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Heading out to where the pavement turns to sand ...
"It was then I knew I'd had enough
Burned my credit card for fuel
Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand
With a one-way ticket to the land of truth
And my suitcase in my hand
How I lost my friends I still don't understand"
Twist and shout. Fork in the Road and all of that, you know.
So this all seems like a good time to get away somewhere nice and warm; somewhere where the pavement turns to sand. And -- more importantly -- work on our tans, unplug from the sea of madness, and declutter our minds and souls.
(Incidentally, this resonated with us. Insert standard disclaimer here.)
In the meantime, all of you oh-so wonderful rustie grains and friends out there, seek only the wheat. No chaff. Please promise. Because the winnowing is the hardest part. [NOTE: wheat = truth; chaff = false; winnowing = disCERNment ]
Like a smoke ring day when the wind blows,
we won't be back till later on, if we do come back at all ...
But you know us, and we'll miss you now ...
peace & love, thrasher and thrashette
ps - And an early Happy Valentine's Day to our Heart of Gold, Thrashette. I love you!
"Stand For Peace" by Neil Young (Frame from Official Music Video)
UPDATED
Neil Young released an official music video on Thanksgiving Day titled "Stand For Peace".
"Stand For Peace" is an instrumental of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" on electric guitar, similar to Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. The video is directed by Young's wife Daryl Hannah.
Before moving into some background onto background on Neil Young's longtime position on war and peace, a comment earlier by Dan:
@ The Metamorphic Rocker : You are not alone in your thinking. The words you have written are logical, and well thought out. [See comment here by Meta Rocker] I just wanted you to know that I understand your position completely, and support your views wholeheartedly.
If we could all somehow just get past the ’Us Against Them’ mentality, and see each other as the same species, then perhaps we could make this world a better place. Until then we are sadly doomed to repeat history time and time again.
If the human race could finally understand just how much better off ‘everyone’ would be if we were able to consolidate our efforts together, then there would be no one going hungry, or homeless. Or die because they can’t afford health insurance. Everyone could be free to express themselves without judgment, or persecution. Instead of ‘don’t tread on me’ we could embrace ‘don’t tread on anyone’. Then maybe life on earth wouldn’t be so damn dangerous.
We are one of the only species on earth that hunts itself….for their own gain.
Greed kills, and as Dylan once sang…. Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
If there was ever an artist to which the label "anti-war" sticks, it would
be Neil Young.
Over 50 years since "Ohio" and Kent State, the tin soldiers are still marching onwards toward war.
Except this time, not just some random regional conflict to keep the
War Machine primed, but full on discussion and encouragement to get a
full blown World War #3 going.
With military madness continuing to kill our countries, what's the average citizen of the world to do?
Obviously, we're Still Living With War -- both in our minds and hearts -- because it's all just deja vu, all over again and again and again ...
In a 2008 article on Who Got Iraq Right? by Greg Mitchell and Tom Engelhardt, they include Neil Young and his album Living With War as an alternative voice for:
"... exposing the criminal nature of, and the many costs
of, the Iraq war that have emerged from an "alternative" universe that
includes former war correspondents, reporters for small newspapers or
news services, comedians, aging rock 'n rollers, and bloggers, among
others. "
As Neil Young has stated: "History is a cruel judge of overconfidence."
Neil Young Signs "PEACE"
So more "Shock And Awe" coming everyone's way again?
Once completing the album Living With War in 2007, Neil Young played the album for his label Reprise and than
immediately gave a live interview to CNN. For many fans, this was Neil
at his finest -- speaking truth to power.
So did "Living With War" become the rock equivalent to the film "Fahrenheit 9/11"? For critics, it seemed to be the case.
"CSNY DEJA VU" Film Poster - 2008
Part performance, part documentary and commentary, the film CSNY Déjà Vu is a call to peace and remains relevant today. Because if we
ignore the lessons of history, we do so at our peril.
From album "Living With War", the title track's lyrics continue their prescient revelations on today's times.
Neil Young - 2016
[ Try to remember peace (visualize)
]
"I join the multitudes
I raise my hand in peace
I never bow to the laws of the thought police
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
To never kill again
I'm living with war in my heart
I'm living with war in my heart and my mind
I'm living with war right now"
In 2016, Neil Young released the album "Peace Trail".
Neil Young: "Peace Trail" - 2016
Track Listing: Neil Young's "Peace Trail" - 2016
(note title of Track #6)
Even though when Neil Young sings about peace and love and war he admits that he doesn't "really know what I'm saying" and while "Just singing a song won't change the world", it certainly has proven to be a good starting point at least.
Pete Townshend shared some interesting thoughts about Neil Young in an interview in 2022 with Rolling Stone Magazine by Andy Greene as pondered by Otis Gibbs. (Thanks Bob G.!)
Pete Townshend: "If you go on YouTube, you’re likely to hear Neil Young at the Bridge
School wailing away with his old Gretsch with a voice like an old lady.
What we don’t know is that he’s written some of the most beautiful songs
that have ever been written, and also some of the most rocking. That’s
true of Joni as well."
More on Pete Townshend and Neil Young's musical intersections @
Marcus Mumford: “Neil Young sat me down about 10 years ago and told me the importance
of recorded music and that I should pay more
attention to the way in which we record because I was always [like],
‘Ah, it’s just an advert for a live show.’
He was like, ‘No man, these
things last.'”
I felt like on this record, I listened to that
[advice]. I paid closer attention to the way it sounded than anything
I’d ever done before.”
Check this clip from 1967 Monterey Pop Festival of The Byrds.
The Byrds - "He Was a Friend of Mine" (Live at 1967 Monterey Pop Festival)
In the above clip, David Crosby makes a very brief statement about the John F. Kennedy assassination and then plays the Byrds song "He Was a Friend of Mine".
David Crosby: “They’re shooting this for television.
I’m sure they’re going to edit
this out. I want to say it anyway, even though they will edit it out.
When President Kennedy was killed, he was not killed by one man. He was
shot from a number of different directions, by different guns.
The story
has been suppressed, witnesses have been killed, and this is your
country, ladies and gentlemen.”
"He Was A Friend Of Mine"
He was a friend of mine, he was a friend of mine
His killing had no purpose, no reason or rhyme
He was a friend of mine
He was in Dallas town, he was in Dallas town
From a sixth floor window a gunner shot him down
He was in Dallas town
He never knew my name, he never knew my name
Though I never met him I knew him just the same
Oh he was a friend of mine
Leader of a nation for such a precious time
He was a friend of mine
David Crosby: “Thank you. As I say, they will censor it I’m sure. They can’t afford to
have things like that on the air. It’d blow their image.”
Due to Crosby’s controversial statement about the JFK assassination, the Byrds' Monterey performance was cut from television and film coverage of the festival. It was this incident and similar circumstances which led to Crosby leaving the Byrds and eventually forming CSN.
Jackie Reaching for JFK's Brains "If Lee Harvey Oswald's shots came from the behind (above left), why are JFK's brains on the rear trunk? (front, right)"
"Live Music Is Better": The Great Guitars @ The Birchmere — 5/3/22
The Great Guitars:
John Jorgenson, Martin Taylor & Frank Vignola
The Birchmere, Alexandria, Virginia - May 3, 2022
(photos by thrashette - Click photo to enlarge)
As you know, last year, we had a rather life changing event occur where we can truly say that"The Music Saved Our Lives"-- both seriously and literally.
Earlier this week ( 5/3/22), we caught The Great Guitars: John Jorgenson, Martin Taylor & Frank Vignola at The Birchmere in
Alexandria, Virginia and it was well, great -- just as advertised. Great not just
because we were simply enjoying live music with our new friends but because
we got something we always consider a treat ... a call out by the artists onstage.
The short story is that thrashette is long time fan of The Great Guitarist Martin Taylor. When thrashette called out Martin's name at the beginning of the show, Martin looked out and asked who was that?, thrashette identified herself, and, well, it then became almost a personal concert for our dear thrashette sitting at the front table seat directly at Martin's knees.
Martin Taylor
Hence, the "album cover" pose from stage photo for thrashette above!
So we're just glad, fortunate and blessed to be able to go a few
miles down the road to a splendid music venue that respects both the artists and the audiences
and enjoy live music with our dear friends.
So let the music continue to flow unrestricted and freely to all across the lands in the summer of 2022!!!
From the TW Vaults, here is a post from 2012, "Riding the Dark Horse: What Neil Young Taught Me About Autism and Fear" by Hannah Brown.
In her essay, Brown blogs about how Neil Young's song "Tell Me Why" from the album After the Gold Rush, helped her through a difficult period with her son's autism.
One day I was driving home when I got a very distressing phone call from
Danny's school.
He had had a terrible tantrum and still wasn't calm. I
wondered how I would cope with him when he got home. We had just moved
and I was finishing the final edits on my novel, If I Could Tell You,
about four mothers raising children just diagnosed with autism. I
couldn't help feeling frustrated that I had immersed myself in writing a
book about autism, yet my son was still having such a difficult time.
It was as if all my knowledge and experience wasn't enough to help
Danny. After the conversation, I put on a Neil Young CD, After the Gold Rush,
which I had just found in a box I had unpacked that morning. I hadn't
listened to it in years. I heard the first song, "Tell Me Why," which
contains the lyrics "Still the searcher/Must ride the dark horse/Racing
alone in his fright," and a light went on for me.
I pulled over, crying.
Because then I understood what it was like for that dark horse, how
terrible and intense his fear was.
We parents are the searchers and we
can't give up, no matter how rough a ride it is.
"Live Music Is Better": Cowboy Junkies @ The Birchmere — 4/10/22
Cowboy Junkies
The Birchmere, Alexandria, Virginia - April 10, 2022
(photo by TW - Click photo to enlarge)
As you know, last year, we had a rather life changing event occur where we can truly say that"The Music Saved Our Lives"-- both seriously and literally.
Last night ( 4/10/22), we caught Cowboy Junkies at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia and it was fab. Fab not just
because we were simply enjoying live music with our friends but because we got something we always consider treat ... a Neil Young cover.
Cowboy Junkies covered Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" off their latest album of covers "Songs of the Recollection". (Album also includes cover of Neil's "Love In Mind", also. More details here.) Lead singer Margo Timmins introduced the previous cover by Gordon Lightfoot as the "King of Canadian Folk Music". The intro for Neil's DLIBYD was in a similar laudatory vein for the Canadian singer songwriter.
So we're just glad, fortunate and blessed to be able to go a few
miles down the road to a splendid music venue that respects both the artists and the audiences
and enjoy live music with our dear friends.
So let the music continue to flow unrestricted and freely to all across the lands in the summer of 2022!!!
Which, of course -- and surprisingly -- generated a fair amount of discussion about the situation. It would be impossible to try and summarize here, so we encourage anyone interested in world peace to check the thread comments.
These songs are, to me anyway, flat
our brilliant because they face the nihilism. The frustration and rage
and sadness that engulf the album are born from the wall of nothingness
that is US policy. We have forgotten (perhaps) just how stupid and
unjustified it was to attack Iraq (the second time around at least). But
forget details at this point. The same wall of nothingness takes place
in the fight over the environment: nothing gets done because it does not
motivate.
What has happened now is belligerence is living happily with
ignorance and narcissism.
Thanks, as always Abner, for your carefully chosen thoughts and words here during these volatile times.
Again, this CotM was snipped from a wide ranging conversation that is impossible to summarize, so we encourage anyone interested in the subject of world peace to check the thread comments.
Btw, this
week's Thrasher's Wheat Radio 2.0 episode features our Special Guest Davy from Scotland who
discusses the connections between albums Deja Vu and Living With War amidst the
backdrop of ongoing global unrest. Check it out.
And judging by the beat of the war drums, it looks like we'll soon have another kinetic war front open up in Ukraine, eastern Europe and likely elsewhere, very, very sadly.
If there was ever an artist to which the label anti-war sticks, it would be Neil Young. Over 50 years since "Ohio" and Kent State, the tin soldiers are still marching onwards toward war. Except this time, not just some random regional conflict to keep the War Machine primed, but full on discussion and encouragement to get a full blown World War #3 going.
"THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE NEED TO STAND UP FOR HUMANITY and
let the whole world know who they really are."
With military madness continuing to kill our countries, what's the average citizen of the world to do?
Obviously, we're Still Living With War -- both in our minds and hearts -- because it's all just deja vu, all over again and again and again ...
In a 2008 article on Who Got Iraq Right? by Greg Mitchell and Tom Engelhardt, they include Neil Young and his album Living With War as an alternative voice for:
"... exposing the criminal nature of, and the many costs
of, the Iraq war that have emerged from an "alternative" universe that
includes former war correspondents, reporters for small newspapers or
news services, comedians, aging rock 'n rollers, and bloggers, among
others. "
As Neil Young has stated: "History is a cruel judge of overconfidence."
Neil Young Signs "PEACE"
More "Shock And Awe" coming our way.
Once completing the album Living With War in 2007, Neil Young played the album for his label Reprise and than
immediately gave a live interview to CNN. For many fans, this was Neil
at his finest -- speaking truth to power.
(This is still an amazing clip some 15+ years later)
So did "Living With War" become the rock equivalent to the film "Fahrenheit 9/11"? For critics, it seemed to be the case.
"CSNY DEJA VU" Film Poster - 2008
Part performance, part documentary and commentary, the film CSNY Déjà Vu is a call to peace and remains relevant today. Because if we
ignore the lessons of history, we do so at our peril.
From album "Living With War", the title track's lyrics continue their prescient revelations on today's times. so, carry on.
[Try to remember peace (visualize)
]
"I join the multitudes
I raise my hand in peace
I never bow to the laws of the thought police
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
To never kill again
I'm living with war in my heart
I'm living with war in my heart and my mind
I'm living with war right now"
And we'll probably do this again in 2032 ... if only ... at the least, for our "Families".
peace
UPDATE: This
week's Thrasher's Wheat Radio episode features our Special Guest Davy from Scotland who
discusses the connections between albums Deja Vu and Living With War amidst the
backdrop of ongoing global unrest.
Thrasher's Wheat Radio 2.0 Vodcast/Podcast - Episode #14
Earlier this month, we caught Son Volt at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia on March 2, 2022 and it was pretty stupendous. Stupendous mainly because we were simply enjoying live music by one of what we consider to be just about the 2nd most influential musician that we've had the pleasure to enjoy over the decades to watch and grow -- Jay Farrar.
Many know Jay Farrar as a member of Uncle Tupelo, the band which spawned the whole No Depression/alt-rock-country movement of the 90's. The implosion of Uncle Tupelo led to Jeff Tweedy spinning off to form Wilco and Farrar forming Son Volt. The rest is history, as they say.
At The Birchmere on March 2, the top half of the set included the first four tracks from Electro Melodier:
“The Globe,” which opened the set, “Arkey Blue,” “Diamonds and
Cigarettes,” and “Reverie.” “The Globe” was followed by “The 99,” a
reference to the 99% — the song is about income inequality. Other songs
from the first half of the set included “Back Against the Wall,” (which
goes to similar territory as Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” without
being a similar song), “While The World Waits,” “Sinking Down,” “Picking
Up The Pieces, and “Hearts and Minds.”
After “Reverie,” the band reached into their songbook to deliver a
smattering of fan favorites. I’ve already mentioned the three big ones
from Trace; they also performed “Bandages & Scars,” an ode
to Woody Guthrie; “Afterglow 61,” an homage to Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61,”
“Driving the Route,” and “Medicine Hat.” For their encore, they did
“Cherokee Street,” followed by the only cover of the evening, NRBQ’s “I
Want You Bad.”
Son Volt are road warriors, almost certainly coming to a town near
you. They play great music, the real shit, songs with substance that
rock hard. Go see them. There may not be a lot of sizzle, but there’s
plenty of steak, and you’ll go home feeling well-fed.
Weekend Update | Saturday Night Live - Jan. 29, 2022
(Thanks Timmo!)
As we often say: sooner or later, it all gets SURREAL.
What started off in the mainstream as "an aging rocker yelling get off my lawn", has now mushroomed into an international media firestorm with calls ranging from #BoycottSpotify to #BoycottNeilYoung to #istandwithneilyoung.
Neil Young wants Spotify to remove popular podcast 'The Joe Rogan Experience'| KARE 11
Spotify shuts down their customer service lines. Thousands of listeners
complain and cancel subscriptions over Spotify’s decision to support Joe
Rogan and the misinformation he broadcasts, over Neil Young’s music.
SPOTIFY - IN THE NAME OF TRUTH / THANKS FOR STANDING WITH ME
For us here at Thrasher's Wheat, one of the most troubling aspects of this episode has been Neil Young's shifting positions on supporting free speech while calling for the deplatforming of those exercising that freedom. Furthermore, the man runs an online newspaper called Times-Contrarian?! Irony alert.
On Tuesday, musician Neil Young demanded
that Spotify either remove Rogan from its platform or cease featuring
Young's music, claiming Rogan spreads COVID disinformation. Spotify predictably sided
with Rogan, their most popular podcaster in whose show they invested
$100 million, by removing Young's music and keeping Rogan. The pressure
on Spotify mildly intensified on Friday when singer Joni Mitchell issued a similar demand. Allsortsofcensorship-madliberalscelebrated this effort to remove Rogan, then vowed to cancel their Spotify subscription in protest of Spotify's refusal to capitulate for now; a hashtagurging the deletion of Spotify's app trended for days. Many bizarrely urged that everyone buy music from Apple instead; apparently, handing over your cash to one of history's largest and richest corporations, repeatedly linked to the use of slave labor, is the liberal version of subversive social justice. [ed; emphasis added]
Neil Young's music still on Spotify on January 28
(thanks Timmo!)
In addition to Apple, Neil Young encourages"folks looking for my music can easily head to AMAZON MUSIC and click here https://bit.ly/NYA_AmazonMusic - all new listeners will get four months free."
"Their
[artists] job is to push back against the man and Neil Young should know the man
isn’t Joe Rogan, the man is Dr. Fauci, the man is Governor Gavin Newsom,
the man is the CDC, the man is the WHO, the man is Biden," said Carolla.
And, oddly, both Young and Mitchell now support Big Pharma?
Does Rogan give space to some crackers views about the Covid vaccines?
Yep. So what?
And I ask that as someone who is very pro-vaccination.
If
you dislike what Rogan says, then set up your own podcast to counter
him. How about doing that, Neil Young? You could be pro-science for a
change.
Here’s the thing about Rogan: his success is the least mysterious thing in the 21st-century media landscape. It is the
colonisation of the mainstream media by woke elites who all think in the
exact same way, and who will hound you off their turf if you don’t,
that created the conditions in which a questioning, dissenting pod like
Rogan’s could become a global phenomenon. It is the mainstream media’s
failures that birthed the success of Rogan and others; it is the
stifling of free, frank, deep discussion in the old media that created
the space for new media to emerge and flourish.
The old hippy Neil Young
would have understood that; the newly square Neil Young clearly
doesn’t.
The hype and loudest headlines and
click bait now seems mostly based on the can't have both, "They can
have Rogan or Young. Not both." which I read as an aside after Neil's
decision to not be affiliated with Spotify. Media headline click bait
focus was misleading, and the short letter was removed and replaced by
the long piece a day or two later restating intentions and reasons more
completely.
I don't see a censorship advocacy at all. I see a person
that doesn't like the direction of an organization he has a contract
with, and wants out. It was Neil's decision to leave. Spotify still
states they want him back. I see it like a Manager of a baseball team
not liking the direction of the Front Office, that it doesn't fit with
his MO, so he leaves. I respect that. No censorship is really a part or
was requested.
Neil doesn't want to be on the same team as Rogan. There
are many other Rogan shows on the subject other than the one with
Malone, which was very informative and interesting, and I recommend
people who have not heard it to hear it, to be aware and have it part of
your circle of awareness. (Malone seemed a bit bitter about his current
role in the progression, but that was maybe my take, and not the
takeaway from the episode). Rogan admits he is prone to saying shit that
is not vetted and not factual and true. So I don't buy the sensational
accusations of "Censorship" headline bait here. I have left jobs that I
decided I was a bad fit for. My decisions. Not theirs. I get it.
Musicians
are collectively getting shorted in payments for their art, while
subsidizing the Rogan contract.... but that is another whole discussion
of the streaming situation. This discussion... should not be about
censorship, but a man that doesn't fit on the team, is not the biggest $
maker for them, and doesn't want to be affiliated anymore for reasons
clearly stated. Not stopping free speech, not wanting to stop free
speech, just separating from the same platform. I respect and understand
that. I bet we see others (Joni Mitchell already has) follow.
It
doesn't seem like a fit to me to have Neil guest on a JRE episode, but
it would be interesting for them to be the panel on a third party show
like Real Time with Bill Maher.
Thanks for comments here Aer. Having been de-platformed ourselves, we have directly experienced the heavy hand of Big Tech and the damage done. Being de-platformed in today's world, is often the equivalent of troopers going into an artist's studio, smashing all of their art and then burning down their studio. A life's work is gone. It happens on YouTube, FaceBook, Twittter and elsewhere everyday.
“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his
own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who
denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present
opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
―
Thomas Paine,
The Age of Reason
So instead of censorship and de-platforming, we urge #disCERNment at all times.
The fact is you are either for politicians, elites, and large
technology companies dictating what you can and can not have the right
to consider when making decisions, or you support the idea of being able
to consider opinions from all ends of the spectrum in order to make
your personal decisions.
You are either an advocate for stifling
one entire half of an argument - which admittedly may contain the
boogeyman disguised as some actual misinformation - or you are pro
freedom of speech and an individual’s right to decide for themselves.
And most importantly, you either have the wherewithalto understand that the official narrative has, and will, continue to get things wrong (vaccines would wipe out Covid, for example) and that opinions labeled as “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories” can sometimes turn out to be the objective truth (like the lab leak ‘theory’), or you don’t.
If your intentions are only to seek out objective truths, why would you
turn away anyone’s opinion before sifting away at all available
information before trying to arrive at the facts?
These are questions and concepts that Spotify needs to be asking itself very carefully.
While,
from a monetary standpoint, canceling Joe Rogan may, at some point,
look like it makes sense on paper, the music giant needs to ask itself
at the end of the day: are they the battleground for something even more important than money?
We have yet to see a mainstream big tech company take a serious stand against censorship. Spotify: are you prepared to be the first?
In an unrelated -- but related -- side note, recall ...
In early 2021, Hipgnosis buys 50% of Neil Young catalog. And here is the prospectus for Hipgnosis. Then in October 2021, The Blackstone Group,
an alternative investment management company, announced that it would partner
with Hipgnosis to invest $1bn US to acquire song catalogs and music rights.
It also announced that Blackstone would take an ownership stake in Hipgnosis
Song Management.” [60]
Lastly, “Spotify lost $4 billion in market value this week after rock icon Neil Young
called out the company for allowing comedian Joe Rogan to use its
service to spread misinformation about the COVID vaccine on his popular
podcast, 'The Joe Rogan Experience,’” is how The San Francisco Chronicle put it
(that Spotify's stock price dropped rather precipitously
contemporaneously with this controversy is clear; less so is the causal
connection, though it seems unlikely to be entire coincidental).
"On Jan. 27, Spotify stock hit a 19-month low.
Spotify has lost $4 billion in market value over past few months"
Some in support of Neil and some have canceled their
subscription. Neil states that they have had more subscribers sign up
than ever before in the last week. The whole free speech argument is
why this blew up, but as far as I can see….. it’s clearly not an viable
issue as both sides are getting what they want. If someone is publicly
giving false and potentially dangerous information to millions of
people, then someone needs to hold them accountable. Everyone is free to
speak their mind about anything, but when it is potentially dangerous
to others then we all need to know.
Free speech requires us not to
endanger others lives in the process.
Here at Thrasher's Wheat, we would also like to apologize for some of our coverage and comments around de-platforming and censorship. While we found the entire episode confusing initially because Neil Young's Spotify letter was pulled down before we read it (and then the internet went wild with speculation), Neil's statement above is very clear on subject.
Spotify has agreed to post "content advisory" labels on podcasts. Also, on Instagram below, Joe Rogan discusses Spotify controversy and tells story about working Security at a Neil Young concert @ ~5:00.
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