Yeah That's Neil
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chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Norm, I have a feeling that this one will either get locked or worse.
Might consider deleting or revising and just posting a link to the actual song on Youtube or something.
Might consider deleting or revising and just posting a link to the actual song on Youtube or something.
Norm….political clickbait is “political”. I wasn’t gonna bite, but…
Chili got my attention with this…thanks Mark.
Probabilities of thread-nuke are high. Not for the song, but for the article.
@Session 5 I would heed the advice of Mark…it is sound.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Likewise. But I thought the link mighta been about Neil Peart
Clockworkmike
Ambassador of STACKS in WV SHACKS
Just observing it from a strictly riff perspective and nothing more? It definitely has the classic, Neil Young grungy guitar sound.
Agreed!
OP
Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
I didn't put it on here to be political. It just talks about the type of guy he is. His music has been political all his life. He's just a rough tough guy, that's all i am meaning by putting it here. He is what he is. He writes music, its out there for everybody, if one doesn't like it, don't listen to it. There's lots of music out there i don't agree with, i just turn the channel.
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Boubou
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I agree pretty classic Neil.
Seamus OReally
Well-Known Member
That sounds like he wrote it in the time it takes to sing it.
Wouldn't be the first time he's written a song in less time than it takes to do it. The song "Ohio" was written pretty quickly as well.
Clockworkmike
Ambassador of STACKS in WV SHACKS
Yeah, supposedly CSNY were all sitting around and David Crosby was reading the May 15th, 1970 issue of LIFE magazine about the Kent State Shooting, while Neil Young had already been looking at it earlier. David Crosby started pontificating about how it was wrong and immoral. Neil Young was quiet and just got up, walked away with his guitar and wrote the song within 20 minutes
The other part of this story. “Teach Your Children” had just hit Top 20 on the charts in the U.S. They recorded “Ohio” and rushed it into production and to the radio stations….. which ultimately knocked Teach Your Children down the charts. And if memory serves, it had only been there a couple weeks when Ohio got dropped.
Clockworkmike
Ambassador of STACKS in WV SHACKS
Yeah I read that they literally recorded it in LA just a few days on May 21, 1970 and Ahmet Ertegun flew the master tape to NYC to have it produced and released by June 4th. It came out less than a month after the shooting
I became a Neil Young fanboy somewhere around the time of Woodstock….. as a youngster still in HS. Part of what I liked then and still like today….. whether he agrees or disagrees with “current events” he is not shy to say/sing his opinion. And equally not shy of stepping on toes if he feels they need stepped on.
I like Neil Youngs music.I dont like alot of his polical veiws.I started listening to Neil Young as a young teen.Buddy had two 8 track tapes in his 58 Apache truck.Neil Young Harvest and Black Sabbaths Paranoid. There ya go. I was to young to even know what a polical veiw was.
That pretty funny. I was playing Harvest in my cars 8 Track and had Paranoid on vinyl.
