"Ambulance Blues" closes the album "On the Beach". The melody 'unintentionally' quotes Bert Jansch's "Needle of Death." In a 1992 interview for the French "Guitare & Claviers" magazine, Young discussed Jansch' influence: "...as for acoustic guitar, Bert Jansch is on the same level as Jimi (Hendrix). That first record of his is epic. It came from England, and I was especially taken by "Needle of Death", such a beautiful and angry song. That guy was so good.

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