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The scruffy-looking fellow hunched over a table in a roadside restaurant deep among the redwood forests south of San Francisco does not look like a rock superstar. He has a craggy face, like a weather-beaten farmer, unkempt hair swept back behind his ears, and grey mutton chops; he is wearing combat trousers, trainers and a baggy T-shirt over a modest paunch. Only the big wraparound shades and the legend on his T-shirt — a US patent-office application for the Gibson Flying V guitar — hint that this is one of the most influential musicians of the past 40 years, a figure with a body of work matched only by Bob Dylan.
Neil Young has never much cared for appearances; never needed to, and definitely doesn’t now, at the age of 62. He probably looked a lot like this when he met his second wife, Pegi, here, in this same restaurant, more than 30 years ago. She was a waitress, he was a rock star, but she might be forgiven if she had taken him for a passing lumberjack. When he pulls on a huge plaid work shirt at the end of the interview, he looks as if he is about to go and fell some of the giant sequoias outside. Instead, he drives the short distance home in a cream-coloured vintage Mercedes running on biodiesel.
If Young had his way, we would all be driving on green fuel; indeed, he is developing a revolutionary motor vehicle that he hopes, one day soon, will “eliminate roadside refuelling”. First, though, he must talk about another project. CSNY: Déjà Vu is the latest film from the director Bernard Shakey. Not to be confused with any of Young’s other aliases: Joe Yankee, Joe Canuck, Phil Perspective, Clyde Coil, Dirigible Dan, Dr Shakes, Shakey Deal or plain old Shakey.
The film is a documentary about Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s Freedom of Speech tour, staged during the US midterm elections in 2006. But it is a far cry from Michael Moore-style agitprop. Young/Shakey has gone out of his way to present an impeccably balanced picture of America’s reaction to a tour whose repertoire consisted entirely of antiwar songs, from Buffalo Springfield oldies such as For What It’s Worth and CSNY’s era-defining Ohio to selections from Young’s 2006 album, Living with War. To this effect, their trip is narrated by an award-winning television journalist, Mike Cerre, who has covered both Vietnam and Iraq, where he was an “embedded” reporter.
The film begins with President Bush solemnly intoning “This country is at war”, followed by a right-wing radio presenter reading out the news that a “major terrorist plot” to blow up planes between Britain and America has been uncovered on the day that CSNY come to town to perform. . . “but Neil Young says it’s no big deal”. At other points, voiceovers of enthusiastic reviews of the shows are counterbalanced with scornful appraisals of the “ageing hippies’ ” attempts to rouse America into antiwar protest.
In the most memorable scene, hundreds of audience members walk out of a show in Atlanta in protest at the quartet encouraging them to sing along to Young’s song Let’s Impeach the President. It is compelling footage: as the lyrics are displayed on a giant screen, a chorus of boos swells, competing with the more fervent fans’ mass sing-along, and angry punters start to leave. Seemingly oblivious to the almost comical irony of leaving a Freedom of Speech concert in protest at the singers expressing their own freedom to speak out, they air their fury on camera as they leave. “Neil Young can stick it up his ass,” fumes a female fan; “Sonofabitch — I’d like to knock his teeth out,” a red-faced man declares. Young seems unconcerned. “Well, they were speakin’ out too,” he chuckles behind his shades. “They were just saying ‘F*** you, I don’t wanna have anything to do with this guy crossing my line.’ ”
For Young, who was one of the first musicians to respond to 9/11, with his 2001single Let’s Roll (titled after the supposed words of the passengers aboard flight United 93 as they attempted to overpower the hijackers), it was crucial that his film presented both sides of the story, rather than merely trying to preach to the converted. “It’s important to have the other side,” he says. “Plus, those people were part of the story, so why leave them out? We decided to have an embedded correspondent documenting the tour like he was documenting a war.”
Young insists he had no intention of trying to convert his audience to his views, which have turned almost full circle over the course of his career: following his initial anti-Nixon stance in the 1960s and 1970s, he expressed (qualified) support for Reagan during the 1980s, then became an outspoken opponent of Bush. Nevertheless, the timing of its release is no accident. “We thought the prime time to put this movie out would be before the general election,” he admits.
The film will be given worldwide cinema release, but Young has no illusions about its box-office appeal. “I don’t expect it to last long,” he admits. “I mean, let’s be realistic: it’s a film about war and a bunch of old hippies, so that’s the way the public will view it. We spent a lot of time on it, and it means a lot to us, but in the overall scope of things . . . it has a moment, and this moment is coming up, and after that it’ll be a DVD, then it’ll be gone. It’ll be a piece of history.”
The “moment” he is talking about is the American presidential election in November. Young may claim that he is not using the film to campaign, but he planned the Freedom of Speech tour to take place during the midterms and is deliberately releasing the resulting film as the campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain gets under way. Not that he has a vote: despite living in America for 40 years, he remains a Canadian citizen. “I’m Canadians for Obama,” he declares with a chuckle. “There’s nothing I can do to change being Canadian. I could get a piece of paper saying I’m American, and get a vote, but it wouldn’t change who I am. As far as voting goes, I think I’m voting with my mouth and with my art and with what I’m doing.”
He admits there have been times when he has considered leaving America, but insists he will stay — his Broken Arrow ranch has been home for the past four decades. “I have an American family,” he says. “My family loves it here. I love it too; it’s a great place. Just because things are happening that are not right, it’s not a reason to leave. I’d rather try to do everything I can to make it right.” He continues, with a certain degree of deadpan irony: “I came down here because this is the land of opportunity and I feel good. When they elect a president here, they call him the leader of the free world. So what the hell? Canada is one of the freest countries in the world, so I feel great — I got a leader down here, too.”
Does he really think America is a land of freedom in the post 9/11 landscape? “No, it hasn’t been free. Under Bush, it definitely took a huge dump, this recent seven years, but hopefully we’ll get the civil rights back.” He believes today’s generation of young Americans does not have the same spirit of rebellion that he witnessed in the 1960s because, unlike their parents, they are not threatened with military conscription.
“I think that if there was a draft, they would.” He worries that if John McCain becomes president, it might happen: “I don’t think he’d say he’d do that, but I think once he got in, he would. And then we’d see something big happening.”
Since being admitted to hospital in 2005, with a brain aneurism, Young has entered one of the most prolific phases of an already workaholic career. As well as touring, he has made three albums, finished one film, begun another, and completed his (very) long-awaited audiovisual career retrospective, Archives. (Two vintage live albums are already out.) The first big instalment of material, on Blu-ray discs, plus a hefty book, is finally due for release this autumn. Then there is his charity work for the Bridge School and Farm Aid.
“I feel like I have a lot to do,” he declares. “I really would like to work on the energy problem, on solutions to the oil need. I’d like to eliminate roadside refuelling.” To this world-changing end, he has been developing a prototype called the Linc Volt: a gas-guzzling 1959 Lincoln Continental (“2½ tons, 19½ feet long”) converted into an electrically powered, multifuel hybrid with its own generators.
It is a typical contradiction from a contrary character, who also drives a gigantic Hummer converted to biofuel, and is financing his project by selling off his huge collection of vintage cars. “My mission now, what I’m really focused on, is to work out a way to eliminate roadside refuelling and come up with a way to build a car that creates its own fuel and powers the owner’s house. The idea of the technology is a distributed power source. It’s a rolling generator with battery back-up: you plug it in and it puts power out.” I’m lost, but www. lincvolt.com explains the technology, he says.
Inevitably, Young — or, rather, Bernard Shakey — is making a documentary about it, and will be driving the vehicle all over America “to prove that a huge car can go anywhere on electric power without a problem”. Asked if he would consider this as much of a legacy as his music, Young immediately responds: “More than my music.”
Meanwhile, he says that he will steer clear of political statements during his European festival dates this summer. “I don’t wanna be like CNN, just playing the same thing over and over. I firmly believe in everything I said, but don’t know that I always wanna be harping on about the same thing. Otherwise, I might become redundant. I don’t want that.”
CSNY: Déjà Vu goes on general release on July 18; Neil Young plays Hop Farm, Kent, on July 6
July 4, 2008
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A very interesting interview with the great man from Billboard.
A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.
In the spring of 2006, Neil Young was just a year removed from a near-fatal aneurysm when he became so enraged with the war in Iraq that he quickly wrote, recorded and released the protest album “Living With War.” Not two months after its release, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young launched their Freedom of Speech tour, during which unwitting fans expecting the band’s sweeter side were greeted instead with its serrated edge.
During a three-hour-plus concert, the band played nearly all of “Living With War” and many of the political anthems on which its legend was built, like “Ohio,” “Military Madness” and “Find the Cost of Freedom.” Despite CSN&Y’s anti-establishment roots, the move angered some fans, while inspiring others.
The forthcoming documentary “CSNY: Deja Vu” charts that friction, portraying fans who saluted the group’s efforts and those who felt betrayed by them, while also introducing viewers to Iraqi War vets who are now protesting the war as musicians, politicians and social workers. Directed by longtime film buff Young (who uses the alias/nickname Bernard Shakey) and due in theaters July 25, the doc blends concert and behind-the-scenes footage with short news features created by ABC correspondent Mike Cerre.
Billboard caught up with the 62-year-old Young recently at a small, rustic restaurant south of San Francisco, in an area surrounded by redwood trees. Just a few minute’s drive from the ranch he’s lived on for more than 30 years, the restaurant would be familiar to hardcore fans, as it was featured in the “Unknown Legend” video and on the “Greendale” DVD.
With his alternative-fuel equipped 1982 Mercedes parked in front, on this day Young was particularly excited, as Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced impeachment articles seeking the removal of President George Bush. Young spoke from behind a pair of dark sunglasses, the conversation often drifting toward his passion for finding alternatives to fossil fuels for automobiles, which, he notes, “is bigger than a song.”
It’s pretty shocking midway through the movie when an irate Atlanta fan tells you to stick it up your ass, and another remarks that he wants to “knock your teeth out” for singing anti-war, anti-Bush songs. How did you react the first time you saw this footage?
Well, we knew that it was happening. That wasn’t the first time it happened. Before we even got to Atlanta, we’d experienced that. There were other places. The bull-ometer was pretty high in a couple of places, and I think Orange County was pretty good, Irvine. It was pretty strong there. We had some fights; everything was crazy there. They just went nuts. But they weren’t real close to us. We could see them, and they were just going berserk. But Atlanta was very forceful. I mean, they are so passionate about what they felt, and how they feel about, you know, how we crossed over the line and intruded on something that they believed in so strongly. So you gotta respect people, even if they’re losing their minds at that very moment, and not talking really eloquently. They have their deep beliefs. So we had to use it, because we’re telling the story, and we’re trying to tell the whole story. There was a journalistic responsibility involved.
It definitely adds weight to the film.
It does.
Were there times while you were editing the film when you were worried that you weren’t portraying things in a balanced fashion? Did you second-guess yourself at times?
You know, I don’t even know if it balanced. I just tried to use everything I could that showed both sides. And we gathered everything we had, and we used more negative stuff in comparison to positive stuff, in relation to the total amount of negative stuff and the total amount of positive stuff that we had. Like, in our articles [Young strings pieces of positive and negative reviews of the concerts throughout the film], the pros and cons of the press, the pros outweighed the cons by like two-and-a-half to one. But in the movie, it’s pretty even. We tried to keep it even. I assume that’s the right way to do it. But tilting the film toward the bleeding-heart liberal is the content of the songs, and that aspect, I can’t help that — that’s me. That’s how I feel. So I couldn’t change that. That was the catalyst, the trigger for the reactions. So the reactions were fairly even, but the source of the trigger is a little bit slanted.
When you watch this film and when you think back on the negative reactions in the audience, is there a face or a middle finger that vividly sticks out to you?
I remember some faces. There’s one guy I remember for sure, and he’s not in the movie. But there are things that I remember from all tours. [This tour] was a harrowing experience at times, and it’s not an experience that I would like to repeat. I think it was a one-off.
Why’s that?
I think if I did this kind of thing for the rest of my life, I’d become like CNN and I don’t really respect that very much. It’s like the same thing on a loop. I don’t see the need for that. I like to be a full-length program, not a repeating segment.
Were there times on tour where you would confide in your wife, and say, “I can’t believe what happened tonight?”
There was never any sense of giving up or anything. We went from July 4th to September 10th in the tour, and I kind of remember feeling that I was really glad that we weren’t playing on September 11th. I do remember that. I said, “Let’s not do that.” There were moments throughout it where you just shook your head and said, “God, what are we doing?” But the songs were there, the feeling was there, the audience was there, and we were doing it. We planned it. We executed it. I mean, we planned it — the whole thing aimed at one thing. It was all focused on war and politics and that type of thing.
Speaking of 9/11, you’ve said that Bush mishandled the empathy that many countries felt for America after the terrorist attacks. In your mind, how could have Bush capitalized on that empathy? What could he have done that would have taken things in a much more positive direction?
Well, I think misleading the country into a war with Iraq by misrepresenting the facts, as the Senate committee has verified that he did, that was the wrong way to go about it. I think that he took a tremendous amount of good faith and good will from around the world and used it very poorly. It’s not, “What could he have done,” so much as it is, “Why did he do what he did?” I mean, it’s just unfortunate that his feelings and convictions took him there, and we’re the ones who suffer for it — to a lesser degree us, and to a greater degree the Iraqis. And we’re all suffering for it. And it’s just very unfortunate. I just feel badly about it because [pauses] it’s not because I hate Bush. I just think he’s a strong leader that was going in the wrong direction. It’s a bad combination.
A liberal friend of mine in New York saw the Twin Towers fall while stuck in traffic on the Verrazano Bridge. She was so shook up, and remained so scared that in 2004 she voted for Bush, simply out of fright.
Well, he used that. He played on people’s fear, instead of people’s faith and their real faith, real belief, their real human feelings. They used fear to get where they wanted to go, which is too bad. It’s just unfortunate. You know, I empathize with her for voting for Bush and being so terrified that she had to do that. I feel sorry for her. But I think a lot of people probably did that, and it’s too bad.
And he needs to be impeached for what he did. I mean, the Senate has verified it. It needs to happen for history. It’s like a dirty business. It needs to be taken care of. Nobody wants to be bothered, but it should happen, because do we want to let this go down in history? It’s a cancer. It’s a blight. It has to be eradicated. You have to look at this and go, “The president mislead the people into going to war, lost 5,000 troops, there’s hundreds of thousands of people killed in Iraq, billions and billions of dollars were taken out of the economy for the war, and now we’ve discovered for sure — the Senate committee has said, ‘Yeah, he did. He lied.’” So what do you have to do to get impeached? What do you need to do? And who are we if we don’t do it … if we don’t actually say, “Hey — the law! You can’t do that!”
We place our trust in this guy, and this is what happens. I don’t see how it plays out. We’ve been vindicated by the Senate, who spent a long time investigating it. Yet it’s on the second page of the paper. Brian Williams talks about it and goes right on to the next story, and it’s like it’s 25 seconds. Give me a break! Why fall asleep? America’s fallen asleep. America’s sleeping through a moment in history that’s going to affect us forever. It’s gonna be, we’re the country who had our Senate investigate and found out we went to war under false pretenses and we didn’t do anything. We said, “That’s okay. We’ll just let that go because we’re distracted by oil prices and a new presidential election.” So we don’t have time to take care of our dirty business. But, man, you got to take care of your house. You can’t let that go. What if we have another guy like that, who turns out to be an idiot in 15 years, and he goes, “Well, George Bush did it.” What’s the precedent?
Dennis Kucinich introduced impeachment articles today, and people think, “Ah, he’s a kook,” you know. It’s like, when are people going to wake up? We shouldn’t have big vehicles that use so much gas, but we keep making ‘em. It’s not, “Big is bad,” it’s “Gas is bad.” Why don’t we change that? There are a lot of things to do that we’re not doing that kind of bothers me.
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
- Neil Young
There’s a scene in the movie where Graham Nash talks about going to hear “Living With War” for the first time and deciding whether he wanted to suit up for this tour. I wonder if there were times when you felt like you were bringing David, Stephen and Graham into something that was ultimately harmful to their bottom line as Crosby, Stills and Nash? Obviously, you play to two different audiences, and touring with them is a lot less of a preaching-to-the-choir scenario.
I guess so, ’cause they’ve been pretty mellow for a long time, and they haven’t done anything. But if you look at the roots, if you look at the original music — “For What It’s Worth,” “Ohio,” “Military Madness,” “Long Time Gone,” “Deja Vu” and all these songs that were written back then — “Immigration Man,” “Teach Your Children” — all that stuff is all rooted in the same message. This is just a different time. So they had a history of doing that, and I thought that was a good thing, because it reached way back for the roots.
Of course, between then and now, they’ve been singing about things they’ve believed in, and also just singing a lot of love songs, and a lot of songs that people enjoy, so it could become kind of like date night going to see them. But I put out my record, I was in the band, my last record was called “Living With War,” [and] it had “Let’s Impeach the President” [on it]. It was on all the networks. [The audience members] had to know something about it. We called the tour the Freedom of Speech Tour. And we went out and did these songs. They had to know something was happening. But there was still an element of surprise, and you saw that in Atlanta, but a lot of people knew what was going on, too. You could see it — they’re talking about it before the show [in the movie]. It was just very complex.
But those guys were into it 100 percent. I mean, Stephen does not like people to not like him, and I respect him for that. And he’s a very sensitive guy, so I could understand that, but even with that he wanted to do it. He said, “Yeah, I’ll do it,” and he sang “For What It’s Worth” every day and every night. He played his heart out. But he kept saying, “Well, it’s like a political cartoon, you have to see it as that,” and he was always trying to soften the blow a little, and that’s the way he is, and that’s cool. But I think he was with us, and he believed in what we were doing, or he wouldn’t have been there. And Crosby and Nash were right there from the beginning, because they don’t care so much how the reaction’s gonna be. They’re not as concerned with that as they are just with singing about stuff that matters to them. And they agreed with the songs, and they wanted to sing ‘em.
Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen a kindler, gentler Neil Young emerge. At Farm Aid a couple years ago, I was struck by how often you sincerely thanked the crowd, and, obviously, you look happier than ever onstage with your wife, Peggi. It just seems like you’ve lowered a wall of defense.
Well, there’s no pretense. I am who I am. They know who I am. I think the older you get, there is some mellowing that happens. But at Farm Aid, I feel like thanking people for being there and for giving their money for the cause.
Seeing you performing with Peggi, it just seems like you’re genuinely happier onstage than you’ve ever been.
Well, we were having fun. We had a good time. We had a great Farm Aid in Chicago a couple years ago. It was unbelievable. It was just after I shot “Prairie Wind.” It was in September of the year Katrina hit, and we played Farm Aid, and I had the choir with me from the “Heart of Gold” movie, and Wayne Jackson and the Memphis Horns. That was a great Farm Aid. Anyway, I digress.
There’s a moment in the film where Stephen tumbles over a light onstage. It was surely hugely embarrassing for him. Did you hesitate to include the footage?
Well, I showed it to him. I wondered, “What’s he going to do. Is he gonna like it or is he not going to like it?” But we were all who we were, and it’s a movie. The more uncool we are, the more real it is. These things happen. We certainly didn’t plan on that happening [laughs].
In terms of planning out the film, did you sit down and draw out an outline? Did you say, “I want to get X, Y and Z in this film, I want these people in the film?”
No. I met Mike Cerre, who was a correspondent who had been to Iraq and Afghanistan five times. I said, “Embed in this tour and do what you do — travel in one of the buses, come with us everywhere, and do whatever you want to do, and cut together 10 episodes, like you were cutting together episodes for CNN or MSNBC, and give ‘em to me, and that’s it. I’m gonna do whatever I want with them. They’re mine from that point on. You do what you do, give ‘em to me, and I’ll do what I do.” And that was my direction. I just went for the people, the humanity of the people.
Your publicist told me that you called the film’s soundtrack the greatest CSNY record ever yet.
It is.
Why?
Because it’s CSNY. Because it really is CSNY. It’s not overdubbed. There’s no fixes. It’s straight from the board. Every once in a while, we make something a little louder, maybe a little bit of bass here and there. But the basic mixes are the mixes that people heard when we were playing it. So it’s got rough spots all the way through it, which I think it refreshing, especially considering the subject matter. Why should we polish? Why polish this? Who gives a shit whether it’s polished or not? It is what it is, and that’s the message of the music. It’s what we’re doing. If you don’t like, you don’t like it. If you like it, you like it. But it is what it is. Chroming it is not going to help it.
The more raw, the better, the more exciting.
I think so, and nobody’s heard that from CSN.
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn’t see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
- Neil Young
In the late 1990s, you began singing the song “Buffalo Springfield Again,” which seemed like an open letter to your former bandmates in the Springfield. When it was released on then “Silver and Gold” album, it seemed like something of a message to those guys that you were interested in reforming. But, instead, CSNY reformed, and has been an on-again, off-again entity for nearly a decade? Will we ever see a Buffalo Springfield reunion?
I just wrote the song one afternoon sitting in the garden, I guess, somewhere up by my house. No, I don’t know, I don’t think there ever will be a Buffalo Springfield reunion. There may be for us, but I don’t think there will be for anybody else. But, you know, never is a huge word.
You’re nearing the long-anticipated release of the first volume in your “Archives” project. What took so long? Has it just been exhausting finishing this first edition?
It has taken a long time. But we had to build a platform for it, because it’s a new way of listening and looking at things. We had to build the whole program that it sits on, and that took a long time. We conceived that in the ’90s, and we worked on it right until the technology was available to do it. And we couldn’t have done it without Blu-ray. I’ve already started work on the second volume.
Do you have any sense of when that second volume will be released?
No, but it won’t take nearly as long, because we have the platform, so now we just tag things and drop them in and they show up in the right place, and the whole thing’s organized. We had to build this thing. It took a long time to build it.
In the liner notes to “Living With War,” you thank Bob Dylan for inspiration. Did you give him the album? Has he heard it?
I don’t think so. I know I didn’t give it to him. I imagine he may have heard part of it. He may have heard all of it. I really don’t know. I talked to him a couple years ago, maybe a year-and-a-half ago. He really liked a performance that I did of “Walking to New Orleans” on TV. He saw it and he called me to tell me that he liked it. I call him to tell him when he’s great, when I see him being great. I like to call him and tell him: “You’re fuckin’ great. You’re still rockin’. You fuckin’ really got it.” Ya know, somebody’s got to tell him. And he is great. You may think that everybody is telling him all the time how great he is, but I don’t know about that. Coming from me, I just wanted him to know how I felt, because I love the guy. I think he’s a great artist. So I want to be supportive, whenever I see him really step up. So he returned a favor to me. We have a friendship.
I still listen to the Bob Dylan 30th anniversary tribute live record, on which you appear. It’s one of my favorite discs.
Is “Tom Thumb’s Blues” on that one?
Yeah, and your version of “All Along the Watchtower” as well.
I’m doing those two songs on this tour in Europe. I’m opening with “Watchtower” and I’m doing “Tom Thumb” in there somewhere.
So many musicians say that what they are doing now is a reaction to their previous project. Obviously, you released “Chrome Dreams II” since the Freedom of Speech tour, and you’ve been working on “Archives.” I’m guessing you want to leave politics alone right now.
Well, I’m not really focused on the music right now, as far as new music. I have a couple songs in the back of my head, and if they come to the front of my head, I’ll write ‘em. When they arrive, I’ll deal with them and drop everything else. But I’m not focused on [it]. I’m not looking for anything. I’m just kind of here, musically speaking. But as far as my life goes, I’m totally focused on my car, building a car that … Our goal is to eliminate roadside refueling, with a big car, not some little rinky-dinky thing. Something that a big guy like you could get and drive a couple hundred miles. An American car that doesn’t need oil, that doesn’t need gasoline. Doesn’t pollute, doesn’t need gas stations. That’s what I would like to make.
Is this something you will patent yourself?
There’s a Web site called linkvolt.com and it tells the story of the car and what the mission is, what we’re trying to do. There’s a lot of interesting scientific stuff in there about ways to do things that are unconventional power sources. We’re really into onboard fuel creation — you make fuel as you go. And we’re into the people’s fuel, something everybody can get that we can use as fuel. So that eliminates a lot of things, but that does leave air and water, so those are big, good things. I figure using dead stuff is not working anymore. We’re paying the price for using dead stuff and we can’t use any more dead stuff. It pollutes, it’s ruining our environment and we’re fighting over it now. It’s killing everything. So we have to get by it.
My focus is eliminating roadside refueling. That’s the goal of the project. Will I ever get there? I don’t know. But I’m aiming at it and that’s what we’re shooting for, that’s our goal. The closer we get to it, the happier we are. If we actually get there, we’ll go down in history, but if we don’t get there we’ll go down trying.
Somebody’s got to do it. We’ve gotta get by this. We can’t do this anymore. I mean, we have wars being fought all the time. It’s an endless damn war over energy. You take away oil, and what do you have to fight about? People are so addicted and reliant on it. We think we have to have it to maintain our lifestyle. Are we that stupid? I mean, it’s the 21st century. What happened to ingenuity? What happened to the first ideas? What we were doing before gasoline came along? We used electricity. We used that, and it was working great. We were using ethanol and electricity. We were growing the fuel and we were using science, and physics, physicists, scientists and farmers, and it was working, and we weren’t polluting.
So, you know, we’re a lot smarter now. We have computers, we can track people around the world, we can track environmental things, and we can track science projects, physics projects around the world. There are French people doing experiments and putting them on YouTube. There are so many things like that out there by guys working in the garages and physicists working in labs at night, and making their own things on their own dime. We don’t have to listen to Ford and GM and Mercedes and go, “Well, these engineers that work for them, that’s not the Holy Grail.”
So what is the Holy Grail? I mean, there must be a Holy Grail. We’ve got to have somewhere to go. We’ve got to have a way out of this. Having a way out of this is not fighting. It’s not trying to work out the politics of who’s right or wrong, red or blue. That’s all bullshit. That’s all a waste of time. It’s like chemotherapy. You’re not focused on the problem. The problem is, where the hell is the cancer coming from, and how do you stop it before it starts? What can you do? What can we replace whatever it is that’s causing it? What is it?
So this is the problem with oil. How do we deal with it, how do we get rid of it? How do we eliminate the tentacles of power that come in and touch us at every gas station, where we make our contact with our biggest enemy? Not that they are our enemy on that, on one level, but on another level, they’re the biggest threat to our existence. We’re feeding it. We go up and down the road, we go from here and there, we stop off, we pay ‘em some money, get more of the stuff, and get another jolt, and away we go. It’s terrible. We can eliminate roadside refueling and we can change the world. That’s bigger than a song. That’s what the deal is.
I’m 62 years old, and I’ve got nothing else to do but something like that. That catches my fascination. And there’s so many smart people around, and so many intelligent people in the country. There’s laws being ready to be broken everywhere in physics, science, everything — or bent, maybe not broken, but bent, or reinterpreted, re-understood. There’s always something new being found that people thought wasn’t there. That’s where things come from. So that’s my request.
There’s a lot going on. I can smell it. It’s close. We’re close to having a solution, or getting close to a solution. We’re moving in the right direction. This is the age of innovation. There’s no way that we’re not going to figure out a much better way of doing it.
Wow. That should have been on CNN, unedited. But it would have been chopped up into four different segments.
Yeah [laughs], and they would play it over and over again. And somebody would come on and say, “What bullshit! That’s ridiculous. You can’t tell me we don’t need oil. That’s just not realistic.” No, you need oil, I don’t need it. That’s why you feel that way [laughs].
What are you hoping to gain from the release of the film, and the DVD that will follow it?
Discussion. Debate. Open forums. And it does do that to people. You’ll see what happens when this film comes out on the Internet. You’ll see people talking. It’ll be interesting. It’ll open up a thing, and that’s what it does. That’s what the music did. That’s what happens. It happens in the audiences. I saw families fighting within the families, the kids wanting to stay and the parents going, “No, we’ve got to get out of here. This is no good.” The parents dragging the kid out, and the kid looking back. And we’re not talking a 10-year-old, here. We’re talking college kids being driven out by just straight-laced fathers, the classic father image of strength. Not much compassion, but a lot of strength.
Is there a certain amount of disappointment you have in your own generation? Was that one of the reasons for doing the Freedom of Speech tour?
Actually, I’m encouraged by my own generation, because they still remember enough. They’re the ones that are trying to move forward. The youngsters today, the ones in school, the college kids, they’re not threatened like my generation was when they were in college. They’re not threatened with going to war, the imminent draft, that they’re going, that they’re going to be in the lottery, that they’re gonna go, and maybe die. Kids today are thinking, “Will I work for Google? Am I going to be lucky enough to work for Google? Or whom I’m going to be working for? Am I gonna get a dotcom job? Maybe I’ll be working in an environmental company. Maybe I’ll get some cool job. Maybe I want to be a designer, maybe fashion. What am I gonna be doing with my life?”
They’re not going, “I don’t want to go to Vietnam. I don’t want to go to Afghanistan. I don’t want to go Pakistan.” There’s no threat so there’s protest. So our generation, my generation, still remembers what we went through, and they still have the fire. They’re making a lot of noise about Bush. When I see them out in the crowd, I’m not disappointed. I’m proud of them, because they’re still there. Because they remember what it’s like.
The only difference is that this president and this vice president were smart enough to realize that Nixon’s fuck up was the draft. What undid that whole thing was the draft. So they didn’t have a draft, and they disguised it as a lean and mean army, and they reinforced it with mercenaries and Blackwater, but they didn’t talk about that. So they kept 100,000 guys going back and forth, some five and six times, ruining their lives. Many of them are never going to live a good life again because of this, if they live. And their families are broken. Everything’s broken. But they let that happen, so that they would not lose their jobs, and their influence, and their power. That’s the difference. That’s why this generation is not challenging this administration, because this administration has not challenged this generation, like in the old days, like they did. They didn’t tell this generation it had to go to war. They told this generation to go to college, go to school and do whatever you want to do. Only 140,000 people that we enlisted at shopping centers are gonna go.
In the movie, you talk about not singing the song “Ohio” for years, because you didn’t want to capitalize…
I thought that right at the beginning. That’s what bothered me about the song in the first place, and that’s why I rarely sang it. But in this tour, it took on a context of being part of history, so we played it again. But I did many tours with CSNY where I would hardly ever do that song. If you saw us do it, you saw us on a rare occasion. Crosby loves to do the song. He just wants to do it every night. And I just can’t do it. It’s too personal, it’s too real. It’s about people who actually died that we feel were our audience. They could have been in the first row at our shows. These were students. That’s who we played for. That’s why I didn’t want the cameras at Woodstock, because they were in between us and our crowd. This is the way it started. It started with a total connection. There was no facade, there was no style, there was no posing. It was a real deal happening. And it had so much energy that people are still living off of it today. They’re still building off of it.
A family member sent me an email recently entitled “How Long Does the American Empire Have?,” which noted that each of the world’s great dynasties have crumbled eventually. Are we nearing an end to the American dynasty?
No, I don’t think so. I think potentially we’re going to lead the world through innovation. We’re going to solve the problem of consumption that we created. That’s what the whole thing is about. That’s the goal. Not everybody knows it. But that’s what’s happening, in the back rooms, in the labs and the garages, in the physics clubs, and the science labs around the country and around the world. That’s the real thing. That’s what’s really happening. All this other shit is just window dressing.
June 26, 2008
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Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
A sublime classic from his Bobness.
Two fine versions here;
- Bob performs the classic live in Toronto in 1998.
- “My Back Pages” Live in 1992 at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert where a true “All-Star” line-up of performers (including Neil Young,Tom Petty,George Harrison,Eric Clapton,Roger McGuinn) knock out this Dylan classic.
Big thanks to juanchysGD and hue37!
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
“We’ll meet on edges, soon,” said I
Proud ‘neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
“Rip down all hate,” I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
A self-ordained professor’s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
“Equality,” I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I’d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
“My Back Pages” Live in Toronto in 1998;
“My Back Pages” Live at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert;
This clip comes from the Fall of 1992.
his is an “All-Star” line-up of performers (including Neil Young,Tom Petty,George Harrison,Eric Clapton,Roger McGuinn) knock out the Dylan classic “My Back Pages”.
June 25, 2008
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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
- Neil Young
Up there in the canon of great modern music, along with Dylan, Cohen, Van da Man, Tom Waits, Beatles et al, sits the great Canuck Neil Young.
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn’t relate to the next verse. I don’t think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
- Neil Young
Some other great links here;
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn’t see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
- Neil Young
Our pal fratan1234 has gone and done it again! This man is unstoppable! Thanks mate for the great work!
Yes …. here’s the COMPLETE body of work from the great Neil Young!!
As well as Neil’s wonderful solo work – including some marvellous
Soundtracks (
Dead Man etc.) we also have the complete
Buffalo Springfield albums and the
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Albums!
Get downloading fast motherfuckers!
A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.
Neil Young – Solo/Crazy Horse Career:
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
1. Cinnamon Girl
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
3. Round And Round
4. Down By The River
5. Losing End (When You’re On)
6. Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)
7. Cowgirl In The Sand
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..9Knows.rar
Neil Young (1969)
1. Emperor Of Wyoming
2. Loner
3. If I Could Have Her Tonight
4. I’ve Been Waiting For You
5. Old Laughing Lady
6. String Quartet From Whiskey Boot Hill
7. Here We Are In The Years
8. What Did You Do To My Life
9. I’ve Loved Her So Long
10. Last Trip To Tulsa
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123152648/1969NY.rar
After the Gold Rush (1970)
1. Tell Me Why
2. After The Goldrush
3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
4. Southern Man
5. Till The Morning Comes
6. Oh Lonesome Me
7. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
8. Birds
9. When You Dance I Can Really Love
10. I Believe In You
11. Cripple Creek Ferry
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123157692/1970Rush.rar
Harvest (1972)
1. Out On The Weekend
2. Harvest
3. Man Needs A Maid
4. Heart Of Gold
5. Are You Ready For The Country
6. Old Man
7. There’s A World
8. Alabama
9. Needle And The Damage Done
10. Words (Between The Lines Of Age)
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123152829/1972Harv.rar
Time Fades Away (1973)
1. Time Fades Away
2. LA
3. Journey Through The Past
4. Bridge
5. Love In Mind
6. Don’t Be Denied
7. Last Dance
8. Yonder Stands The Sinner
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..meAway.rar
On the Beach (1974)
1. Walk On
2. See The Sky About To Rain
3. Revolution Blues
4. For The Turnstiles
5. Vampire Blues
6. On The Beach
7. Motion Pictures
8. Ambulance Blues
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..4Beach.rar
Tonight’s the Night (1975)
1. Tonight’s The Night
2. Speakin’ Out
3. World On A String
4. Borrowed Tune
5. Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown
6. Mellow My Mind
7. Roll Another Number (For The Road)
8. Albuquerque
9. New Mama
10. Look Out Joe
11. Tired Eyes
12. Tonight’s The Night Pt2
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..5Night.rar
Zuma (1975)
1. Don’t Cry No Tears
2. Danger Bird
3. Pardon My Heart
4. Looking For A Love
5. Barstool Blues
6. Stupid Girl
7. Drive Back
8. Cortez The Killer
9. Through My Sails
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123155749/1975Zum.rar
American Stars ‘N Bars (1977)
1. Old Country Waltz
2. Saddle Up the Palomino
3. Hey Babe
4. Hold Back the Tears
5. Bite the Bullet
6. Star of Bethlehem
7. Will to Love
8. Like a Hurricane
9. Homegrown
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..Stars.rar.
Comes a Time (1978)
1. Goin’ Back
2. Comes A Time
3. Look Out For My Love
4. Peace Of Mind
5. Lotta Love
6. Human Highway
7. Already One
8. Field Of Opportunity
9. Motor Cycle Mama
10. Four Strong Winds
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..meTime.rar
Hawks & Doves (1980)
1. Little Wing
2. The Old Homestead
3. Lost in Space
4. Captain Kennedy
5. Stayin’ Power
6. Coastline
7. Union Man
8. Comin’ Apart at Every Nail
9. Hawks & Doves
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..0Hawks.rar
Re-ac-tor (1981)
1. Opera Star
2. Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze
3. T-Bone
4. Get Back on it
5. Southern Pacific
6. Motor City
7. Rapid Transit
8. Shots
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123156295/1981Reac.rar
Trans (1983)
1. Little Thing Called Love
2. Computer Age
3. We R In Control
4. Transformer Man
5. Computer Cowboy (AKA Syscrusher)
6. Hold On To Your Love
7. Sample And Hold
8. Mr. Soul
9. Like An Inca
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123156498/1982Tran.rar
Everybody’s Rockin’(1983)
1. Betty Lou’s Got A New Pair Of Shoes
2. Rainin’ In My Heart
3. Payola Blues
4. Wonderin’
5. Kinda Fonda Wanda
6. Jellyroll Man
7. Bright Lights, Big City
8. Cry, Cry, Cry
9. Mystery Train
10. Everybody’s Rockin’
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..ybodys.rar
Old Ways (1985)
1. The Wayward Wind
2. Get Back To The Country
3. Are There Any More Real Cowboys?
4. Once An Angel
5. Misfits
6. California Sunset
7. Old Ways
8. My Boy
9. Bound For Glory
10. Where Is The Highway Tonight?
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..OldWys.rar
Landing on Water (1986)
1. Weight Of The World
2. Violent Side
3. Hippie Dream
4. Bad News Beat
5. Touch The Night
6. People On The Street
7. Hard Luck Stories
8. I Got A Problem
9. Pressure
10. Drifter
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..anding.rar
Life (1987)
1. Mideast Vacation
2. Long Walk Home
3. Around The World
4. Inca Queen
5. Too Lonely
6. Prisoners Of Rock ‘N’ Roll
7. Cryin’ Eyes
8. When Your Lonely Heart Breaks
9. We Never Danced
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123156939/1987Life.rar
This Note’s for You (1988)
1. Ten Men Workin’
2. This Note’s For You
3. Coupe De Ville
4. Life In The City
5. Twilight
6. Married Man
7. Sunny Inside
8. Can’t Believe Your Lyin’
9. Hey Hey (Baby)
10. One Thing
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..hisYou.rar
Eldorado [Ep] (1989)
1. Cocaine Eyes
2. Don’t Cry
3. Heavy Love
4. On Broadway
5. Eldorado
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..dorado.rar
Freedom (1989)
1. Rockin’ In The Free World
2. Crime In The City
3. Don’t Cry
4. Hangin’ On A Limb
5. Eldorado
6. Ways Of Love
7. Someday
8. On Broadway
9. Wrecking Ball
10. No More
11. Too Far Gone
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..9Freed.rar
Ragged Glory (1990)
1. Country Home
2. White Line
3. Fuckin’ Up
4. Over And Over
5. Love To Burn
6. Farmer John
7. Mansion On The Hill
8. Days That Used To Be
9. Love And Only Love
10. Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..Ragged.rar
Harvest Moon (1992)
1. Unknown Legend
2. From Hank To Hendrix
3. You And Me
4. Harvest Moon
5. War Of Man
6. One Of These Days
7. Such A Woman
8. Old King
9. Dreamin’ Man
10. Natural Beauty
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..rvstMn.rar
Sleeps with Angels (1994)
1. My Heart
2. Prime Of Life
3. Drive By
4. Sleeps With Angels
5. Western Hero
6. Change Your Mind
7. Blue Eden
8. Safeway Cart
9. Train Of Love
10. Trans Am
11. Piece Of Crap
12. Dream That Can Last
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..epsAng.rar
Mirror Ball (1995)
1. Song X
2. Act Of Love
3. I’m The Ocean
4. Big Green Country
5. Truth Be Known
6. Downtown
7. What Happened Yesterday
8. Peace And Love
9. Throw Your Hatred Down
10. Scenery
11. Fallen Angel
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..Mirror.rar
Broken Arrow (1996)
1. Big Time
2. Music Arcade
3. This Town
4. Baby What You Want Me To Do
5. Loose Change
6. Slip Away
7. Changing Highways
8. Scattered (Let’s Think About Livin’)
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..kenArr.rar
Silver & Gold (2000)
1. Good To See You
2. Silver And Gold
3. Daddy Went Walkin’
4. Buffalo Springfield Again
5. The Great divide
6. Horseshoe Man
7. Red Sun
8. Distant Camera
9. Razor Love
10. Without Rings
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..lvrGld.rar
Are You Passionate? (2002)
1. You’re My Girl
2. Mr Disappointment
3. Differently
4. Quit (Don’t Say You Love Me)
5. Let’s Roll
6. Are You Passionate
7. Goin’ Home
8. When I Hold You In My Arms
9. Be With You
10. Two Old Friends
11. She’s A Healer
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..eUPass.rar
Greendale (2003)
1. Falling From Above
2. Double E
3. Devils Sidewalk
4. Leaving The Drive
5. Carmichael
6. Bandit
7. Grandpa’s Interview
8. Bringin’ Down Dinner
9. Sun Green
10. Be The Rain
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..Greend.rar
Prairie Wind (2005)
1. Painter
2. No Wonder
3. Falling Off the Face of the Earth
4. Far from Home
5. It’s a Dream
6. Prairie Wind
7. Here for You
8. This Old Guitar
9. He Was the King
10. When God Made Me
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..irieWd.rar
Living with War (2006)
1. After The Garden
2. Living With War
3. Restless Consumer
4. Shock And Awe
5. Families
6. Flags Of Freedom
7. Let’s Impeach The President
8. Lookin’ For A Leader
9. Roger And Out
10. America The Beautiful
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..ingWar.rar
Living with War: In the Beginning (2006)
1. After The Garden
2. Living With War
3. Restless Consumer
4. Shock And Awe
5. Families
6. Flags Of Freedom
7. Let’s Impeach The President
8. Lookin’ For A Leader
9. Roger And Out
10. America The Beautiful
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..WarBeg.rar
Chrome Dreams II (2007)
1. Beautiful Bluebird
2. Boxcar
3. Ordinary People
4. Shining Light
5. The Believer
6. Spirit Road
7. Dirty Old Man
8. Even After
9. No Hidden Path
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part2.rar
Compilations:
Decade (1977)
Disc: 1
1. Down to the Wire
2. Burned
3. Mr. Soul
4. Broken Arrow
5. Expecting to Fly
6. Sugar Mountain
7. I Am a Child
8. Loner
9. Old Laughing Lady
10. Cinnamon Girl
11. Down by the River
12. Cowgirl in the Sand
13. I Believe in You
14. After the Gold Rush
15. Southern Man
16. Helpless
Disc: 2
1. Ohio
2. Soldier
3. Old Man
4. Man Needs a Maid
5. Harvest
6. Heart of Gold
7. Star of Bethlehem
8. Needle and the Damage Done
9. Tonight’s the Night, Pt. 1
10. Tired Eyes
11. Walk On
12. For the Turnstiles
13. Winterlong
14. Deep Forbidden Lake
15. Like a Hurricane
16. Love Is a Rose
17. Cortez the Killer
18. Campaigner
19. Long May You Run
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part2.rar
Lucky Thirteen: Excursions Into Alien Territory (1993)
1. Sample And Hold
2. Transformer Man
3. Depression Blues
4. Get Gone
5. Don’t Take Your Love Away From Me
6. Once An Angel
7. Where Is The Highway Tonight
8. Hippie Dream
9. Pressure
10. Around The World
11. Mid East Vacation
12. Ain’t It The Truth
13. This Note’s For You
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123167749/1993L13.rar
Greatest Hits:
1. Down By The River
2. Cowgirl In The Sand
3. Cinnamon Girl
4. Helpless
5. After The Gold Rush
6. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
7. Southern Man
8. Ohio
9. The Needle and The Damage Done
10. Old Man
11. Heart Of Gold
12. Like A Hurricane
13. Comes A Time
14. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
15. Rockin’ In The Free World
16. Harvest Moon
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..Greats.rar
Journey Through the Past (1972)
1. For What It’s Worth
2. Mr Soul
3. Rock ‘n’ Roll Woman
4. Find The Cost Of Freedom
5. Ohio
6. Southern Man
7. Alabama
8. Are You Ready For The Country
9. Words
10. Soldier
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..ourney.rar
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
1. Buffalo Stomp – performed by Neil Young with the Wild Bill Band of Strings
2. Ode to Wild Bill #1 – written and performed by Neil Young
3. All Along the Watchtower – written by Bob Dylan; performed by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
4. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney; performed by Bill Murray
5. Ode to Wild Bill #2 – written and performed by Neil Young
6. Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone – written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong; performed by The Temptations
7. Home, Home on the Range – written by Brewster Higley and Daniel Kelley; performed by Neil Young
8. Straight Answers (dialogue) – performed by Bill Murray
9. Highway 61 Revisited – written and performed by Bob Dylan
10. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) – written by Holland-Dozier-Holland; performed by the Four Tops
11. Ode to Wild Bill #3 (plus dialogue) – written and performed by Neil Young
12. Keep on Chooglin’ – written by John Fogerty; performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival
13. Ode to Wild Bill #4 – written and performed by Neil Young
14. Purple Haze – written by Jimi Hendrix; performed by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
15. Buffalo Stomp Refrain – performed by Neil Young with the Wild Bill Band of Strings[9]
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..uffalo.rar
Philadelphia (1994)
Philadelphia – Neil Young
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..4-Phil.rar
Dead Man (1996)
1. Guitar Solo, No. 1
2. The Round Stones Beneath the Earth…
3. Guitar Solo, No. 2
4. Why Does Thou Hide Thyself, Clouds…
5. Organ Solo
6. Do You Know How to Use This Weapon?
7. Guitar Solo, No. 3
8. Nobody’s Story
9. Guitar Solo, No. 4
10. Stupid White Men…
11. Guitar Solo, No. 5
12. Time for You to Leave, William Blake…
13. Guitar Solo, No. 6
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..6DeadM.rar
Live Albums:
Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
1. My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
2. Thrasher
3. Ride My Llama
4. Pocohontas
5. Sail Away
6. Powderfinger
7. Welfare Mothers
8. Sedan Delivery
9. Hey Hey My My (Into The Black)
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..stSlee.rar
Live Rust (1979)
1. Sugar Mountain
2. I Am A Child
3. Comes A Time
4. After The Goldrush
5. My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
6. When You Dance I Can Really Love
7. Loner
8. Needle And The Damage Done
9. Lotta Love
10. Sedan Delivery
11. Powderfinger
12. Cortez The Killer
13. Cinnamon Girl
14. Like A Hurricane
15. Hey Hey My My (Into The Black)
16. Tonight’s The Night
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..LveRst.rar
Weld (1991)
Disc: 1
1. Hey Hey My My (Into The Black)
2. Crime In The City
3. Blowin’ In The Wind
4. Welfare Mothers
5. Love To Burn
6. Cinnamon Girl
7. Mansion On The Hill
8. Fuckin’ Up
Disc: 2
1. Cortez The Killer
2. Powderfinger
3. Love And Only Love
4. Rockin’ In The Free World
5. Like A Hurricane
6. Farmer John
7. Tonight’s The Night
8. Roll Another Number
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part2.rar
Unplugged (1993)
1. Old Laughing Lady
2. Mr Soul
3. World On A String
4. Pocahontas
5. Stringman
6. Like A Hurricane
7. Needle And The Damage Done
8. Helpless
9. Harvest Moon
10. Transformer Man
11. Unknown Legend
12. Look Out For My Love
13. Long May You Run
14. From Hank To Hendrix
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123175228/1993Unpl.rar
Arc (1991)
1. Arc
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123172834/1991AR.rar
Year of the Horse (1997)
Disc: 1
1. When You Dance
2. Barstool Blues
3. When Your Lonely Heart Breaks
4. Mr Soul
5. Big Time
6. Pocahontas
7. Human Highway
Disc: 2
1. Slip Away
2. Scattered
3. Danger Bird
4. Prisoners
5. Sedan Delivery
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..7Horse.rar
Road Rock, Vol. 1: Friends & Relatives (2000)
1. Cowgirl In The Sand
2. Walk On
3. Fool For Your Love
4. Peace Of Mind
5. Words
6. Motorcycle Mama
7. Tonight’s The Night
8. All Along The Watchtower
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..RckVl1.rar
Live at the Fillmore East (2006)
1. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
2. Winterlong
3. Down By The River
4. Wonderin’
5. Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown
6. Cowgirl In The Sand
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..st1970.rar
Live at Massey Hall 1971 (2007)
1. On The Way Home
2. Tell Me Why
3. Old Man
4. Journey Through The Past
5. Helpless
6. Love In Mind
7. A Man Needs A Maid/Heart of God Suite
8. Cowgirl In the Sand
9. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
10. There’s A World
11. Bad Fog of Loneliness
12. The Needle and the Damage Done
13. Ohio
14. See The Sky About to Rain
15. Down By The River
16. Dance Dance Dance
17. I Am A Child
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..Hl1971.rar
Neil Young & The Mynah Birds
Neil Young & The Mynah Birds
Posted separately:
http://stupidd.blogspot.com/neil-young-mynah-birds
Buffalo Springfield (1966)
1. For what it’s worth
2. Go and say goodbye
3. Sit down I think I love you
4. Nowadays Clancy can’t even sing
5. Hot dusty roads
6. Everybody’s wrong
7. Flying on the ground is wrong
8. Burned
9. Do I have to come right out and say it
10. Leave
11. Out of my mind
12. Pay the price
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..Spring.rar
Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
1. Mr Soul
2. Child’s Claim To Fame
3. Everydays
4. Expecting To Fly
5. Bluebird
6. Hung Upside Down
7. Sad Memory
8. Good Time Boy
9. Rock ‘n’ Roll Woman
10. Broken Arrow
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..BEgain.rar
Last Time Around (1968)
1. On The Way Home
2. It’s So Hard To Wait
3. Pretty Girl Why
4. Four Days Gone
5. Carefree Country Day
6. Special Care
7. Hour Of Not Quite Rain
8. Questions
9. I Am A Child
10. Merry Go Round
11. Uno Mundo
12. Kind Woman
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..stTiAr.rar
The Best of … Retrospective (1968)
1. For What It’s Worth
2. Mr Soul
3. Sit Down I Think I Love You
4. Kind Woman
5. Bluebird
6. On The Way Home
7. Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing
8. Broken Arrow
9. Rock ‘n’ Roll Woman
10. I Am A Child
11. Go And Say Goodbye
12. Expecting To Fly
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..ERetro.rar
Buffalo Springfield [Box Set] (2001)
Disc: 1
1. There Goes My Baby
2. Come On
3. Hello I’ve Returned
4. Out Of My Mind
5. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
6. I’m Your Kind Of Guy
7. Baby Don’t Scold Me
8. Neighbour Don’t You Worry
9. We’ll See
10. Sad Memory
11. Can’t Keep Me Down
12. Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing
13. Go And Say Goodbye
14. Sit Down I Think I Love You
15. Leave
16. Hot Dusty Roads
17. Everybody’s Wrong
18. Burned
19. Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It
20. Out Of My Mind
21. Pay The Price
22. Down Down Down
23. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
24. Neighbour Don’t You Worry
Disc: 2
1. Down Down Down
2. Kahuna Sunset
3. Buffalo Stomp
4. Baby Don’t Scold Me
5. For What It’s Worth
6. Mr Soul
7. We’ll See
8. My Kind Of Love
9. Pretty Girl Why
10. Words I Must Say
11. Nobody’s Fool
12. So You’ve Got A Lover
13. My Angel
14. No Sun Today
15. Everydays
16. Down To The Wire
17. Bluebird
18. Expecting To Fly
19. Hung Upside Down
20. Child’s Claim To Fame
21. Rock ‘n’ Roll Woman
Disc: 3
1. Hung Upside Down
2. Good Time Boy
3. One More Sign
4. Rent Is Always Due
5. Round And Round And Round
6. Old Laughing Lady
7. Broken Arrow
8. Sad Memory
9. On The Way Home
10. Whatever Happened To Saturday Night
11. Special Care
12. Falcon Lake (Ash On The Floor)
13. What A Day
14. I Am A Child
15. Questions
16. Merry Go Round
17. Uno Mundo
18. Kind Woman
19. It’s So Hard To Wait
20. Four Days Gone
Disc: 4
1. For What It’s Worth
2. Go And Say Goodbye
3. Sit Down I Think I Love You
4. Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing
5. Hot Dusty Roads
6. Everybody’s Wrong
7. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
8. Burned
9. Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It
10. Leave
11. Out Of My Mind
12. Pay The Price
13. Baby Don’t Scold Me
14. Mr Soul
15. Child’s Claim To Fame
16. Everydays
17. Expecting To Fly
18. Bluebird
19. Hung Upside Down
20. Sad Memory
21. Good Time Boy
22. Rock ‘n’ Roll Woman
23. Broken Arrow
Links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part4.rar
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:
Déjà Vu (1969)
1. Carry On
2. Teach Your Children
3. Almost Cut My Hair
4. Helpless
5. Woodstock
6. Déjà Vu
7. Our House
8. 4 + 20
9. Country Girl: Whiskey Boot Hill/Down, Down, Down/Country Girl
10. Everybody I Love You
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..NYDeja.rar
Four Way Street (1971)
1. On The Way Home
2. Cowgirl In The Sand
3. Southern Man
4. Teach Your Children
5. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
6. Ohio
7. Triad
8. 49 Bye Byes
9. Carry On
10. Lee Shore
11. Love The One You’re With
12. Find The Cost Of Freedom
13. Chicago
14. Pre Road Downs
15. Right Between The Eyes
16. Long Time Gone
17. Suite/Judy Blue Eyes
18. King Midas In Reverse
19. Black Queen
20. Loner/Cinnamon Girl/Down By The River
Links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part2.rar
So Far [Compilation] (1974)
1. Déjà Vu
2. Helplessly Hoping
3. Wooden Ships
4. Teach Your Children
5. Ohio
6. Find the Cost of Freedom
7. Woodstock
8. Our House
9. Helpless
10. Guinnevere
11. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..g-SFar.rar
American Dream (1988)
1. American Dream
2. Got It Made
3. Name Of Love
4. Don’t Say Goodbye
5. This Ole House
6. Nighttime For The Generals
7. Shadowland
8. Drivin’ Thunder
9. Clear Blue Skies
10. That Girl
11. Compass
12. Soldiers Of Peace
13. Feel Your Love
14. Night Song
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..Adream.rar
Looking Forward (1999)
1. Faith In Me
2. Looking Forward
3. Stand And Be Counted
4. Heartland
5. Seen Enough
6. Slowpoke
7. Dreams For Him
8. No Tears Left
9. Out Of Control
10. Someday Soon
11. Queen Of Them All
12. Sanibel
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/12……part2.rar
The Stills-Young Band:
Long May You Run (1976)
1. Long May You Run
2. Make Love To You
3. Midnight On The Bay
4. Black Coral
5. Ocean Girl
6. Let It Shine
7. 12/8 Blues
8. Fontaine Bleau
9. Guardian Angel
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/12…..ongRun.rar
Enjoy!
June 23, 2008
Posted by stupidand |
Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, Music_ClassicRock, Music_DISCOGRAPHY, Neil Young, _MUSIC |
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An early line-up comprising James, St Nicholas, Cameron and guitarist Frank Arnel recorded “The Mynah Birds Song” for Columbia Records in late 1964 as a prospective single. However, the track was not deemed strong enough and a new track, “The Mynah Birds Hop”, was recorded to grace the A-side. The second track saw James, St Nicholas and Arnel joined by second singer, Jimmy “Liver” Livingstone (born February 28, 1938 in Nova Scotia; died June 1, 2002), keyboard player John Goadsby aka Goldie McJohn (born May 2, 1945) and drummer Richie Grand (born June 11, 1945 in Toronto, Ontario). The single was released in Canada in early 1965, but flopped.
A planned single, “It’s My Time” b/w “Go Ahead And Cry”, was withdrawn just prior to its scheduled release by Motown. Both sides of this single were included in the 2006 box set “The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 6: 1966″, released in a limited edition of 6000 by Universal vanity label Hip-O-Select, marking the first time any of the 1966 Motown recordings by the Mynah Birds had seen the light of day.
