it was his birthday today, 61
absolute legend. i celebrated by listening to WELD album by Neil and Crazy Horse. fuckin awesome 
so many mint tunes he has wrote.
keep on rockin in the free world 
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happy birthday NEIL YOUNG
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Indeed-in a place where greatness is given easily to the latest flavor of the week, Neil has made great music for over 40 years on his own terms....
Somewhere on a desert highway She rides a harley-davidson Her long blonde hair flyin in the wind
Shes been runnin half her life The chrome and steel she rides Collidin with the very air she breathes...
Happy Birthday
She used to work in a diner Never saw a woman look finer I used to order just to watch her float across the floor She grew up in a small town Never put her roots down Daddy always kept movin, so she did too.
Somewhere on a desert highway She rides a harley-davidson Her long blonde hair flyin in the wind Shes been runnin half her life The chrome and steel she rides Collidin with the very air she breathes The air she breathes.
You know it aint easy You got to hold on She was an unknown legend in her time Now shes dressin two kids Lookin for a magic kiss She gets the far-away look in her eyes.
Somewhere on a desert highway She rides a harley-davidson Her long blonde hair flyin in the wind Shes been runnin half her life The chrome and steel she rides Collidin with the very air she breathes The air she breathes.
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl I could be happy the rest of my life With a cinnamon girl.
A dreamer of pictures I run in the night You see us together, chasing the moonlight, My cinnamon girl.
Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.
A dreamer of pictures I run in the night You see us together, chasing the moonlight, My cinnamon girl.
Pa send me money now I'm gonna make it somehow I need another chance You see your baby loves to dance Yeah...yeah...yeah.
Dad's going to kill me, especially with current politics. But who cares?
Never heard your music, but Happy Birthday. 
[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Dad's going to kill me, especially with current politics. But who cares?
Never heard your music, but Happy Birthday.
its ok, cozzie.. another post to the count.
Burt Reynolds wrote:
[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Dad's going to kill me, especially with current politics. But who cares?
Never heard your music, but Happy Birthday.
its ok, cozzie.. another post to the count.
Er, and nobody here is adding another post to the count? Burt? 
Yeah. He doesn't know any of my involvement on NOOL and think that NO/JD are sucky music bands. The man has no taste; just some country music, some Roger Whitaker, and other "family-oriented" music. However, Dad likes Queen... 
[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Yeah. He doesn't know any of my involvement on NOOL and think that NO/JD are sucky music bands. The man has no taste; just some country music, some Roger Whitaker, and other "family-oriented" music. However, Dad likes Queen...
I wasnt trying to make conversation.
But word on the street is her boyfriend has seen Neil Young many times... Rust Never Sleeps, Trans, in a small club in Santa Cruz while warming up for a tour, plus others.... 
Comrade Shampanyov wrote: But word on the street is her boyfriend has seen Neil Young many times... Rust Never Sleeps, Trans, in a small club in Santa Cruz while warming up for a tour, plus others....
show off 
Dude 
Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar, Dancing on the light from star to star. Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are, I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.
You are like a hurricane There's calm in your eye. And I'm gettin' blown away To somewhere safer where the feeling stays. I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.
I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream, You could have been anyone to me. Before that moment you touched my lips That perfect feeling when time just slips Away between us on our foggy trip.
You are like a hurricane There's calm in your eye. And I'm gettin' blown away To somewhere safer where the feeling stays. I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.
You are just a dreamer, and I am just a dream. You could have been anyone to me. Before that moment you touched my lips That perfect feeling when time just slips Away between us on our foggy trip.
You are like a hurricane There's calm in your eye. And I'm gettin' blown away To somewhere safer where the feeling stays. I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.
Happy Birthday to an absolute fucking LEGEND who I had the honour and pleasure to see on the same Festival bill the first time I saw NO (Roskilde 93).
Classic Neil Young story originally told by Graham Nash
"I once went down to Neil's ranch and he rowed me out into the middle of the lake -- putting my life in his hands once again. He waved at someone invisible and music started to play, in the countryside. I realized Neil had his house wired as the left speaker, and his barn wired as the right speaker. And Elliot Mazer, his engineer, said 'How is it?' And Neil shouted back..."
"More Barn!"
A regular on the Neil Young fansite (hyperrust.org) even made some "More Barn!" T-shirts (for charidy mate!) and a banner (The Shroud of Tourin')
Still love Neil, the tour he did w/Sonic Youth was a very, very, very, very loud evening.
Tip of the hat to Neil, Powderfinger is probably my fave song, though I'm actually listening to Barstool Blues right now.
Look out, Mama,there's a white boatcomin' up the riverWith a big red beacon,and a flag,and a man on the railI think you'd better call John,'Cause it don'tlook like they're hereto deliver the mailAnd it's less than a mile awayI hope they didn't come to stayIt's got numbers on the sideand a gunAnd it's makin' big waves.Daddy's gone,my brother's out huntingin the mountainsBig John's been drinkingsince the river took Emmy-LouSo the powers that beleft me hereto do the thinkin'And I just turned twenty-twoI was wonderin' what to doAnd the closer they got,The more those feelings grew.Daddy's rifle in my handfelt reassurin'He told me,Red means run, son,numbers add up to nothin'But when the first shothit the docks I saw it comin'Raised my rifle to my eyeNever stopped to wonder why.Then I saw black,And my face splashed in the sky.Shelter me from the powderand the fingerCover me with the thoughtthat pulled the triggerThink of meas one you'd never figuredWould fade away so youngWith so much left undoneRemember me to my love,I know I'll miss her.
nice to see some good love for neil
i really really want to see him live, i HAVE to see him live
:(
dude I admit "Rockin in The Free World" is one of my all-time favorite songs....was great to see he could be so outraged after years of wondering of Neil would ever get it back
There's colors on the street Red, white and blue People shufflin' their feet People sleepin' in their shoes But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them So I try to forget it, any way I can.
Keep on rockin' in the free world, Keep on rockin' in the free world Keep on rockin' in the free world, Keep on rockin' in the free world.
I see a woman in the night With a baby in her hand Under an old street light Near a garbage can Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit She hates her life, and what she's done to it There's one more kid that will never go to school Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool.
Keep on rockin' in the free world, Keep on rockin' in the free world Keep on rockin' in the free world, Keep on rockin' in the free world.
We got a thousand points of light For the homeless man We got a kinder, gentler, Machine gun hand We got department stores and toilet paper Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive.
Keep on rockin' in the free world, Keep on rockin' in the free world Keep on rockin' in the free world, Keep on rockin' in the free world.
