Cold Lake, Alberta), I knew that great Canadian Rock comes from Winnipeg.. including Neil Young, the Guess Who and others. As a young teenager I picked up the guitar I had learned to play single notes on several years before at Borden (Ontario). In the Air Cadets with short hair in the mid 70s, I taught myself chords to get some "cool" points in highschool. Short hair was not well tolerated back then. :) Short hair was not cool at all, nor jeans with strait legs. :) Teaching myself chords and PinBall Wizard, did get me some "cool-enough" points. Then guitar took off for me when I went to that magical music land in Manitoba (summer of 78), and one of my fellow air cadets was a serious spanish/classical guitarist on his way to music studies. He informed me that I should not feel inferior compared to his skill at instant sight-reading (of any music). He told me I had a gift with the guitar, LOL, to my surprise, and suggested I just play what I hear and want to make up or improvise. Up to that point, I thought that being able to find the key and groove and solo with any song, was a skill that would develope for any musician who practiced enough. He informed me that was not true; many working musicians can read and play anything or even write material, but not all can make it up on the fly like Jimmy Page. He did inspire me to learn "Classical Gas", but he told me to trust my ear learning things like Neil Young songs, and I could just find the playing methods myself and embellish the chords with any picking and flicking, pulls and bends I felt like. This song is one of the first where I realized this basic spicing up of basic chords, turning a basic strum pattern into a rather rich picking on top of rythm. Also, that picking made me "feel" what I was playing, because it is my twist on it. I could just sit there and listen to it flow for hours sometimes. Also, this song speaks to me regarding all the people who destroyed themselves from addictions to drugs of various kinds in the 70s. So this song has some meaning and lamentation for almost every listener; can you recall any young men and women from your past who just fell into the abyss? ((This was recorded in my lab on a quiet evening using the built in mic on a 2007 iMac. Reverb, stage setting, was added with some tweeking of the equalizer; using the basic audio editing right in iMovie. Saved to Quicktime movie format (web streaming size) and uploaded into YouTube. Easy. Not bad for a pinhole microphone.)) Dr M.