BACK STORY: NEIL VS JERRY

● Of all the orbiting members of the Planet Earth Rock And Roll Orchestra, Neil Young was predictably the least clubbable. Young did not, David Crosby insists, really understand the Grateful Dead in particular. “When I got Jerry and Neil in the same room, Neil was feeling I think nervous,” Crosby told Jesse Jarnow. “He felt like the outsider. He was trying too hard, he was very fierce in his playing and it was like he was trying to compete with Jerry, which of course doesn’t work. Jerry won’t compete with you. He will play better than you, but he won’t compete with you.”