Ambulance Blues Neil Young + B. Jansch Bridge School Benfit 2006

[mortyaddams]

Nice to have seen Bert playing with my hero Neil Young. I remember Bert playing at my school but I remained a Neil fan over all these years..Long may you run Neil...

[d0csevern]

R.I.P Bert Jansch who passed away today at the age of 67, after suffering from cancer - a great guitarist who has influenced many generations of musicians.

[pitachewa]

Man, I was at this show. It was so good. I think he opened with this song man and i couldn't help but cry. Neil you're so great man. I love you pal.

[jussymucky]

Neil is the dogs, Bert is the bollocks - Together they are the dogs bollocks. An Ambulance can only go so fast.... fucking amazing song. They don't make em like these boys anymore

[homegrownpa]

@jussymucky Your comment made me laugh, you must be an Englishman. RIP Bert.

[jussymucky]

@homegrownpa Oh aye ;O) RIP Bert - Legend

[Malibuheaven1]

Amazing version of an awesome song!

[bigfig1900]

NY is my hero.

[blackyfloyd]

are you passionate is a gorgeous recent neil song, though the lp is not as great as the song...side two of 'on the beach' where this song is found, is my favorite. ...my fav. neil song is the insanely beautiful 'will to love' from American Stars and Bars lp (1976) ...still out of print?

[wungabunga]

bert jansch is johnny marr's, er, johnny marr, which to me makes him god.

[spaceword]

for the beautiful children who inspire love to love and just be cos there aint nothing more than the love

[trebleboostboy]

saying living with war is a weak album.

well that's just.......i'm not where you are with listening to sound. that's how i'll put that.

[cloisterene]

Everybody Knows this is Nowhere w/ crazy horse - his best album, imo

But, I love this song, too. Hell, there isn't anything he's done that I don't love...

[watches777]

I love this song. It can go on forever and I wouldn't mind or ever tire from it.

[josephgelb]

he destroyed it here in o7 perfect

[jgyll8mt]

"You're all just pissin' in the wind, you don't know it but you are. And there ain't nothin' like a friend, who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind." Great verse, great song, great album (On The Beach). I think the line " I never knew a man could tell so many lies," was about Nixon. I'm not sure though, it's been so many years.

[LilacNell]

I can't agree with you. Sorry. He is obviously a good man but he's made too many records; records that garner a knee-jerk reaction from both fans and reviewers. The last few have been down-right bad.

[BrawnYawr]

i can agree with you that the past few...chrome dreams II and living with war for example are fairly weak, but i think the most impressive thing about neil is his continuity. 20 years after his harvest he comes out with harvest moon - which is both fantastic and is a return to his folk roots after his "godfather of grunge" moniker took hold

[LilacNell]

I really want to like Neil Young's music, I really do... he seems like a decent fellow. However, I just can't. A couple of early albums aside his canon is very average. He has a genius at self-mythologizing though.

[accordionreid]

Obviously you really have no idea who Neil Young is or has done musically, socially, politically and as one of the Legendary Artists that music ranks alongside Dylan and the Beatles. His discography is amazing and is still selling today. When I was at his concert in London Ontario last month there was a lot of fans who were young people.

[Petiber]

Some of his later stuff aren't amazing, but this guy OWNED the seventies:

On The Beach is one of the best albums ever

Tonight's The Night, Harvest, After The Gold Rush, Zuma, Rust Never Sleeps, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - all amazing.

Comes a Time is decent as well. Not to mentian Deja-Vu with CS&N.

He's just amazing.

[LilacNell]

I am not trying to be contentious here - I like parts of the records you mention but he's made one decent record since 1971. The myth outweighs the art. Sorry. I'm sure Neil would support my right to an opinion.

[jvo206yt]

When faceless and anonymous

Come to beat down your door

And say you're all washed up and done

You can just say they have nothing in store

To touch this soul

Because they just don't know

They just don't know

The way

- Neil

[unmegaface]

if u don't like then u don't like, no need to force it dude just accept it or alternatively get tonight's the night lol

[Appers]

I felt the same at first, you know, I really did- I bought Harvest based on the hype but absolutely hated it. But you've got to get used the to tone of his music to appreciate it. He plays to a sort of key that isn't really around nowadays, and the more you get used to it, the better it sounds. If you haven't yet, give Rust Never Sleeps a try- it's his most accessible album, and it sounds absolutely glorious. After that, his other albums kind of fall into place. Give it a try!

[JennyMink]

Appers,

It is not like I am unfamiliar with Neils canon of work - I thought Ragged Glory was a really good record. However, that was the last good one.

For the record, I love the first three solo albums but almost nothing after.

[jackoxpass]

@JennyMink you didn't like Zuma, Tonight's The Knight or On The Beach? i'm not arguing, it's just a question. i just find the ones you mentioned my equal favorite NY records to the ones you mentioned, apart from Harvest. I found that a little too derivative of Gold Rush, however I'd say there's about 3 brilliant songs on it. anyway, to each their own. take it easy (oh yeah, i'd have to agree that his last great record was Ragged Glory too)

[wheredoescouragecome]

This is Neil's public acknowledgement that he cribbed the chord sequence to this song from "Needle of Death".

[Rigbyband]

Keep up the good work! :)

[enwurds]

Bert Jansch, yet another guy Jimmy Page ripped off. Nuthin against Pagey though.

[Pastpickerpresent]

Bert Jansch deserves to be as big a Star as Neil. Good thing Neil acknowledges that..

Bert is an awesome acoustic guitar player, and a ledgend in the U.K.

[Bryjake10]

I'm a bit younger than Neil, but a whole lot less cool! Been on a bit of a journey with him since Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. We have both had ups and downs but, have been priveledged to have had him along the way.

[chefjameso]

thanks for posting this , missed this show , now i feel i didnt miss this great song ,

hope he plays it again in the future

[Bobb999]

I know well the Toronto spots Neil names. The Riverboat coffeehouse:defunct folk club in hippie Yorkville district dating from mid sixties+.Joni Mitchell,G. Lightfoot,Neil played early shows there. I caught some fine '70s shows there: Dave van Ronk, Roger McGuinn, Mimi Farina, Leon Redbone.

The Isabella was an old run down hotel on eastside downtown Toronto.

"T.O." = Toronto or Toronto,Ontario.

..."Private detection","kidnappers": Patti Hearst's kidnapping by leftist radicals,current then.

[aultshark]

Wow, thats pretty cool, I always wondered where those places were. My mom started up a correspondence with Neil back in 1979, when he had just released Rust Never Sleeps, and I still have some of the letters he wrote to her. Its pretty cool, as I've always loved Neil. I'd have to say him and Dylan are the 2 greatest singer/songwriters alive, but Neil kicks ass on the guitar!!

[nonthere]

Two of my favorites on the same stage. Amazing, this youtube deal. I remember when we used to have to prowl little record stores, flip around the dial for college stations and go to clubs to see who would show up, all just to catch some precious nugget of music. Thanks to deigis for putting this up.

Also, glad to see that the cameraman enjoyed himself some refreshments.

[c64c64c64]

i just saw neil in dublin yesterday- he was pretty awesome. I heard he was only playing his electric stuff, but he played about an hour and a half of acoustic and piano- everything from hey hey my my to needle and the damage done...oh, and he finished with a powerful version of "a day in the life" by beatles- after everyone was chanting "one more song".

[raycampbell080]

He was 60 yrs old in that clip, an absolute legend, cant wait for Cork in 4 weeks.....

[funkydafunker]

Best album in the Universe.

[81Bear]

You're very well travelled (it IS a great album).

[irtimed]

On the beach is my favorite album

[thewordofgord]

thanks for this deigis; lovely and rare; also the great shots of the kids really brings it home to the heart. thanks again...

the word of gord

[Ubermensch18]

I came from Canada to see this.

[triguy237]

I'm so ticked I missed the St. Llouis show where he played this song, my all time Neil Young favorite (although that's like picking a favorite child).

He doesn't do this song very often live.

[kothegaln]

Neil Young just came to St. Louis two days ago and he played this song live! Brought tears to my eyes. One of his best (but isn't that most of his songs?).

[camuro79]

Actually Neil's sons conditions have nothing to do with the parents. It is a rare thing that just happens... and its a huge coinsidental that he has two sons with cerebral palsy... thats why it is such a big deal. He also has a daughter Amber who is totally normal. Anyway Neil was never into big time drugs he's a HUGE pot-head, still is and he tried a few other things..never did Heroin. And he never did Acid or shit like that. hell Ive done more drugs then Neil.

[viking1au]

Crying shame about the video quality. Two great acts together. Jansch has long been Neil Young's favourite guitarist and this event makes a whole heap of sense, as I once heard on a music show, that Neil's own sons are autistic, so it is indeed great to see Bert come in with him for this event. Top stuff!!!!

[mjrchapin]

Actually they have cerebral palsy, though they are by different mothers. His wife, Carrie, had to sue him for child support. Seems to un-Neil like.

[viking1au]

Sad all round; can't get into the custody battle thing. There is always much one never knows about these things save to say, things get ugly in custody battles. But as for the condition of his sons, it is truly tragic and one has to wonder if it had much to do with substance abuse when he was younger.

[mjrchapin]

Well, he himself has epilepsy. I remember reading an interview where he said he was told the odds having two kids with CP, by different mothers, was really a long shot. But did you know, he also bought the Lionel Train Co. because one of his sons loves the trains so much? How cool is that?

[viking1au]

Well, I have never heard that about Neil before. Amazing indeed that he has this affliction and yet becomes one of the world's most significant "movers and shakers". Maybe medical science will someday find links with such a condition; the drugs people get into and how those drugs react with the prescription stuff, and effects on offspring. I do not think there are any accidents here, but cause and effect of things the world is just beginning to understand. Tragic all round.

[mjrchapin]

I don't think he took meds--he used to say he could tell when he was going to have a seizure and if he felt that was going to happen on stage, he just walked off stage for a bit--like it was linked to overstimulation. I agree, remarkable story.

[EF72777]

I doubt he could tell a seizure coming on. I myself am one of the rare cases of epilepsy cured by surgery. It is very rare for an epileptic to detect a seizure about to happen.  In fact for most cases it it tough for an epileptic to remember what happened after a seizure. I vaguely remember have a feeling like there was someone or something behind me and to the right before I had a seizure but that is about it however most of the time I had that feeling it wouldn't end in a seizure.

[mjrchapin]

Some people do report warnings--auras, smells, buzzing--I'm only recalling what he said, a distinct feeling, I think it was a sense of being "wound up"--never had a seizure on stage, so it must have worked. Might depend on where a seizure starts and the type of epilepsy. Glad you were lucky with surgery!

[EF72777]

That is true. I slightly remember having feelings of a feeling like there was something or someone behind me an to the right that I had to look at. But I got that feeling a lot an it only sometimes meant a seizure was about to happen.

[azulluz]

My 2 faves together. Priceless !

[spaceword]

Both my heroes too. Very touching footage brilliant for everybody watching,a real monument in human age experience and progression what goes on at the Bridge School,just soul stuff,what else is there!

[aflcrazy]

Me too hippy, can NOT wait...caravan to irf then BSB..wooohoooo

[jgs727]

Thanks for this post..........

reminds me of how AMAZING it was to have been there.

Counting the daze till it happens this October!

[strat2caster]

these bridge concerts are priceless

[uncledave10]

Cool vid 5

[ayavner]

one of the recent Acoustic Guitar mags had an article on Bert Jansch, check it out. Thanks for posting!

[GilsMusic]

Priceless! This is awesome!

[italktomyself]

rare!

[morphinlounge101]

Thanks for puttin' this up. Both of my heroes together. Though not the best picture quality it's the vibe that counts.