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Friday, November 09, 2012

Neil Young's Hippie Dreams: "Status-quo-disturbing visions" | The Kingston Whig-Standard

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For those who have read Neil Young's new memoir Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream, you know that it is "filled with reminiscences, ideas, idle thoughts and big, status-quo-disturbing visions."

From the review Neil Young's hippie dreams | Entertainment | The Kingston Whig-Standard by Stephen Skyvington:
Instead of giving us the standard tale of excess (sex, drugs and ... you know the rest), or having his story told by a ghostwriter (like Keith Richards), Young opts for telling his own tale, by himself, in his own special way.

Like a man who often looks onstage like he doesn't quite know how to play guitar but somehow pulls it off, the author of Waging Heavy Peace seems at times oddly ill-equipped to write a book. But what a book it is. Filled with reminiscences, ideas, idle thoughts and big, status-quo-disturbing visions, you'll swear you're watching a movie instead of reading a book - which is hardly surprising, given Young's affinity and genuine enthusiasm for film.

...
The book ends with two unforgettable, uplifting chapters. In one, the author describes how he came to write and record one of his most endearing and enduring songs, Will to Love. Suffice to say that if you ever wanted to know how an artist creates a work of art, then you need to read this.

The other chapter - the 68th and last in the book - is as moving a piece of writing as you'll ever encounter. The last paragraph, in particular, is almost Joycean in its reach, and ranks with any song Neil Young has ever written. Rip Van Winkle meets Back to the Future.

Check it out.
Thanks Stephen!

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11 Comments:

At 11/09/2012 05:57:00 PM, Blogger Roger said...

Nice. Indeed the book ends in a transcendent note, moving beyond the remembrances and into the realm of the muse and the spiritual.

R

 
At 11/09/2012 09:54:00 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

The book should of been called Will to Love.My favorite song from the very first album I bought from NY.Back in '99 at a meet and greet in Houston I asked him why he never played that song.Never answered just smiled.
WHP gave me such a wonderful feeling after reading it.Just like I had after listening to RNS for the first time.Like all if his greatest albums WHP is something you can enjoy over and over.

 
At 11/10/2012 10:02:00 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Curious. Did any of you buy the signed copy and, did you open it?

 
At 11/10/2012 11:55:00 AM, Anonymous susanmiller555@yahoo.com said...

Wish i had a signed copy! but i won my copy i could not believe it!!! I almost cried as it has great meaning to me. I emediatly picked it up and started to read for ehich its very hard to put down!!!!!

 
At 11/10/2012 05:05:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

My review:

A book by Neil Young about being Neil Young.

(and I am enjoying it immensly !)

 
At 11/12/2012 12:53:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

My two cents after reading WHP is that Neil doesn't seem to have learned much at all about genuine human spirituality in his 60+ years of living...

I know I will be attacked for saying this but oh well...

He admits to being a "material guy"...

Yes he talks about the Great Spirit and his attachment to it...that is not the same thing...

Many artistic genuises are quite clueless regarding life matters not related to their gifts...

As I closed the book, I was quite sad for Neil that he is content to be a shallow pagan...

It's so interesting that for all his reverence for nature and its healing powers and beauty, etc. - he never ONCE offers even a fainting curiosity as to how this Earth got here...

Yet Prairie Wind gives me hope that deep down, Neil KNOWS there is a God - perhaps he'll come around to admitting it someday...

 
At 11/12/2012 06:11:00 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

Why does he have to believe in "God"? I respect him more for not believing.

 
At 11/12/2012 09:05:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

uhhhh...
Hi dean but I never said he didn't believe in God
and go listen to Prairie Wind then get back to me

 
At 11/12/2012 11:02:00 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

No, but you said, " I was quite sad for Neil that he is content to be a shallow pagan..." I found it more interesting that he considers himself Pagan and the views he has. Having "faith" offers no answers.

 
At 11/15/2012 12:39:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

lol Dean...faith offers all of the answers...that's what the very definition of faith is...it's knowing you don't have any answers to anything but trusting/believing anyway...

Another item that I took away from WHP comes from the story about Neil finally getting a green card for $5,000...

Neil writes with passion that "capitalism rocks!" and how capitalism saved him, etc.

Yet like most clueless liberals, he blindly endorsed the most rabidly anti-capitalist individual America has ever seen run for - let alone become President - Baraka Soetoro Obama.

sad...

 
At 11/15/2012 01:24:00 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

If you accept there are no answers, a god is redundant.

 

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