A Note From "The Proprietor"

If you've been following some of the recent threads here on Thrasher's Wheat, you will be aware that things are really heating up as we prepare for the summer tour.

So much so that readers are threatening to leave the site -- or already have abandoned ship. Obviously, an unfortunate situation. 

Thanks to Dan for stepping in with some calming words:

For those who have spoken about leaving this site, I urge you to reconsider. 

We are living during a very difficult time, and there is much division. This country is experiencing a crisis, and we need to find ways to deal with the struggles and fear that many of us are experiencing.

If we stop engaging with each other then we will simply grow farther apart, and that is the opposite of what needs to happen.

Yes, this is a Neil Young appreciation site, and that is at least one thing we can all share in common. And Neil has always been an activist for change. Don’t let the current predicament we are facing separate us from each other.

Peace

A timely suggestion. 

Hopefully the dialogs here are doing more good than harm. As you say, once the talking stops, the shooting starts. Many are hell bent on making this go hot and kinetic. As someone casually dropped on us long ago, "TW [NY] is like a flower stuck in the gun barrel of the MIC".

From the "proprietors" perspective, one of the many lessons we've learned over the years, is that if you don't have the time or patience to be crystal clear, don't even bother.

As much as we would love for every post to be carefully crafted down the last syllable and every comment carefully considered from every angle, we just can't.

So clearly we've been quite careless here. Anyone who has known us and this site would be shocked to see these accusations leveled. In fact, we're kind of surprised by the level of blowback from regulars who presumably wouldn't be coming here year after year if this ideology is what the site supported.

Attempting to be clear here, but we have made a concerted effort in recent years to stick as much as we can to the "Neil facts". As in, quote the man directly and abstain from editorializing. Again, broke the rule on this post.

At the moment, we continue to work on the long overdue re-launch of TW in what very little spare time we have.

As we head into the summer tour and Farm Aid 40, we're already considering 2026. 2026 will be the 30th anniversary of TW. Our plan is to make it to 2026 and operationalize the re-launch to sustain TW well into the future.

peace 

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