Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cowgirl in the Sand ( live 1970 )

Yes it's Fillmore.
Yes he's Danny W.

[@AnvilOfTheGods]

You could make the argument that 1970 Neil Young and Crazy Horse was the greatest band of all time!

[@Fritzw75]

super band but so short lived

[@drewmingle568]

I really can't argue with that

[@daled8221]

@@Fritzw75 Yes but that was Neil's thing & a bit later Crosby's, not because their music wasn't there!!! It's timeless, not a one hit wonder!

[@jeffvirosztko5241]

I agree with you, Neil had more talent in his little finger than most groups had in their body...

[@danielhutchinson6604]

Dakhabrakha appears to beat all.

[@dancedeern]

this song is my all-life-most-beloved (67 y) - the longer the version, the better. it might never end! all my loving, Neil!

[@littlerain4444]

Danny Whitten's relentless rhythm guitar serves as a perfect pairing for Neil's controlled distortion on the other channel. Sadly Danny wasn't with us much longer ("The Needle and the Damage Done"), but in this moment these were two hard-chargin' crazy horses without equal! Ride on into the aether, you band of magnificent steeds...

[@reliablebow]

Thank You ✨🎶

[@brettcarlson9636]

Danny Whitten will always be what makes this song so *special* to me. Just a different level.

[@marcfilippone181]

I agree. No one (except Stephen Stills) can support, and bring out the best in Neils guitar playing. And I think his playing would have stood on it's own had he the time to develop it. Neil even thinks Danny Whitten had a gift, and that says it all really.

[@garcdonald]

Neil extracted Whitten's wild, driving rhythms from an abyss of paradoxical transcendence of their timeless imminence in a daft and corybantic imprinting of the soul, that was never to be duplicated.

[@vreevroow]

​@@garcdonald stop

[@JHJNC89]

Neil Young absolutely shredded in this song. That guitar playing is up there with the best.

[@bobbymacol1323]

His guitar skills comes out naturally on the spot when he performs.. that is what the others can not appreciate...

[@johnstrausbaugh6718]

Probably one of the greatest versions of this amazing song. Absolutely magical. The workings of Neil and Danny. Just incredible energy. This is timeless

[@lisae6725]

Nice to know there are people in the world who understand what I'm hearing.

[@bobbymacol1323]

😮 Is there any live video of this concert.. I wish there is one who will post it..

[@jaykay6387]

Hard to imagine a better version of this, they were on fire.

[@anthonyfoutch3152]

CSNY

[@jaykay6387]

@@anthonyfoutch3152 Have to agree to disagree on that one. This is a definitive version.

[@bionsjazznblues]

I saw Neil Young & Crazy Horse at a small club along the Providence River in Rhode Island. The band played an incredible set. And I was probably among the first Americans to find out about Neil Young. This was because I listened to Radio Canada on my shortwave radio. That's where I also first heard Joni Mitchel and Leonard Cohen. Today I think of shortwave radio as my first computer. With PCs the www means world wide web. And shortwave was known as world wide radio. Those were the days!

[@robertmcmanus9185]

Brilliant; the equivalent of an early computer... thanks for that Richard.

[@mightyturkeyneck3498]

Yeah, I was SO into my shortwave radio as a boy. Hardly listened to AM or FM at all... 🦃📻🦃📻🦃

[@marcfilippone181]

THE BEST Neil Young and Crazy Horse band by far! Even Neil said Danny Whitten was a great guitar player and singer at this early age, so I wonder what could have been. Jack Nitzsche was a gifted arranger, influenced by Phil Spector, and I think he was very important to Neil Young's early work. Ralph Molina and Billy Talbot played better with Danny Whitten driving them than at any time since. This song and "Iv'e Been Waiting For You" have two of the most bad-ass intro's in rock! I love Danny's rhythm guitar here, he is so in sync with Neils lead, and unlike any other musician who ever played with Neil Young, he came up with parts that are exceptional, and have the power to be on an equal stage with Neil. Neil himself thought the world of Danny's talent.

[@big_fat_hen]

Couldn't of said it better. Dannys rhythm technique was highly overlooked. When Danny locked in, it allowed Neil to freely be more lyrical, melodic, dynamic and powerful. This version of the band had it in spades.

[@7GoodGollyMissMolly7]

OMG I love Neil's music. Always have and I'm 73 now. I've loved it since I first heard him around the time of this album. Superb.

[@antonioubaldi6799]

13 years after the first time I heard this song, I was 12 years old at the time, it remains my absolute favorite song.

[@stormyweather9917]

I always thought of this song as Neil Young's masterpiece.

[@dastacionis6616]

Nice to meet you Antonio I'm 69 years old and I love this song when I was 25 barefoot beads and tie-dye just be hippy

[@michaeldonovan4793]

I saw them play this back in 1972 and'74 when I was a young man..After fifty years, it still remains my favorite all time song and version..

[@howardbuckley1360]

Same hear only about 50 yrs. later great song!!

[@mightyturkeyneck3498]

This was the number that hooked ME on Neil when I was 16, WAAAY back in old 1990! I'd never heard a more perfect guitar tone than that Neil was gettin from his '52 Les Paul. Not to mention the interplay with the late, great, heavily lamented Danny Whitten. Whitten hadda FEEL fer this music which no Crazy Horse rhythm guitarist could subsequently match-- no slight intended to Poncho or Nils 🦃⚡🎸🤯🦃⚡🎸🤯🦃⚡🎸🤯🦃

[@mikehotel3970]

Damn, Neil and Danny = magic.

[@laurietalbot4747]

Neil Young and Crazy Horse have made the best music of any other band. Live, raw and iconic. Crazy Horse makes it awsome. Billy Talbot rocks

[@artvallejos1460]

When I read your comment, I thought I wrote it. Yes Billy Rocks. I have his autograph. The Only autograph I have.

[@davebell372]

Great version, Danny's backing vocals are killing it. This is the best garage band you ever heard in your life on the best night of your best life...and Neil is still doing it. How many fakers are faded away. Neil is the promise of the real.

[@clevebaker8399]

Killer guitar duo!! Rip Danny way, way too soon

[@MrSmiley1964]

The best version of Cowgirl I've ever heard

[@TheRealLarryFisherman]

This song is very similar to my favorite song of all time, Down by the River. Love the rawness of both songs

[@timothywolfe3891]

This song is a glimpse of what Crazy Horse was becoming, with Danny Whitten, and Jack Nietsche on piano. The piano adds a whole different element to this song.

[@marcfilippone181]

I agree, and while Jack Nitzsche would also go on to be a member of the Stray Gators, when Danny Whitten died, so did Crazy Horse 1.

[@johnfarrell6282]

Young is a genius......just love his music and lyrics

[@mightyturkeyneck3498]

Young IS a genius, & Danny was his ultimate wingman! 🦃⚡🎸🤯🦃

[@gerardpatrickaspin6150]

Best version ever....

[@thomasbedell4770]

Their Everyone Knows This is Nowhere album is one of the greatest of all time.

[@ronnytotten9292]

The horse went really crazy on this one! I've never heard them gain so much intensity in the last solo before! They were really feeling it

[@bobbymacol1323]

Southern Man and Down by the River have almost the same guitar lead.. Love all his songs..

[@davidcavan8227]

(hehe) Lights bowl.....inhales....holds hit..face turning red.....cough x7....smiles....turns up volume...laughs...clears throat.....lights bowl....(repeat). Thank you, Neil, for this epic jam!

[@lisagurkin3455]

One of those songs that are great for a good pair of ear phones and eyes closed!!

[@kcbrad3684]

Has to be the best version. Only Neil could out do this timeless gem and I'm not sure he ever did.

[@greglapointe1311]

Definitely the best electric version for sure!

[@larrybrantley8835]

This is the soundtrack of my coming of age. My oldest son and I saw Love Earth in DC

[@jeanrobertperroches9412]

1970 j’avais 11 ans! J’ai découvert Neil Young à 16 ans, depuis je ne m’en lasse pas, je suis de plus en plus fan.

[@rogerhoffmann6207]

If this was the Mar., 1970 show at Fillmore East, I was delighted to be there. It seemed an odd lineup: Miles Davis group (playing the material from "Bitches Brew") opened and I thought he seemed annoyed with having to do so... playing for all these stoned college rock fans. Steve Miller Band was next. Then out came Neil, playing a solo / acoustic set. Fabulous. He then took a brief intermission, and then came out with Crazy Horse - and they launched right into the songs from "Everybody Knows..." , including of course, this one. What a concert! Unforgettable!!!! I was happy to see, decades later, that both the Miles Davis set and this one were recorded and available on CD.

[@gerardoerak6142]

Lucky guy

[@_puffy]

F yeah Roger! Thanks for sharing

[@garcdonald]

Yea, Miles always seemed annoyed, though. Could have been the Turrets, but every time I saw him, he spent a large part of the shows with his back to the audience, playing the horn between his legs! Always cracked us up.

[@Tigercats1976]

Filmores in Scarborough Ontario 🇨🇦?? That's where this was recorded?

[@RyanM-ts7pw]

@@Tigercats1976 No. It was the Fillmore East, in the Lower East Side (East Village) of N.Y.C. The venue was open from 1968 to June 1971, during which the lucky got to choose from an incredible number of concerts, each with amazing lineups. I felt the loss from afar, when it closed.

[@user-lj3xm4mx9z]

So beautiful it makes me cry

[@sergioamayajr.5868]

I am crying of happiness.

[@robertmcmanus9185]

I listen to The Ramones, The Clash, Teenage Head and a lot of music in that vein. If you hit ten minutes you've heard three or four songs. Or more. Most long jams bore me. NOT this one. Easily one of my favourite songs of all time along with Shine On You Crazy Diamond from Pink Floyd. Neil knows how to keep it on the edge and amazing from the first note. And the band?? Wow. I feel so fortunate to have heard this. Amazing.

[@Tigercats1976]

Teenage Head!! Wow, I'm a Hamilton boy, I rarely hear or see Teenage Head mentioned!! Are you also from Hamilton Ontario 🇨🇦??

[@waldograde]

My friend Trini turned me onto this song in LA in the early 70s. He was a surfer and his friends believed this was the song to have in their heads as they waited for that next one. I just loved traveling the SoCal roadways tuned up and blasting this on our 8 track. First time hearing it live and am so stoked that I gotta search out a doobie.

[@rayduggan9828]

Great to see images of Danny Whitten playing live. Danny was the original crazy horse guitarist before Neil joined . A heroin addiction forced his exit from the band . Then the subsequent overdose ! The needle and the damage done was written about Danny and other people lost .

[@blindriv3r]

Yes, written BEFORE Danny died as well, and I think he died of a booze and pills OD, trying to quit the heroin 'city style' as it was called, terrible...

[@gyorgynonn7722]

where can I read about this? [e-mail]

[@debcookpamunkey]

@@gyorgynonn7722 Waging Heavy Peace-------> Book about Neil Young---------> It's a good read, I picked it up at a Goodwill right before Covid-19

[@Jglizzard]

It's totally sad, we're still losing" brothers" and sisters today. His name was Paul Martin Cook. I miss him.

[@jackielatini6448]

Thanks for this timeless moment, !!!! Danny was not sick, he was just a little lost as we all can be.Looking for something to make the pain go away .Rest easy my friend💔💔 Jackieblue(L.A.)

[@mikehill7587]

Yes I can 😊 take physical pain better than emotional I love ❤️ everyone Christ 🙏 bless you and your family 🙏❤️ Michael

[@peterjennings7230]

Yes I can only imagine the talent he could have become if he had survived. Was it him that did that machine gun lead in Down by the River? Neil said Danny was better than him. Hard to imagine anyone better than Neil

[@michaelray9576]

WOW!!! THIS SHOULD BE THE "DEFINITIVE" VERSION!!! ✌❤ from Hampton, VA

[@PC-CPPC]

This is fantastic. Beyond words.

[@DanielinLaTuna]

Thanks for sharing. I look high and low for live recordings of Cowgirl in the Sand because I want to see the interplay between the guitarists. There's so much going on. It's genius!

[@ravikhanolkar855]

Audio cd available

[@DanielinLaTuna]

@@ravikhanolkar855 I have the cd. Is there a dvd available?

[@mmg9675]

I do the same. Have you come across a 20 minute live recording. I'm sure there was one on youtube some years back.

[@filleke70]

This is the best version ever. Wow

[@69-72USMC]

I fell in love with this song when it first came out, never ever got tired of listening to it.

[@waltpastick1236]

Man this stuff marked me for life

[@mikeike1969]

I could run through a wall listening to the guitar work on this song

[@keithtimpe9032]

Best version I've ever heard! Love this tune

[@ub1953]

Even NEIL didn't know he was this good till years and years pasted.....

[@billr2375]

Those photos remind me of the poster I hung in my room when in High School when this song came out---was Neil and Danny playing, in front of their Altec Speaker Cabinet, Amps, Console etc. and was an Altec Lansing Poster. Classic. Would stare at that while listening to Cowgirl in the Sand, Down by The River, What did you to my Life, Emperor of Wyoming, etc.

[@mikeandrews6265]

Altec Lansing were great speak,s

[@jackhewitt7067]

Cool memory friend.

[@rustynail246]

love those old pictures, wish they would last forever.

[@karennahall2590]

they're pictures thats the point. lov

[@pauldailey4477]

Maybe they will.

[@uweriester8773]

Crazy Horse with Danny Whitten a great, haunting guy, he loves music and he died with the music in his heart

[@bonedust82]

Love ya Danny. R.I.P.

[@davesheather4306]

Creamin' listening to this version..!!! RIP DANNY !!

[@Audiogeek-kf2ez]

I actually heard of CSN&Y before Neil Young solo. When I discovered this about 73( 14 yr old) I was hooked, this album grab me and never let go. I could listen to both side at one sitting time after time. I still think it is his best work.

[@fernlenker]

even it it goes didgital to my ears now, i can hear the real thing! OH YES that sounds so good! Thank YOU! i try this on guitar... oH No never get it like that =) soooooooo cool =) ) greetings

[@indigitalformat]

wow, and of course Danny and Neil..magic

[@sergioamayajr.5868]

Thank you, thank you so much por posting this video. I will be seeing Neil and Crazy Horse this weekend at the 2024 Jazz Fest in New Orleans. I cannot fuckin' wait.

[@colmwatulikededazio973]

A truly Iconic Memorable place in time . Brilliant

[@Stoned2072]

Stunner version !!!

[@donaldhubbs4399]

LISTENING IN THE PHILIPPINES...WONDERFUL...

[@TheKiller-yh3pi]

Careful now bud! Duterte may have ya drawn and quartered just for listening to music that, may or may not have been, recorded under the influence of substances 50 years ago lol. That duterte, I swear me and my buds would like 5 minutes alone with him so he’ll know what pain really is...that is if his throat cancer doesn’t kill him first. In any case he seems like a first-rate asshole. Good luck though pardner, and enjoy the tunes, Neil has a whole repertoire of great music ya should check out if ya didn’t already know

[@Fritzw75]

Damn, Hope you have a fine Filipina girl at your side. So many beautiful girls over there. They are the best!

[@JDAbelRN]

Cowgirl in the Sand Hello cowgirl in the sand Is this place at your command Can I stay here for a while Can I see your sweet sweet smile Old enough now to change your name When so many love you is it the same? It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game Hello ruby in the dust Has your band begun to rust After all the sin we've had I was hopin' that we turn back Old enough now to change your name When so many love you is it the same It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game Hello woman of my dreams Is this not the way it seems? Purple words on a grey background To be a woman and to be turned down Old enough now to change your name When so many love you is it the same It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Neil Young Cowgirl in the Sand lyrics © Broken Arrow Music, Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, Broken Arrow Music Corporation

[@jameskennedy721]

So glad this finally got released . I wish it had come out in 1980 .

[@gregorylapointe4157]

David Briggs wanted Neil to put this out way back in '71 or '72.

[@guynelson2341]

Man, do I wish I'd been at that concert ! For me, Danny Whitten was one of the most underrated guitar players of all time.

[@guynelson2341]

Nobody, in particular, underrated him, but I don't think he got the fame and recognition that he deserved.

[@mightyturkeyneck3498]

Right on!! 🦃⚡🎸🤯🦃

[@johnfdzurakjr111]

Phew! First heard this in 1969 while stationed overseas. I am still moved exactly as then, thank God!

[@scrutz]

Frank Sampedro never had the same volume in the Crazy Horse mix Danny’s guitar and especially his vocals were a light that went out too soon sadly

[@ianholliday8149]

Damn, I would have loved to have been at this concert.

[@joanjett8814]

Wow .. absolutely incredible..

[@NatahPollin]

Neil young is forever

[@hhgv1957]

Real rock!!! Amazing

[@tonnisvanderluit1943]

Fucking great especially with Danny

[@damienfaure8739]

Neil played so great with Danny!

[@johnstrausbaugh6718]

LONG LIVE THE HORSE 🐴

[@gregv79]

I just searched this at random. I'm a guitar player who first learned off the decade songbook back in 78 or so. Just felt like hearing it with crazy horse versus solo ala Massey hall....im big on acoustic. Took me years to save for a good Guild then Martin D series. This kicks ass.. surprise 🫢

[@southwest1988]

⚡️⚡️⚡️🔥🔥🔥 When Electric combines with Fire Neil Young and Crazy Horse 🐎

[@pckpat]

I like how Billy T. is plucking his bass so hard, that the A and E strings go a bit flat halfway through. Great version.

[@danr5105]

Wow you must be a super talented/super good musician to be able to tell that. I am so impressed (not.)

[@ronnytotten9292]

@@danr5105 you clown.

[@bonedust82]

Hey wiseass (danrblahblablah).... if you actually have an ear for it then you most definitely can tell the difference. Stick to your slide whistle kid.

[@Dolcepaula1960]

❤this song!💜from the Netherlands🧡

[@kimbaldwin-deaton265]

Neil. Young. Nuff said.

[@denisparat1392]

Super version

[@daskitten1]

Jack Nitzsche on keys...thx for posting

[@gabrielafreitas9579]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ Neil Young

[@rlbroyles1]

Damn... is Danny Whitten or Neil playing lead? The shredding around 7:55 reminds me so much of Duanes playing on In Memory of Elizabeth Reed. Spectacular on all fronts.

[@michaeldonovan4793]

Neil...Danny's was a great rhythm accompaniment..

[@Fritzw75]

@@michaeldonovan4793 Connection with Neil Young Songwriter Neil Young, fresh from departing Buffalo Springfield, with one album of his own under his belt, began jamming with the Rockets and expressed interest in recording with Whitten, Molina and Talbot. The trio agreed, so long as they were allowed to simultaneously continue on with The Rockets. Young acquiesced initially, but imposed a rehearsal schedule that made that an impossibility. At first dubbed "War Babies" by Young, they soon became known as Crazy Horse. Recording sessions led to Young's second album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, credited as Neil Young with Crazy Horse, with Whitten on second guitar and vocals. Although his role was that of support, Whitten sang the album's opening track "Cinnamon Girl" along with Young, and Whitten and Young shared lead guitar on "Down by the River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand". These tracks would influence the grunge movement of the 1990s,[citation needed] and all three songs remain part of Young's performance repertoire.

[@EricCirca]

The fidelity on this live recording sounds so good as if it was recorded in the studio. It should be officially released.

[@LuanPaim]

It kinda is. It's on the Archives Vol. I. Live at Fillmore (1970).

[@shadowplay2801]

Uncle Neil Rock on!

[@VanirTraditionalist]

The recording quality is spectacular. My only criticism of this version is they replaced the dissonant chord at the end of the chorus, as recorded on the studio version a year prior. For me it’s the highlight of the song. Other than that - goddamn what a performance.

[@billhorstkamp98]

Fantastic!

[@kurtledesma5993]

This version kicks - - s !

[@mikeweir3680]

Just Pure Magic....

[@tpstrato2270]

master at work at a very young age GEM

[@normanroth9072]

Well done

[@michaelmcdonald1988]

I think this is the only live version with the full cast of Crazy Horse. Fillmore 1970 is well worth the $$ for a small handful of great NY classics.

[@daled8221]

So raw & real!!!

[@shirleyjennings5787]

Awesome!

[@D.Lee.W]

My favorite NY song.

[@ilyayt1]

great stuff! so thx!

[@nothing-b2n]

Good to hear that,,from that apparatus....

[@robertflorentine]

great jam

[@hannatello4840]

Pura mágia AmazinG 🎸⭐

[@marcbahn5487]

There was something going around in the air then. I was there. NY was an idiot but he grasped the angst and fully translated it. Great song.

[@bassmaster1953]

WHEN DANNY DIED AND FRANK CAME IN, NEIL SAID, JUST PLAY IT LIKE DANNY DID.

[@gerardoerak6142]

Sorry but Sampedro style is completely different than Witten's. Both awesome rhythm guitar players.

[@austingonzalez-lh3ey]

This is ridiculous 😮 I love this guy

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

I like Neil Young, but with the Crazy Horse-i just LOVE him

[@JCSteel2112]

Oh holy hell does that intro kick ass!

[@leomcdonald6138]

Thank you.

[@rebuttalc2075]

Godfather of grunge with some foxey solos

[@laurietalbot4747]

They were awsome at the Roxy.Nils and Mika added to it all

[@saratoga123321]

The album cover from the release of this shows NY&CH, Miles Davis, Mayall (assume is John Mayall), Moody Blues, Cocker (assume is Joe Cocker), and Auger (assume is Brian Auger) over a spate of like 2 weeks. What a time that must’ve been to live.

[@marcfilippone181]

Oh yeh!

[@michaeldonovan4793]

It was...

[@shwnsll5947]

Poisoning minds, hearts, children and families with politics vs naked love for decades. Neil Young.

[@artvallejos1460]

Doing benefit concerts for disabled children, farmers, environmental issues etc.............. making millions of $$$$$$$ for these organizations All in the U S A for decades.