After. Neil Young and Crazy Horse played a pair of historic concerts in Winnipeg this past February that I was fortunate enough to attend despite the polar vortex and 20 below temperatures, Neil and the band reconvened in Colorado to lay down tracks for a new Crazy Horse album

With Frank Sampedro forced into retirement after a freak injury a couple of years back, Nils Lofgren has returned with guitar and tap shoes. The movie chronicling the making of the album “Colorado” is called “Mountaintop”.

This movie documenting the inner workings of the legendary band creating new music in the studio is for die hard fans only. I found it to be fascinating to see how the recorded music is pieced together yet,when completed, the finished product sounds as one cohesive piece. Neil Young runs the show and is a tough taskmaster. The engineer for the project is pushed hard, and is on the ropes at times, but the group preservers and sees themselves to a finished product that ranks as one of the best Neil Young projects in recent years. Many of the songs on this project had surfaced during Neil Young’s most recent solo concerts and his shows with the Promise of the Real but have now been recorded as a decidedly Crazy Horse project.

Neil Young has had many film projects through the years and has a propensity for recording just about everything he does. It is not “Rust Never Sleeps” but “Mountaintop” is an excellent film chronicaling the legendary band members 50 year relationship and their continuing quest to create great music.

There’s more to the picture than meets the eye.

Rock and Roll will never die.

Tonight Bob Seger hits the Madison Square Garden stage one last time as part of his farewell tour. Unlike Elton John and the Eagles who keep returning like a boomerangs to squeeze every last dollar from the New York area, I believe that this is likely Seger’s last appearance with the Silver Bullet Band in New York.

Only time will tell but in the meantime-

Rock on

GQ