[Tim Bowen]

My God, I do love Neil.

This wasn't always the case. As a young man, I didn't quite "get" Neil, or Bob Dylan, or Hank Williams, or Thelonius Monk, or Gram Parsons, or The Band, or Son House, or Miles Davis. My head and ears were wrapped around a bunch of stuff at that time that now seems completely foreign to me - music that I currently have difficulty in understanding, as to just what it was that initially moved me. I guess it's just part of getting older, and experiencing the evolution of what one actually enjoys listening to.

My working projects are hardcore into structure and arrangement, and this is something that I love, and something that I will never abandon. However, I've little doubt that, at some point during my live job with my pop band on Friday, we'll launch into a totally unrehearsed fifteen minute (or so) reading of "Down By The River", or "Cortez The Killer", or some other Neil Young chestnut. I can't wait. Playing a Neil Young tune is, for me, very similar to playing a Miles Davis composition.