In late 1971 the top ticket for the original Jefferson Airplane in Ann Arbor was $4.50. $6.50 for a concert ticket in 1971 was outrageous being a full $2 above the normal top price for a ticket of the time. While Neil is blamed for ticket prices it was Elliott that cut the deal. The Rubber Dubber "I'm Happy Ya'll Came Down."ĭid anyone ever figure out who Rubber Dubber was since they did Neil, Hendrix and a bunch of other in very HQ? Looking forward to hearing the whole thing and up until now my favorite album by Neil was That if I would only be allowed to own one Neil Young album, this would Something was happening.Īs I played YOUNG SHAKESPEARE for the third time, I suddenly realized This music had a cosmic reverberation going on that really did bring in a new different reality. It's hard to describe, but you didn't sound like someone on a theatre stage with an instrument or two. You were twenty-five years old that night in Stratford, but the sound of your voice carried an eternal resonance that felt like you had landed on planet Earth carrying a timeless message from another land. But now, just you, your guitar and piano, and played them all like they were flowing from your heart for the very first time. Many of the songs had been on earlier albums and those original versions had always sounded cast in stone-"Ohio," "Cowgirl in the Sand' and others. Each time another song would start I would get the chills, like I was walking through a new door into a room I'd never been in.
Like maybe you were a bit surprised these were all your creations. They were so alive and so personal and so strong, and your voice sounded a bit in awe of them yourself.
I felt like you were sitting in a chair across the room from me, playing these twelve songs like you'd just written them.
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