Hey kids please allow me introduce you to Mr. Young?

[Passionate Ringo]

Lately I have been hearing a lot of music by new acts that are like this. So I wanted you to hear an old friend that I have seen play in concert several times. One his own, with Crazy Horse and with Crosby, Stills and Nash.
I remember seeing Neil play at a concert sponsored by Miller Beer and he was drinking a Budweiser on the stage. Only Neil Young would be that way, with that attitude.
I think back to a time that he played and wrote most of his early hits through. Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills. CSN&Y. It was an incredible time. The sixties. The early 1970s. Johnson, Nixon, and the War in Vietnam that essentially destroyed two Presidents. Nixon getting caught in the Watergate scandal. Lying to the country and resigning in disgrace.
There has been many changes in music. You have music videos with special effects, studio tricks and a dozen dancers moving around a stage like lunatics just released from an asylum. It's nice to see what one person can do with one voice and one acoustic guitar.
Well, kids what do you think?

"Don't Let It Bring You Down"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU9_Q7PJuNQ
"Old Man"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSqIgPu0QIY&NR=1

 

[That's dead GROTTY!]

Neil Young is THE MAN!

 

[Mr. Wildflowers]

I'm 17, and Neil Young has been my favourite artist for a few years now. I was introduced to him by my dad playing "Freedom," on a car trip once, and I instantly fell in love with "Rockin' In The Free World." I quickly bought Decade, and listened to it hundreds of times. I now have more Neil Young albums than I have of anybody but The Beatles, and I listen to at least one or two a day. I had the incredible pleasure of seeing Neil at the Ryman Auditorium about a month ago, and it was, if not the "best" concert I've ever seen (Leonard Cohen wins that one,) he was certainly one of the most creative, personable, eccentric, and downright talented performers I've ever seen. I haven't gotten into much CSNY or Buffalo Springfield, but I enjoy just about everything Neil's touched (even Everybody's Rockin'.)

My top 25:

1. Helpless
2. Needle And The Damage Done
3. Sugar Mountain
4. Down By The River
5. Ohio
6. Cortez The Killer
7. Tell Me Why
8. After The Gold Rush
9. Old Man
10. My My, Hey Hey
11. Hey Hey, My My
12. A Man Needs A Maid
13. I Am A Child
14. Like A Hurricane
15. Long May You Run
16. Cowgirl In The Sand
17. Pocahontas
18. Borrowed Tune
19. Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
20. Tired Eyes
21. Tonight's The Night
22. Comes A Time
23. Love Is A Rose
24. Human Highway
25. Heart Of Gold