March 20th, 1968: Neil Young jams with Clapton, gets busted, sprayed with DTD, thrown in drunk tank

[Amerigo Vespucci]

March 20th, 1968: Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Jim Messina and Richie Furay busted

Many people would pay good money to hear Neil Young, Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills jam into all hours of the night, but in March of 1968 people who lived near Stephen Stills' girlfriend's house in California's Topanga Canyon had had enough of the noise and called the police. At the time Buffalo Springfield had been rehearsing for their performance at a new Sunset Strip club with their friend Eric Clapton and a good time was being had by all – until two Malibu police deputies stormed into the house. Stills' road manager Chris Sarns grabbed a giant stash of marijuana and ran to flush it, but was busted just before he finished the job. Young, Clapton, Jim Messina, Richie Furay and many others were hauled off to prison, but Stills somehow made it out a window.

At the prison everybody was stripped down and sprayed with DDT. "Neil was afraid of having a seizure because they denied him his medicine," Sarns told Young's biographer Jimmy McDonough. "They separated him from the rest of us and put him in a tank with a bunch of drunks." The next day their lawyers sorted everything out, but the incident put further strain on the band and just weeks later Buffalo Springfield played their last concert until their 2010 reunion.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/this-week-in-rock-history-michael-jackson-becomes-a-superstar-neil-young-goes-to-jail-and-van-hagar-is-born-20110322

[Enthusiast]

1. Those were the days.

I was in high school. Thanks for reminding us.