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Neil Young & Promise of the Real perform “Throw Your Hatred Down” at Farm Aid 2019 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin, on September 21.
The Band Start Times Were Running Behind Right From The Start
(and that's ok)
Many thanks to The FarmAidians Paul & Renee for making another Farm Aid 2019 weekend possible!
FarmAidians Say F* Off Monsanto/Bayer!
The FarmAidians & The Magic Bus
See you down that road!
Farm Aid Board: Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young & Dave Matthews
Pre-concert Press Conference
photo by thrashette
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And thanks Willie, Neil, John, Dave & all artists for all you guys do for The Farmers. It was a beautiful day and we're so glad we could be there with everyone. It was a great weekend, with great folks, for a great cause. ☮️♥️
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Willie Nelson
#Willie4Nobel
A campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize for Willie Nelson's Farm Aid work has been launched!
Willie Nelson's efforts for Farm Aid deserve a nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Willie Nelson has been helping family farmers for over 25 years decades and has raised awareness of healthy foods while raising funds for the cause.
Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Dave Matthews joined the Farm Aid Board of Directors in 2001. Farm Aid has raised more than $37 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture. Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land.
John Mellencamp is campaigning to get Willie Nelson a Nobel Peace Prize. The interview took place on SIRIUS XM Willie's Place at Farm Aid 25 in Milwaukee, Wisc.
The YT videos seem to consist of material formerly found exclusively only on Neil Young Archives. The Channel updates appear to be a marketing effort for NYA.
Excitement continues in Rustdale over the major announcement on Neil Young Archives this past weekend of ARCHIVES VOL. II: 1972-1976, scheduled to be released on November 20.
And while much rejoicing after a 11 year gap between NYA Vol #1 & #2, there is also chatter about the dreaded "Greedy Hand" with the inclusion of 3 relatively recent official releases (Roxy, Tuscaloosa, & Homegrown). Similarly back in 2009, there was some fan disappointment with NYA Vol #1 that there were only a few dozen or so unreleased tracks or songs.
I've been a student of Neil's Archives for over 30 years.
That's
probably putting it mildly. There is a single quote from Neil which I
believe summarizes his approach to the Archives Box Set. You'll laugh
when you see how old it is. But I believe it is still relevant today:
"I'd rather be making new music. But I want to set the
record straight as much as I can. Through outtakes and chosen cuts I'm
going to try to bring out more of the feeling that's hidden in those
records. I think I can enhance the experience by putting them all in a
long line, shortening them, and changing them."
– 1989 – The Village Voice.
What Neil is talking about is his Archives Box Set series. Volume One accomplished this, plus also tried to take on the role of an actual Archive, with film, photos, articles etc. This is a major part of why it took so long to release. Now there is the NYA Website to take on the role of the "Physical Archive", but Neil still wants to "set the record straight". And so this brings us to the Vol2 Box, which has reverted from Blu-Ray back to CD.
The Vol1 and Vol2 CDs, when viewed together, are the view that Neil wants to put forth of his career. It is the story he wants to tell in his music. Viewing it like this, you can see the weight he has placed on Homegrown. It had gone from a legendary omission to a standalone disk, not watered down by other outtakes. It's the only disk in discography that he has treated with this much importance. He even broke the strict and maniacal chronology employed on VOL1 to hilight it as a whole piece. Interesting, huh? Just one of the many artistic choices he has made.
In this light, I find it very ODD that Tuscaloosa is a standalone disk in this set, but that is a topic for a later discussion....
LRR - Absolutely. You're definitely "a
student of your history" and all of your insights over the years have
been appreciated by us and so many neil fans around the EARTH.
Back
in 2009, figuring out all the Bluray stuff was quite complicated for so
many. Hopefully this time around, things go smoother.
We'll
never forget those Archives Guy open thread Q&As. The info was
really flowing and that was when neil seemed to get the shift that
collaborating w/ his fans wasn't so bad afterall.
And here we are in the years. For many of us, the avalanche of Neil news is literally bewildering after decades in the dark.
Some one just had a LTE commenting on how lucky we are to be neil fans. So right.
You had a good comment on the previous thread by saying "It wouldn't be Neil if we had it all figured out. "
"He's a perfect stranger Like a cross of himself and a fox He's a feeling arranger And a changer of the ways he talks He's the unforeseen danger The keeper of the key to the locks"
funny. he had himself pegged from Day #1 and never really changed.
thanks again for sharing so much, with so many, for so long.
Neil Young Guitar Signature, Dated Oct 28 1996 - Legit????
Neil Young Signature - Dated Oct 28 1996
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@Neilyoung
I’m an amateur guitar fixit guy in Winnipeg.
Found a guitar in the garbage that looks like it has Neil Young signature on it. Dated Oct 28 1996 (Broken Arrow Tour in Wpg).
Looking to see if this could actually be legit.
Please help.
@gruffandsurly
@NeilYoungNYA@Neilyoung I’m an amateur guitar fixit guy in Winnipeg. Found a guitar in the garbage that looks like it has Neil Young signature on it. Dated Oct 28 1996 (Broken Arrow Tour in Wpg). Looking to see if this could actually be legit. Please help. pic.twitter.com/jwebjpWP4W
After
years spent bubbling beneath the surface, grunge was poised to change
the face of popular music, but it arguably needed someone with some
mainstream bona fides to help it cross over.
Young was almost 45 at the
time of Ragged Glory’s
September 1990 release, old enough where on paper it seemed his time
had passed for leading any sort of musical youth movement. But he was
nonetheless exactly the kind of raunchy, defiant time-tested icon that
could soften up mass audiences to this new sonic shift. To that end, Ragged Glory
wasn’t just the best record Young had put out in more than a decade.
It
arguably served as a catalyst for the impending grunge explosion the
following year.
Jack Nitzsche ,
Neil Young's producer/arranger on the masterpiece "Broken Arrow", has
stated that Crazy Horse was the American equivalent of The Rolling
Stones. IOHO, Crazy Horse is to Neil Young what The Band was to Bob Dylan. As perfect a complement as tequila and salt.