[avacado]

"I met Neil Young during his "DUCKs" band in Santa Cruz... I certainly loved coming in from surfing and listening to them play."

I lived in Santa Cruz during that period and also surfed. Wasn't he living somewhere on Pleasure Point and didn't he get a bunch of guitars stolen? And didn't the name "Ducks" come from a incident of some guy hitting a bunch of ducks along twin lakes?

[Karliner]

I don't know about where the DUCKs name came from, probably from Blackburn or John Craviato( old drummer for Moby Grape" and other SF bands) but yes, he used to play behind or in the barn on 38th ave which, the last time I drove down that street there's no more barn( from the 1800's) and no more pear orchards....no more water tower...wahhh. I believe there's homes and a little kids park there now...no way to even see the way it once was.

Allegedly Neil did lose some guitars and the was an article written about Neil and such regarding this by and old college friend( and before) by the name of Ben Marcus....of course he omitted the needle and the spoon junk I witnessed. Neil used to drive around town in his old Rolls Royce and would frequent the health food store( no longer there either) on the corner of Portola Dr/ 41st Avenue.

Cheers to old Pleasure Point surfers back in the day when life was slower and homes cost less than a million a piece!!