Neil Young - Jones Beach Marine Theater, Wantagh, New York, June 14, 1989

Neil Young - Jones Beach Marine Theater, Wantagh, New York, June 14, 1989In this week’s James Jackson Toth episode of All One Song, our esteemed guest tells the tale of the concert that made him want to become a songwriter — Neil Young at Jones Beach in June 1989! A legendary gig not only for that Brooooce Springsteen guest appearance at the very end, but also because the second performance of “Rockin’ In The Free World” this evening ended up opening Freedom. Oh what a night in Wantagh. And you can relive that night thanks to a pro-shot (but still-somewhat murky) video, some of which appeared on the semi-rare Freedom VHS release. June of 1989 … Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade was in theaters, Batman was on deck, Full Moon Fever was on the boombox, and I was 10 years old with an endless summer ahead. I was feeling like my day had just begun … But enough about me! Neil once said of Freedom that he wanted to make a record with “no persona, no image, no distinctive character like the…