well, bye
More has been hippies trying to remain relevant
That’s a terrible band. They can go to hippy heaven for all I care.
Look out! Crosby has a gun!!
Who cares what these old has-beens do!
See what happens when you compromise with leftists. Spotify should have clearly made a statement backing Rogan and told the artists to pound sand. What’s even more funny is that Rogan is a Bernie Bro. He’s about as conservative as AOC.
All these badass, anti-establishment hippies... what a joke.
All they ever were was a bunch of wannabe commies feeding off the capitalist trough while “protesting” the hand that fed them.
These old has-beens are seeing this as an opportunity to be relevant again for another five minutes.
Big Pharma puppets.
Or is it- whoever owns them ordered them to do so?
Idiots.
Did they sign their lives away at a young age? Did they keep signing for more?
Their music is not in any way new or inspiring. It is old. It’s classic and some of it can be sung with friends on the back porch, but no one’s buying it.
This is so embarrassing
Ain't virtue signaling fun??
Admittedly, this is a larger blow to Spotify -- but it's still basically just old hippie musicians.
Every day I get a new reason to be ashamed for being a Boomer.
Look at me! No one cares.
Welp that’s it then.
No more dead in O-HI-O. Best make peace with it.
Coz they were getting a ton of plays on there...
Those 270 medical professionals that signed the letter must be suffering from that mass formation psychosis that Malone was talking about.
“Growing”. Yeah, a few drug-addled hippies who, ironically, once sang about freedom and now press for totalitarianism.
Such open-minded liberals, proving once again that their entire life is a sham.
Neil Young’s Rough Ride: A Look Back at the Freedom of Speech Tour
JANUARY 29, 2008 5:50PM ET
By ANDY GREENE
When Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young tore into “Let’s Impeach the President” in Atlanta in August 2006, they faced an overwhelming chorus of boos and raised middle fingers. The band seemed calm onstage, but today Neil Young says he feared for his safety throughout the entire Freedom of Speech Tour.
“I was a nervous wreck by the end of that thing,” he says. “We had to deal with death threats and bomb-sniffing dogs the whole time.” The Atlanta concert is a pivotal scene in CSNY Déjà Vu, a documentary chronicling the tour, directed by Bernard Shakey (a.k.a. Young), which premiered at this year’s Sundance. Young recently spoke with Rolling Stone about the documentary, the presidential election and his plans for the future.
Rolling Stone: Why do you call yourself Bernard Shakey when you make a movie?
Neil Young: Well, Neil Young’s kind of a musician. I just think that my name is a distraction from the films that I make. Bernard Shakey doesn’t do interviews, either.
RS: How did you first get the idea to make this movie?
Young: After I wrote Living With War I was making videos for all the songs for the Web site. That’s how I met [television journalist] Mike Cerre. He had some ideas for me, possibly going on MSNBC and CNN and doing little special things on there that had to do with the album. It was interesting, but that wasn’t something that I really wanted to do.
I did become interested in the footage. When we decided to go on the road, it just seemed to be a natural step to have him come and cover the tour, since he had covered all of this footage that had to do with what the songs were about. And then, all of the other people that Mike Cerre had met through his news stories about the Iraq war and about Afghanistan, all the human interest things that he’d done yielded this incredible group of people that we had come to the concert.
So we would just go with them and go through the experience of coming and hearing the songs and seeing how other people reacted to them. So it really turns out to be a lot more about those people than it is about anything else.
RS: The movie really captures that crazy period of time just before the midterm elections.
Young: It was not a good time. It was a time when the country was so divided. That time was the turning point. And even though people’s dreams didn’t come true because the tide changed, it didn’t really make a huge difference in what we were doing. Apparently, the Democratic Congress didn’t have much of an effect, but at least you didn’t feel so in the minority after that election.
RS: Do you think the country is in a better place now than it was when you made the film?
Young: I think there’s been a shift. I think that time has a way of eroding things. The basis for this war was basically sand. The whole thing is a matter of how you look at it. And that’s what the film is about. There’s people who are looking at it one way and people looking at it another way. It’s about what happens when a country does something like we’re doing. There’s very few times in American history this can compare to. Even though we tried to compare it to the Sixties in the film, it really doesn’t compare to the Sixties. There are similarities, and yeah, we were there and we’re still here and we’re doing the same thing, and that’s the “déjà vu” part of it. But really, it’s pretty different.
-Excerpt.