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Having complained about several aspects of the show, The Youngbloods are dismissed from a scheduled appearance on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in the USA.Full article:
Steve Stills : The Youngbloods went on Johnny Carson instead of Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young, and they made such a scene that Carson wouldn't have a rock band on his show for five years. They replaced us on the show when you baled out!
Neil Young : Yeah, well, I baled out of that show because I felt that musically we were very young, and I think we'll leave it at that.
(Source : interview with Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, October 29, 1999)
Lowell 'Banana' Levinger (guitarist, The Youngbloods) : We did a lot of tv shows and they were usually a big pain in the ass. We hated the make-up. We hated to lip-sync. The lights make you sweat like crazy and even worse the more make-up they put on you. We always objected to almost everything and got thrown off the Johnny Carson Show for being to objectionable. That made Time magazine though and probably got us more publicity than appearing on the show would have.
(Source : Interview with Robby Lewry, Shindig magazine, September 2008)
Johnny Carson : They (The Youngbloods) didn't like the platform, they didn't like the risers, they didn't like the lights; they were talking to my director - who had only been directing for twenty-some years. So I went in and told them to pack up and get the hell out of the building.
I went on the air that night and I said, "We had booked, tonight, the so-and-so group. They didn't like the lights, they didn't like the directing, they didn't like so forth; and so I told them to go home, blow their noses and when they grew up they could come back and be on the show.
(Source : interview with Timothy White in Rolling Stone, March 22, 1979)
Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods) : It was one big mess. We went in there two hours early to rehearse, which I thought would give us plenty spare time.
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Neil Young : Yeah, well, I baled out of that show because I felt that musically we were very young, and I think we'll leave it at that.
(Source : interview with Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, October 29, 1999)
Lowell 'Banana' Levinger (guitarist, The Youngbloods) : We did a lot of tv shows and they were usually a big pain in the ass. We hated the make-up. We hated to lip-sync. The lights make you sweat like crazy and even worse the more make-up they put on you. We always objected to almost everything and got thrown off the Johnny Carson Show for being to objectionable. That made Time magazine though and probably got us more publicity than appearing on the show would have.
(Source : Interview with Robby Lewry, Shindig magazine, September 2008)
Johnny Carson : They (The Youngbloods) didn't like the platform, they didn't like the risers, they didn't like the lights; they were talking to my director - who had only been directing for twenty-some years. So I went in and told them to pack up and get the hell out of the building.
I went on the air that night and I said, "We had booked, tonight, the so-and-so group. They didn't like the lights, they didn't like the directing, they didn't like so forth; and so I told them to go home, blow their noses and when they grew up they could come back and be on the show.
(Source : interview with Timothy White in Rolling Stone, March 22, 1979)
Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods) : It was one big mess. We went in there two hours early to rehearse, which I thought would give us plenty spare time.