Neil Young Birthday Tributes - November 12

"Happiness is the valuable commodity and that's what makes life good."
~~Neil Young
Photo by Matt Furman for The Wall Street Journal
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Happy 73rd Birthday Neil Young!!! Long May You Continue To Run & Run.

Time Flies! A Birthday Thanks
via NYA Times-Contrarian

From 2015's celebration, we have an exclusive interview with author Harvey Kubernik on his new book "Neil Young - Heart of Gold". Details @ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Author Harvey Kubernik on "Neil Young - Heart of Gold" Book on WBKM.org.



Audience sings Neil Young Happy Birthday at end of Vancouver concert, 11/11/2012. Band gives Neil birthday scarf gift.

So. Looking for somewhere to go and celebrate Neil's birthday? Check Neil birthday events around the world.



So Happy Birthday Neil!

Long may you run. It's all just a magical ride. enjoy.

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Neil Young Night - Monday, November 12
Tonight's The Night Because Every Night is Neil Night

With Neil Young's 73nd birthday tomorrow, Monday, November 12th, the Tributes are rolling in from around the world!

Today is Neil Young's birthday so Mark features his favorite Neil covers in Take Immediate Cover today at 4pm. pic.twitter.com/vneoZrPUqv

— SPMC | 103.5 FM | KSUN | KIDS4 (@SPMediaCenter) November 12, 2018

Celebrate Neil Young's birthday with #RubiesInTheDust
Sunday night #WestSeattle @ParliamentWSea
Rock with Norman Baker, Kathy Moore, Gary Westlake, Kent Halvorsen, Scott Goodwin and live painting with Orion#NeilYounghttps://t.co/N9T8L45AJX pic.twitter.com/fwnwRl7oCU

— B Dahlia (@b3dahlia) November 11, 2018

Church of Neil in session at Worthy Brewing: The occasion (not that Bend ever needs an occasion to rock out): Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, activist and entrepreneur Neil Young’s birthday, Nov. 12. Young turns 73 this year, and Bend’s a... https://t.co/Mcdfx6ofEP pic.twitter.com/6X52bgM3iD

— startupcrunch (@startupcrunch) November 8, 2018

Tonight: @Kelly_AnnEvans & Evan Smith 7-10; Rick Lambe & Friends: Rust a Neil Young tribute 10:30-1:30. @OnTheGoCBC @VOCMOpenline @NLLiveEvents @DowntownStJohns @_MusicNL_ @CBCNL @Olivers160 @arts_umbrella @alisonstoodley @visitstjohnsnl @DavidMaherNL pic.twitter.com/jD93IUzgQm

— blacksheepnfld (@blacksheepnfld) November 9, 2018

Happy birthday to Neil Young, born on 12th Nov 1945 pic.twitter.com/2l8mOq36lR

— 188 Classic Rock (@188ClassicRock) November 11, 2018

Next Monday Neil Young celebrates a Birthday! We'll celebrate a little early this weekend on All Request Saturday Night. Request lines open at 7pm sharp. Get your requests in early, we fill up fast.

Our Saturday Night... https://t.co/V0aoYD2U0e

— 94.9 WMMQ (@949WMMQ) November 9, 2018

HARVEST MOON (Neil Young tribute) - Live at Venkman's https://t.co/HAn5aZCMvy

— Venkman's (@VenkmansATL) November 5, 2018

SoCal friends! Shakey Zimmerman and Claude Hopper at the beautiful Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria! A Neil Young Birthday Celebration! Tickets still available. Get them in advance!https://t.co/RhugzuVwVj https://t.co/bHB3QNNDkT

— Shakey Zimmerman (@ShakeyZimmerman) November 8, 2018

TONIGHT! Kevin Renick and Mark Arnold (both of Shakey Deal: Neil Young Tribute Band) will be performing at Imperial Pub and Club with special guest Lisa Jones! There will be a lot of Neil Young tunes, some Classic... https://t.co/sQAc7mqTWu

— Trish Cook (@letsmakemusic21) November 10, 2018

A Neil Young Birthday Tribute
by Ian

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EXCLUSIVE: Lukas Nelson Cover's Neil Young's "Heart Of Gold" | Austin City Limits, November 2018

Here's one that isn't in tonight's @acltv broadcast - a web exclusive solo version of @neilyoung's "Heart Of Gold" - tune in tonight to see the full broadcast on @pbs! https://t.co/nhKnQPnyT3

— Lukas Autry Nelson (@lukasnelson) November 10, 2018

Lukas Nelson cover's Neil Young's "Heart Of Gold" on Austin City Limits, November 2018.

Get a sneak peek of "Find Yourself" from our @acltv debut courtesy of @RollingStone here (and don't miss the broadcast this Saturday November 10th on @PBS!): https://t.co/Zrmop9hjpF

— Lukas Autry Nelson (@lukasnelson) November 9, 2018

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Zuma Beach is Burning: We Are NOT Helpless

Zuma Beach, CA - November 9, 2018
Evacuated llamas tied to an LA County lifeguard stand

The Malibu and Topanga Canyon areas of California are burning.

We're hearing reports that Neil Young's home in the 1970's in Topanga Canyon may have been damaged.

Neil Young's 1970's home in Topanga Canyon

No word on current home in Malibu with his wife Daryl Hannah.

Here's Neil Young's message on his Song of the Day "Helpless":

NYA Song of the Day - "Helpless"

Ominous words and sending all of our best thoughts and prayers westward through the smoke and haze.

Incidentally, ZUMA was released 43 years ago yesterday, November 10.

Give us strength...

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RARE: Neil Young's Roadie Bruce Berry - "Was A Working Man"

Bruce Berry ~1973

Neil Young's Roadie Bruce Berry was immortalized in the song "Tonight's The Night" lyrics:

"Bruce Berry was a working man
He used to load that Econoline van"

In 1973, after the deaths of band mate Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry, Neil Young and his group (dubbed the Santa Monica Flyers) entered the studio with the sole purpose of unloading their grief and having as much fun as possible. The result was the very dark, ragged, loose and powerfully emotional "Tonight's The Night album."

Neil Young's 1975 "Tonight's The Night" is considered to be his 'darkest' album - both literally and figuratively - and the last of the "Ditch Trilogy" (along with Times Fade Away and On The Beach).

Tonight's The Night

The album "Tonight's The Night" explores the depth of Neil's pain over the heroin overdose deaths of Crazy Horse's Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry. Berry was a roadie and was Jan Berry's brother, of Jan and Dean fame. Brother Jan Berry, was living out his own period of 'darkness' after his tragic car accident had ended his own illustrious career and ultimately his life.

"Tonight's The Night" was recorded at Los Angeles' Studio Instrument Rentals (S.I.R.) on Santa Monica Boulevard, which was run by Bruce Berry's other brother Ken, and down they had an innocuous black and gray building that functioned as a rehearsal space.

Neil Young and Santa Monica Flyers
Studio Instrument Rentals, Los Angeles, CA

Fueled by tequila and cheeseburgers, Neil Young's "Tonight's The Night" the album represents a dark chapter in Young's career. Winning almost no acclaim upon its release (that would come years later, as "Tonight's the Night" ranked #331 on Rolling Stone's Top 500 albums of all time in 2003), it did, however, influence numerous artists, including Johnny Rotten (the Sex Pistols) and Wilco. It was so dark and raw that Young's record company, Reprise, delayed its release for two years. Released in mid-1975, "Tonight's The Night" was shelved in favor of On the
Beach. In 1975, Neil was playing his next album, Homegrown, for friends and TTN followed on the reel. Neil decided TTN was better than the still-unreleased Homegrown, and it was released instead.

From a 1995 interview in MOJO Magazine with Neil Young he was asked about the rumor that he tried to produce a Broadway play based on the record:

Neil: "Yeah, we did. The plot was about a roadie who made it and then OD'd on drugs. 'From Roadie To Riches' was the name of it (laughs). For Broadway in 1974 it was a little ahead of its time, as you can imagine. "

Album Credit: "This album was made for Danny Whitten and Bruce Berry who lived and died for Rock and Roll."

Neil Young and Santa Monica Flyers
Roxy, Los Angeles, CA

Old times, were good times...

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"World On A String" - Neil Young + Promise of the REAL - The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York - 9/27/2018

A video of "World On A String" by Neil Young + Promise of the REAL at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York on 9/27/2018.

The lyrics sum up the situation very nicely.

You know I lose, you know I win
You know I call for the shape I'm in.
It's just a game you see me play,
Only real in the way
That I feel from day to day.

Although the answer is not unknown,
I'm searchin', searchin', and how I've grown.
It's not all right to say goodbye,
And the world on a string
Doesn't mean a thing.

No, the world on a string
Doesn't mean a thing.
It's only real in the way
That I feel from day to day.
No, the world on a string
Doesn't mean a thing.

 

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL

Photos by Hounds That Howell

More on Neil Young + Promise of the REAL - The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York - 9/26 & 27/2018 concerts.

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MINI-DOCUMENTARY: Neil Young and The Winnipeg Days | CBC Archives

Here's a mini-documentary from the CBC Archives from 1996 on Neil Young and The Winnipeg Days.


Neil Young - 1967
Also, see The Story Behind Rare 1969 CBC Radio Interview with Neil Young


More on Visiting Neil’s Old Haunts: Neil Young's Winnipeg Hometown by Bill Laing and Neil Young`s Canadian Years by John Einarson.

More on Neil Young's early years explored by Canadian author Sharry Wilson.

Young Neil: The Sugar Mountain Years

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Neil Young as "Westy": Trailer for Film '68 (1988)

Neil Young as "Westy"

Film: '68 (1988)

So you think things are a little bit wild and crazy today?

50 years ago in 1968, the United States was in some serious upheaval. Vietnam, the assassinations of Rev. Martin Luther King followed by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, inner cities in flames.

Here is the Trailer for the film '68, released 20 years after the tumultuous events of 1968. Neil Young played a small role as a biker "Westy" in the 1988 film '68. Neil's single spoken line in the film is included in the trailer below.



The film '68 includes as a backdrop, stock footage scenes of Vietnam, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and the "police riot" at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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