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Joni Mitchell and Neil Young:

From Joni Mitchell's introduction to the song "Circle Game" on the album "You Can Close Your Eyes": Mitchell: "In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a Rock'n'Roll band in Winnipeg/Manitoba near where I come from on the prairies to become a folk singer a la Bob Dylan, who was his hero at that time, and at the same time there were breaks in his life and he was going into new and exciting directions. He had just newly turned 21, and that meant in Winnipeg he was no longer allowed into his favorite hangout which is kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 21 you couldn't get in there anymore, so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it's one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn't play in this club anymore. But he was over the hill. So he wrote this song that was called "Oh to live on sugar mountain" which was a lament for his lost youth. And it went like this... [sings a few verses]. And I thought, God, you know, if we get to 21 and there's nothing after that, that's a pretty bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and for myself just to give me some hope. It's called The Circle Game."

On Joni Mitchell's album HEJIRA, Neil Young played on the harmonica on a couple of songs.

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[pattylibraia]

That's really interesting: he sounds just like Kurt Cobain, don't you think so? It's incredible. Always great Neil. Ty cg. By the way, happy Easter! Always a new life along our way on this earth.

[curiousgeorge555]

@pattylibraia Yeah i s'pose he does in spots. I never noticed. Happy Eater to you.

The wonderful thing about life is even when things are looking down, there always seems to be a road out with new windows opening to new life. Sometimes ya just gotta stare out long enough and smell the fresh air and maybe crawl out of the window into the garden. Course you could always use the door. (~:

[ghanick]

This really sucks. I guess it was some kind of a joke. His voice sounds like he was on a drug and booze bender for about 7 years. Mr. Young definitely had more than a few screws loose when he wrote and sung this crap.

[curiousgeorge555]

I can understand someone not liking something. That's cool. I can assure you this is no "joke" though. One could make the argument that it is not his best work (much of that is subjective anyway) but he meant what he wrote. As far as the performance that night I can't vouch for what condition he was in.

Neil has quite a sense of humor and uses it often (even in his music) but he takes his music very seriously. None of it is some frivolous joke to him. Peace ~cg

[oldoldraven]

... a fine discovery... thanks...

beste wishes...

oldoldraven

[curiousgeorge555]

Best to you too! ~cg

[chiennoir54]

Wow. I had this on an old bootleg back in the mid-70s. And haven't heard this since. Very raw, but kind of nice, too.

[gtarz40ful]

geez! you canadians are all alike!

[lusikeroin]

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[curiousgeorge555]

@88hanimart88 Thanks Annie...

I enjoy this song too...

[pattylibraia]

Halleluja! Peace and love to you and to everybody, and thank you for your words:-)

[majorhoop]

for thirtysome years now thats how ive been hummin it to myself........i think it might be a line he hadnt polished and just kind of threw in unfinished-like........

[emersonwells]

this man sees red