“I sent him a postcard: ‘You gotta get out of Winnipeg.’ So he went to Thunder Bay, met Stephen Stills and started Buffalo Springfield.” Randy Bachman on sharing guitars and amps with Neil Young as rock and roll upstarts

My piano player had a tape recorder, and if you moved the recording head a little bit you'd get an echo like Hank Marvin. Play with the tape a little and there was the sound of Hank Marvin and the Shadows. There’s something about the brotherhood of guitar, especially if you both have a Gretsch and you both like Hank Marvin. We had no idea, because you'd only see a Gretsch guitar on American Bandstand, and it was black and white. I’d say, “Neil, I want to play ‘Down by the River.’