 | oscargamblesfro (81)
10/19/2006 |  In 1967, just before Monterey Pop, Neil Young suddenly quit Buffalo Springfield. Shortly thereafter,during a period where he was pretty inactive, and before he returned to the Springfield, he helped producer Bruce Botnick, known for his work on Doors records, to engineer this track, though he wasn't credited on the album. Although I heard an interview with Lee once where he rather bitterly boasted about being the biggest act in LA at a time when Buffalo Springfield, an act that was similar in some respects to Love, were playing before 5 people in dumps, which is actually true, it seems like a bit of sour grapes on Lee's part. In any case, from what I understand, Young was supposed to co-produce this record, but only wound up working on this cut. Perhaps he left because the sessions turned out to be extraorinarily difficult and took a long time, on a couple of tracks, like this one, the band were so stoned and couldn't get it together to the point where top LA area session musicians had to be brought in. Plus, Neil has always been known for impulsiveness and unpredictability. This great song is, in a nutshell, about the mundanity and repetitive aspects of day to day life, and is a sort of cross between folk- rock and psychedelia.
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