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"FacebookPinterest\n\nFew people can get as close to Neil Young as the filmmaker Jonathan Demme. In their third concert film together, Neil Young Journeys, Demme puts us next to Young in a 1956 Ford Crown Victoria for a driving tour through his hometown of Omemee, Ontario. Then he puts us onstage with Young at Massey Hall in Toronto for the final two shows of his 2011 solo tour. The two pals spoke with GQ about facing death, making art, and the value of a good car stereo.\n\n\u00B7\u00B7\u00B7\n\nGQ: Neil, I heard that you listen to finished albums in the car to make sure the mix is right. What are you listening for?\n\n Young: How the music goes with the picture. Wherever you're driving, that's where everybody else is going to be.\n\nGQ: Your first film together, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, came after Neil had an aneurysm. Does that health scare still haunt you, Neil?\n\n Neil Young: That movie\u2014it's one of the best things I've ever done. It's a beautiful thing, so I feel good about it. I was able to take an event that was potentially life shattering and somehow turn it into a piece of art.\n\n Jonathan Demme: Neil said something that's embedded in my head. He said that before he had the aneurysm, he used to feel like a giant. Like we all feel when we're feeling capable\u2014a giant striding across the land. Now that he had the aneurysm, he feels like a leaf in a stream. Do you remember saying that?\n\n Neil Young: Vaguely, I do remember that.\n\n Jonathan Demme: That's a great metaphor, man.\n\nGQ: Jonathan, do you have a favorite Neil Young lyric?\n\n Jonathan Demme: I hate the word favorite, but I can tell you that the song \"Living with War\"... Neil put that out when we were still all so traumatized by 9/11 and the ongoing wars. I had the opportunity to go down to Philadelphia and say a few words at a youth-empowerment thing. And instead of remarks, I said, \"I'd like to read the lyrics to Neil Young's new song.\" And of course I got two-thirds of the way through and I started to cry.\n\nGQ: Neil, during this tour, you mostly played the same two guitars. Why?\n\n Neil Young: They're just my old friends. Those are the best ones that I have. I know I can do things that other guitarists can't. It's kind of like Wild Bill Hickok compared with somebody with just one gun."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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