as it was at the time this was filmed. Young people pay attention, you can't feel nostalgia for something you never experienced. The word you're looking for is history, not nostalgia.
@@User0000000000000004why do you have so much hatred for young people?
@@User0000000000000004 if you , like me grew up in LA in the 70's then I am pretty sure you know that Prince Andrew was the Least of the offenders, not saying he is not a bad guy - just sayin...and this is a great vid!
Is this in la ?
Well isn't that special!
Wasn't it so cool that record stores opened at night? Take me back to 1972!
Yeah man. All those vampires in 72. Shit was real.
What time would they usually open?
Scammers are open 24/7
Yes
In NYC in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's , many record stores were opened at night. Bleeker Bob's and all of the record stores on St. Marks Place were hot at night.
That timing on Strawberry Fields was beautiful. And then they walk back in and "Strawberry fields forever." That was killer.
Mad to think that it hadn’t been released all that long before this was taking place.
The "mother should know" when he's explaining it's a bootleg is a weird timing also
@@sorendomaschofsky6617 the weirdest timing is bluejay way with the lyrics please don’t be long as soon as he starts sifting through the records aha
Also "Your mother should know" as the clerk is being chastised!! Haha
What’s amazing is the video hasn’t been pulled down for the Beatles copyright violation 🙂
Neil used to have to personally reclaim bootlegs one record store at a time, now he just has everything removed from Spotify without having to leave home. Life is so much easier now.
But he has to call Spotify and ask for the owner. . . . . . "Hey. This is Neil Young." . . . . "Who?" . . . . "NEIL YOUNG." . . . . . . . "OK geezer. What'dya want?" . . . . . "I'm taking this album and I'm not paying for it . . ya hear?"
So much easier today, but at a cost , like a huge cost to happiness and freedom.
And did you see how long it took for that credit card transaction? Now you just tap your card on the reader and bounce.
Neil just caved and went back to Spotify.
He did have his music put back on Spotify once he got over it.
dude the way this is filmed and the quality makes me feel like im actually there, so sickk
He broke the candle and paid for it. He's got a heart of gold.🤣
Neil Young was kind of a dick...I mean, if you want to investigate copyright theft, go to the source, not the vendors.
Even gave it a sniff
" fool on the hill"... soundtrack to this in the background..😂
Great musician... But he's a cunt
"I always wanted a candle'"
Love the way the employee is unimpressed by “the artist.”
@@howardkleger Perhaps he don't know Neil Young !!!
@@alaindounont4310 he works in a record store. In the 70s. Of course he knows who neil young is
I don’t think he did. Didn’t he say “I’ll look you up” or something as Neil was leaving.
Employee didn't realize this guy sang cowgirl in the sand lol
@@brandonvalentine2555 Are you sure at 100 % ??
The record store kid is smart.
I love how songs from Magical Mystery Tour are just playing in the background
Surprised youtube didn't pull the video in a meta version of what Neil is doing here
neil young really pulled a “i’d like to speak to the manager”
Total Karen, "i played on it , that means its mine"
@@MichaelC1998x Correction, I think you misunderstood. This is total Neil: You stole my music, which is mine and I'm taking it back (fair enough, it was an unlicensed bootleg after all, guessing you missed that part? This is why in the day of videotapes and DVD, they all started out with that weird "FBI $250,000 piracy fine" message. This is why Napster was shut down. This is stolen property after all?).
@@MichaelC1998x it's a BOOTLEG album, they aren't allowed to sell it. They stole his music and had it in the store for purchase.
@@gusto401 nope. Karen.
everyones got a little bit of karen inside them
One of the the best rock history moments captured on film, absolutely incredible, and almost 15 mins to boot. Green eyed lady playing, looking at the "new" Dylan record, seeing how popular 8-tracks were getting, how calm and chill everyone was even when someone was trying to "steal" a record, or seeing how artists used to fight back against pirates, to the god damn Craig display in the background, truly amazing piece of footage.
I have a few of the vinyls you can see at 0:44 _Sunfighter_ (1971) by Grace Slick and Paul Kantner
I was 14 back then. We were poor and my music was on cassettes recorded by richer friends. I started buying my vinyl when I was 19
I have a copy of Captain Beyond and Glass Harp you can buy. $46. Let me know.
@@justicegusting2476 Phil Keaggy is GOD!!!
I recall Sugarloafs Green Eyed Lady was released in 1970..and A.M. radio played the song 24/7! 😎
Today there would be a lot of screaming and cursing by both parties. Reality TV has corrupted people's minds to the point they think that's normal and accepted behavior.
He didn't go record shopping. He went looking for the shop with his bootleg that someone snitched on. He took a cameraman.
Neil is wearing the same
Jacket in the record store that he wore on stage when he performed for BBC Radio Theater on Feb 23, 1971. Classic. Check out the performance. Keep on rocking brother.
I wonder if that record store clerk is still alive..That would be a trip to see him now
He'd be around 70. Very probably is. Probably unaware he's been immortalized.
I bet that guy behind the counter still tells this story to people. "one time Neil young tried to shop lift from me"
You mean one time he caught him shoplifting. The other times he would just walk outside and sell the album, then get another one. I mean, it's his album, so...
This is a clip from a movie made by Neil Young in 1973. It is a film autobiography by the name of Journey Through The Past. You can read more about it in Wikipedia. Neil Young owns the rights to it which is probably why, when it was originally posted, it was removed...and probably will be again.
@@scooter2163 It has been misrepresented and the source obfuscated. As I believe I mentioned, I have a strong feeling because of that Mr. Young will ask that it be removed.
@@erepsekahs yeah, whiny little bitch.
@@cowanthegreat8966 You are very amusing. May I take this opportunity to wish you and your loved ones Happy and prosperous New Year. Much love to all of you from The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. May God bless you and relieve you of all your sins.
5:50 "I can't afford a record player" that hit hard
The 70s equivalent to not being able to afford a PS5.
Not true guys record players were at Woolworth for $9... He cant afford the highly expensive record player he wants... they're talking about 8 tracks that was supposed to be the beginning of the end for record players and so record players were everywhere cheap
When this was recorded in 1972 record players were around for 80 years
The BS I could smell from that comment the store assistant made hit hard among his denial of knowing what records were being sold there etc. 😂
@@Eleventhearlofmars Hahahahhaha!!! Right on.
As someone who wants to open up a record store. This is about the coolest piece of media I think I’ve seen. I love the vibes, I love how small it is, I just love it all
Do you love that these 2 geeks didn't even recognize Neil
@@sillyworm I mean I probably wouldn’t be able to recognize any famous people who came in to my store, I’d try to be a little more polite I would like to think.
This video brings the 70s out of a mythical and legendary time period for me Gen Z
You have the best comment of all. I wish I could get you about 500K thumbs up.
The video is simply amazing for we older folk who were around (if young) in those times and apparently, for Gen Z, too.
Kudos to the shop assistant for handling a difficult situation with professionalism, respect , manors and decency.....
People just had more decency back then
@@hihunter7 The internet has taught everyone to be assholes.
@@thegrandpencil4374 wrong, the internet gave assholes around the world a platform where they can be assholes anonymously.
It was the 70s when being a decent human being wasn’t unusual.
Now todays owners would call the cops because someone was recording!!
What made me feel very small was glimpsing the cars driving by outside. I just thought they all had life on their mind and felt whatever they were going to do was important. Little did they know 50 years later someone would glimpse them passing for fraction of a second from inside the record shop. It’s just crazy. Life goes by so fast.
I know right? The fact that the camera could only capture this little moment in time inside that store, and the fact that, meanwhile, the world kept going on outside... It's like realizing your own world it's not so important after all. A couple of streets away there's another story to be told and a huge world to discover. A world that won't ever be the same again tomorrow...
There's something so beautiful yet terrifying in the concept of time
@@MelodicBox well said thanks. I was struggling with trying to convey my point. You helped.
I remember being at my grandparents once , they were both such sharp people to the end, when they were in their mid 80s and they were talking about their parents, my Grandma's brother was there too, who was about 15 years younger than her, and at one point she turned to him and said, "Ohh....I really miss Daddy" and the way she said it was as if the six year old version of herself was still inside that elderly body as if it were yesterday......that always kind of haunted me. The guy would have been like 120 years old and she still missed him.
YES. That's what it is exactly, that particular thing (cars moving by) felt so surreal to me that I actually felt dizzy. Something about them being in motion, doing their own thing outside of this video, in 1972....and here I am watching it in 2022.
There's a word for that feeling (one of my personal favorites): sonder
"You ain't nobody 'till you've been bootlegged" - Robert Plant
paying for the broken candle at the end makes this poetry
Wow. That one moment where they stood out of the store, I could literally feel like I was there with them. 1972. What a time it must have been to be alive. So nostalgic.
Any time in the past is nostalgic. And it would be unremarkable and boring to be there at the time. People will say the same of today.
@@goldenhourkodak Can't really imagine anyone being nostalgic about now, but you're right.
@@AlphonseSwedgen I don’t agree. I think the passage of time brings nostalgia. I’m 61 and my folks ( who lived til their 90s) used to say how much fun they had growing up. Yet they were born in 1918 and 1925.In lower working class east end Montreal. Mom too. Both to British immigrants. Dad was born during the last year of the Spanish flu and WW1 He worked at 12 to help support his family and did high school at night. My Moms parents were equally poor. Her Dad got a job as a machinist because he was a good footballer and the company team needed one. That was during the depression. My Dad told me they got welfare and he described how it worked. The welfare people came over , went thru the ice box and pantry , made his Mom empty her purse his Dad his wallet and then they’d decide how much to give them. It was a government thing just city volunteers. Pretty humiliating. Still they both talked about how great their childhood was and all the things they did. Dances. Skating skiing going ‘up town’ visiting the countryside. Listening to Big Band tunes. My Dad was in the RCAF during WW2 and eventually became an educator. We had a small house on the suburbs growing up and didn’t have a lot but didn’t really care. So really I think we nostalgicize our youth regardless of its short comings.
@@johngore7744 That's true. My grandparents were the same. Didn't have much in the way of things, but could tell a million stories about growing up in the 50's/60's. I more so mean from my perspective, I find it hard to imagine exactly what would make people nostalgic about now. Like, taking music for example. Every generation ties big significance to the music - or even musical subculture - they grew up on, because it also carries memories involving your friends that liked similar stuff. People growing up in the 70s had progressive, disco, hard rock, country, art rockers like Zappa and Bowie; the 80s kids fell in with the metalheads, punks or goths; 90s kids had hip hop, alternative, grunge, etc. I feel like popular music has been stagnating for most of my life (28 years) and has just been more of the same. Bland, unoriginal or actively irritating. Hell, even I spent most of my time listening to music that came out before I was even born, as did all my close friends. Do the current generation even have some cultural flashpoint they can identify with? I honestly don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling thinking back on the late 90s/ early 00s culture - any happy memories are solely associated with people and virtually nothing do with the culture at the time. People can make you feel nostalgia, but a more general sense of it relating to a specific time in history? I think it would have to have some personal cultural significance to you.
@@AlphonseSwedgen When youtube and everything you use right now is dead you'll be nostalgic for now
The guy in the record store sure does a good job avoiding eye contact with a camera filming right in front of his face
He’s supposed to 😊. ( I was a film major in college)
If everyone was supposed to ignore the camera was there, its kind of undermined by the folks later in the video who ask “why is there a camera”
That’s not Neil young. It’s all bubkis!
And who put the camera man there? It seems like a staged event but still entertaining.
@@bryanrobinson9770My advice too...!
At the end, Neil says I heard they sometimes sell these at swap meets, clerk says OH, GOD YES, then he backtracks. And he works at a record store in the 70s and doesn't play records. And then he charges Neil Young for a broken candle, after illegally selling bootlegs of his work. Neil was amazingly calm. I guess even back then some people didn't understand the value of real music and artists, and that stealing is wrong. Today it's 100 million times worse, and very few people care.
My sentiments exactly. The kid was out of it and just wanted to get the “encounter” over with as quickly as possible. I’d love to know what the “boss”, Barry, said on the phone to Neil and what this kid thought after he found out who was in the store. I hope he regretted trying to pass the buck and not engaging. This is an example though of how guys functioned back in the day. They didn’t really listen very well and they didn’t engage. It’s almost like the reptilian brain was in their forehead. Additionally, everything was about the job. Amazing, so well captured and not much of it about a celebrity, mostly about society.
The thing I love about this on a personal note is the way it transports me back to my 8 year old self in 1972 living in a house with Beatlemaniac older siblings and listening to the Magical Mystery Tour album as they are here when it was only a five year old record.
Yeah same here I was 11 the youngest of 4. There was always music.
I know, I loved hearing those songs. It really put into perspective for me how revolutionary their music was for their time. People today don't have as good a grasp at really understanding that. Just incredible.
Yeah, seemed an odd choice to be playing in a record shop when so much good current music existed. Guessing the guy just liked it, but still weird.
@@hotliner2872What would you consider normal if The Beatles are a weird choice?? Lmao
LOL what is even better is that the guy working did not even know who this was. Man could you imagine having that note still, what a treasure to have all these years later.
Lol yeah he listened to Neil Young quick after that interaction, I bet and probably said oh my god what have I done?
I think that guy definitely knew who he was dealing with but didn't want to get in trouble so feigned ignorance about as much as he could. He works in a record store for crying out loud, he has to be knowledgeable about the popular musicians of the time. He 100% is aware of who that man is even if hypothetically he may or may not be a fan of his music. The other people in the store didn't seem to recognize Neil, since he sort of comes across as a down to earth regular guy, but they would probably be amazed upon realization as well. This is like if Ed Sheeran made an appearance today, everyone knows who he is.
@@danielk9067 At the beginning I thought, wow look at that zonked out hippy checking out records - wonder when Neil will talk to him. Then I realized that he was Neil Young lol
Where is that guy today? Anyone know if he’s seen this?
14:46 Exactly! I mean he had no clue who he was talking to 😅 And Neil’s always been a distinctive looking cat, ya know?
I miss those times so much 💔 The limitations of not being able to get any music in 1 second made it so much more magical
It's impossible to imagine that scene in today's world. what a nice glimpse back into a world that doesn't exist anymore. love it.
I would wish this wonderful time back when most people had much respect!
there's something about hearing the Beatles in the background, and knowing it was relatively new right then, that makes this really cool to watch, besides giving a feeling you're right there..
Yeah! I was thinking the same. It helped me realize how great they were for the times. They’re still amazing but especially when albums like Magical Mystery Tour were brand new
These songs were 4-5 years old by that point but it is really cool. Still a great record today
You are so not kidding. I was a youngster when Magical Mystery Tour was released, but the memories of hearing it through the ceiling from my older brother’s room really takes me back.
It's hard to believe this footage is now over half a century old! I was 4 going on 5 at the time this
was filmed and was barely aware of Neil Young back then. The other comments below by other
viewers are priceless and very informative of the time and place. I almost felt as if I was there
myself! Thanks for sharing this.
@@redbug3777 I turned 5 that month.
@John Smith The album cover of his I remember seeing back then was After The Gold Rush. Whether Harvest or After The Gold Rush, you win either way!
A ja 16 !- i już słuchałem Younga bo film z Woodstock i jak zagrali CSN&Young i inni na tym już wtedy legendarnym koncercie zaszczepił mi jeszcze większą chęć poświęcenia się muzyce( słuchaniu i przemyśleniu co jest co )!- Rengi Kid from Poland!🤠👍🎸🎸🎸🎸
That kid was so lucky being 3” away from Neil Young, Great clip
I was 2!!!😂😂😂
Great artifact, this video. Reminded me of the story of John Fahey going into record stores after recording and pressing his Blind Joe Death and just casually slipping copies of it in the rows as he was flipping through.
I wish I lived in the crappy studio apartment you'd find above places like these. Through the thin layer of burgundy carpeting the beat of the stereo system blasting well into the night. A whole collection of characters from different backgrounds finding their way wandering into the record store, listless, aiming for a purpose they can only see through music. The true drifters, the ones who pave the paths we all follow. Smoking dope and jamming out to my own Hendrix anthology, looking out the window in the rain, staring harshly into the cold starless night while slowly developing tinnitus. There's something special about a place like that.
For context this record store was only about a mile from Laurel Canyon Blvd, where the entire early 70s singer songwriter movement lived - Joni Mitchell, Neal, Stills, Crosby, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Mama Cass, etc. Then further down Sunset another mile was the Sunset Strip with everybody else. "Blue Jay Way", playing on the radio, is just above Sunset in an area called "Birdland" where all the streets have bird names. George Harrison was renting a house from the Beatles US attorney Robert Fitzpatrick and wrote the song waiting for Eric and his buddies to get the house, very difficult to find up there. In 1971 this area was ground zero for the music business and for the whole 70s music scene. You could see anybody on the street - Hendrix, Townsend, Donovan, anyone. Though this record store thing was obviously staged, it was certainly not uncommon to see him walking around. At the Country Store on Laurel Canyon you could easily run into Jim Morrison buying a sandwich or Crosby buying munchies at midnight. In the other direction on Sunset a few miles down was the entire TV industry. All that stuff has mostly moved away.
It wasn't stage/. The guy in the store must know it is Neil but plays dumb to avoid being responsible for the bootleg. A friend of mine told me George Harrison once walked into a Russian record store in 1980 took like a dozen bad boots of himself. He told the guy in the store "I'll be back one day better not be restocked. I dont care about the Ringo or Paul boots just mine"
Did you become particularly familiar with any artist in the music scene back then? Any stories you care to relate?
@@Piggy-Oink-Oink He means that Neil set it up. Going in with a camera.
Great point David. I used to go up to Blue Jay Way to get high with friends or make out with a girl. It's a cul de sac at the top and had an amazing view of the city. Two of the streets on the way up are Oriole and Thrasher, I remember that. You start from a corner on Sunset where there is a famous liquor store. It's a few blocks west of where the Roxy and the Rainbow were located.
@@Piggy-Oink-Oink George Harrison was never in Russia in 1980. The story is apocryphal. Besides, bootlegs were the ONLY way Russians could hear rock music at that time, I can imagine Harrison having some sympathy for that fact.
Wow. Rare moment captured in early 70's like it is done billions of times every day now. The guy filming had a camera, not a phone.
In a record store!
The Guess Who and The Beatles playing.
It's like a time warp moment. How is this dude not freaked out that Neil Young just walked in the store?
Listen to Neil talking.
So so cool.
Rare find.
Thanks for sharing.
😊✌💙
I liked the opening song . . . "Green Eyed Lady" (Sugarloaf) Great song.
He didn't know who he was, for one. I'm in a minority here. I love this video it's absolutely amazing. But I think that kid was incompetent for 1972 or 3072.
It’s so nice to see that record shopping is the same as it was 50 years ago
I can’t believe how great the Beatles sound in the background!
I'm not into Neil Young but watching this it's fascinating and really does take you back in time. Store guy did good. Wasn't fazed and stood his ground. I wonder if he's still alive and recollects this moment
if he's alive i'm pretty sure he'll remember, lol
Probably about 75 years old now.
Not even Buffalo Springfield?
Store guy was a fucking idiot.. what in the hell are you babbling about.. he's selling illegal bootlegs. He knows what's up.
How could one forget this experience ? Having Neil Young personally come in and, claim his ownership to his copy righted material. IMO the shop owner got off easy, after all, he was caught red handed in possession of stolen intellectual property. Moreover, the shop was trying to profit off of said stolen intellectual property. It's an open and, shut case IMO, Young has the evidence documented in this video.
This video was originally removed from TH-cam because it was a bootleg video of a Neil Young performance. ;)
Plus in the background the 8-track of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour was playing.
And then Paul McCartney sues Neil Young for posting Beatle songs on TH-cam?
@@djtoona - Don't degrade Paul by believing he could have the same temperament as Neil Young .
@@shyman99 Well, when he met at the station,, I was standing with a bootleg in my hand. However, he had his polygon in his hand, so I booked out of there.
@@shyman99 Faul.
I had no idea cassette tapes were this available in 1972. Very cool.
ironically they have better audio quality than vinyl, even if they are more fragile.
That's a treasure you shared..
Thank you
What is amazing about this is a lot of the brilliant music hasn’t yet come out. Early 70’s much more works of art to come out. Amazing
And the Beatles just playing in the background. What a trip
Seems too perfect lol
Blue Jay Way is about 5 minutes up the hill from Sunset and Doheny.
He was good looking back in the day just saying 😍
Dirty damn hippy,stealin records.
Huh?
Wow, I forgot how long credit card purchases used to take to ring up. I don't miss that. But man, I *do* miss record stores being open into the evening. What a great historical document.
I used to loooove browsing for hours in HMV Oxford Street, Tower Records Piccadilly Circus and my great local record shop in Barnet. It was just as enjoyable as listening to the music.
MAN, would I love to walk into a store with "Green Eyed Lady" playing now.
I always loved the bass line on it
It was this video that compelled me to add it to my Spotify Playlist. Great song
LOL
Store clerk : "It's not my place I don't know what's going on"
The Beatles : "Your mother should know..."
LOVE IT ! I was 16 yes old & we had great music!😊
Nothing beats old record shops❤. Ambience, feeling and smells. I live in Finland and we had great places too. I think copy of U.S. shops👍😎
Cameras truly are windows into the past, love seeing old footage, doesn’t matter what the content is. Thanks for sharing
I cant believe someone was casually vlogging 50 years ago , it blows my mind
Staged event was obviously staged.
@@shyman99 Yes, obviously staged as real life didn't start happening until the 2000s.
You mean filming life.That started about a century before this video.
@@CrimeSchool138 - You mean those old 9mm video cameras that were used around that time that were expensive to buy, use, have film developed, and the quality was almost always crap? Unlike the professional equipment this random person off the street seems to be using? The same camera operator the store clerk has no issue with filming inside the store (and is even okay to let him come behind the counter) even though he knows the store is being busted with doing something illegal? Gullible people will be gullible.
@@CrimeSchool138 man I'm bored, I'm the Chairman...
The handwritten note with Neil's phone number on it would now be worth a hundred times more than the bootleg.
This needs to be in a Tarantino movie.
With Young going all Samual Jackson on the store. lol
i sure miss going to the record store to buy cassettes and cds. they dont have stores like that any more.
The fuck are you talking about there’s still records stores out today
Yes they do, literally everywhere...
They actually do. Not as prevalent, but there are plenty. Especially given the revival of vinyl record popularity. Along with folks who still like collecting and playing CDs.
I have one close to me called Monster Music & Movies. Its like stepping into the past when I walk in. Even has a Blockbuster-ish smell. They're beloved here.
Boy I miss all those trips to the record shops when I was younger, I feel like I could just put this in full screen mode and just step right back in to it. 😲
Right? We need a 3-D version of this.
Its cool to see things like this before you were born, TH-cam is like a time machine, I was born in 73 and remember just a little from that decade. Thanks for posting. 👍👍
I came to this video cold and assumed today's Neil Young would be looking for 1972 bootlegs, just for amusement or curiosity. I was wondering "When's Neil Young appear?!... wait... is this clickbait?... who's the dude with the beard... is Neil doing the filming?..."
“I’m one of the people on this record and I never seen this record before” 😂 I’m going to take this I’m on it, I’m goin to take it it’s mine, I don’t know anything about this record and I wrote the songs.
Classic! I love it!
This is my favourite clip on TH-cam ! 😆 🤣
Im convinced the 70s had the absolute best music in history.
Early-Mid 1990s
@@jasonpeters9716 wrong :)
@@Fulgrim_The_Phoenician This coming fr some1 who most likely had a KISS poster! 😆 🤣 😂
Wow, what a flashback. Back then I was a poor hippie college student. I knitted scarves like his for everyone. Unique world back then.
Yep , i have long hair now in 2022 , i can be treated as a freak by some .
Hi do you still knitted scarves ! I would love one .
I hate the Neil is such a d*xk! Sad
I wish I could go to college. But ya know, I'm not a boomer
@@b3astlyify What's stopping you? Fucking Walmart offers free college.
You'd rather disparage an older generation for your lack of ambition.
"It's not my place I don't know what's going on." Quite a thoughtful, vivid description by this fella. I get the funny feeling that this wasn't the first time Neil came across bootlegs of his recorded work (and probably not the last time, either).
I also get the feeling he didn’t stumble upon this lol. I have a feeling someone tipped him off.
@@BMarie774 Agreed.
And over the last few years, Neil has started putting out these old bootlegs himself... with the original artwork. So it took 50 years, but Neil ultimately got his revenge on the bootleggers.
@@69Mucci it was his plan all along that’s why he said let me keep this lol
@@BMarie774 I keep wondering who was filming this. So I think you may be right. He knew what he was looking for.
Such a cool piece of video, hearing the "oldies" on the radio, but they werent oldies yet and the fact the guy didnt care about the camera being shoved in his face like most people would nowadays.
Wonder if that piece of paper still exists, what a cool piece of memorabilia that would be!!
This beautiful footage is a real time machine!it feels to be in the store back in the seventies!!8 cartridges,Craig car stereos....sad how everything went lost.
What a lovely vibe, sitting in a music shop, listening music, meeting music lovers, talking with artists, enjoying day and night street view. The customers are cool, wearing sunglasses at night. Dreamy.
👍
Lovely Vibe until
Neil Young came in...
Yeah, you'd have to pay like 5,000 for a VIP ticket to meet anyone famous now lol.
And nowadays, the celebrities can't step foot into a public place like this, without being surrounded by an entourage of hangers on and bodyguards.
I love this snapshot in time, great upload.
I still shop for albums at record stores like this Today!!! Love Neil, saw him live last summer so ‘effin good!!!
Let me know where such stores are.
Wow! What a trip down memory lane! ❤
such a great snippet in time, the late night small record shop, young neil young, the clerk, the albums and the music.
Just the fact that it was LATE NIGHT .... that era is disappearing as Gen Z would rather play TikTok on phones than explore the night
Even the customer with his box of 8 tracks coming in to sell them with his Anton Chigurh hairstyle lol
@@konstantinov complete bullshit. as a gen z'r you realize the ways of listening to music have changed obviously for worse - but thats just how it is now. only children use tiktok, really. i know a ton of people who are completely indifferent towards social media and love music just as much as anyone else does
@@Buccarado No, you are right, I appreciate you! You seems like a younger guy. Please keep rock and roll alive.. The Right-Wing Republican fascists will kill it, so I LOVE your enthusiasm ..... Fucking rock and rolll man !!!
@@konstantinov yeah it's an uphill battle but that's the cards we're dealt. Stay safe man rock on
For anyone who wasn’t around pre personal computers or cell phones notice how slow paced life was. People didn’t sit around with an endless need to fidget with their fingers or have to be reaching out to someone at that moment. I’m surprised he even got through to the boss. People weren’t always on call back then or waiting to hear from someone. Not saying it was better or worst just different.
Oh god you fuckin boomers are so stupid
@@GeorgeTropicana What part of his comment do you disagree with?
It was better.
It was better.
OK Boomers
Someone else pointed out the December issue of Rolling Stone was for sale.
It was wet outside but not actively raining so I looked into the weather that month.
There were 4 days in December of 71 where there was significant rain. The 22nd, 24th, 25th and the 27th had enough rain to get the streets wet like it is here. January of 72 it's showing only a few days of very, very light rain.
Dec 22 is showing rain in the daytime.
Dec 24 it rained during the day, tapering off by 6pm.
Dec 25 light rain until 9pm.
Dec 26 light rain at 1am.
Based on the Rolling Stone issue and a quick look at the weather data, I would guess this was filmed December 24th, shortly after the rain stopped, 7pm ish.
December 25 is possible but, back then, pretty much everything shut down on Christmas day so my money is on the 24th.
Fuck me, you’ve got too much time on your hands
This video brings back fond memories of working in A vinyl records store in upstate NY in the early 90s 👌
This was amazing. I feel like I saw a rock hitory moment (well, yeah). Thank you for posting. You don't often get to experience something like this on TH-cam. God bless 🙏
A very enjoyable time capsule of a great period of the rock vinyl era.Neil finding Neil is hilarious 😂Kudos to whoever filmed this,which is truly a classic reality short feature.The kid was lucky that Neil wasn't in The Mob!
They're called records. No one called them "vinyl"
Fake
If it was Peter Grant he would had busted the place up.
That video is so cool, it's like going back in a time machine.
This video goes off and on TH-cam, but its one of the best period pieces out there about the 1970s
This video is so soothing somehow. The colors, the sounds, the manner and respect as they speak to each other even in this weird situation. Great experience!
And yet it’s people from that generation who have now turned into the Karen’s we have today
@@thomsboys77 Maybe because they didn't have to deal with ghetto rats and drag queen pedos back then like they do now.
@@thomsboys77 Wow, what an idiot. Think about what you wrote and what that says about YOU, and what/who that makes you, who YOU are, but I doubt you have the self-reflection to see it. But WE DO!
That's how cool it was back then and why they say it was the best time to be growing up in the 70's and 80's...If you weren't there yourself and already know that.
It feels like a dream
I have been thinking about this video recently when reading about him removing his music from Spodify
Love the "Magical mystery tour" album playing in the background!
Super cool vid! Didn’t realize tapes were a thing in ‘72
So much so if you'd like some from 1972 I'll sell some to you. I never had 8 Track; hated it, but cassettes (if you were choosey) were good.
I love this trip down memory lane, the clerk writing out a receipt long-hand, and being honest enough to try to protect the financial interests of the owner.
Boomer.
"Honest"?.... yeah honest though to protect a guy selling bootlegs and scamming artists...
"Honest".... bah!
My god, you are so gullible... He was trying to protect his own arse, not his boss.
@@DiabloOutdoors His "own arse" was not in any danger... but his boss' profit margin was in danger, and he moved to protect it.
@@Big_Wamu Yes, honest enough to follow a customer out of the store and say "Hey, you cant take that without paying." I wish I had employees this honest.
Dude walks in after with a box full of rare bootleg 8-tracks.
"I'll be sure to look you up".
I would've loved to see him realize what level of artist he just had an interaction with.
Great video.
Was he not being sarcastic? I thought he was feigning ignorance to avoid any trouble, you'd think a record store employee who's spinning Beatles albums and knowledgeable about the latest Bob Dylan release would probably recognize Neil Young, of famous bands including Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and with major album releases at the time such as After The Gold Rush and Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. He was one of the biggest music stars in the world.
@@danielk9067 definitely was just lying Left and right to do just that.
What's the last thing he says as Neil is departing? "I'll look you up."
Why didn’t this ever happen to me? I worked at a record store for three years and Neil never walked in, or any other rock star. But it was a dream job. All the chicks that came in, got to listen to music all day, got the great posters when they got changed out. I miss record stores.
My buddy was minding our store when Thurston Moore came in and asked if we had any Sonic Youth lps, he said Nah, I'm not really into Sonic Youth not knowing who he was talking to. One day when I was working the U.S. ambassador turned up with his whole security detail which was pretty weird, they all stood outside and blocked people from coming in. He bought a copy of Workingman's Dead.
Old record stores were the best. I could spend hours look through albums. You never new what you could find.
He got a free bootleg copy of his live show on vinyl. I bet that copy is worth a lot of money today if it isn't destroyed.
this is gold!!!! hope the originals of this vid are properly kept
By night Neil Young worked as an undercover bootleg inspector😅
Neil Young pulled his music from this store and then quietly reinstated it a few months later.
He probably walked back in and slipped it back into the rack and did a press release saying he pulled it from the store.
Hahaha 🤣.
On a related note : Yoko Ono has threatened to add her music to Spotify if
Joe Rogan is not removed.
@@glennhankins6927 Joe must go!
@@digmomusic6389 Why? He's done nothing wrong.