Comment of the Moment: Neil Young Archives | Letter to the Editor: Mailing-List?

"Keep on bloggin'
`Til the power goes out
The batteries dead
Twist and shout"
Neil Young - Fork In The Road (2009)

Obviously, we found the below comment to be highly amusing indeed.

The background is that earlier this week, we posted Neil Young Archives | Letter to the Editor: Mailing-List?, where a Neil Young fan laments the lack of update notifications from NYA directly so he must rely on Thrasher's Wheat to re-direct him to NYA content updates. Beginning to detect our amusement yet???

So Vili, who wrote a Letter to the Editor on Neil Young Archives Times-Contrarian, comes here to TW to respond to this whole episode and hilarity ensues...

From Neil Young Archives | Letter to the Editor: Mailing-List? Vili responds with the TW Comment of the Moment:

Well, this is amusing indeed.

Illustrative of the situation, I would never have seen this NYA post had Thrasher & Thrasherette not posted it here.

As much as I want to support Neil and the archives project, there are just way too many websites in the world to check. And so, I go to none of them, but ask them to come to me. When it comes to Neil Young news, Thrasher's RSS feeds have served me for, what, close to twenty years now? Thank you, guys. Without this website, Neil wouldn't be such a daily part of my life.

Another amusing bit is the little branding exercise that the NYA post is engaged in. Their personal reply to me last month was very kind and friendly. This one is blunt and rock and roll. Which is understandable, but the contrast is quite hilarious.

You ask what role Thrasher's Wheat can play now that NYA is posting their own updates. Well, as I alluded above, as long as NYA's news posts are behind a walled garden and hard to access, they probably get seen by fewer people than Thrasher's "re-hashes" of them. Secondly, while I hope that the NYA website will be here to stay, the reality is that official Neil Young websites have come and gone, while Thrasher's Wheat stays. Your quarter of a century milestone is coming soon.

It is also important that the fan base has an independent outlet for news and discussion. While Thrasher's Wheat itself may not engage in much criticism of Neil's doings, the commenters here have shown to be more than capable of taking care of that aspect, both constructively and in terms of just letting off steam. I have been a lurker for two decades but enjoy reading the discussions.

Thank you, everyone.

Vili

Vili - as you say -- quoting TW and then re-quoting you -- this is amusing indeed. Thanks so much for your support and suggestions!

So round and round we go.

It means so much to us to mean so much to our readers.

From time to time we get a little jolt like this that makes everything we do here @ TW so worthwhile. So nice to hear that even with NYA cranking it out, we're still able to provide the value add.

So we'll consider more closely communications options and coverage tweaks. Hopefully we'll get something going before the next concert runs and tour ticket announcements.

As always, drop us a line anytime. Thrasher's Wheat never sleeps.


The Vista and The Muse
via N Y Times - August 17, 2010
In the meantime, we still see the vista. We still hear the muse. We still continue.

Godspeed. Thank you. Mahalo.
thrasher & thrashette

ps - for more on this subject, see:

• Waging Heavy Wheat: Thank You for Supporting Thrasher's Wheat
• From "Winterlong" to "The Big Shift": The Illusion Shatters
• Keep on Bloggin' in the Free World
• The Secret is Now Out: We've Got A Job To Do
• Some Good News and Not So Good News for Thrasher's Wheat in 2014

pss - Our plan is to continue forward and keep on bloggin' until the power goes out and our battery's dead. Thanks to all of you who support what we do here at Thrasher's Wheat.  Appreciated with all of our hearts.

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