I watched this as a teenager, whilst sitting with my seriously ill mother, who died shortly after. I felt alone, so empathised with Robin. Poor poor Robin, as the parrot used to say. Brings tears to my eyes when I hear this tune. I stll miss you mom, even after 50 odd years.
In contrast to the people who watched this when they were younger, I discovered this a few years ago and have been smitten ever since What a beautiful piece of music.
Neil Young he felt that distorting his voice reflected his attempts to communicate with his son, Ben, who was born withcerebralpalsy. . "At that time he was simply trying to find a way to talk, to communicate with other people. That's what Trans is all about. And that's why, on that record, you know I'm saying something but you can't understand what it is. Well, that's exactly the same feeling I was getting from my son."
ik i prob thought too deep into it but when he talked about the three pedals and said ‘who does he think i am’ i laughed thinking he referenced not having a big ‘third leg’.
He did well with his trusty old knife to find the things he did on that island. How he managed to dig up cameras and a sound crew is amazing. This is what I thought about 55 years ago.
Once in the late '60s I saw Victor Borge make a guest appearance on "The Hollywood Palace", a TV variety show. The last segment of his act that night he read aloud from a book, using what he called "sound punctuation" which involved making "air punctuation" accompanied by different sounds for each period, comma, question mark, exclamation point etc. He had the 12-year-old me literally rolling on the floor laughing so hard my sides hurt. And this was after playing "William Tell" backwards at full speed from upside-down sheet music. We'll not see anyone like him again. Rest in peace, Mr. Borge.
