I was lyin' in a burned out basement......

[J. Barron DeJong]

I don’t see any emojis. Sarcasm noted


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Hadn’t heard of emoji blindness before today.

[rideit]

I don’t listen to Neil Young. How old do you think I am? ;-)

Are people who listen to Mozart or Bach hundreds of years old?

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Hadn’t heard of emoji blindness before today.

I guess because it doesn’t show as an emoji in the app? I didn’t realize that . was a finger mustache


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[EWG]

I will admit it took some time for me to truly appreciate his falsetto voice and his unique way of interpreting lyrics. He is indeed one of a kind. A master.


Well I dreamed I saw the knights in armor comin'
Sayin' something about a queen
There were peasants singin' and drummers drummin'
And the archer split the tree
There was a fanfare blowin' to the sun
That was floating on the breeze
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the 1970s

Such a sad sad song.

[riser4]

Death to all but metal!!! Neil Young looks good in black.

[riser4]

Hadn’t heard of emoji blindness before today.

Is that a new band?

[dookeyXXX]

Anyony remember the Shocking Pinks? Was he serious, or was that all tongue in cheek?

I saw him on that tour at a sweet art deco theater in downtown Fresno….

[Meadow Skipper]

I guess because it doesn’t show as an emoji in the app? I didn’t realize that . was a finger mustache

You’ll get the hang of things after you’ve been here a while.

Also, I liked Trans.

[riser4]

I saw him on that tour at a sweet art deco theater in downtown Fresno….

Was good, yes?

[boltonoutlaw]

...I’m more of a Stills fan than a NY fan. Neil Young called Stills a genius btw

Saw Stephen Stills 1979.05.27 at Wesleyan University. I guess that makes me an old. Super high-energy show. "Church" "Sit Yourself Down" "Marianne" etc. IMO, he has a classic R&R voice right up there with Paul Rodgers.

Anyony remember the Shocking Pinks? Was he serious, or was that all tongue in cheek?

That's when I jumped ship. NY at his most insecure, trend-chasing, fear-of-becoming-obsolete self.

That’s Garcia playing pedal steel on Teach Your Children.

JG's pedal steel contributions were many, and Crosby's "Laughing" is my favorite.

OT, but what the hey:
Spotify Playlist: Jerry Garcia Pedal Steel Guitar, and

[skiballs]

Are people who listen to Mozart or Bach hundreds of years old?

It only feels that way.
Love that stuff live, especially in a good concert hall.


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[riser4]

So I am gonna go 2000s:

Last time I saw Elvis
He was shooting at a color TV

[Yes, I actually like a bunch of stuff from Prairie Wind. It's haunting. And I believe it's from after Neil Motherfucking Young survived brain cancer or some such thing In your face, Cancer! Take that!]

Ok, I got the the details majorly mixed up on Prairie Wind. Death of his father.

[dookeyXXX]

Was good, yes?

‘‘Twas indeed.

I saw him at a few Bridge Benefits, too.

That said, my huge regrets in regards to NY live is that I didn’t go to one of the Sonic Youth/Crazy Horse gigs (I was deep in my rap phase at the time and “loathed” Sonic Youth) and I never rallied to catch one of his “secret shows” at the Old Princeton Landing in Half Moon Bay…

Oh well, que sera sera…

[KQ]

That's the shit! I would say it's 'Dope', but that's got a different meaning for NY, and out of respect for him and the friends he (and many of us) have lost to the needle, I feel funny using it.

From Wikipedia:


Young has said that he doesn't recall what the song is about. Dolly Parton, recalling a conversation while in the process of recording a cover of the song, along with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, for their 1999 album Trio II, said:

I loved the song on Neil Young's [1970] album and I loved it when Prelude had it out in 1974. But I didn't know what the song meant. Linda and Emmy knew Neil, so we called him and asked him. He said, 'I have no idea.' I thought that was so funny. I think it's about the Second Coming or the invasion of aliens, or both.[3]

However, in his 2012 biography Young reportedly gave a different explanation of the song's origin and meaning, describing the inspiration provided by a screenplay of the same name (never produced), which apocalyptically described the last days of California in a catastrophic flood. The screenplay and song's title referred to what happened in California, a place that took shape due to the Gold Rush. Young eventually concluded that:

After The Gold Rush is an environmental song... I recognize in it now this thread that goes through a lotta my songs that’s this time-travel thing... When I look out the window, the first thing that comes to my mind is the way this place looked a hundred years ago.[4]

"After the Gold Rush" consists of three verses which move forward in time from the past (a medieval celebration), to the present (the singer lying in a burned out basement), and, finally, to the end of humanity's time on Earth (the ascension process in which the "chosen ones" are evacuated from Earth in silver spaceships). On the original recording, in addition to Young's vocals, two instruments are utilized: a piano and a French horn. In the decades since the song was first released, the horn solo in the song has typically been replaced by a harmonica solo by Young in live performances.[5]

The line "Look at Mother Nature on the run / In the 1970s" has been amended by Young in concert over the decades and is currently sung as "Look at Mother Nature on the run / in the 21st century."[6][7][8]

[KQ]

The man can play.

Love the sound of a fingers on strings. Has a great resonance you don't get with picks IMO.

[KQ]

Such a sad sad song.

Well sure, environmental disasters are never happy.

I used to think Long May You Run (Stills/Young) was a sad song about a friend who died until I learned it was about his car, a Buick Roadmaster hearse, named Mort that died in 1962 when its transmission blew in Blind River, Ontario.

[frorider]

Full circle

[billyk]

What a lucky man
To see the earth before it touched his hand

[dookeyXXX]

1:47 mark...

[gravitylover]

‘‘Twas indeed.

I saw him at a few Bridge Benefits, too.

That said, my huge regrets in regards to NY live is that I didn’t go to one of the Sonic Youth/Crazy Horse gigs (I was deep in my rap phase at the time and “loathed” Sonic Youth) and I never rallied to catch one of his “secret shows” at the Old Princeton Landing in Half Moon Bay…

Oh well, que sera sera…

I wish I had made it to one (or more) of those.

Love the sound of a fingers on strings. Has a great resonance you don't get with picks IMO.

My favorite bassists are pluckers. It makes the sound so much more soulful.

That 86 Neil and Crazy Horse tour was some good music. I saw Phoenix and one other. Crazy Horse at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson (March 93) was pretty great too.

[gaijin]

Are people who listen to Mozart or Bach hundreds of years old?

I still listen to both. But my “old” comment was a joke. Hence the ;-)

My (our) attempts at humor usually get lost in the text format that is TRGs.

Super stoked to see this thread gain four pages of steam while I slept. I’ve lived in JP longer than anywhere else and dropping into rabbit holes like this always transcend time and space for me. It’s wild how music can make me feel at home.

[old goat]

Saw Stephen Stills 1979.05.27 at Wesleyan University. I guess that makes me an old. Super high-energy show. "Church" "Sit Yourself Down" "Marianne" etc. IMO, he has a classic R&R voice right up there with Paul Rodgers.




That's when I jumped ship. NY at his most insecure, trend-chasing, fear-of-becoming-obsolete self.




JG's pedal steel contributions were many, and Crosby's "Laughing" is my favorite.

OT, but what the hey:
Spotify Playlist: Jerry Garcia Pedal Steel Guitar, and

Yeah, Garcia's playing is proof that acid doesn't rot your brain. Maybe I should take a hit and try the pedal again.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I hope that’s not the best example of Garcia playing pedal steel. That’s pretty run of the mill by Nashville standards


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[old goat]

Love the sound of a fingers on strings. Has a great resonance you don't get with picks IMO.

Thumbpick, no finger picks.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

Thumbpick, no finger picks.

Love that song. Also, his playing has always reminded me of Neil's in a way. They obvious play very different styles of guitar, but they both blend the technical and precise with stretches of being out of time and out of control. And it works.

I’m more of a Stills fan than a NY fan.

I can't decide whether I should make an Art Garfunkel joke or a Bing Crosby joke...