Conan Watched Neil Young Perform “Rockin’ in the Free World” Live At SNL | Team Coco Radio

I think one of the things that uh. inspires me most about you is that you. keep. um. you keep re I don't say Reinventing. yourself but you keep coming back with. like new growth on the tree you keep. coming back with something else to offer. and that's very inspiring to me and I'm. wondering if like hearing these old. songs does that does that inspire you in. any way like. well these songs got to me when I first. heard them when I was just a kid so that.

and I never forgot bobolina I never. forgot that I was just going. okay that's out there that exists and. you can go there anytime. that you're ready to yes you know and. and uh you got to be with the right. people and got to be everything's got to. be right then you can get there and I I. just love that kind of music and uh but. it's it's so radically different from my. other music uh that I'm uh. sometimes uh people can't go.

they can't go both places right and. that's you know well you've done you. know it's like we talked about this once. before but it Bears repeating that I was. in the as I was in studio 8h when you. did Keep On Rocking The Free World as. was Jim and uh I tell anybody tell me. anybody uh because uh Lauren Michaels as. is saying television is the worst way to. experience music and I think he's. usually right except.

um you and the guys did something happen. that night something was good yeah. something was not just good was. Transcendent and punched through the. television and uh I thought well okay. I'm on the floor at 8h I'm a kid I'm in. my 20s I'm watching you. do that and the place you just melted it. you just I think there was structural. damage to 30 Rock. uh and it's never been quite repaired.

um and I was blown away by that. performance. and then go online and find out that. people who weren't there who just saw it. on TV feel the same way so when it it. did punch through yeah it did punch. through yeah I remembered that I I you. can't tell. when that's going to happen but it was. very focused the band was very good and. everyone was establishing themselves in. a relationship with each other this was. four guys who've never played together I.

played with Pancho and Crazy Horse but. Steve and uh and uh Charlie had never. played with they played with each other. but they never played with us. and God though it was just so uh good. and then we got in the studio we played. a couple of times then when we went. somehow when we got to uh Broadway video. and we had our own dressing room. then uh. they completely dismantled the dressing. room between Pancho and Steve and.

Charlie it completely it was you know. and then the staff came in and they were. looked at it and I was like what you. know what the hell is going on here I. mean they were they couldn't believe it. but to these it was like a rock and roll. myth you know you crack you trash your. dressing room yeah okay yeah it's the. key so these guys trash this dressing. room yeah and I'm going okay well that's. a rock and roll that's that's a moment. but it seemed to be establishing itself. and no matter where we went uh at those.

kind of things kept happening like we. were supposed to run down Rocking In The. Free World for the Run for the run. through and we did up instead. yeah. and didn't didn't tell anybody we just. did that because you didn't want to you. didn't want to spend that no coin on the. rehearsal show no but the up. that we did is really good too yeah that. was a good one I think we have that but. I mean I don't think you that's. interesting because I don't think you. that. to do it to do keep on rocking at the.

dress rehearsal. you might not have been able to get. there for forever there is no rehearsal. you know so we threw a song away that. wasn't going to be in the study and. didn't tell them what's going to be so. we didn't we didn't sacrifice it yeah. just uh I didn't think NBC would be okay. with up. you sort of knew they wouldn't so we. figured it wasn't going to be something.

yeah. it's a good thing you had that in your. back pocket yeah yeah that's a good one. for that I always think whenever uh if. someone ever puts a video camera in my. face if I'm on the street and starts to. ask me a question I don't want to answer. um I'll just start singing an. unclearable Song by Led Zeppelin. oh yeah. and be like look if you guys can clear. that you can go ahead and hear my. comments but I might do that if I'm ever. uh forced to testify in front of the.

Senate. um there was so much goodness you've. brought so much more goodness into the. world world record uh is uh the new. album and I do love it and I do love how. optimistic. it is who is this on the cover that's my. dad is that your dad yeah. that's my dad good looking that's a good. looking serious man there's a serious. good-looking Dad it was a a writer and. uh he's writing for the Toronto Globe. and Mail at that time wow.

did he approve of your musical. aspirations uh not quite as much as my. mom did yeah. my mom was totally supportive and got me. everything I would go to the wall to get. you know anything that I needed yep uh. and uh so I was able to uh make enough. money playing and then getting help from. her to get amplifiers and stuff like. that right right well I remember the big. thing between my mom and dad about who's.

going to pay for this amp you know. you know he's got to have the amp my. mind your mom said wow you cannot not. have an amp you have to have you know so. I was looking at this I haven't paid. Echo to win and another. Fender tremolux or something and anyway. ultimately we got the amps. I feel like you would have gotten them. one way or the other we were we I knew. where they were.

yeah you would case the joint.