Who Rides for Neil Young?
KidProcrass
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Being from Canada i grew up on this man's music and sometimes believe maybe i am biased when it comes to the the origins of grunge or just doing what ever the fuck you love and sounds good to you but i truly believe this his music has not only stood the test of time but is undeniable in its originality. Post your love.. hate what ever it be but speak your mind on the man who rocks harder in his 70's then more band keeping it "real" in these days and times.
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Harvest Moon Lp, Buffalo Springfield, and there is a double disk motion picture score with dark horse men carrying crosses on the cover that I listened to recently.
I had a wooden nickel NY bootleg but traded it last Sunday to a friend because i thought it had too much flutter or something. He listened to it a said it was cool..
Classic.
Anyone else catch that David Geffen documentary on "American Masters"? First time I learnt that Geffen sued Neil Young after putting out that album because it wasn't Neil Young enough. I wish the music business still had the hubris that accompanies massive piles of cash -- both in artists recording an album like that, and in the labels releasing them to failure, and then taking it to the
streetscourts (lawsuit was later dropped).i caught a bit of this the other night....really great documentary and better then i had expected, i saw most of it but i believe i missed some...
Anybody else from the 60's even remotely as relevant as he still is today? Maybe Dylan, but he was AWOL for a lot of those years.
I ride hard. (pasue)
Although I am Canadian, I dont think it is particularly influencial on my Neil Young love. I'll post more later when I'm not on my phone!
I still can't revisit. It's like an old ex girlfriend that you really loved and who you have lots of great memories with but then you caught her in bed with the most repulsive out of all the guys you really hate. A nauseating feeling of contempt and revulsion that just won't ever wash away.
I would have been fine with that.
I like how he's stayed being an ornery old bastard for most of that time, too.
that's an improtant point to make. i just checked his recent album where he does covers and standards and it's pretty decent. by his own admission, he's had plenty of misses (the one with pearl jam being up there) over the course of his zig-zagging and productive career.
So, my question: name 1 album that I should start on.
Plaese to halp.....
Were you not into the selections or his live acoustic sound?
I'd personally start with Live At Massey Hall 1971, but if it's the latter then it's probably not for you
It may have been the Into the Blue film that first got me into it, but On The Beach and Everybody Knows This is Nowhere are maybe my favorites. Was really into Comes a Time at one point as well, not sure why.
I can dig Trans as well, the one to me that has no redeeming quality whatsoever is Everybody's Rockin'. That one seems like a bigger fuck you to both his label and his fans than anything else he has put out.
And I can say he's one of the few musicians of his generation who I'd still pay to see in concert. I went a few years back when he played at that old movie palace that has been converted into a concert hall up in Harlem (I'm blanking on the name of that place right now), and he did a whole acoustic set, followed by another with his band - it wasn't Crazy Horse at the time, but it was still a pretty awesome concert.
Dude actually came out with another record after that one -- a burnouts-only affair with Crazyhorse, in which he opens the record with a 30-minute freakout called "Driftin' Back." It's not that terrible but I'll be honest I haven't made it much beyond that tune yet.
Catching your ex fucking Brian Wilson would bring more pity than hatred!
Throwing out an artists catalog because you don't like their later career moves is just plain fucking silly. I once threw out some tapes because I thought a group sold out, but I was 13, so you know, I was an idiot.
The Pearl Jam incident was years after I had last listened to any Neil Young records. Seeing this just made it clear to me that I'm never going to get back to them. Throwing out my Neil Young records because he allowed himself to be crowned the godfather of grunge to me was just as legitimate as it was for some of my punk rock friends to throw out their early Skrewdriver records when the band went fascist after '79.
Even if this wouldn't have happened, the Neil Yong tunes I remember now seem kind of corny to me. Must have been trying to get in touch with my sensitive side back then. I've never really been into Classic Rock so you can keep those commandments of what you need to ride for in order to like Rock music for yourself to abide by. When it comes to late 60s early 70s Rock I'm much more into stuff like the Stooges, MC5 and Blue Cheer but my main focus of interest has always been on other times or places.
Would I have ever owned any Dylan albums, I would have thrown them all to the curb when I saw it on the news how that moron played a private show for the pope sometime in the 90s.
Maintaining a minimum of integrity has always been a requirement for me to ride for anybody.