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Neil's Legacy
It was like he described everything I experienced; my high school was like he sang in "Don't Be Denied."
I was in a small high school in SW Colorado back in the late 70s/early 80s, pretty much behind the moon in terms of Neil Young and met a new friend who moved there from Phoenix. He turned me on to Neil and my life was changed forever. He had an 8-track of "On the Beach". I learned Damage Done, Cortez the Killer and Down by the River on a garage sale acoustic. He spoke my language and I could relate to everything; Sugar Mountain, Rust and the Old Laughing Lady, "from my little box at the top of the stairs..."
Dylan spoke of the masses, but Neil was an instant friend.
The only frustration was musical: I live in pentatonic scales and he's the folk metal of G, Am, Em, and A and I can't just paste a blues riff into his songs. But that's okay.
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