![]() Amy, my wife, and I got there three days early to get acclimatised. There was a room with oxygen tanks, because of the altitude. It was this mountain top studio that was scrambling to get ready for us. We like things to involve.” It’s like Tonight’s The Night – if you catch people a little off guard without too much preparation you get a more emotional tape. He said, “Just get a little familiar with them. Neil kept sending these primitive demos to my email in batches of twos and threes. Can I send you a few? I know you’re got your own record and tour, but any chance you come up to Colorado for a couple of weeks and start recording?” That was my first exposure to the idea of a new album. A couple of weeks before I was going to start touring my own record Blue With Lou, Neil called and said, “I’m writing songs. So that’s when I think Neil started writing. ![]() All the shows were rocking and fun, but that last show in Winnipeg, to me became more of a band than we’d been. He knows his songs! Then we got on a crazy, 13-hour bus journey from South Dakota to Winnipeg. Ralphie and I went to Billy’s house in South Dakota, really in the middle of nowhere, we rehearsed for a few days without Neil. ![]() We had what we called the Polar Vortex – the whole country was being slammed with ice and snow. This February, we did two shows in Winnipeg. When was the idea of Crazy Horse recording a new album first mooted? It was an amazing thing and have had some great chapters ever since. I made the first definitive Crazy Horse album with Danny Whitten, with Jack Nitzsche producing. 50 years ago in May, I walked in on them at the Cellar Door. They’re probably my oldest musical family – Crazy Horse.
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