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Rust Never Sleeps
There are only a handful of songs I can vividly
remember
hearing for the first time; "Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)" is one of
them - Summer of '79, I was in Wyoming with my buddies working on the
railroad,
heading east from Moorcroft to our campsite home. Unmistakably Neil,
but
so distorted I was sure we didn't have the station tuned in properly.
Yet,
it sounded strangely right and I loved it. Little did I know that Neil
had created grunge. Of course, I discovered later that's how it was
supposed
to sound, and it felt brilliant. Even more brilliant was the way "Hey
Hey..."
formed the back bookend in a concept album that started with a spare
acoustic
treatment of essentially the same song, and grew sonically until Neil
created
the blueprint that Nirvana, et al, would follow more than a decade
later. |
