Since I don’t own a PonoPlayer – the price tag is somewhere in the range of $399 (£304). And in April of this year, I travelled to Seattle to give a presentation at the annual Pop Conference about the enduring influence of Young’s unfairly disparaged 1982 electronic album Trans. I’ve happily paid money for albums as widely loathed as Fork in the Road and Everybody’s Rockin’. I’ve loved Young since I was old enough to spell “Cortez.” Some of my earliest musical memories involve Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere blaring in my dad’s Subaru wagon. ![]() Despite Young’s somewhat ornery reputation – one veteran journalist described him as “surly and monosyllabic” in conversation – I jumped at the chance for a brief phone chat with a longtime hero. Would I like to interview Neil Young? Yes. ![]() ![]() The opportunity had fallen into my lap with the sudden shock of a surprise album drop.
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