Tonight's the Night

You know, Neil has always famously liked to, um, do things kind of a little bit more on the fly and have a little more spontaneity in the recording sessions.

We certainly heard that later, a few years later on Tonight's the Night, you know, which is, uh, kind of a, a wild, uh, sometimes out of tune record, but brilliant.

But that's not the way, you know, CSN made records.

So I think there was a little bit of that going on during the early Déjà Vu sessions and, you know, um, when they cut Almost Cut My Hair, for example, you know, Crosby's vocal on that is really raspy.

And that's two hours and 20 minutes of saxophone Neil Young.

Um, it ends with a 19 minute, 29 seconds saxophone version of tonight's the night.

Does the saxophone do the vocal line? Does it harmonize the vocal? Yeah,

yeah, yeah,

doing,

Neil? And all you're seeing of the actual music is like...

Well, they show the middle of Tonight's the Night where he's just screaming in a Lionel Train's sleeveless t-shirt and slamming the guitar and stuff.

And then there's an amazing bit where they're in like, I forget where they are, but the crowd are cheering.

Again, here's the story behind it that makes it even worse.

Whitten's death had a major influence on Young, who also wrote Tonight's the Night, about another drug overdose in his circle, Bill Berry, one of his roadies.

Bill Berry was a working man.

He used to load that Econoline van.