For some reason this makes me sad...

Woodstock, man.....you weren't there, man.

Well now that music is completely corporate cookie-cutter and new artist have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING To say (or are told to shush it)... yeah, that statement is correct...

I mean, the only Artist in the past 5 years that stood up and had the "balls" to stand up for their beliefs is....


THE DIXIE CHICKS ?!!??!?!?!??!


well, thats the industry for you...

But once the artist break the corporate shackles and learn to do it all over again, DIY fashion. hey maybe it will again...

Young said he called his fellow band members before the tour and told them: "This is all I'm going to do, I won't be doing anything else and I don't want to sing any ... pretty songs; we can only sing about war and politics and the human condition."

Wow, that tour sounds like a barrel of laughs. I'm sure they were thrilled.

I always liked the guy but jeez - lighten up a little.

We Are The World was less than 30 years ago. So was the We're Sending Our Love Down The Well song. That's not even counting John Cougar Mellencamp.

Are you telling me "Fat Bottomed Girls" did not change the world????

Well, a southern man don't need him around, anyhow.

Also, your favorite recreational drug cannot change the world.

A gay little song once caused a Smug Alert (new window)

Music did change the world. Just not into the world he wanted, I suspect...

Well, American Idol and the rest of the mindless corporate fluff that's forced down our throats by the media won't change a got-damn thang.

But music that comes from the heart still has the power to change the world. (new window)

He of all people should have realized that it's better to burn out than to fade away.

Atomic Spunk: Well, a southern man don't need him around, anyhow.

Turn it up.

The man cannot sing a note but, for whatever reason, I love to hear him and have been a fan for many years. Can't explain it.

The drummer relaxes and waits between shows for his cinnamon girl.

I really love that song.

In other news, some journalist actually thinks Neil Young's opinion of today's music is relevant enough to print. That journalist is wrong.

/Like asking Robert E. Lee's opinion of Gulf War tactics.

A few years ago KZOK asked people to call in with who they thought was the ugliest guy in rock & roll. They put me on the air....I said Neil Young.....and then Robin biatched me out and hung up on me.

Old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

That's very, very sad.

jgbrowning: Music did change the world. Just not into the world he wanted, I suspect...

Holy fark, you could not have nailed that more on the head...spot on.

First he says that only love can break your heart, now music can't change the world...god, Neil, would you stop assigning limitations to abstract concepts?!!!

/I love Neil Young
//Rust never sleeps, kids.

madmann: In other news, some journalist actually thinks Neil Young's opinion of today's music is relevant enough to print.

Blame Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth and everybody else who decided that what the world really needed in the 1990s was to hear Young's farking warbling again.

FTFA:"The goal was to stimulate debate among people, and I hope that to some degree the film succeeds in doing that"


Does music stimulate any form of intelligent debate anymore?

"I helped destroy the sixties." - Iggy Pop

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

FTW.

"This is all I'm going to do, I won't be doing anything else and I don't want to sing any ... pretty songs; we can only sing about war and politics and the human condition."

cue up an 18 minute version of "Cortez the Killer"

\m/

Hey man, hearing Hannah Montana sing "Best of Both Worlds" is going to change the world as kids all over the world will realize they can be a rock star and a normal girl at the same time!!

puckhead: cue up an 18 minute version of "Cortez the Killer"

How about the 20 minute Built to Spill version?

I'd much rather read a report on a "dated" artist like Neil Young than the incessant media coverage on singers like Britney Spears.

Torc: puckhead: cue up an 18 minute version of "Cortez the Killer"
How about the 20 minute Built to Spill version?


not really a fan of the snippet I found on youtube. Warren Haynes is my favourite non-Neil version.
in the park (pops)

PLEASE PLEASE WON'T SOMEONE TELL BONO!

Farkin' hippies.

Music doesn't change the world, people change the world. Aging hipster needs to STFU!

Neil Young never sold out, never made that metamorphosis from artist to whore and I've always respected him for that. I guess we all loose our idealism as we get older; he just managed to hold on to his longer than most.

David Crosby is most likely, at this moment, inconsolable.

Torc: puckhead: cue up an 18 minute version of "Cortez the Killer"

How about the 20 minute Built to Spill version?

Built to Spill ftw

The_Sponge: Woodstock, man.....you weren't there, man.


Don't eat the brown acid. Hey Moe, whats hashish? Who's that ugly chick? Janis Joplin! I wouldn't fark her with Shemps tool.. I had long hair before allayou jerkoffs...

ON THE BEACH FTW.
That is all.

Year of the Horse is an amazing album. Changed my life a little i guess. one at a time neil one at a time.

/Danger Bird

30 years from now, kids will think "impeach the president" was about Bill Clinton..

MmmBadEggs: Young said he called his fellow band members before the tour and told them: "This is all I'm going to do, I won't be doing anything else and I don't want to sing any ... pretty songs; we can only sing about war and politics and the human condition."



To be fair, I can think of VERY few CSNY songs that AREN'T about War, Politics, or the Human Condition...(The Human Condition is a pretty damn broad statement!)

HappyHarryHardOn: Well now that music is completely corporate cookie-cutter and new artist have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING To say (or are told to shush it)... yeah, that statement is correct...

I mean, the only Artist in the past 5 years that stood up and had the "balls" to stand up for their beliefs is....


THE DIXIE CHICKS ?!!??!?!?!??!


well, thats the industry for you...

But once the artist break the corporate shackles and learn to do it all over again, DIY fashion. hey maybe it will again...

It wasn't their music, that was just onstage banter that caused the ruckuss.
Their music is the same 'new-country' as everyone else's.

If they want to change the world, don't go into music dumbfark. Go into politics. Music is for singers, not politics.

Saw his current tour a few weeks ago. After the show I hung around and checked out his gear. (the LD is a good friend) His set up is nothing short of amazing.

All those Radio Shack parts, skateboards with amps and microphones on them and other assorted Rube Goldberg contraptions really clue you in about the eclectic nature of his sound. (yeah, I know..)

He is still a great artist who takes no prisoners.

His tour bus is something for the Smithsonian as well.

FlatusJones: madmann: In other news, some journalist actually thinks Neil Young's opinion of today's music is relevant enough to print.

Blame Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth and everybody else who decided that what the world really needed in the 1990s was to hear Young's farking warbling again.

I don't think it's possible for me to blame Pearl Jam for more things than I already do. I mean, their crap led to Creed and Hinder, the worst sins of all. I think of Eddie Vedder as the Leo Strauss of music.

Atomic Spunk: Well, a southern man don't need him around, anyhow.

Southern gals don't either.

Blank Neil Young and the hoss he rode in on.

Rock on Neil.

I attended the 2006 CSNY concert at Germain in Columbus OH. It changed my life... I came away with perspective and motivation. No joke.

What that man can do with a guitar- he penetrated me.

HappyHarryHardOn: I mean, the only Artist in the past 5 years that stood up and had the "balls" to stand up for their beliefs is....


THE DIXIE CHICKS ?!!??!?!?!??!

Ok that was pretty funny. The same dixie chicks who promptly moved away from the country audience because their career was going down the tubes?

Oh, and real ballsy stuff there, leftist entertainers bashing conservatives and Christians. Cutting edge, really....

When I get big I'm gonna get an electric guitar. When I get real big...

Now that "rock" is primarily occupied by weepy-eyed shoe-gazers that stand in the corner with their arms folded, the message we get is NO, YOU CAN'T HAVE A PONY. NOT YOURS.