Mr. Mod inquired whether any RTHers had actually heard the “legendary” trax recorded by Neil Young and Rick James, when they were in a band together in the mid-’60s. Well, as it turns out, thanks to a generous RTH inter-library loan from townsman cjdawson, I have — and now you can, too!
According to the liner notes found in The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 6: 1966, Neil (who had apparently only just joined the band, and had nothing to do with writing either of these tracks) said in 1984: “We went in and recorded five or six nights, and if we needed something, or if they thought we just weren’t strong enough, a couple of Motown singers would walk right in and they’d just *Motown us*. If someone wasn’t confident or didn’t have it, they didn’t say, ‘well, let’s work on this.’ Some guy would come in who had it… and an amazing thing happened… we sounded hot.”
Judge for yourselves.
HVB
