thank you....wonderful ...made my whole night....

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Howie - I like Neil always have, just ask John. It's true. How about serving up some Translater tunes / stories one of these days ? THANX !

Neil speaks. Crosby reluctantly listens.

Neil Young touts new tour documentary
By RYAN PEARSON AP Entertainment Writer
Article Launched: 02/13/2008 03:07:05 PM PST

PARK CITY, Utah—With his two bandmates and their autocratic leader gathered around a dining table, David Crosby is telling a George Bush joke.

"Don't you think it'd be a good idea," he says, chuckling, "if we had a law that said you can't have control of nuclear weapons unless you can pronounce the word nuclear? I'm just asking."

Neil Young stares intensely at his jovial bandmate and—strangely for a guy who wrote a song called "Let's Impeach the President"—reprimands him.

"That comment is a polarizing comment," Young says harshly. "It doesn't have to do with the grass roots of the country in the Midwest. It takes people and separates them."

Despite assorted health scares and surgeries that come with passing 60 (and decades of rocker excess), things are as they always were with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

In a half-hour conversation, Graham Nash mostly sits quietly and listens. Stephen Stills, just a few weeks after having prostate cancer, laughs loudly and interjects with jokes. As in their music, Crosby and Young guide the discussion, alternating perspectives and sometimes clashing.
//
Crosby and Nash, touring together, continue to open their sets with the Nash's 1971 anti-war song "Military Madness." But Young has moved on. He released a new CD last fall, "Chrome Dreams II," focused on love and relationships and with nary a mention of Iraq.

"The way I like to do it is if you're going to sing about war, sing the whole album about war. Just stay on that and drive it into peoples' heads. And that's what we did. But you can't do that over and over again or it's like television. It just completely bores you and numbs you."

Which brings us back to the band leader's takedown of Crosby's crack about Bush.

"A lot of people have problems pronouncing words and spelling things correctly. It doesn't mean that they're not intelligent," Young tells Crosby. "You've got to give the guy credit. Do I agree with him? No. Do I think he's stupid? No. Do I think he's a leader? Yes. He led. He took this country where he wanted to take it. And he steadfastly stuck with it all the way."

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8252141

peaceful easy feeling @ 7:

Neil speaks. Crosby reluctantly listens.

Neil Young touts new tour documentary
By RYAN PEARSON AP Entertainment Writer
Article Launched: 02/13/2008 03:07:05 PM PST

PARK CITY, Utah—With his two bandmates and their autocratic leader gathered around a dining table, David Crosby is telling a George Bush joke.

"Don't you think it'd be a good idea," he says, chuckling, "if we had a law that said you can't have control of nuclear weapons unless you can pronounce the word nuclear? I'm just asking."

Neil Young stares intensely at his jovial bandmate and—strangely for a guy who wrote a song called "Let's Impeach the President"—reprimands him.

"That comment is a polarizing comment," Young says harshly. "It doesn't have to do with the grass roots of the country in the Midwest. It takes people and separates them."

Despite assorted health scares and surgeries that come with passing 60 (and decades of rocker excess), things are as they always were with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

In a half-hour conversation, Graham Nash mostly sits quietly and listens. Stephen Stills, just a few weeks after having prostate cancer, laughs loudly and interjects with jokes. As in their music, Crosby and Young guide the discussion, alternating perspectives and sometimes clashing.
//
Crosby and Nash, touring together, continue to open their sets with the Nash's 1971 anti-war song "Military Madness." But Young has moved on. He released a new CD last fall, "Chrome Dreams II," focused on love and relationships and with nary a mention of Iraq.

"The way I like to do it is if you're going to sing about war, sing the whole album about war. Just stay on that and drive it into peoples' heads. And that's what we did. But you can't do that over and over again or it's like television. It just completely bores you and numbs you."

Which brings us back to the band leader's takedown of Crosby's crack about Bush.

"A lot of people have problems pronouncing words and spelling things correctly. It doesn't mean that they're not intelligent," Young tells Crosby. "You've got to give the guy credit. Do I agree with him? No. Do I think he's stupid? No. Do I think he's a leader? Yes. He led. He took this country where he wanted to take it. And he steadfastly stuck with it all the way."

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8252141

Interesting stuff-thanx for that.
Yeah ol' Neil is as quirky and "prickly" a customer as guess most people are ever likely to meet.As I recall he defended Reagan back in the day much to the surprise of a lot of folks.He's a very complex guy-obviously,and certainly has always marched to the beat of his own drum,with mixed results albeit unwavering respect from his peers.Me?I love his old shit.

OK - my senior year was 1976-77, for those who are wonderin'...

Matt in Texas @ 11:

OK - my senior year was 1976-77, for those who are wonderin'...

mine as well... and I grew up in TX... what's your 20?(Remember CB talk?)
(if you don't mind me askin' )

Matt... Bruce Barry was a roadie for Crazy Horse in the early 70s... the correct line in the song is:

"Bruce Barry was a workin' man, he used to load that Econoline van."

But, it's gonna take a load-a love to change the way things are. Or something.

One of the many great things about Neil Young is his ability to switch from political to poetic(al), sometimes in the same damn song (cf. "Campaigner" on DECADE). TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT is a bleary-eyed dusky jewel of an album, a record of magic and loss, a dark daguerrotype of the meaninglessness of tragedy and fame with a little dangling carrot of hope entering the corner of the frame. It's something that really pays to be listened to from beginning to end, as are the boots from the era, which feature Neil at his most fragile and fuct. Uneasy listening, circa 1973. Thanks, Howie.

POWDERFINGER: I listened, was sucked in, almost fell off my chair at the DANGER he risked with the guitar solos and was destroyed by the story itself. Where and when was it supposed to have happened? Universal themes....

Tonight's the Night is one of the scariest, most moving albums ever made and "Mellow My Mind" a painfully glorious recording. This version shows what a lovely song it could be outside of its initial context.

He is right up there with the greatest.

Sherwood B @ 17:

POWDERFINGER: I listened, was sucked in, almost fell off my chair at the DANGER he risked with the guitar solos and was destroyed by the story itself. Where and when was it supposed to have happened? Universal themes....

You got it. His story songs are pretty damned impressive. It's amazing it took so long for him to get to GREENDALE, the album as novel. But the identification with the indigenous, from "Cortez the Killer" to "Inca Queen" to "Like an Inca" to "Goin' Home" to "Pocahontas," has been a fascinating thread in his tapestry. I particularly like this bit of "Goin' Home," the best track on his (justly?) maligned ARE YOU PASSIONATE?

She made a turn on a wooden bridge,
Into the battleground,
With a thousand warriors on the ridge,
She tried to turn her radio down.

Battle drums were pounding,
All around her car,
She saw her clothes were changing,
Into sky and stars.

As a heavier than heavy, Sabbath-Maiden-Priest-Motorhead type of guy...and with Neil's garage fuzz distortion legend status...it of course makes PERFECT sense that my favorite Neil song is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQXnvNwGTAY

Matt,

Got ya beat. 1973. Shit seems like ages ago. But Niel has been with me all this time. I love all of his work, but "Freedom is my all time favorite. I think it best represents his core sounds. Albums like "Trans" and "This Note's for You" were nice side trips though.

The way he took down Crosby in that interview was pure progressive thinking. You have to go deeper than the superfluous us vs them rhetoric. Once you strip down what he is saying, you understand the truth of it. It's almost a classroom whenever I read or hear him speak. I learn something new each time. What a wise old man he is.

Gentle on my mind -Tribute- Long Live Version-John Hartford

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeLPdn2KTSM

Jack Elliott, Pete Seeger, & Malvina Reynolds - Woody's Rag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbuvfMAjfXY&feature=related

Tom Paxton. last thing on my mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voqL5ksOuoo

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8082954016636830754&q=%22help%22...

;)

Ooooppppsss!

Take two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rOrp2u-rSc

Sorry, no links to a bunch of bullshit.. All one has to do is listen to "Harvest" closely a few times to know this guy was and still is "the shit". Fuck you Lynard Skynard, you never came close to holding a candle, much less composed one!

; - )

Neil Young is Canada's apology for Céline Dion. As for William Shatner, the scars from his acting run deep. No amount of quatloos can ease the pain of Tranformed Man.

But don't you dare blame us for Minstrel "Potsie" Spock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFR-8NVjw-k

The Shire looks a little bit different now...

Speaking of Star Trek, here's some eerily familiar dialogue:

Kirk: Your terms are unfair!
Provider One: On the contrary. Our terms are extremely fair, since your alternative is death.

nirvana - smells like teen spirit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQR-OsH0RQ

Tori Amos - Smells like teen spirit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHNZVrxEts

OH WELL WHATEVER NEVERMIND

Load up on guns
Bring your friends
Its fun to lose
And to pretend
Shes overboard
Myself assured
I know I know
A dirty word

Hello (x 16)

With the lights out its less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yea

Im worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end

Hello (x 16)

With the lights out its less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yea

And I forget
Just what it takes
And yet I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard
Its hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind

Hello (x 16)

With the lights out its less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yea

Barack Obama video's I made for fun....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvee-CH3EvE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZWe8zlVOJw

U2 - All Along The Watchtower (Rattle and Hum)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfub-LbOmk

Neil Young - All Along The Watchtower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_tJnj2j5kI

neil in glasgow doing the old laughing lady on banjo circa 1976....seemed appropriate

big lenny in almaden @ 5:

Howie - I like Neil always have, just ask John. It's true. How about serving up some Translater tunes / stories one of these days ? THANX !

Hey Lenny, what's up?

Although Neil's "Let's Impeach the President" warms the cockles of my heart, this is Neil Young at his best : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBS3B2cZcFM