As you may be aware, 2026 marks the 30th Anniversary of Thrasher’s Wheat and we're celebratin' our rockin' & bloggin' in the free world.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert Tour
Koln, Germany, July 2013
White House, Washington, DC - 2013
The Arkansas Girls
Berlin, Germany Concert: Neil Young + Promise of the Real - July 21, 2016
Growl Sporting a Thrasher's Wheat 20th Anniversary Shirt
London Concert of Neil Young + Promise of the Real, June 11, 2016
London Concert of Neil Young + Promise of the Real, June 11, 2016
Helsinki, Finland Concert: Neil Young + Promise of the Real - July 3, 2016
Celebrating Mark's Mom's 92nd Birthday
w/ Road RasCal Lilly
Niecette Kristen On The Beach
Virginia Beach, VA - August 2016
Alan Flying the TW Colors in Boise - 2016
PARADOX Film Scene Location - Telluride Colorado
w/ Hounds That Howell & Shaka Geoff
Down by the Waterfall
Henrik Flying the TW Colors in Berlin
Neil Young + Promise of The Real - Waldbühne, Berlin, Germany - July 3, 2019
FarmAidians Renee & Paul
Flying The Colors -
From The MountainTops to the Fields of Wheat:
Thrasher's Wheat Crew @
MOUNTAINTOP Film Premiere in Washington DC - 2019
Thrasher's Wheat Crew @
MOUNTAINTOP Film Premiere in Washington DC - 2019
w/ "Brother Alan in Seattle" - 2024
The McQ Family in Dewey Beach, Delaware - 9/16
Down by the Corner (Somewhere between The Land of OZ & Greendale)
Flying The Colors: Thrasher's Wheat 20th Anniversary Shirts
Telluride, Colorado, October 1, 2016
Photo by Expecting To Fly
w/ Usher Karen
Don Henley - Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA, 9/7/16
w/ TW Tour Manager Hounds That Howell
Don Henley - Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA, 9/7/16
Elke A. at Leipzig, 07-20-2016
Neil Young + Promise of the Real
July 20 - Germany, Leipzig, Völkerschlachtdenkmal Open Air
Photo by Ralf @ rusted-moon
Helsinki, Finland Concert: Neil Young + Promise of the Real - July 3, 2016
Maui, Hawaii
Ron "Love and Only Love"
On The Road Again ... Somewhere!
Our little box at the top of the stairs
thrashers @ TW HQ w/ NYA Vol#2
--> O'Neills <-- Pub - Dublin, Ireland (so appropriate named!)
w/ Mary and Dave Fallon
w/ Finland Friends
Blossom Music Center @ Cuyahoga Falls - August 15, 2025
Thrasher's Wheat 20th Anniversary: 1996 - 2016
Paris - 2013
thrashers @ TW HQ ... Just Waiting on a Stream ...
LIVESTREAM TODAY: Neil Young + Promise of the Real - Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, Ireland - 14 July 2019
Photo by TW Tour Manager Hounds That Howell
Pledge your support if you can, as 2026 marks the 30th Anniversary of Thrasher’s Wheat and we're celebratin' our rockin' & bloggin' in the free world.
Be The Comraderie (with a Thrasher's Wheat T-shirt)!
Still separating the wheat from the chaff...
Thrasher's Wheat 30th Anniversary: 1996 - 2026
Design by Silver Moon Art & Design
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I am very excited about the T shirt for the big anniversary!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! Great post!
Hooray for Thrasher’s Wheat! What a cool place in cyber space! What a legacy!
I love the pics of all of us who fly the TW T- flag!
Your Brother Alan in Seattle
From what I understand, these T shirts do not bring a profit at all to Thrasher. Last time it actually cost him money!
ReplyDeleteBuy a shirt, but also please consider donating money to Thrasher’s Wheat for bandwidth & costs incurred.
Whatever you can do to help pay our way, Thanks to Thrasher & the ever supportive & patient (I am sure) Thrashette!
PayPal donation link on TW Home Screen right side.
TW is a rusted out bastion of Free Speech in a cyber world where there is little of that to be found.
Neil Young fans we are.
We can talk about Neil Young’s Art, his words, his Art, his huge mountain of audio treasure, our love of his Art….
At TW we discuss deeply important things here, like Love & War, Living With War, Vampire Blues, Revolution Blues, For What It’s Worth, Ohio, Southern Man, Throw Your Hatred Down, It’s an Angry World, Don’t Forget Love, Love & Only Love, ok, Peace & Love! And everything else except for the kitchen sink? 😁
Thank you for supporting TW from & for all of us who love it & live it! Hard core fans or merely serious fans 😁 -that also means all of us! Even the semi serious & even the curious fans frequent this page.
Thrasher’s Wheat is perhaps the coolest place on the internet, along with NYA!
Sugar Mountain is right up there too! Facebook NY fandom I have not used much.
All the Neil that’s fit to print, right here. I don’t want to raise a ruckus, but one can even “get lucky” 🍀 here at TW!
I have heard about crucial tiny shows in the Neil-related such as Micah Nelson & Particle Kid! Reasonable low ticket prices!
I heard a tip about $30 seats for the NY & C Hs show at Hollywood Bowl. My family of 4 got to hit it with some cheap plane tix (not TW related). What a coup! Got to meet up with Knowledge Nomad. What a great show that was.
And we were surrounded in every side by peeps who paid $100-$200 more than us. It was a fluke, but magic is real. Rock & Roll matters. Live music matters. And I am damn glad to have been a Neil a young fan all of these decades of life! And to meet up with y’all, in person & otherwise, it has been a sweet ride. And we ain’t done yet.
Live music is better! Studio music is also where dreams in song are constructed & take flight. Albums are born.
Neil Young has made the world a better place & so has Thrasher! Much obliged!
Your Brother Alan in Seattle
Thanks Brother Alan for the support over the years. Your Neil passion is so passionate.
ReplyDeleteRight, this shirt business is not a fund raiser. We just try and break even. Anything extra is given away as freebies or donations to Bridge, Farm Aid, etc.
There is so much music I love, so many bands & artists. Variety is the spice of life. Neil Young has proven to me, in live performances & on LPs, that he was the single most compelling of them all. He is worth paying attention to!
DeleteHe was a shape shifter, sings like an angel, killed it on electric, & acoustic. Wrote terrific & numerous songs!
Songs which allowed my heart to take flight. Sonic… Freedom. So ya, I saw hundreds of shows but tops was Neil, about 25 x. Neil always put on the best shows. His singing voice gave him an advantage over some other legendary poet songwriters, who I also love very much.
Since my real Neil beginnings in 88 he has delivered so many great shows, masterpiece albums, many very good albums, from the past. He was a shape shifter, and a maverick environmentalist, which reinforced my interest.
Neil Young is… worthy of this blog! I would ignore him if I didn’t love his music so damn much!
I love you brother. Such an honor to have my photo up there twice!
Reference earlier to “our” blog was meant to convey community in our enjoyment of TW! I am not declaring partial ownership TW! (Yet! Maybe after I take Greenland).
Your Brother Alan in Seattle
Picked up a copy of As Time Explodes at a local record store. Happy RSD to all who celebrate. Now I just need to get the turntable fixed so I can give it a spin.
ReplyDeleteI bought a few too many albums recently prior to RSD that I stayed away. But I buy more CDs anyway.
DeleteI hope to see you again at a wicked good show in LA down the road.
Best wishes, keep on commenting. Peace be upon you, and us all, brother.
Your Brother Alan in Seattle
I think Neil said it’s gonna be in Greedy Hand store soon?
DeleteDoes anyone know how fun and good Cracker is . Lowery has 5 great songs 16 good ones and 10 OK. Do you know how easy to write a OK song, Impossible so ya. Get crackin mate . Let's see what's what's
ReplyDeleteEasier to be a critic than an artist!
Delete@wsanjose01 I'm a lifelong CVB fan. Sorry I missed their CVB/Cracker Campout at Pappy and Harriet's last fall, as I since learned CVB members are strewn across Australia, North America, and Europe, so the chances they perform together again are slim. Always were fantastic live.
DeleteCracker does sound like a great band, & funny. Great, another band I gotta pay attention to! Leave it to the Neil Young fan to have good taste in music. Like Knowledge Nomad, Thrasher, & all y’all!
DeleteYour Brother Alan in Seattle
I recall the days of cds and “Hidden tracks”. This reminds me of a cracker cd I had been listening to & I thought had ended when the display read track 69 & “Euro Trash Girl “ live! started playing. Easily, the best track on that cd. Gotta see if I can find it…
DeleteThanks everyone for your pledges of support. We continue to be humbled by the love of our community.
ReplyDeleteYour support is very much appreciated and we're excited about the anniversary celebration.
Our Pledge Drive continues. If you haven't already pledged yet, please do so as soon as you can. If we do not receive sufficient pledges, we'll be unable to complete the project.
We do want to make sure that everyone who wants to support TW is able to do so. We need a minimum number of pledges in order to move to order and production stages. We would like to complete Pledge Drive by end of April, Ordering in May, Production in June, and Shipment in July.
So let your freak flag fly & don't be denied!
Meanwhile, we'll still be separating the wheat from the chaff...
#KORITFW
My my, hey hey…Thrashers Wheat is here to stay! (I just made that up, like impressive, I know!) Happy to be among many of the memories. Let’s get on the road, again…and again!
ReplyDeleteSponsored by no one. Neil approved.
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