

Later on I saw Danny and the guys at somebody's house in Topanga. This is one of those many times when words can't describe the music.ĭanny and the Memories eventually transformed into the Rockets they were playing in this old house in Laurel Canyon, and I somehow connected with them while Buffalo Springfield was at the Whiskey. They were so musical, with great harmonies, and Danny was a total knockout! I am so moved by this that it could make me cry at any time.

I am telling you, the world missed one of the greatest when Danny and the Memories did not have a NUMBER ONE smash record back in the day. We will never see and hear where he was going. His presence on that performance is elevating! He is gone, and no one can change that. Even though Danny was amazing and he held the Horse together in the early days, I did not know how great Danny was until I saw this! The moves! What an amazing dancer he was. You know, I looked at it maybe twenty times in a row. When I recently saw their old video of "Land of a Thousand Dances" on You-Tube, I realized that is is truly the shit. They were a vocal group with Danny Whitten, Ralphie, Billy, and a guy named Ben Rocco. “Danny and the Memories was the band at the root of Crazy Horse. Thankfully, the PA mix was only one step down from the highest resolution, so when it resonated in the hall and was rerecorded at the highest level, a high resolution hall sound was captured.” I did the best I could with a bad situation. I went back to Massey Hall and set up a PA system like the one I used at the show, played back the mixes through the PA, and rerecorded the house sound at the highest resolution. Lesser quality is so accepted as normal now that even I had used it unknowingly. My own team's excuses were not adequate, because I was not informed of the decision to go to a lesser quality. During a review of the digital files, we realized that the resolution was not full, it was a stepped down quality, not the best it could be. Everyone was very happy because we had captured it. “After a few months, I decided to do one more leg of the Le Noise tour and film the last show with Jonathan Demme in Toronto's Massey Hall/ It turned out to be a great night.
