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I used to play coffeehouses back in the 70s and included a section in the show called "You Can Write a Neil Young Song!".

I asked the audience for three letters between A and G. Then, I asked them for a few random words.

Employing a typical Neil Young flat-picking style with lots of hammer-ons, I would play those three chords and make up a meaningless song using the random words and singing in a weird falsetto.

It always got big laughs because Neil Young is a joke.

1 posted on 01/13/2014 12:50:06 PM PST by Dr. Thorne
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Well...

Hey, hey, my, my...

2 posted on 01/13/2014 12:51:22 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Who knew Southern Man applied to Bas-Canada?


3 posted on 01/13/2014 12:51:26 PM PST by NonValueAdded (It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
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Neil Young? I thought he was dead.


4 posted on 01/13/2014 12:51:44 PM PST by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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When I need advice on science, I always look to rock musicians first.


6 posted on 01/13/2014 12:52:44 PM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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I hope Neil Young will remember Canadian man don’t need him around anyhow.


8 posted on 01/13/2014 12:53:52 PM PST by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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Neil Who?


10 posted on 01/13/2014 12:54:26 PM PST by gr8eman (How ya doin Bob?...Bitchen!)
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I have worked in some “First Nation” villages ... the denizens thereof are doing a good job of killing themselves with weed, meth, vodka and stupidity.


11 posted on 01/13/2014 12:54:26 PM PST by NorthMountain
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“I hope Neil Young will remember an intelligent man don’t need him around anyhow”


13 posted on 01/13/2014 12:55:42 PM PST by PATRIOT1876
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Neil had better get back in the studio and record another progressive art double album of amplifier feedback! We are holding our breathing!


14 posted on 01/13/2014 12:56:16 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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I’ve seen the LincVolt and the damage done...


15 posted on 01/13/2014 12:56:30 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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Well I hope Neil Young will remember, a Canadian man don’t need him around, anyhow.


17 posted on 01/13/2014 12:58:16 PM PST by dfwgator
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Very creative. I recall Second City TV used to have satirical tributes to their Canadian heroes like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. I think the band Rush is also Canadian. All these people are talented, but, yes, they leaned heavily on formulaic song structures when they first became famous. Might have been afraid to change anything. I always liked the song Neil wrote for Nicolette Larson about 1977,’It’s Gonna Take A Lotta Love”. This was back when Blondie was briefly the biggest girl act in the states, before Madonna and her publicists stole the crown away.


19 posted on 01/13/2014 12:59:40 PM PST by lee martell
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As irascible and irrelevant as ever, I see.................


20 posted on 01/13/2014 12:59:59 PM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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Bingo! Harvest Moon and Powderfinger were the only things he did that I could listen to or include in my sets.


22 posted on 01/13/2014 1:01:03 PM PST by prisoner6 (FREEDOM)
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Every Neil Young song you’ve ever heard (Dana Carvey)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHk7c5aUXVs#t=197


26 posted on 01/13/2014 1:02:10 PM PST by dfwgator
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I’ve often wondered where do these people get all their wisdom. He sings songs, actors portray someone they are not.


27 posted on 01/13/2014 1:02:29 PM PST by JamesA (You don't have to be big to stand tall)
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"...The ACFN does not oppose Alberta's oil sands development outright, and operates companies that service the province's energy sector centered in Fort McMurray. But the First Nation community wants oil sands development that protects treaty rights and traditional land uses.

In other words the tribe wants all the money for themselves.

If Neil wants to get revenge on Shell he should visit them in one of his electric cars and park it in the executive lot. Then when it catches on fire it'll take the whole parking lot full of cars with it.

34 posted on 01/13/2014 1:08:41 PM PST by zipper ("The Second Amendment IS my carry permit!" -- Ted Nugent)
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I hate Neil Young!


35 posted on 01/13/2014 1:08:50 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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He has invested a huge chunk in Tesla, in case anybody is wondering.


36 posted on 01/13/2014 1:08:55 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Evidently poor Neil doesn’t know and didn’t learn most towns and cities in Canada and America began as rowdy places, but as families moved in, banks were built, churches put in place, homes with gardens civilized the rowdies. Now we’re seeing the same boom towns, some grown, and some areas just beginning, as time goes by and people settle in, they too will become civilized. It just takes time. HURRAY for the oil and shale, loud trucks, business in the oil fields.


40 posted on 01/13/2014 1:12:47 PM PST by tillacum
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