29. Walk On (On the Beach, 1974)
The "ditch trilogy" has a theme song. Some of the fans Neil picked up in the early '70s were confused by Time Fades Away, and the executives at his label were baffled by Tonight's the Night, which he recorded after the TFA tour, but Neil laid out for them why he's doing what he's doing in On the Beach's single:
"I hear some people been talking me down
Bring up my name, pass it around
They don't mention the happy times
They do their thing, I do mine
Ooh baby that's hard to change
I can't tell them how to feel
Some get stoned, some get strange
But sooner or later it all gets real"
Neil was doing his thing and being real, and everyone else just needed to deal. That's how he's conducted his whole career post-1972 and it's all summarized here.
He even couched the message in music that wouldn't sound out of place on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. This is the only OtB song featuring the remnants of Crazy Horse and it was probably recorded during the Tonight's the Night sessions.
The "ditch trilogy" has a theme song. Some of the fans Neil picked up in the early '70s were confused by Time Fades Away, and the executives at his label were baffled by Tonight's the Night, which he recorded after the TFA tour, but Neil laid out for them why he's doing what he's doing in On the Beach's single:
"I hear some people been talking me down
Bring up my name, pass it around
They don't mention the happy times
They do their thing, I do mine
Ooh baby that's hard to change
I can't tell them how to feel
Some get stoned, some get strange
But sooner or later it all gets real"
Neil was doing his thing and being real, and everyone else just needed to deal. That's how he's conducted his whole career post-1972 and it's all summarized here.
He even couched the message in music that wouldn't sound out of place on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. This is the only OtB song featuring the remnants of Crazy Horse and it was probably recorded during the Tonight's the Night sessions.
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