“Neil’s so great.
#ChickRoberts who Neil mentions is my father! He’s still around, 90 years old. Confirms Neils story.
Great memory Neil, thank you for appreciating my father’s support of your song
#SugarMountain, he was knocked out by your song. My Dad heard Neil play it at
#TheRiverboat in
#Toronto at a 1965 “Hotennany” night.
Artists got $10 to play three or four songs known as "Hotennany scale". The gigs were put on by the guild of Canadian Folk Artists in Toronto’s “Yorkville Village” (our 60’s folk scene, Canada’s Greenwich Village). Neil wasn't known then in Toronto, he was hanging in the village trying to break in as solo act. Neil likely first met Chick/The Dirty Shames in Winnipeg at the Fourth Dimension. Chick had bumped into Neil on the street in Yorkville village, and told him how great he thought that song of his was.
Chick told me not all the local folk fans were digging Neil, but Chick really liked Neils songs, and Chick loved to encourage people. Neil was new and younger than the musicians in the Dirty Shames who were an established very popular
#Canadian band.
Toronto’s The Dirty Shames in 1966 signed by legendary A & R manager Mary Martin (Leonard Cohen, The Band) out of Albert Grossman’s office in New York City, recorded a few singles (Amos Garrett on guitar), Warhol booked them to open for the Velvet Underground at the Dom.” —
#PaulBoddum, Artist, youtube comment.
#NeilYoung /
#music /
#songs
