Look at this guy! Tonight's the Night was originally released in 1975, and a tribute to then recently deceased Crazy Horse and Bruce Berry. Why don't more celebrities die of drug overdoses these days, we're looking at you Lady Gaga; but our eyes are diverted from the ghost of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman's death pisses us off too much to fully approach that subject. Our dad used to sing to us, "You can never come back, when your out of the blue and into the black." Yes, Chop and I are siblings, and we're married. People choose their existences. Accept it.
Long before we put it together that these were Neil lyrics, we were rocking out to Never Mind the Bollocks in our bedrooms across the hall from one another. We tried to see who could play it the loudest. But some things come full circle. Neil realized this when he framed his album with "Tonight's the Night". So it might make sense that we would attempt a review of an album almost forty years old. But what makes Tonight's the Night album relevant? Maybe it's the fact that much of the world existed before Chop and I were born. Maybe it's just the fact that each of us continues to make discoveries as we grow older.
The minor point is that Neil couldn't have written a song like "Hey Hey My My" without experiencing the death of those good classmates around him. With the recently departed Hoffman, we realize the loss of opportunity for another celebrity turned politician. So before we all go out of the blue and into the black, know that tonight's the night. Take Neil's advice and open up those tired eyes.
Karat
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