Artist:Crazy Horse
Song:I Don't Want To Talk About It
Album:Crazy Horse
Of course Crazy Horse is best known as Neil Young's longtime band but you don't want to overloook this outstanding 1971 album minus Young. The group started in 1962 as the doowop group Danny & The Memories with Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot & Ralph Molina. They settled in California in 1966 and renamed themselves The Rockets. In 1968, Whitten & Talbot met Neil Young. Young had just left Buffalo Springfield and planned to go solo. He jammed with them and asked them to record with him. The result was Young's 1969 classic Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and the group was renamed Crazy Horse. While Young was recording, he also joined Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. So Crazy Horse signed their own contract with Reprise. The album was well received. Jack Nitschze produced and Nils Lofgren sat in on guitar. Whitten was the main songwriter of Crazy Horse and I Don't Want To Talk About It showed a lot of potential. Later the song was a hit for Rod Stewart. Just when it looked like Crazy Horse would take off, Whitten became addicted to heroin. He was fired and died on Nov. 18, 1972. As a seperate entity, Crazy Horse was never able to recover but the remaining members continue to work with Neil Young. Not surprisingly, there is no video footage of Crazy Horse without Neil Young. However, there is a very surreal Danny & The Memories Scopitone on Youtube. Here's Neil Young & Crazy Horse performing Cinnamon Girl from Rust Never Sleeps.
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