Talk:Helpless (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song)

message: Jerry Garcia is credited as the pedal steel player on the album, but not specifically this track "Helpless". The swelling guitar is more likely played by Stephen Stills using either the volume knob on his conventional electric guitar or a volume pedal on same. Other tracks on the Deja Vu album clearly contain pedal steel, and it has a different tone to the guitar swells on this track. --Design 11:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pedal steel?

message: This is almost impossible to believe that Young would make this mistake:
:: "It's not literally a specific town so much as a feeling.  Actually, it's a couple of towns.  Thunder Bay, Ontario is one of them.  It's where I first went to school and spent my 'formative' years.  Actually, I was born in Toronto. But Toronto is only seven miles from Thunder Bay."
: Actually, Thunder Bay is a 16 hour drive from Toronto.
No one who knows anything about Ontario geography could make this mistake.  Either Young is lying deliberately for some inexplicable reason, or he was misquoted.  Perhaps he said "700 miles"?  That's still not true (it's about 850) but it's at least in the same ballpark. --Saforrest 15:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Gah!  The article was vandalized: the quote should have been about Omemee, Ontario, which is 70 miles from Toronto (not seven, but maybe MOJO magazine might have misheard him). --Saforrest 01:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thunder Bay and Toronto 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu.jpg

message: Was the village of Marmora, about sixty Kilometers east of Peterborough on Hwy 7, a second "town in north Ontario"? While no farther north than Omemee, it is definitely considered "north" by the bulk of Ontario's population, which lives in the "Golden Horseshoe" area of western Lake Ontario. According to local inhabitants, the Young family cottaged on Crowe Lake, just north of Marmora, and Neil often played with local boys in the caves and crevasses at the northern outskirts of the village. From this vantage point the view to the north-west along the Crowe Valley is spectacular in all seasons, and is a flyway for local Canada Geese."Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes" is certainly a reality at sunset from there, as I have witnessed. Regardless, the quote from the main "helpless" page ,"Well, it's not literally a specific town so much as a feeling", is probably the truest local.
Stewspot (talk) 17:28, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another "town in north Ontario"? 

message: The song is also on Neil Young Greatest Hits album (solo). Maybe should be on page?  Telecine Guy (talk) 20:33, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Neil Young - Greatest Hits