How Neil Young and ‘Homegrown’ Drummer ‘Butted Heads’
Himmel was recommended by Levon Helm as Young worked on his album
Homegrown in 1974. Although the record wasn’t released until last year, the sessions led to a professional relationship that lasted for decades.
In a recent interview with
Rolling Stone, Himmel said he was first approached by coproducer Ben Keith: “[He] said, ‘Come by the studio and I’ll introduce you to Neil. And Levon needs some equipment.’ I’d known Levon for years, and I said, ‘I’ll give him anything he wants.’ But I was working a couple of times when they were in the studio. I also didn’t want to go to someone else’s studio when I’m not the drummer. The last day that they were recording, Levon said to me, ‘You gotta come down.’ And so I went, and he introduced me to Neil.”
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