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David Crosby: “There’s a reason for CSNY being as good as it is.
The main one that comes to mind is the fact of having each other’s material to juxtapose our tunes with. It makes everything much stronger. A Neil Young song sounds better after a David Crosby song than it does after another Neil Young song. Technically it works, emotionally it works, and in terms of balancing each other it’s a hugely more workable thing. Neil, on his own, has a great deal of trouble externalizing and coming out to an audience. He’ll tend to just get rigid and go inside himself. Stephen too. That’s not my way, obviously.
The stage is my backyard. I’m completely unintimidated by it. I love it. I can talk to eight million people without even getting a frog in my throat. But then again, I can’t play guitar like Stephen or Neil.”
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If everything follows according to the schedule, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young will begin work this month on their first studio album since Déjà Vu. Tentatively titled Human Highway, the album will be preceded by a greatest hits package to be called So Far. Crosby is particularly fascinated by the fact that Neil young withdrew “Human Highway,” at one time the title track of the LP he wound up calling On The Beach, from his own record so that it could grace the CSNY reunion album.
“That was a very strange thing for him to do,” he says, shaking his head. “Neil is a very self-orientated man. He seldom acts against his own self-interest. And yet he did take that song, and a few others ["Tonight's The Night" and "New Mama"], and gave them to the group. It was a very, very heavy thing for him to do. It blew my mind. He’s got a lot of songs, but those are gems. I thought that was an enormous sign of everything we were looking for in each other.
Affection, respect . . . partnership. That’s what it’s all about.
That’s what we’re all about. I honestly believe we’re not gonna lose our way this time around.”
Fascinating how much and how little has changed in 40 years.
So what do you think? Do you think Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young will tour together in 2014?
"Crazy Horse" by John Trudell - The Original Video
Here's a little something different, but keeping with a current theme of respecting Mother Earth.
It's a compelling video titled "Crazy Horse" by John Trudell, a spoken word musician/poet.
Trudell dedicates the video:
To those who have gone on before us.
Wounded Knee Massacre December 29, 1890.
Lest we forget
The more people that are touched by the spirit of this video the better. Sharing work is good medicine providing you honour the creator (in both senses).
Crazy Horse
We Hear what you say
One earth one mother
One does not sell the earth
The people walk upon
We are the land
How do we sell our mother
How do we sell the stars
How do we sell the air
Crazy Horse
We hear what you say
Too many people
Standing their ground
Standing the wrong ground
Predators face he possessed a race
Possession a war that doesn't end
Children of god feed on children of earth
Days people don't care for people
These days are the hardest
Material fields material harvest
decoration on chains that binds
Mirrors gold the people lose their minds
Crazy Horse
We Hear what you say
One earth one mother
One does not sell the earth
The people walk upon
We are the land
Today is now and then
Dream smokes touch the clouds
On a day when death didn't die
Real world time tricks shadows lie
Red white perception deception
Predator tries civilising us
But the tribes will not go without return
Genetic light from the other side
A song from the heart our hearts to give
The wild days the glory days live
Crazy Horse
We Hear what you say
One earth one mother
One does not sell the earth
The people walk upon
We are the land
How do we sell our mother
How do we sell the stars
How do we sell the air
Crazy Horse
We hear what you say
Crazy Horse
We hear what you say
We are the seventh generation
We are the seventh generation
John Trudell spoken word
Quiltman Traditional Vocals
Mark Shark slide guitar and percussion
Ricky Eckstein Keyboards and percussion
Billy Watts Electric guitar
On a more mundane note, we've learned that a "director's cut" of Neil Young's film Human Highway has been under consideration for a possible future release.
But here's why we're posting this now -- there has to be a better way to produce energy. And we need to get on with it.
The 1982 film Human Highway by Neil Young portrays the Earth's last day following a nuclear holocaust. Original movie posters referred to it as a "nuclear comedy" and filming began soon after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and continued over four years with Young spending $3,000,000 of his own money on production (source).
The film is considered a cult classic somewhat similar to the legendary Journey Through the Past and has been described as "if David Lynch directed "The Wizard of Oz on acid." (If you're lucky, you might find a used copy of Human Highway on Amazon.)
"It's so bad, it's going to be huge" proudly declared the poster .
Neil Young's 1982 comic mess of a feature left many faithful fans baffled and was otherwise unappreciated at the time of its release. But with the benefit of hindsight and shifts in pop culture in the last couple of decades, much of Human Highway now feels warm and funny where it once looked disastrously undisciplined.
DEVO Gets Nuked
The plot revolves around a small gas station-diner in a fictional town next to a nuclear power plant. A choreographed musical dream sequence takes place as the nuclear blast occurs. At the destroyed gas station-diner post nuclear holocaust Booji Boy (DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh) is a lone survivor.
At the nuclear power plant, trash collectors (members of DEVO) reveal that radioactive waste is routinely mishandled and dumped at the nearby town of Linear Valley. They sing a remake of "Worried Man Blues" while loading waste barrels on an old truck. There's a leak at the power plant and "Barrel go boom," as the power plant worker so succinctly puts it. A character's (Otto) recent death is by radiation poisoning.
A noted sequence in the film features the band DEVO (named after "de-evolution") and a bizarre rendition of "Hey, Hey, My, My". In a particularly ironic manner, DEVO covers Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In the Wind" just before Booji Boy says:
I don't know what's going on in the world these days.
It seems that everybody's just got everything turned around.
People don't seem to care about their fellow man. They're all going for that big ice-cream cone in the sky! They haven't figured out what happens when your eyes get bigger then your belly. Like an ostrich who eats his pizza with his head stuck in the sand. If they can't see it, it isn't there.
And you know, it really *does* take a worried man!
I come down from the misty mountain
I got lost on the human highway
Take my head refreshing fountain
Take my eyes from what they've seen.
Take my head and change my mind
How could people get so unkind?
~~Neil Young
At the Farm Aid 2013 press conference, Neil Young made some impassioned comments about climate change and our farmers.
In this clip, Neil Young states that "Farmers are on the front lines of Climate Change."
Ultimately, we're all on the front lines of Climate Change and farmers are the canary in the coal mine.
We realize that many support these comments about farmers and climate change. Others do not.
And for those who do not believe that climate change is a reality, before commenting, please consider this. Super Typhoon Haiyan which just hit the Philippines was one of the strongest storms ever in modern history -- on the planet. Last year, we had Super Storm Sandy.
Super Typhoon Haiyan
How many more devastating super storms do we have to have to convince you climate change is a reality?
Happy Birthday Neil Young!!! Long May You Continue To Run
Pegi Young & The Survivors w/ Neil Young
Johnny D's - Boston, MA - 9/11/13
Photo by Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff
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Neil Young is 68 years young today. So Happy Birthday Neil!!!
2013 has been another amazing year for Neil.
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 on our Facebook | Thrasher's Wheat page.
In honor of Neil's birthday, WBKM.org will be hosting a celebration tonight. It's WBKM's birthday, as well, so if you're in Burlington, VT area, check it out.
So Happy Birthday Neil!
Long may you run. It's all just a magical ride. enjoy.
namaste
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