Neil Young: Heart of Gold...

[amicus]

It costs me a bill a month to get all the channels, even then, sometimes there is nothing of quality, but then again, sometimes there is.

I think I blurted out ABBA, the movie, on this forum a while back, I may have even mentioned this one before, dunno, Alzhiemers, ya know, senility, what the hell.

This is the third time I have watched this, an hour and forty-five minute special production on HBO Showtime, channel 320, is where I found it, if that is helpful.

Tonight, I think I pushed the right button on my dvd, hvd, tivo, what the fuck ever it is and I may even have managed to record it...finding it and playing it back, well, another bridge to cross.

It's kinda strange, cuz, Neil Young is a generation ago, ya know, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, back in the 70's, the hippies, that generation of very special music that transmuted into something entirely different.

Especially since my true love of music is a generation before that, rooted in the big bands and jazz, of the forties and the rock 'n roll, fifties...and then I threw in Feist, and 1234, at you a while back...sighs...

But back to Neil Young, for some reason, I burrowed into "Harvest Moon" got lost in it, breathed it, drowned in it for a while, y'all who are musicians or addicted to music might understand that, maybe not...

And...there is a 'realness', an honesty to Neil Young's music, his lyrics and his live performances, that touches me, somewhere...that few ever do. And so I thought to share.

Mainly, I will copy and paste this to my files for my kids to read and listen to, if they ever get curious about this ole man, the leader of the band, who's eyes are growing dim....

So you need not respond...read and pass on by...as you usually do. Who asked you anyway?

Amicus...

 

[Chantilyvamp]

Happy Holidays Ami

Heart of Gold

Harvest Moon

 

[amicus]

Happy Holidays Ami

Heart of Gold

Harvest Moon

~~~

Thank you, Chantilly, followed the links...amazed to see a young Neil Young, which I had never seen before, as the video I referenced is fairly current and he is an old man now, sighs...

How I wish I were your Santa and you under the tree, lucky guy that...smiles, just an aside, to appreciate your AV....

And, yes, Happy Holidays to you and yours, and thank you again...



Ami

 

[cloudy]

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are one of my favorites (same with C, S & N) I love their music, have most of their cds. My friends tell me I was born about 10 years too late, since I was only 8 at the time of Woodstock. It would be completely in character for me to have been there.

I'm surprised you're a fan, to be honest. You don't get much more liberal, and "anti-establishment" than C, S, N & Y). Haven't you ever heard Ohio? Neil Young wrote it:

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

 

[amicus]

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are one of my favorites (same with C, S & N) I love their music, have most of their cds. My friends tell me I was born about 10 years too late, since I was only 8 at the time of Woodstock. It would be completely in character for me to have been there.

I'm surprised you're a fan, to be honest. You don't get much more liberal, and "anti-establishment" than C, S, N & Y). Haven't you ever heard Ohio? Neil Young wrote it:

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

~~~

Ah, Cloudy, I suspect we have much more in common that you can even imagine. But then again, the liberal necessity of placing anything outside their agenda in a limited box, backfires and boxes you in.

I interviewed Joan Baez and love some of her songs, and Jonie Mitchell, and Carol King, Carly Simon, even the musical talent of Barbra Streisand and the acting ability of Jane Fonda...I simply excise their sophomoric politics from their artistic skills.

Liberals, my feathered friend, are artists and dreamers without a whit of real knowledge, but...thas okay, I accept them as such.

And I know it really pisses you folks off when I intrude on your sacred ground of emotions with my rational foundations, but then, tough titty, kitty, live with it.

Ami...

 

[cloudy]

~~~

Ah, Cloudy, I suspect we have much more in common that you can even imagine. But then again, the liberal necessity of placing anything outside their agenda in a limited box, backfires and boxes you in.

I interviewed Joan Baez and love some of her songs, and Jonie Mitchell, and Carol King, Carly Simon, even the musical talent of Barbra Streisand and the acting ability of Jane Fonda...I simply excise their sophomoric politics from their artistic skills.

Liberals, my feathered friend, are artists and dreamers without a whit of real knowledge, but...thas okay, I accept them as such.

And I know it really pisses you folks off when I intrude on your sacred ground of emotions with my rational foundations, but then, tough titty, kitty, live with it.

Ami...

I don't know that its possible to ignore the political views of CSN&Y, as you say you do with others (Streisand????) Most of their music is very political in nature, if you listen to the actual lyrics, and don't just hum along. Try it sometime.

Woodstock (written by Joni Mitchell, but performed by CSN&Y)

Well I came across a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him tell where are you going
This he told me

Well I am going down to Yasgur's farm
Going to join in a rock and roll band
Goin' to get back to the land to set my soul free

We are stardust, we are golden
We are ten billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

Well then can I walk beside you
I have come to lose the smog
And I feel like I'm a cog in something turning
And maybe it's the time of year
Yes and maybe it's the time of man
And I don't know who I am
But life is for learning

We are stardust, we are golden
We are ten billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers jet planes
Riding shotgun in the sky
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden
We are ten billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

 

[jomar]

For some he's an acquired taste because of his voice, but I've always loved his music.

Harvest Moon is a wonderful CD. A good song as well.

Ami, you might want to check out a DVD called Prairie Wind. It's a documentary about a concert he did a few years ago. Very well done.

 

[amicus]

Thank you, Jomar, I clicked on your link...will view another time....

Cloudy, you just don't get it, do you? I know the lyrics of all the songs, I played them over and over again on the radio for years and years, read the liner notes, know where and whence they came from and even understood their plight, as I do yours and Native American Culture.

The point is that you and most liberals, can't think beyond your twat, your feelings and emotions...I begin to think it is simply genetically impossible for the gender in most cases and you confirm that, and the pussy whipped wimps that appease for pussy, well, I guess one can choose not to think even if one is capable.

My selections in music and art are based on quality and excellence, not political content. You might think about that as you inventory your likes and dislikes.

Amicus...

 

[cloudy]

Cloudy, you just don't get it, do you? I know the lyrics of all the songs, I played them over and over again on the radio for years and years, read the liner notes, know where and whence they came from and even understood their plight, as I do yours and Native American Culture.

The point is that you and most liberals, can't think beyond your twat, your feelings and emotions...I begin to think it is simply genetically impossible for the gender in most cases and you confirm that, and the pussy whipped wimps that appease for pussy, well, I guess one can choose not to think even if one is capable.

My selections in music and art are based on quality and excellence, not political content. You might think about that as you inventory your likes and dislikes.

Amicus...

You don't "get" anything about being native, so don't even go there.

So much for attempting to to carry on a civil conversation with you. I tried: no insults to you in either one of my posts, and you immediately fall back on namecalling.

I suppose I should have known better, but as I tell my 7-yr-old: People that call you names aren't intelligent enough, or creative enough to come up with anything else to offer.

I'm out.

 

[impressive]

Thank you, Jomar, I clicked on your link...will view another time....

Cloudy, you just don't get it, do you? I know the lyrics of all the songs, I played them over and over again on the radio for years and years, read the liner notes, know where and whence they came from and even understood their plight, as I do yours and Native American Culture.

The point is that you and most liberals, can't think beyond your twat, your feelings and emotions...I begin to think it is simply genetically impossible for the gender in most cases and you confirm that, and the pussy whipped wimps that appease for pussy, well, I guess one can choose not to think even if one is capable.

My selections in music and art are based on quality and excellence, not political content. You might think about that as you inventory your likes and dislikes.

Amicus...

Ami,

"Conservative" doesn't have to mean "crude, narrow-minded asshole."

pax,

~ Imp

 

[amicus]

Cloudy, Imp, if you read the thread you will note that it is about music, sharing my appreciation of an artist, as I often do here, not a political word included in my original post.

You purposely jabbed a sharp stick in my ribs by posting the lyrics of Ohio and now it is my fault if I push the stick away? Not hardly.

There is a deeper, unspoken issue here that seems instinctual among the liberal community; that being, that the intellectual performers claim to 'own' the art and music world, as if it is their special province where the crass capitalists only purchase art, they don't comprehend it.

I explained all this before, about the snobbery of the intellectuals, angry at having to depend on the wealthy classes to support them by purchasing their talents and skills, but you didn't want to understand it then and you won't now.

The political views of most artistic minded people sicken me for they essentially bite the hand that feeds them and they are nasty about it but continue to accept payment from those they hate, prostitutes of the mind, selling their art to the greedy capitalist.

Your belief is so deeply ingrained that you feel compelled to lash out at any rational, conservative minded individual that dares express appreciation of your guarded province of the 'finer things' you think we greedy capitalists do not deserve to have.

There could have been a good discussion on the HBO production that featured Neil Young. The background of some of the songs and lyrics was explained, the history of the music, the places the music evolved, the nostalgia of a time gone by. The dozens in his entourage that have performed with him for most of his career.

Then you have the ungalled audacity to slap my effort and then claim I am the one who cannot hold a civil conversation. I merely responded in like manner to your ugliness.

You spoil every thread you touch and pretend no one else notices; they do.

Amicus...

 

[impressive]

Whatever.

 

[Frank Noir]

But then again, the liberal necessity of placing anything outside their agenda in a limited box, backfires and boxes you in.

And as that sentence so elegantly shows, not only liberals do that...

 

[amicus]

And as that sentence so elegantly shows, not only liberals do that...

~~~

Well, 'good girl', why did you dig up this ole thread?

I don't retract a word I wrote or a thought I had. Art has a special meaning to me, the expression of beauty, in all forms, and appreciation is not limited to the effete intellectuals...

Amicus...

 

[jack_straw]

I prefer the electric Neil over the mellow Neil. Give me "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere," Tonight's The Night," Zuma," and "Rust Never Sleeps," over "Harvest," any day and twice on Sunday.

BTW, I've read "Shakey," the definitive biography of Neil Young, and a lot of you would be shocked to learn just how conservative he is politically. He's very much more a Libertarian than he is a Liberal.

 

[neonlyte]

Thanks, Ami.

Happy Memories - Neil Young for me is Portsmouth, England... 1970's. 'Sit-in' protests. Hydroponics and fumbling my way to an architecture degree. England losing at rugby to Wales (year after bloody year). And the SO, my better half, my soul mate.