Neil Young's Album: Tonight's the Night's Backing band The band assembled for the album was known as The Santa Monica Flyers. It consisted of Neil Young, Ben Keith, Nils Lofgren, and the Crazy Horse rhythm section of Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina. One track as stated above was taken from recordings of an earlier tour with Crazy Horse, and another from an earlier session with his band for Harvest, The Stray Gators.