Growing up my musical tastes were influenced greatly by my older brothers. A lot of early 60′s British Invasion, Motown, and then in the 70′s CSN&Y. I was majorly influenced by Neil Young. His sound, the words he put together, the way he played his guitar.
I wanted to be Neil Young.
But I was just this fat kid from Keeler, Michigan so I did the next best thing. I learned every freaking Neil Yound song that I could and played the hell out of that $25 guitar that I got for christmas.
And tried to impress the girls. It didn’t happen the way that I thought it would. Though I did impress myself.
Don’t know which one was more important. Cortez the Killer is the song that got me kicked off of college radio. I looped it for a couple of hours while I got high in the control room. It was late at night and I didn’t think that anyone would care.
Surprise.
I am trying to embed it here so that it can be shared with my hundreds of readers. You deserve that much from me.
namaste.
