Dan Baird and his band Georgia Satellites almost single-handedly saved us from synth-pop in late 1986 with their song "Keep Your Hands To Yourself."

Dan Baird live is something you don't wanna miss!! So energenic and melodic!

I saw Neil on the Blue Notes tour in Toronto - CNE - outdoor gig. Played only Blue Notes material. Some of the crowd were a little fickle about that. I remember the radio adds were playing classic songs, so that may have mislead the crowd leading up to the show a bit. I couldn't care less. I knew I was watching something great! He gets to the encore and pulls out After the Gold Rush!! I will never forget this next moment - He hits the line "I was lying in a burned out basement with the full moon in my eye" Right at that moment the clouds broke and all you could see in the sky was this great big full moon. The crowd went absolutely bat sh!t crazy. The clouds had covered the sky the whole night and waited for Neil's cue. It was truly magical!!!

@Mantanhattan

3 жыл бұрын

I saw that tour, too. Enjoyed the hell out of it!

@gtbones

3 жыл бұрын

I was at that show too.....!!

@danielmorris3687

3 жыл бұрын

@@gtbones Yup. Same here. Seen Neil numerous times with a number of his many bands and it's always been great. As long as you realize Neil is gonna play what he wants not what you might want, or expect, then it will always be a damn fine time. ✌🇨🇦

@benallmark9671

3 жыл бұрын

Cool story !

@foff4446

3 жыл бұрын

Neil did some weird shit at bonaroo a decade ago to get the clouds to break. Some shaman type stuff...lol

My favorite Neil song is Revolution Blues, and a close second is Pushed it Over the End. Then, there's Barstool Blues, Albuqurque, and I Believe in You. 😃

“Love songs for the hearing impaired” is a very underrated album. Very, very underrated.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

I'm with ya, Mike!

@moe17moe

3 жыл бұрын

True that. But all Dan's solo records are fantastic. The stuff he did with his band Homemade Sin. Such a loss that he retired from the road. But I understand. Good thing is ,he still makes great records. The one from last year, with former Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch , an instrumental album, is a perfect RnR record.

@funkfan1751

3 жыл бұрын

@@otisgibbs DAn Baird is under rated period! I have more of Dan's music than I do of Neil Youngs, so I guess you could say I like Dan better than Neil Young.................Oh Well It's my Party!!

74 year old guy whose been listening to Neil since the 60's. Like most of his stuff but still feel the intensity when he sings Ohio! Lots of emotion tied to that song. Old Man means a lot more to me since I've grown into the lyrics, lol.

@joblo6394

11 ай бұрын

just saw him play that solo in Bend, was tremendous 🤘🏼

"Everybody knows this is nowhere" has to be one of my favorites

Wonderful story. It's impossible to have only one favorite Neil Young song. But Powderfinger is one of them.

This is just Otis, but it would be freaking cool if Neil found this video and ended up connecting with you and some other great musicians you know. In today’s world the internet has a funny way of connecting people for the better. As always love the videos, love the content, and keep on digging that garden known as life. I definitely dig the garden you got going.

I just got to shake Neil's hand and say "Thanks for so much great music!" once.. but i spent a month just as ecstatic as you expressed. Great story Dan!

What a great story! I wish we would all get a second chance to redo a situation or conversation. Glad that worked out!

Oh man, that was hilarious. I'm a huge Dan Baird fan, and he is awesome too, not just Neil :-)

cortez the killer - live rust version is epic.

@pyrostooge78

3 жыл бұрын

I still think the definitive version of Powderfinger is the Live Rust version. Those solos - and pretty much every note on that whole album just soar. That first note Neil plays on his harmonica in After The Gold Rush still gives me chills. I listened to Live Rust so much, it's part of my DNA.

My favorite Neil Young song is Old Man. I listened to it when I was in my youth and now I can relate to the lyrics from a different perspective having lived long enough to become the proverbial old man of which Neil wrote back in the day. His music is timeless and very relevant to life.

Old Man, and Mr. Soul are my favorite Neil songs. He does do a great version of Mystery Train. Lots of great songs.

@mikemetague7973

3 жыл бұрын

Yep! Right from the early "Nowadays Clancy..." 'n' "Sugar Mountain" to Rockin' in the Free World" and beyond, Neil adds a lot to music!

my favorite ga satellites song is ' tell my fortune '.. that first e.p. is just the best.. that version of ' six years gone ' is great as well.

@Kickstart500

3 жыл бұрын

All over but the crying is my favorite satellites tune!

Fantastic story! So often it doesn't turn out that way but it sounded like Dan really needed that and the universe intervened. Beautiful!

Citizen Kane Jr. Blues, and Razor Love. You got that Boxcar and the whole Zuma and incredible Time Fades Away albums. So many mind-bending shows like 73 at the Garden with the Stray Gators and in 88 at the Royal Hawaiian with the Blue Notes- in this room with about 50, 6' tables. Life-altering tunes and events. Thanks for asking. Once we went to see CSNY in 74 at Roosevelt Raceway and stayed at the nearby Hilton thinking we could find him and jam! No Neil, but my sister and her friend partied with his roadies there, and they gave her one of his Herco picks for me! Good times (are coming).

I love Dan Baird (and Neil Young). I do a video of my CD collection for each of them. Dan Baird in my Unsung Heroes series. He rocks. Thanks! Cool video.

Absolutely loved this Otis & Dan! Beautiful! ✌️🎸✨

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, James!

@jamescassidy3995

3 жыл бұрын

@@otisgibbs Love from England! ✌️🖤✨

More stuff from Dan! That was a great story. Love your channel Otis.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Greg! There's more to come from Dan in the next few weeks, so stay tuned.

@davidklawitter3194

3 жыл бұрын

looking forward to more

Thanks for what you do,Otis

A Man Needs a Maid -- I know, I know, not very of the times. But stunning.

@daleeasterwood2683

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget Stupid Girl from Zuma. Not very acceptable today, either.

I was at that Neil Young and the Blue Notes show as well. And a good one it was. However, my walk home was a bit shorter than Mr Baird's journey of shame. About a minute and a half, tops. I lived right around the corner in a building on Ave C btwn 2nd & 3rd Streets, which shared a wall with the late, great World. The World is gone but its boom lives on. After all these years, I think I can still feel the bass pumping in my bones as I drift off to sleep But that's okay, I'm a bass player.

Couldn't get here quick enough.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! : )

@TheEedjit

3 жыл бұрын

@@otisgibbs Otis I wrote a little something and wondered if you'd be OK with me putting it up on here. There's even a little mention of stuff I learned from you since I found the channel. Its about a woman who's had it bad, still a work in progress but I hear Johnny cash sing it as I'm writing.

I love this. What a great story. Thanks for this, guys.

Current Neil favorite - Comes a Time - #2 is everything else - including all the experimental

Otis. This is one of my favorite videos of yours - and I've seen quite a few. Dan's rendition is priceless.

Thank you Otis and Dan Baird for sharing your stories with this channel; it was a good way to start my morning. :)

Talk about synchronicity! What a great story, thank you!! This is one I don't have to think twice about, my all time favorite Neil Young song is After the Goldrush.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Susie!

What a great story! Really happy that things worked out even better than what you may have imagined! Thanks for sharing!!!

Dan Baird can tell a story. I liked the Georgia Satellites, too.

Neil is a monument. Only Dylan is in the conversation of greatest career. I think Neil edges it out. Dan Baird is fantastic. His name pops up in stories (The Replacements we’re running buddies with him for a time) and no one has anything but nice things to say about him. I love these talks Otis. Thanks

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Thomas!

Ambulance Blues, Here We are in the Years, Out on the Weekend, and The Old Country Waltz are among my favorite Neil songs. Thank you for sharing this story and video - love this channel!

What's your favorite Neil Young song? I'm partial to Tired Eyes, Lotta Love, Mr Soul and a hundred others. How about you?

@Kickstart500

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend.. so many favorites! But on a given day.. Cortez the Killer for that into, Tonight’s the Night, probably all time favorite is Helpless

@stephenpassmore3684

3 жыл бұрын

Impossible to give just one song. But side 2 of On The Beach is as near to perfection as it’s possible to get without the universe imploding. Oh, I should also mention… no I have to stop or this post will go on and on.

@tonycope4100

3 жыл бұрын

Cinnamon girl for now. I rediscovered this song a few months back and kicked myself for never learning it. So I did. Great song electric or acoustic!

@tomfrascina5846

3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree, the first side of On The Beach is good, the second is greatest of all time quality

@chadmacdonald7914

3 жыл бұрын

Fave Uncle Neil # "Don't Let it Bring You Down" LIVE from CSNY '4-way Street' album 😎 it's ASTONISHING... (+ a hundred others 😉)

Long may you run my all time favorite from Neil

My Neil favorites are, “Are you ready for the country” & “From Hank to Hendrix” Thanks Otis, great segment!

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I met Neil once, mid 80’s, he was wind surfing on a Lake here in Montreal, you couldn’t miss his tour bus, looked like a rolling log cabin with Buffalo Springfield written across the back of it. Sat at the same table as him and had a beer. Never been speechless for so long in my life, afraid to say something stupid I guess, my much older brother who was Neil’s age at the time ‘39 ish’ eventually said, I like some of your stuff Neil but I’m a bigger fan of Dylan, I was in shock, Neil’s response was Dylan’s my favourite guy as well, I get it…… Funny how these moments in time sick with us 😎

Great Stuff, Otis, thanks 🙏

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, David!

Now that was quite enjoyable. We like stories with a happy ending. Keep on rockin Otis & Dan.

Neil Young - When You Dance

such an excellent story so excellently told! Thanks Otis and Dan!

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Britt!

Old man ... that was me and my old man .... now ... I'm the Old Man ... how the world turns ... love this trip you're taking us on. !!!!

Excellent story. Thanks. Out on the Weekend.

Once and only Once is a great bluenotes live show! Favorite NY tunes, Ordinary People, L.A. Crime in the City

Neil is in my top 5 all time I think. Too many songs to love to pick just one but after the gold rush is first to come to mind in this moment. Got to meet Neil many moons ago backstage at a show in LA when I worked for Tower Records. Very cool guy. Nice for no reason to us.

The Live Rust album was my favorite. But I could listen to anything Neil Young. Cool story.

Great story… glad Dan got to feel better about his Neil encounter…👌🎶👌

I can't begin to narrow down my favorite Neil Young songs, but just wanted to say that's an awesome story. Thanks for doing these videos, Otis.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

fantastic!!!

Tonight's the Night always touches a nerve with me. It's almost like it could have been on Tom Waits Rain Dogs album.... but that song off Comes a Time with I feel like going back, back where there's nowhere to stay...(I forget the title) sticks in my head lyrically and I think it's a beautiful poem. There are so many ...Old Man is another...Neil really owns an E minor chord like nobody's business

Powderfinger. I could listen to Dan Baird stories all day long. They guy is not only underrated as an artist, but he is also so well-spoken. What a cool cat.

great human story, down to earth and great to hear it! ty p.s. wished Dan would put out more vinyl!

Absolutely amazing, anything Neil Young is great and to be told by Dan Baird only adds to it He looks great for all he has been through. Another home run Otis.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, William!

GREAT story..!!!👍🏼❤️

I saw Dan play at Third and Lindsley with a band called The 28s, for Chuck Berry’s birthday. Totally blew the place to pieces, best club gig I ever saw. Great work Otis, keep ‘em coming!

All of "Way Down In The Rust Bucket!" When you get the circumstances surrounding it, it has to be Him and the Horse at the top of their game. I've seen Dan Baird several times and spoken with him after shows. The biggest cheer I saw him get is when they did "Helpless" funnily enough.

That was awesome Otis and thank you for your entertaining and great contributions to country history and it’s music thank you thank you thank you once more so much and it was an awesome story by your friend! 👏👏👏👏🍀🍀🍀🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹❤️

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Brian!

I just likes Neil from the first time I saw him. Buffalo Springfield was the first album I ever bought. I just felt him to be a kindred spirit and always felt he was just sitting in my living room and playing. Ohio was probably my favorite song of his and gave me strength to fight my draft board to get my conscientious objector status.

Wow great story. I have so many Neil favorites,over 50 years of listening to him. Buffalo songs are some of my favorites. I guess I track with him through the years.

As I'd like to think most Neil Young fans are, my fav neil songs are interchangeable, constantly evolving, always dependant upon multiple different aspects. But ifiwere to chose ONE, i reckon it would be Ambulance Blues....and I have no idea why. Just is. I had a similar experience with the keyboard player from Widespread Panic, John Herman. I was sitting in a bar in Memphis shortly after a WSP show at mud island, and got to chatting about Neil Young, as a matter of fact. He told me a great story about how he learned to play "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" on piano. Was a mesmerizing feeling, being able to talk face to face with someone that inspires me, but to connect with him on a mutual admiration for Neil young's music was truly priceless and something I'll never forget.

@perryrice6573

3 ай бұрын

It's all one song........

OMG - The Blue Notes is my FAVORITE Neil stuff !!! This is HILARIOUS !!!

The Needle and the Damage Done was the first song I learned all the way through on guitar in the eighties. Neil Young was one of my favorites.

What a great story! I am a big Neil Young fan, I remember when I was in high school and the album After The Goldrush came out. I think that is one of his best albums, I have worn it out and still have it. One of my favorite songs Neil did was Cowgirl In The Sand.

@joyceb.sachsesachse1242

Жыл бұрын

Me too , I wore it out a few times and after my girl friend died up on the Kern river , tonight's the night was something that saved me , along with The song Kern River from Merle Haggered which I think are the same type of song writers ....and sooths me in some way in times of trouble......in mind....

Great story , Otis, your channel is takin off, I am happy for you , I hope that it doesn't lose that family atmosphere

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Bruce!

This is absolutely hilarious!!! Loved hearing the story haha.

Throughout my life my favourite Neil Young song has changed now and then, but for the last few years ‘Ambulance Blues’ has been my favourite. It’s easier to say a top 5 or top 10 than your favourite cause it’s difficult to edge out some others.

Another cool story. Thanks Otis and Dan. Saw the Blue Notes at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on short notice. Neil used to use that club as a warm up/rehearsal gig. All us banana slugs up at UCSC would hear about a run of shows the same day and line up outside the club starting around Noon. Stray Gators gig the same way. As good as they were, nothing like those critical mass Crazy Horse shows. Neil was and is one of the greatest!

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

That's beautiful, Andrew! : )

On the Beach !

Great story!!

Otis you know so many cool people, your a blessed man

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Curt!

Love it when tells his stories.could listen for hours. In a backstage, he told me about when he met Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, oh man...

For the Turnstiles is pretty great. Pocahontas. Honestly, I really love Star of Bethlehem. Like Hurricane is one of the great songs of all-time. He really is one of the Olympians.

Loved this! Had the pleasure of working with Mr Baird in the glorious 80’s. A real gentleman. And The World! In NYC. Yeah not a great venue.

@danbaird7414

2 жыл бұрын

Hey bud!

@andrewburns7449

2 жыл бұрын

@@danbaird7414 hey there bud! How ya hangin’? Some good times we had.

Thank U Ottis

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great Story!

what a great story to start the day....great story, thank y'all...

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Excellent

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank ya sir! : )

This was a great story, thanks for sharing (as always). My fav Neil song is Old Man.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This story is unbelievable! So great!

love Dan xx

This was fantastic! For me, Harvest Moon. Cinnamon Girl, honestly it changes constantly.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Michael!

Heck yeah ~ from zero to hero, I love it.

Cortez the killer is by far my favorite Neil Young song.

Old Man and Over and Over are the first two that come to mind, but I love too many of Neil's songs.

Dan Baird is such a cool guy. After the Gold rush, still my favorite Neil Young song. Ever since I was a kid, I love the third verse about the silver spaceships flying. Sparks the imagination

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Dan is the best!

Round and round has an interesting backstory-and it’s often overlooked as filler- great song- thanks!

Best story ever! My favorite Neil Young song is Albuquerque.

@robertross8425

3 жыл бұрын

Neil on the road. “I’ll find a place where they don’t care who I am “ so effortless so simple describing his personal life. so somewhere in a small cafe in Albuquerque he probably wrote it there on a napkin. Beautiful song,

That was a great story, I enjoyed every word of it. Dan Baird sure knows how to tell a story.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Rylie!

Haha, what a rig, love this man. Otis, you have the greatest friends.😃

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Caper!

Heart of Gold but there are so many good ones its hard to say for sure.

Great story. Beautifully told.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, John!

@johncalvert8032

3 жыл бұрын

@@otisgibbs You're welcome. Call me Jack.

That has to be the coolest story I have ever heard about anything like that. If anyone doesn't appreciate this then I don't can guarantee you Will Rogers never met them. Thank you for this it makes my day.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Saw the Bluenotes in Bay Area asked someone about where to get food at the bar he says we’ve taken care of you had dinner before show (thought we were with band) had great time w/ band got great seats in balcony helped friends & family get seated Great show. All new material. We always had connections w/ Wakefield SF saw many warm up shows before the tour saw Rust Never Sleeps at Cow Palace always there for nearly all Bridge shows. Nothing surprises us at his shows. Always has new material. Saw Trans/ rockabilly same show in Sac. CsNY 1970 & 2003? My favorite thing one of the Warfied warmup tour gigs (always last minute invite) Neil wanted to watch Sharks play in SanJose (hockey game) so he cancelled that show. /BookerT. Those shows were so spontaneous the best live preference I’ve ever seen. 😊

Old King ,This old Guitar, Nar can’t pick one love youngy best whishes from down under

LOVE ya ottis . Hilarious video

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Kevin!

Hey, Dan, I want to thank you (get the song reference?) for the best times of my life you and the Ga. Satellite’s provided me early on when you guys played around Atlanta, particularly at Hedgen’s in Buckhead!

Such a great story! So many songs to pick from. Our band does a good rendition of mr soul (Buffalo Springfield style) but every time I listen to the unplugged version I get goosebumps. Mr Soul is my favourite

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Steve!

Wow! That story is mind blowing! What's the chances? I can't imagine how Dan must have felt after their last conversation at the gym. So cool.

A few years ago, about 2007 I think, I went to a Neil Young show with a friend of mine, in Saskatoon, and we toured the stadium a bit before the show and looked at his tour busses, they were a few of them but one in particular, must have been Neil's because it had on the roof like a sunroof but it was in the shape of the grill of a classic car, and anyways we were hanging out there at a distance and we saw Neil outside talking with the crew and everything and I think they headed inside after they seen us. It happened to be April 20, or 4/20 which I had no idea what that meant at the time, but there were Young people in the lineup at the door dressed in hippie clothes and they let us in and we all went to the floor and the opening band went on, Dawes, and these kids lit up their joints as the lights went down, and within 15 minutes of the opening show these kids started a fight and got kicked out, a lot of us were happy with that. Later Neil Young comes out and it was "Neil Young and Friends" -so it was Peggy Young his wife on backup vocals, the late Rick Rosas on bass, Ben Kieth, Spooner Oldham etc. And it was my first Neil Young show ever and it was just magical, it's like he was playing a show just for me, and he's dressed in plaid shirt and ripped jeans like he's Kurt Cobain at 63 years old or whatever. So they play the last song and they all come out to take a bow and I yell out "Thanks Neil!" And I swear he looks directly at me, I'm about 50 yards from the stage maybe a bit closer, and I look directly at him, we sort of hold each other's gaze for a solid minute and half till it gets uncomfortable and I turn away, and he kind of nods toward me and that was that. Maybe he recognized me from earlier when we were checking out his tour bus who knows