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Neil Young to Perform Lost ‘Cortez The Killer’ Verses on Summer Tour With Crazy Horse
When Neil Young hits the road this summer with Crazy Horse, he’s planning on performing “Cortez The Killer” with verses that have been missing from the song for 50 years. “Just a couple of days ago, I found the other verses,” Young told fans Monday afternoon during a Zoom with paid subscribers to the Neil Young Archives . “Just the lyrics…We may have those lost lyrics in the show, which will be fun for me.” When the band cut the song originally in a California house near Zuma Beach, the power to the recording console died in the middle of the take, though the band was completely oblivious. They felt it was a prefect performance. “Don’t shoot yourselves,” producer David Briggs told them when they came out of the studio. “But the power went off, and we missed one verse.” Briggs told them which verse they had lost. “I never liked that one anyway,” Young replied. “It was a good take,” Young told fans on Zoom. “So what we did was take the master tape and find ways to cut it together so that it would work, but we lost a couple of verses. They were gone. Now that I’ve found the lyrics, I’m trying to find exactly where they come in the song. I need to look at the tape and see where the cut is, where we lost some. I’ll insert them there.”
In a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone , Crazy Horse guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro recalled cutting “Cortez The Killer” shortly after he joined the band. “It was a sunny day at Zuma Beach, and this guy came by, and I smoked angel dust with him,” he said. “And then Neil came up and said, ‘Let’s try this song,’ We never played it, and I was like, ‘Oh, shit.’ If you listen to the first recording, I thought the second chord was the first chord. Neil was emphasizing the first one, I was emphasizing the second one. [Laughs]. But you know, it goes around in a circle, so it doesn’t really matter too much.”

Young has played the song in concert over 540 times, but this will be the first time anyone has heard the lost lyrics. At a May 29, 2003, show in Hamburg, Germany, Young did add this additional verse: “The ship is breaking up on the rocks/With a sandy beach so close/The ship is breaking up on the rocks/With a sandy beach so close/Dancing across the water/Dancing across the water/Breaking up on the rocks/Sandy beach so close.” It’s unclear if those were spur-of-the-moment ad-libs or memories of the lost words from 1975.

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After Covid hit in 2019, Young took a break from the road for three years. When he emerged last summer for a solo tour, he played only outdoor venues. He’s playing 24 shows with Crazy Horse over the next few months, and they’re all outdoors as well. “We gotta be careful,” Young said on the fan Zoom. “I don’t know the stats on it, but I imagine if you look at a regular group of 15,000 or 20,000 people, just randomly from around the world, and then look at 15,000 or 20,000 people that all went to a show, and how many of them got Covid, I think you’d found people that went to a show inside have a lot more of a chance of getting sick. I don’t really need to do that. Willie Nelson told me he’s only playing outside now. I felt that was a good idea, so that’s what I’m doing.” Hearing that Graham Nash recently came down with Covid for a fourth time just reinforced his views on this matter. “I just sent him the acetate for the new CSNY Fillmore East in 1969 double vinyl, all mixed analog,” Young said. “He was going to listen to it yesterday, but he came down with Covid, and he’s out for a while.”
This live album is a holy grail for CSNY fans since it was recorded during their peak as a live band and was captured in pristine sound quality. “I’ve been hanging out with [Stephen Stills],” Young said on the Zoom. “We just finished the CSNY Fillmore East 1969 live album. We did it together with John Hanlon engineering and mixing. Rhino had almost completed a digital thing made of digital copies of all the original tapes. It was so depressing that I couldn’t even listen to it. You could hear that we were playing great, but I just didn’t want to hear that anymore, where you know you have a lot more sound than what you’re hearing. We found the original analog tapes, and we mixed them. It sounds like God. It’s amazing. There’s an 18-minute ‘Down The By The River’ on there that’s maybe the best ‘Down By The River’ ever. Stills is just smokin’ it. I think I might have already smoked when we started off, so it was a lot of fun.”

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Young largely dodged questions about what songs he plans on playing this summer with Crazy Horse, though he noted that he enjoyed playing Tonight’s The Night, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere , and Ragged Glory at intimate club gigs late last year. “The songs that the Horse plays are so simple you can go almost anywhere with them,” he said. “A lot of them only have two or three chords in them, and they just repeat. There’s another song that has four chords in it. We’re going to try that. The Horse has [rarely] played ‘I’m The Ocean’ before. I think we’re going do that one. But we should be able to jam for a long time on all that stuff. I’m looking forward to that.” He’s also looking forward to playing with Micah Nelson, who will be taking over from Nils Lofgren for the summer. (The guitarist has prior commitments with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band.) “Micah is fantastic,” Young said. “He’s really the right guy for the job. He plays great guitar. He sings really well. The music is in his blood. And it keeps things simple. The Horse is a simple four-piece rock and roll band, and still is. The fourth member has changed a few times because of various lifetime events, but I think we’re in great shape.” Trending O.J. Simpson Executor Clarifies Stance on Goldmans Receiving Money From Estate Supreme Court Justices Compare Bribes to Taking a Teacher to Cheesecake Factory Trump Reportedly Nods Off While Attending First Day of Criminal Trial Drake Responds to Rick Ross’ Nose-Job Claim, Warns Rapper After Diss, ‘Don’t Worry We’ll Handle It’
Young also gave an update on the upcoming Archives III box set. “It’s different from the other two,” he said. “It has a different approach. There’s more audio vérité in it. We have real-time things happening that people haven’t heard. There’s one scene is myself and Nicolette [Larson], Linda [Ronstadt], and [David] Briggs. We’re sitting around a table, and I’m singing all the songs that are on the next record to them for the first time. And then they start singing along. It’s just a live thing of people sitting around a table. I think it’s very interesting to hear them…There’s really a really cool film in there called Across The Water that is a great Crazy Horse film. It’s really big. It’s bigger than the other volumes.”
According to current plans, Volume III will cover a 30-year time span. Volume IV will do the same. “Rather than keep putting out volumes that are smaller,” he said. “We’re going to put out IV and that’ll be it. We’re starting on the last one. It’s a monumental task.”

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Manchester United forward Alejandro Garnacho has responded to Erik ten Hag’s decision to hook him at half-time in Saturday’s 2-2 Premier League draw with Bournemouth. The winger started at the Vitality Stadium as United looked to apply pressure on the chasing pack for Champions League football. However, it was another frustrating afternoon away from Old Trafford for the Reds as they failed to defeat the Cherries. Dominic Solanke opened the scoring in the first-half after Garnacho gave the ball away inside United’s half before the winger played a big part in Bruno Fernandes’ leveller. Justin Kluivert made it 2-1 before Fernandes rescued a point from the spot. READ MORE: Manchester United player ratings as Bruno Fernandes shines but Casemiro poor vs Bournemouth READ MORE: Bruno Fernandes uses angry exchange with Onana and Ten Hag to help Manchester United at Bournemouth Garnacho’s afternoon ended early when he was replaced by Amad Diallo at half-time. After the game, Ten Hag confirmed the decision was primarily tactical due to problems down their right-hand side – where both of Bournemouth’s goals came from. “We lost some balls in areas we shouldn’t lose them,” he said. “If you see the first goal, the set-up was good but in that area you should never lose the ball but it’s still not a goal. On the right side defending we had some problems in the first half. At half-time, we repaired it. “In the second half, Harry was better, we repaired it on the right side and we took more control of the game and if we would have been more calm and composed, we could have had a win. “First half, they were better. They created chances but the good thing is we returned twice from losing positions. So this team, the spirit is good, the resilience is good, they showed some character. “I think we had to repair over the right side. We didn’t play well, the spaces were there. In possession, we had to bring a sub there. “Garnacho was during the week not training. Only yesterday. We thought to bring some energy and bring some more quality, quality in the sense of cooperation and togetherness on that right-hand side.” Following Ten Hag’s admission of United’s problem down the right-hand side, Garnacho has responded on social media by liking two tweets about his substitution. Well-known United supporter Mark Goldbridge slammed Ten Hag’s decision to replace Garnacho on X, formerly Twitter. Garnacho liked the two tweets from Goldbridge. The first tweet read: “Garnacho has been one of our best players this season. Poor first half but taking him off at half-time and holding him up as the problem is a joke. Many have done much worse week in week out and are still out there.” Two hours later, Goldbridge added: “Ten Hag subtly blaming Garnacho in the post-match press conference… not a good look throwing a 19-year-old under the bus who has actually delivered for you this season. But then again he’s clearly scared of upsetting the bigger earners.” Try MUFC Pro NOW for free Subscribe to our brilliant app for the best way to enjoy the M.E.N’s unrivalled Manchester United coverage. No adverts, pop-ups or distractions – just our brilliant content presented in the best way possible. Comprehensive, round-the-clock coverage of the Reds, with agenda-setting breaking news and insight from Samuel Luckhurst and our authoritative team of United writers Exclusive content for subscribers New interactive elements including (coming soon) quizzes to test your United knowledge. Try MUFC Pro for a front-row seat to the action at absolutely no cost for the first month. You can get started by downloading our app here on iPhone, or here on Android. If you a lready have our app, click on the ”MUFC Pro’,’ Subscribe’ or ‘ Remove ads’ links. *Free trial auto renews at £19.99 annually unless cancelled. T&C’s apply. Ad-free indicates that you will not be shown standard display ad formats with the articles that you read, selected articles may contain commercial messages/affiliate links where contractually required.

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While you may be annoyed about paying taxes, billionaire Mark Cuban says he’s happy to pay the $275.9 million he owes for 2023. “I pay what I owe,” Cuban wrote on social media site X on Sunday. “This country has done so much for me, I’m proud to pay my taxes every single year.” Cuban confirmed with CNBC Make It on Monday that his $275.9 million tax bill was “wired today.” “We only get to be entrepreneurs and enjoy the freedoms we have because of the men and women who dedicate their lives to protecting our country,” he tells CNBC Make It. “They deserve every penny they get and my taxes go to support them.” Cuban, who is also one of the stars on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” has an estimated net worth of $5.4 billion and says his tax bill is “almost all long term capital gains,” which almost certainly triggered a federal long-term capital gains tax of 20%. Cuban declined to confirm which assets triggered capital gains taxes, or whether it was related to his partial $3.5 billion sale of the Dallas Mavericks, which was approved in December 2023. Long-term capital gains taxes apply to the sale of assets held for more than a year before they are sold. Capital gains rates are based on total taxable income and are generally lower than ordinary income rates. Here are the 2023 long-term capital gains tax rates for a single filer: 0%: $0 to $44,625 15%: $44,626 to $492,300 20%: $492,301 or higher Cuban might also owe additional taxes based on his personal income. He has confirmed in past years that he pays 37%, the top federal income tax rate for people who earn $578,126 or more. The U.S. uses progressive income tax brackets, which charge gradually higher rates once a taxpayer’s income exceeds a bracket’s total. Here’s a breakdown of how it works for a single taxpayer for the 2023 tax year: Income of $11,000 or less: 10% of the taxable income $11,001 to $44,725: $1,100 plus 12% of amount over $11,000 $44,726 to $95,375: $5,147 plus 22% of amount over $44,725 $95,376 to $182,100: $16,290 plus 24% of amount over $95,375 $182,101 to $231,250: $37,104 plus 32% of amount over $182,100 $231,251 to $578,125: $52,832 plus 35% of amount over $231,250 $578,126 or more: $174,238.25 plus 37% of amount over $578,125 For example, if Cuban was in the highest tax bracket and filing as a single payer, that means he would owe $174,238.25 plus 37% of any income he earned above the $578,125 threshold. (Cuban is married.) Paying more than a quarter of a billion dollars is “crazy and unreal in so many ways,” Cuban wrote on X. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be here. I try to never take it for granted.” Cuban has been vocal about paying his taxes for years. By paying taxes, wealthy entrepreneurs like himself are “helping support millions of Americans that are not as fortunate as you,” he wrote in a 2011 blog post. “Some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes,” Cuban wrote. “I don’t. I find it patriotic.” Disclosure: CNBC owns the exclusive off-network cable rights to “Shark Tank.” Want to make extra money outside of your day job?  Sign up for CNBC’s new online course How to Earn Passive Income Online to learn about common passive income streams, tips to get started and real-life success stories. Register today and save 50% with discount code EARLYBIRD. Plus, sign up for CNBC Make It’s newsletter to get tips and tricks for success at work, with money and in life.