This whole album, but especially this song, was the most blatant example of an emotionally wounded man I have ever seen.
After Harvest came out, Danny Whitten, Neil's best friend and guitarist for his band Crazy Horse took up heroin and Neil ended up firing him because he was too fucked up to play. He begged Neil to let him stay, saying he had nowhere to go and he couldn't go back to his family or friends, but Neil said too bad.
The very next day Neil got a phone call that Danny had ODed alone in some shitty motel rather than face the music. He was like 24 or something.
In response, Neil locked himself (and several cases of tequila and a bunch of weed and cocaine) alone for 4 days straight in the old house the band used as a recording studio. At some point during this period of isolation, grief and regret, he broke out all of the lights and most of the furniture. Borrowed Tune was one of three songs that the band's manager found on the tape when he came out.
And he won't play it at concerts, supposedly (or he used to not, anyway). Some things are just too personal, I guess.
This whole album, but especially this song, was the most blatant example of an emotionally wounded man I have ever seen.
After Harvest came out, Danny Whitten, Neil's best friend and guitarist for his band Crazy Horse took up heroin and Neil ended up firing him because he was too fucked up to play. He begged Neil to let him stay, saying he had nowhere to go and he couldn't go back to his family or friends, but Neil said too bad.
The very next day Neil got a phone call that Danny had ODed alone in some shitty motel rather than face the music. He was like 24 or something.
In response, Neil locked himself (and several cases of tequila and a bunch of weed and cocaine) alone for 4 days straight in the old house the band used as a recording studio. At some point during this period of isolation, grief and regret, he broke out all of the lights and most of the furniture. Borrowed Tune was one of three songs that the band's manager found on the tape when he came out.
And he won't play it at concerts, supposedly (or he used to not, anyway). Some things are just too personal, I guess.