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Location: Location Location Location | DOES HE PLAY IT AS WELL AS HE PLAYS LEAD GUITAR?
Oh, not THAT good. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | that's what I thought |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Poor misunderstood Neil. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Well, misunderstood....perhaps.
Except when he captures a moment in time or a Movement. Then he's a recognized artist.
Ohio
Heart Of Gold
Old Man
Harvest Moon
Rockin' In The Free World
Sometimes even a poet
On The Way Home
After The Goldrush
Who else of his age group is still embraced by punks and troublemakers everywhere? Yet still as likely to support 'the establishment' as not? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | "Who else of his age group is still embraced by punks and troublemakers everywhere? Yet still as likely to support 'the establishment' as not?'
True....very true |
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Location: Atlanta GA | I have to say that Neil is one of my favorites, maybe my most favorite song writer of all. With his volume of works there are going to be some that just don't have the mass appeal. But overall I love it. My son and I did a live perfromance of Cortez The Killer to his would history class, they loved it!
"We've got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand" is one of the greatest lines I've heard. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Sometimes Neil misses the mark, like with Cortez. The reason Cortez was able to beat the aztecs was that the aztecs were oppressors of neiboring people, but yeah, great song otherwise. For those interested in the Conquest of Mexico, I highly recommend, Conquest by Hugh Thomas. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | I've always liked Neil. He has a voice that I sound alot alike naturally. I always start off my kareoke nights with a Neil Young song. I get cheers with them and sometimes with other artists' songs but always with Neil's. By the way I can't stand Bob Dylan's voice and don't understand the comparison between the two. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Neil has always been a fav!!
Bob Dylan my have written some great songs but as a performer he lacks!!
Saw him here a few years ago, don't know what planet he was on, but it wasn't Earth
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Location: nashville | I got Neil autograph in Nashville when he was taping P.Wind at the Ryman. He was walking down the street w/another guy I stopped my car in the middle of the street jumped out and pulled out my guitar Strp and sharpe and ask if he had time. THe guy w/him said NO. but Neil stopped turned around and signed it anyway. I got tickets to the taping and it was very good. Who remembers the Shocking Pinks album in the 80"s? |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | I think CSN&Y were a lot less without the "&Y". |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I'm glad you like Neil, AJ + Richard. I'll hopefully throw a few of his at ya this weekend.
The OzOFC - 'Out On the Weekend' at last!
The '05ES is on its way up from the 'gong, hopefully will be here by Friday. If it does arrive, I'll bring it on Saturday. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Looking forward to it. Thinking of CSN&Y reminds me of a skit on The Simpsons where Barney (the resident alcoholic) meets David Crosby at a function: "Wow, David Crosby, you're my hero".
"You like my music?"
"You're a musician?" |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | "The '05ES is on its way up from the 'gong,"
For those that think we Aussies are totally mad "Wollongong" is an industrial city on the coast south of Sydney.
Should be a fun night
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
I think CSN&Y were a lot less without the "&Y". I remember asking "Y" when they added him.
BTW, I recently read that when CSN recorded "Southern Cross" it was actually SSN you hear on the recording. Timothy B. Schmidt of the Eagles sang for Crosby, who was too ill at that point to perform.
Can anybody confirm? |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | "Southern Cross"
How Aussie is that!!
They are great
AJ :) |
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Location: NJ | That whole "Daylight Again" album was slated t'be a Stills/Nash album from the get-go. Crosby was off on an extended "SnowDay".
He wandered in from time-to-time to add some vocal tracks. Nash & Jackson Browne berated him into completing the two Crosby tracks ("Delta" & "Might As Well Have a Good Time") and contributing them to make it a CSN album. "Delta" was written on Browne's piano, and he (Browne) practically stood over Crosby till he finished it.
Those two tunes are some of my favorites on that album.
I spent the night of my 50th birthday on an ocean-liner deck chair with a bottle of rum and my guitar gazing at the SouthernCross (first time I'd ever seen it) as it hung over the Caribbean horizon.
that was a good birthday . . . . |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by cliff:
I spent the night of my 50th birthday on an ocean-liner deck chair with a bottle of rum and my guitar gazing at the SouthernCross (first time I'd ever seen it) as it hung over the Caribbean horizon.
that was a good birthday . . . . Wow - that's a hint I need to drop to my wife for my 50th (I can't believe I just said that!) in a few years. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I spent the night of my 50th birthday on an ocean-liner deck chair with a bottle of rum and my guitar gazing at the SouthernCross (first time I'd ever seen it) as it hung over the Caribbean horizon.
that was a good birthday . . . . In my 50th year, I became a father...while it prohibits my sitting in a Ocean-liner chair anytime soon, I would not change a thing...
Besides, I would have never written "3 Going On 23"...lol |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
Looking forward to it. Thinking of CSN&Y reminds me of a skit on The Simpsons where Barney (the resident alcoholic) meets David Crosby at a function: "Wow, David Crosby, you're my hero".
"You like my music?"
"You're a musician?" :D :D |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Wiki says Garfunkel was a harmony singer on Southern Cross as well. Garfunkel, Schmidt, Stills, Nash...probably had every dog in the neighborhood going crazy that day. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Back OT: Neil has been a long time favorite..early stuff is great: Unplugged '93 also has some great stuff and is among my favortes..."Long May You Run" and "From Hank to Hendrix" are classic's IMHO... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I know a lot of people love the guy but I've never really caught the Neil thing. To each his own but I've listened to early, middle and recent stuff and I just never really bought the whole legend thing. My loss, I guess. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Neil Gives Us Hope! Hey, If this guy cam make it there is Hope for us All! |
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Location: Jet City | I think Neil's biggest attribute was the writing. His voice has at times been difficult to listen to, but then again, it works for him. My current list of songs I can sing and play is full of Neil (anyone at the NW Gathering would already know this).
Ohio
I Am A Child
Needle and the Damage Done
Down By The River
Cinnamon Girl
Don't Let It Bring You Down
I don't think my versions sound anything like his, voice wise anyways (thankfully!), though some of the guitar work is similar. |
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NEIL YOUNG PIANO PLAYER???
