I'd probably have "bitched about" technicalities to do with a performance of a Shakespearean play, had I been there in Elizabethan times. I have only one main criticism about "Rust Never Sleeps" - and that is purely that the cinematic/reproduction quality of the video was so abominably terrible. Acoustic Neil, crawling out of his sleeping bag, and later indicating that when he gets big he wants a real guitar, is his trademark self-deprecating humour. The visual reversal of size: roadies small/equipment big is, as another pointed-out, an almost surreal juxtaposition. The 'road-eyes', apart from being an atrocious pun (both linguistically and visually) can be seen as a comment, by Young, about the almost non-presence of roadies in the audiences' perceptions. I say down in Bermuda oh it changed me all around It turned me upside down in.
"Rust" as a 'show' was a concept: a piece of theatre that sometimes didn't work and at other times captured the sheer vitality and looseness which has been a trademark of Neil Young and Crazy Horse. That's right, I wandered all around And the flowers in Bermuda Well the flowers They almost knocked me down a few times Because they smelled so strong you know That it was springtime when I went there too Yes, there were little petals all around Well down in Bermuda. Then again, there had to be differences between "Rust Never Sleeps" and "Live Rust". Perhaps it was, even as late as then, a too-sensitive subject for Neil and The Horse to explore on stage. He is known for his wide-eyed, unaffected, and childlike outlook, and music that, while rooted in rock and roll, is influenced by music from around the world. He now plays only acoustic to protect his hearing.
Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key acoustic and electric backing. In 1970, he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Another commentator bemoaned the fact that "Tonight's The Night" wasn't included in the footage. Jonathan Michael Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. I saw this concert film when it was first released in Australia and still have respect for the fact that it wasn't edited to present Neil as a 'star': like a lot of his albums, it's a "warts-and-all" presentation. That kept soothing me and calming me down Making me feel better all around It’s quiet that far out at sea Down in Bermuda.
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