Melvins’ Dale Crover Releases Neil Young “Harvest Moon” Cover, Having Starred in Original Video

Dale Crover of Melvins (and Nirvana and Redd Kross and more) has announced a new EP, Get Yer Ba-Ba’s Out , which will be out September 4 via Joyful Noise. It features acoustic versions of three songs from Crover’s solo album Glossolalia , one song from 2021’s Rat-A-Tat-Tat! , while the title track is a new original.

The EP opens with a cover of Neil Young ‘s 1992 song “Harvest Moon” which segues into a cover of Melvins’ “The Bit.” Fun fact: Crover is in the original music video for Young’s “Harvest Moon,” where he plays the younger version of Neil. Dale elaborates:

> Years ago I played Young Neil Young in the video for Harvest Moon. It was quite a surreal experience! When I met Neil, I was made up to look just like him. Not that I didn’t already look a bit like him. That is how I got the part, after all. When I meet Neil, he starts explaining to me that he has this pair of pants that he wants me to wear for the video, and the mechanics of how the zipper works since it was broken! Not only did I play his younger self, but I also doubled for him. When he’s seen on stage playing, I’m dancing with his wife and when he’s dancing with her, I’m on stage. There’s a scene where I’m driving with young Pegi Young and I’m not looking where I’m driving because I’m paying attention to her. I had to drive off the side of a skinny country road into a ravine, not looking where I was driving. The first few takes were fine but on the last shot, I jammed the rear fender of Neil‘s actual 1955 Cadillac into a stump. That stump saved me from rolling the car off the side of the hill, surely killing us both! I thought it would be fun to cover this song and combine it with Melvins “The Bit”, a song I co wrote with Buzz Osborne, since both songs share the same guitar tuning. I started performing the songs live and knew right away that I wanted to record them, making it the spur for this new EP

You can listen to Dale’s version of “Harvest Moon” and watch him in the video for Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” below.

Melvins and Napalm Death released a collab album back in April.

Get Yer Ba-Ba’s Out 1. Harvest Moon/The Bit 2. Doug Yuletide 3. Get Yer Ba-Ba’s Out 4. Rings 5. I Can’t Help You There 6. Jane

_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/melvins-dale-crover-covers-neil-youngs-harvest-moon-he-also-starred-in-the-original-video/)._