WGAF?
“Neil Young should remember, a Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow....”
Not the biggest fan but I recognize genuis. Hard to be distinct in the world of rock and roll but Neil Young is absolutely that.
Here’s one I couldn’t turn off the radio if I heard it. Live Hurricane.
https://youtu.be/qmKrcOB7udA
I picked up a package at his place in Woodside back in the late 80s. (I was Fed Ex guy for a few years.). The ironwork around his yard had an “acid trip vibe.” Plus there were emus or ostriches wandering around. It was a weird experience.
My second favorite artist. I have probably sixty of his albums. He has had tremendous musical highs, but also embarrassingly bad lows. Avoid anything from the 80’s or the last ten years. He is a world-class as*hole as a person.
Had free tickets to see CSNY at MGM Vegas years ago. After working our way past the AIM folks selling $50 AIM t-shirts we made it in to our seats. We got as far as the 4th song with political BS in between nearly every song and that did it for us and out we go. Shut up and sing comes to mind.
Commie vermin.
He forgot what we were fighting for in the 60s.
Liberation from oppressive big government.
I may have been a “liberal” at the time, but I was a John Locke “leave me alone” liberal. Not a crypto-fascist like Young and his fellow travelers.
“Old man, look at my life, I’xm a lot like you were!”
Singing that song at 21, in the barracks, at RTNAF U-Tapao, Thailand, the home of that legendary bomber jet plane, the B-52!!
Operation Linebacker II
Saw him with his three friends, maybe 20 years ago. They did anti war songs. And it was clear, they could do a full concert of anti war songs for 2 hours and I knew every one going back to Buffalo Springfield and up into the nineties. At the time he was the only one who appeared to be able to actually move around on stage. The other three looked like fat old men in a nursing home. Well, Nash looked like a then old man.
Great songwriter ... horrible guitarist and singer ... and his politics are, ummmm, shall we say fairly screwball
moral relativism never sleeps
Southern Man don’t need him around, anyhow.
He is probably lying in a burned-out basement.
Always had Long May You Run on my running playlist, although I think it was about a motorcycle đ
Young is one of those fellows who is uniquely talanted as opposed to classically trained. He has a few releases which I enjoyed. In fact I was playing electric bass on Monday with a friend on guitar, and broke into Powder Finger. It’s not difficult to blow the cobwebs off an “old Young” tune and play it almost passably first run through, but hey Sunshine O’ Your Love is the same...
I know.... it’s only Rock and Roll and I don’t dislike it.
I like his music up until about 1980. What he did after that did not appeal to me. I saw him in concert 1972 and thoroughly enjoyed it. Outside of that I have no use for the man. But then again he’s not running for public office so I really don’t give a damn
I particularly liked the âHarvestâ album in my youth. Any one of those songs can take me back to before I wasnât old enough to vote and didnât care much about politics. Heck, I wasnât old enough to drive when I got that album.