Cortez the Killer

And I will say the stuff that we've read or that you've read from shaky is, that's like where people are like yeah the horse suck and they can't play their instruments and they're kind of stupid and all this stuff you know we've we've been dismissive of that and then you watch the guys together you're like there is a reason why he recruited these guys and it is because they don't seem up to the task like it seems like no one can stand up to neil young and probably like economically they can't stand up to neil young right like he's their guy and so it those fights are real rough because he is bullying them around that is what is occurring

it's fucked like and it's unfortunately it is like and I have to admit human weakness here it is funny like it is really like there are times when like the bit where Billy has asked to do the vocal harmonies, to practice the vocal harmonies of Cortez the Killer.

And immediately regrets it because it's being recorded.

And Neil is clearly like doing this for the camera kind of thing.

And then they do it together, and Poncho's like, he's pointing at one of the other guys, he's like, he's doing a different one! And the guy says, I don't know what to tell you, I just sing.

you're like what the fuck are you talking about you just saying and neil very gently is like we've been playing this for 15 years

15 years yeah it's cortez the killer like it's not like a fucking deep cut like he's like he thinks he's clearly thinks it's hilarious as well like like he's mad but he's also like i'm funny mad like it's really yeah yeah um and i think like the other great thing about muddy track by the way is you can find it online but i watched it because i became a fully paid up member of the neil young archive That's right.

Which we will talk about.

We've been jamming with Nick McMenamin, Andy Engelman, and my cousin Jay.

And we do Cortez the Killer.

And it's great.

So they do a cover of that.

Andy is like a Jerry Cantrell.

You know, he's a grunge guy, but he also has roots in others.

But he, like Cortez the Killer is like right in his cue zone as far as like what he offers on guitar.

Jason's pretty new.

That affects what musicians I'm going to ask, you know, like we once we did T-Rex and I brought on these young guys who just have this swagger to them.

And another time we did Neil Young and I needed some guitar slingers because there's, you know, Cortez the Killer.

It's, you know, 18 minutes of guitar solos.

And so he would pick that.

We're also diving deep.

We're doing some long, old, hippie jam songs like Down by the River, Cortez the Killer.

We're doing some of those.

But we're also doing some of those two and a half minute songs.

Neil Young's electric guitar playing can be raw, primitive, and occasionally downright messy, and that's exactly why it works.

Listen to something like Cortez the Killer.

He's not trying to impress another guitar player.

He's trying to create a mood.

I'm in it.

Ethan, are you aware on that live 2000 album, there's a 20-minute version of Cortez the Killer?

Yes,

yes.

You know what I mean? It's kind of like when the

Grateful Dead...

I saw Government Mule cover Cortez the Killer a bunch of years ago.

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