TDS Time Machine | Rock Stars - Pt. 2
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Please welcome Neil Young. Neil!
Thank you so much for coming on the program. Thank you. The film Heart of Gold is wonderful. Is it, you know, you've done different concert films. Is this one your favorite?
Well, I have a lot of different kinds of music I play. So this is my favorite one that I've done. Really, I think it's more than done. It's like a personal moment between me and the audience, like I used to be able to have when nobody knew who I was, when I was playing for 15 people, and where I had to explain everything to them, every song, and kind of introduce myself. So in that respect. It's really great, and I love the whole thing. But there are a lot of, or at least a few people who like my other side of my music, and this film has totally turned them against me. There's maybe about 400 of them in the United States that hate me. because of this film.
What does Neil Young say about making the intimate concert film Heart of Gold?
Really? It's just too nice. They want the crazy horse vibe. They want the... Worse than that, they want way... They want the minus. Yeah, right.
Why Jonathan Demme? Why not Bernard Shakey to direct this film?
Well, you know, first of all, Jonathan, he's just a master. I didn't have to worry about anything. I had to worry about zero except playing my songs and trying to sing them. And there were so many new songs in the film. The first 10 or something are new. So it was easier for me to focus on playing these songs for the first time for people that had never heard of me before. The record wasn't out. And making the film was, you know, he wanted to do it. He called me up and he said, I really want to do something. And I said, well, I got these songs and I sent him a list of the lyrics and everything. And he really liked them. So I said, let's try this. And over the period of a couple of months, we figured out how to do it.
Can you imagine if you sent him the songs and he calls you back and goes, nah, I don't really want to do this. They ought to try to get Bernard Shakey to do that one.
Bernard Shakey? Yeah, yeah.
The famed pseudonym? Yeah. Did you enjoy directing your own stuff? I loved directing. Or do you feel like the pressure of it was you couldn't focus on what you wanted to focus on?
Well, you know, I really like directing things that I'm not in. Really? Yeah, because it's easier for me to direct other people. It's hard to be objective. I mean, congratulations on your Oscar, by the way.
Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. You know what I'm going to do next time? Next time I'm gonna direct that show and not be in it. It'll help me focus a little bit. That'll do it. You talked about you like the intimacy and you miss the intimacy of that. And it's been a lot of years since you've been in Unknown. Is there a way to recapture that in any way?
Oh, gee, I don't think so.
I wish there was. Do you find, though, that even amongst larger audiences, the affection for you is so great that that brings in intimacy? Like, does that compensate for it? Except it's a celebration.
Right. It's not like they don't know who I am. That moment where people don't know who you are and you're playing for them for the first time, that's just like the first time in anything, you know. Right. It's wonderful.
And do you feel like there are times you wanna earn it again or it's that?
I do like to do that. That's why playing all the songs that they'd never heard before was so important to me, to a crowd that had never heard the songs and a record had never even been out. So playing nine songs or 10 songs in a row that they'd never heard, that's a real challenge. And to me, that's reaffirming that I still have something to do. If I'd gone out and just done 20 old songs, I would not be really happy with myself.
Do you write in the same way? Do you still feel the same sort of inspiration, the same sort of drive, or are there times where it's like, yeah, let me just write a song right there?
I can't. Here's one now.
Right.
No, it's not the same, but I really like to get to a place where I'm totally out of touch, which isn't too hard for me.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–1:35
2
What does Neil Young say about making the intimate concert film Heart of Gold?
1:35–5:34
3
Why did Neil Young choose Jonathan Demme to direct Heart of Gold?
5:34–21:37
4
How did Dave Grohl build Sonic Highways and capture regional music histories?
21:37–37:27
5
What was Dave Grohl’s six-day songwriting and recording process for Sonic Highways?
37:27–40:44
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