Neil Young SUCKS!!!!

[juttjaw]

Why is it that I've been sinking so deeply into Neil.. I'm 38.. I've always listened to his music. Granted, in my 20's it was because I "should" like him. I love Bob! Bob changed my life for fuck sakes! Now.. Now I feel Mr. Young's calling.. I hear his beautiful and odd voice and for some reason it all makes sense.. His simple, yet innovative guitar work surrounds his music in the lush.. I'd like to think I am a music aficionado... That I have an innate ear for great music...

That's not true..

I THINK I have that ear.. I KNOW I don't...

Music is subject to interpretation right?Yes... but I didn't grow up with this... I grew up with Christian bands (Stryper.. Petra anyone??) ... I mutated to others.

But..

Neil Young's music has spared to this generation.. I'm lapping it up like a dehydrated dog in a clean toilet.. It may take a lifetime to really discover all of his work.. I am willing to try..

 

[Noor]

I met one of the guys from Petra, sat next to him on a plane.
Nice guy, he tried to explain Christian music to me, lol!
Put me on the guest wherever we were flying into, but I wasn't able to go.
He also gave me his address and phone number, I run across it every so often when I am sorting through boxes.
I was into prog rock back then, I didn't really get religious rock. He didn't know much about 16th century sacred music


Neil Young... I like the song Damage Done, but maybe that is because I remember the edges of that time.
"I caught you knocking at my cellar door
I love you baby, can I have some more."
https://youtu.be/k0t0EW6z8a0

You probably need to hear it for some reason, stuff like that happens.

 

[Not Normal]

Neil is wonderful. Get the Massey Hall live 1971 record that came out a few years back. It's stunning.

 

[Riles]

I saw him in Toronto a few years back, it rivals for a top spot with the concerts I have been to.

Not sure if I could rank them here or not:
Neil
Metallica
Santana
The Hip
Burton Cummings
David Wilcox
Tina Turner
Joe Cocker
Alan Jackson
Toby Keith
Trace Adkins
BNL
Great Big Sea
Spirit Of The West
Terry Clark
Blue Rodeo
Jason McCoy
NKOTB twice as a young girl

I'm drawing a blank on others that opened shows.

 

[marshalt]

I fucking hate that sweet caroline song.

 

[lovecraft68]

I fucking hate that sweet caroline song.

Wrong Neil....that's Diamond and I agree....his career has kept going only because that crappy song was made famous again by the Red Sox...blech

 

[toubab]

Harvest Moon

Neil Young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs&list=PLvdVG7oER2eF8xXmOXCvu1OuFi16q1SZ3

Can't help liking this song.

 

[wistfulwench]

I love the Decade and Harvest Moon albums. I should get some more of his stuff.

 

[Ishmael]

Show some class, he aspirates.

Ishmael

 

[Lancecastor]

Calling his guitar work "simple, yet innovative" is very kind.

He's a terrible guitar player.

over the years, Young has constantly been denigrated for his lack of real guitar prowess.

They called him the “one string King” and the master of the one-note solo.

He was sloppy, he improvised when he should have been sticking to the plan, and he made mistakes – a mortal sin in the eyes of some guitar aficionados.

Even his acoustic playing was always rudimentary, they yelled, helped out by a copious use of capos and 12-strings to try and capture the acoustic flavor of real folkies he so admired

http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifesty...-us/neil-young-guitar-god-slob-0717-2012.aspx

 

[juttjaw]

Calling his guitar work "simple, yet innovative" is very kind.

He's a terrible guitar player.

Maybe I should clarify. I'm a guitar player... Have been since I was 10. I am by no means a great guitar player. And no neither is Neil.. Hes a rhythm player who sometimes forgets and digs into a lead. To call him terrible is probably a bit harsh. He's apt for his music. But he is accessible for average players such as myself. Very seldom will you hear a song of his and not know it by the opening 4 cords... Granted, that may be all there are in the song.. But still.

I regard his capo usage as his way of voice modification. Let's not best around the bush, his voice is hard to love. People who don't love his music cringe like nails on a chalk board when he opens his gape. Capos are simply there to shift the key of the song so his voice fits... He works with what he's got. Some singer song writers have a whole shop of all the latest tools to work with...Their great guitar players, they have phenomenal voices, they can dance, probably stand on their heads while playing an epic drum solo and playing a classical bass with their feet... Neil shop of tools consists of a roll of duckt tape and a pair of pliers. Yet he crafts some brilliant shit..

I suppose I just really admire the fuck. Good or shitty his music hits me in the gullet..

 

[albertaboy]

I saw him in Toronto a few years back, it rivals for a top spot with the concerts I have been to.

Not sure if I could rank them here or not:
Neil
Metallica
Santana
The Hip
Burton Cummings
David Wilcox
Tina Turner
Joe Cocker
Alan Jackson
Toby Keith
Trace Adkins
BNL
Great Big Sea
Spirit Of The West
Terry Clark
Blue Rodeo
Jason McCoy
NKOTB twice as a young girl

I'm drawing a blank on others that opened shows.

A uniquely Canadian list, The Hip, Blue Rodeo David Wilcox and Great Big Sea

 

[Pookie]

Calling his guitar work "simple, yet innovative" is very kind.

He's a terrible guitar player.




http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifesty...-us/neil-young-guitar-god-slob-0717-2012.aspx

I have a friend who plays in a local band. He said the same thing. He showed me once just how simplistic playing his guitar parts were. He's learned how to compensate for it though. I guess that would be the innovative part.

 

[quietlylooking]

And I don't think you always have to be a technical genius or even a good musician to make great music. That's part of the beauty of music.

 

[Lancecastor]

I have a friend who plays in a local band. He said the same thing. He showed me once just how simplistic playing his guitar parts were. He's learned how to compensate for it though. I guess that would be the innovative part.

Nothing easier to play than Cinnamon Girl....it makes a Ramones tune look difficult.

Yes, Neil Young has made some great music, but he's no guitar hero.

 

[Pookie]

Nothing easier to play than Cinnamon Girl....it makes a Ramones tune look difficult.

Yes, Neil Young has made some great music, but he's no guitar hero.

My father loves his music and has seen him in concert a number of times, but even he admits Neil gets by with great songs that don't depend on his guitar playing.

 

[Lancecastor]

My father loves his music and has seen him in concert a number of times, but even he admits Neil gets by with great songs that don't depend on his guitar playing.

He's a great thrasher though....sloppy big chord arena rock stuff can be more fun than an intricate player anyway.

Keith Richards, for example...plays five strings, mostly in open G....almost no left hand required, great for drinking and playing.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNbB6FSwuBA

Yet few recall Chester Atkins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3FlG2uJgY8

IF YOU WERENT A WASTED FUCK YOU COULD DO THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSedE5sU3uc

 

[WonderPonder]

I saw him on a country tour at the CNE I believe was in 1983 and didn't like it. But his Ragged Glory show at Maple Leaf Gardens was great in the early '90's.

 

[Balladeer08]

It could be worse.

You could be listening to Neil Sedaka.

8)

 

[pointless]

get rust never sleeps or i will kill you where you stand.

also, my personal favorites at the moment are zuma, on the beach and tonight's the night. why? i don't fucking know. they're just the ones i seem to listen to the most.

 

[pointless]

though i have been getting back into everybody knows this is nowhere, but that's totally high school nostalgia for me.

 

[jaF0]

Only concert I ever saw live was him at Pine Knob sometime in the late 70s.


Need to get some more of his tracks though. There's a video concert I saw on AXS TV. It's available on DVD, but not just the audio on CD.

Question:

Why does "Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)" sound so distorted? I know it has to do with the deep bass, but seems like they should have compensated for it somehow.

 

[bogusguy]

Not my thing. His voice is annoying to my ears.

 

[pointless]

Only concert I ever saw live was him at Pine Knob sometime in the late 70s.


Need to get some more of his tracks though. There's a video concert I saw on AXS TV. It's available on DVD, but not just the audio on CD.

Question:

Why does "Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)" sound so distorted? I know it has to do with the deep bass, but seems like they should have compensated for it somehow.

because that's what they wanted, man.