Well that is pretty fucking awesome
posted by Windopaene at 9:25 AM on June 8, 2022 [1 favorite]

Boy, that song's really not the same without Ringo's tumbling little drum rolls, is it?
posted by Paul Slade at 10:08 AM on June 8, 2022 [3 favorites]

Wow.
posted by Splunge at 11:25 AM on June 8, 2022

Some people want to fill the world with existential art songs
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
posted by credulous at 11:35 AM on June 8, 2022 [7 favorites]

I love the commanding tone of the video caption: "There are many copies of is video out there. This is the original and the best quality filmed by me so keep watching and thank you"

There are literally professional camera people hovering on stage, but hey! I like your confidence kid.

Also loved that Paul is dressed like a high school maths teacher who was in the main blandly forgettable except for the one time they got really mad when someone stole their chalk compass, and ended up punishing the whole class because no one confessed.
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 11:45 AM on June 8, 2022 [8 favorites]

I'm pretty sure that's who Paul is on the inside.
posted by howfar at 12:13 PM on June 8, 2022 [9 favorites]

That was awesome. Who better to capture the chaos of "A Day In The Life" than Neil Young on his Old Black guitar? (But, yes, this song needs Ringo.)
posted by tallmiddleagedgeek at 12:30 PM on June 8, 2022 [2 favorites]

Check the bells/vibraphone/glockenspiel/whatever that thing is called player trying to match intensity with Neil, and well it's a clockenspiel with big fuzzy mallets so it's not going to happen and so she gives up and goes back to keeping time.
posted by The_Vegetables at 1:35 PM on June 8, 2022 [1 favorite]

Ha, what a trip - musta seen Neil at least a dozen times but this may be the best weirdest most unexpected thing I've seen the chameleon do since I sat wide-eyed and watched him unveil opening night of the Rust Never Sleeps tour at Purdue's Elliot Hall in '78 - just completely, utterly outta left field. Better to burn out ......
posted by thecincinnatikid at 1:43 PM on June 8, 2022

Excellent, thanks for posting.
posted by winesong at 2:27 PM on June 8, 2022

bring the noise
posted by philip-random at 4:01 PM on June 8, 2022 [2 favorites]

Thanks, I enjoyed that!
posted by Too-Ticky at 5:18 AM on June 9, 2022

Check the bells/vibraphone/glockenspiel/whatever that thing is called player trying to match intensity with Neil

Is that Pegi Young (his then wife, later ex-wife, now deceased)? I can't tell.
posted by tallmiddleagedgeek at 7:48 AM on June 9, 2022

This does feel like the punchline to one of those McCartney anecdotes where he was walking past, heard the opening chords and just blagged his way onstage. Which would explain the clothes.
posted by YoungStencil at 8:30 AM on June 9, 2022 [2 favorites]