This album, Harvest, is all fire. It is one of those must have albums in any music collection of that era. There is one song by Neil though that could be credited with ending our participation in the Vietnam War during his time with Crosby, Stills and Nash and that song was "Ohio". He wrote the song after hearing the news reports about the Kent State Massacre and rushed the song to release in record time. The song kept the massacre in the public consciousness with every play on the radio stations across the country.
Unplugged my friend is the mtv show. Seen Neil Young 3 times live going back to early 80's. Despite a huge catalogue not one concert was even remotely close to the previous. Checkout Needle and the Damage Done and the mammoth electric track Cortez the Killer.Truly amazing writer, musician, artist and human 🤟🎸🇨🇦
When he says, “ Old man, look at my life, I’m a lot like you were, I need someone to love me my whole life through, take a look in my eyes, you can see it’s true,” ect ect.he’s comparing their two lives and saying they’re not that different on the basic levels. Back in the day, older folk were freaking out about how different the younger generation was. He’s just saying they’re not that different
Neil is so influential - truly a musician's musician. Linda Rondstat and Neil Young sang together on the classic "Harvest Moon" one of the prettiest songs ever made. Check out the MTV Unplugged "Harvest Moon." He has limitless classics. In this time of strife and pain and injustice, his song "Ohio" he did with 'Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young" (talk about a supergroup) is one not to be missed AND the story behind it is so deep and heartbreaking, it is up your alley to learn the whole story.
MTV Unplugged. This is way before MTV. But Neil did do an Unplugged. Check it out and check out some live video with his band Crazy Horse, he’s a beast on the guitar. I’ve loved Neil since Harvest came out.
Unplugged was a show frequently shown on MTV…it didn’t start before MTV. (Never mind…I misunderstood 😂 That’s what I get for driving 200 miles today, not eating since lunch and being up too late.)
This was BBC live I think in 19 freaking 71 .. shout out to the BBC for the audio! I think you thinking unplugged ,, one of my favorite live performances .. just Neil and a guitar and his voice cheers
I met Neil when I was recording his sisters first studio record. As a Canadian I can say that he is HUGE! Always tops the list of most important Canadian musicians. He’s “the godfather of grunge” and is spoken of in the same way Bob Dylan is. I still play this song at my Saturday matinees, here in British Columbia. It’s a huge rabbit hole you’re looking down. Peace
There's a longer version of this same performance, We're at the beginning of it he talks to the audience, And explains what inspired him to write this song.
Dude go deep down this rabbit hole. Worth going back to Buffalo Springfield but I truly became a fan when he was with Crazy Horse. Those early albums were fantastic enjoyed him with CSNY but always preferred him as a solo artist. Enjoy your dive into his rabbit hole. Peace
Like someone else said THERE IS A LONGER VERSION of that performance where he EXPLAINS THE LYRICS about THE OLD MAN on his ranch!!! You gotta go watch it!
Some of Neil Young's best stuff was made with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and the with band America. Check out "A Horse with No Name" and "Ventura Highway."
Great live version from the BBC in 1971. Try giving The Needle and the Damage Done that he performed at this same venue on the same show. Both these songs would be released on his Harvest album a year later.
The closest I’ve ever come to turning into my parents, is becoming a big Neil Young fan. Besides great, traditional songwriting, he espouses strong values of integrity.
He recorded an album with Pearl Jam called "Mirror Ball" in 1995, and they even toured together! Listen to "I'm The Ocean", great song! Kurt Cobain admired Neil, and quoted the lyrics of his song "Hey Hey My My" in his suicide note.
I don't find it depressing at all! I think he was just saying that the old man was a farm hand on a ranch and he (Neil) was a Rock and Roll superstar but in the end they are soo much alike !!
The song was in England done by the BBC, who did many of these more intimate style concerts there. He also performed his “ Heart of Gold “ there. Give it a listen!
I miss good old classic folk-rock music. Neil is one of my favs. He was big during the days of Vietnam, hippies, free love & weed. He was like Bob Dylan... poets with deep meanings in their lyrics & often political protest stuff. 'Heart of gold' is my fav.
Another one of those songs that didn't chart that well at the time but got played on the radio constantly, until it became known and loved by everyone.
Thanks for playing Neil Young; try some songs like "Cortez The Killerm', 'Like A Hurricane', 'Keep On Rockin' In The Free World' 'Cinnamon Girl', all great songs. Thank you for all your hard work and for bringing us a diverse choice of music.
Lovely reaction. I always enjoy seeing people hearing this and seeing Neil Young performing this for the first time. It's so beautiful, clean, clear, simple (as your said), STUNNING!, and really emotional. I appreciate your reaction. ❤
Before this song, Neil Young explained the inspiration of this song, a caretaker on a ranch he had purchased in California. Neil Young has a classic voice. After 9-11, he wrote a song after the guy on the flight that crashed in the Pennsylvania field that fought against the hijackers on the airline. The song is called "Let's Roll." There's a documentary movie that came out a few years ago called Echoes in the Canyon that talked about the rise of folk rock in the 1960's. They talk about Neil Young and his influence on Buffalo Springfield.
I love this intimate performance with just Neil & his guitar (harmonica). He was only 27 when he recorded this song as a young man. Now he is an older man at 77 years old. Neil is a very talented musician, singer & songwriter. He was with the groups Buffalo Springfield & Crosby, Stills & Nash in the later 60's. Also had his own group with Crazy Horse for a few years. Neil went solo & has had so many great songs over the years. The albums "After The Gold Rush" & "Harvest" from the 70's are considered 2 of his best.
Thank you for reacting to our Canadian treasure, the great Neil Young! Look for "Heart Of Gold" from his 1971 concert, just Neil, his guitar and his harmonica(s). Watch the intro as well as the song, well worth it seeing some of his personality come out. "Needle And The Damage Done" is another song of his you must react to one day! Speaking of Grunge and Pearl Jam, in 1994 I saw both PJ and Neil Young in the same concert. Two great acts on one amazing night! From Buffalo Springfield you will want to hear "For What It's Worth". From Crosby Stills Nash and Young you will want to react to "Ohio"!!
Name of the show? MTV Unplugged. Song about his Foreman on the ranch he bought. The Old Man who had no idea who Neil is, couldn't figure out how a young kid could afford it. And it was during a time when older people looked down on young people. Calling them Hippies and Communist.
Heard this guy on the radio my whole life and knew his name. But I only saw him for the 1st time in that same video you watched here, a few years back. I was instantly impressed with his live performance, it being as good or better than the studio version. His voice control, emotion, lyrics and guitar work combined...WOW! Very few have impressed me in a live performances like this. Good catch on the 'Country Grunge' assessment. All music has SEEDS from other genres & artists.
Good call. This is garage music, in the best sense of the term. Just like Nirvana. Neil played with them a bit. Can't think of when or where, but they were aware of each other for sure. You have a great ear brother. Love the depth with which you persist and explore, and learn...and teach. Thanks man❤
Neil Young is great. He's like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, a writer. I love My My Hey Hey best and the Chromatics did a cover of it called Into the Black that I love.
OMG yeah... Leonard Cohen's What Happens to the Heart is like if Lou Reed had a love child with Bob Dylon raised by Johnny Cash. ua-cam.com/video/2AMMb9CiScI/v-deo.htmlsi=KXBBg-T6VWa9EScB
I think I always heard it kinda the same way you are hearing it. I was around 24 whin I first heard this song and it really stuck with me. now I'm a couple years away from fifty and it still resonates but from a different perspective. I'm always the first to yell, "Nah, man, the kids are okay!" when I hear old (my age) people trashing the younger generations. Yo, the kids are doing the same damn things we did, feeling the same damn things we felt, needing the same things we needed. they're just the same as us but young. we're all humans on this planet together on the same journey we just all started at different times
Neil Young is one of the greats. A great musical poet, an intense guitarist, and the first grunge-rocker. In the late 60s Young helped create the "American Roots-Rock" musical movement, geting back to a more acoustic style, rural themes, and Country/Bluegrass influences. The great CCR were also exploring "Roots-Rock". But the founders of "American Roots" was "The Band", often with "Folk-Rocker" Bob Dylan. Check out The Band live (1976) playing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and "It Makes No Difference."
You really should react to Buffalo Springfield: “For What It’s Worth”. It’s a classic. 😀 Also in the band was Stephen Stills, Jim Fielder of Blood, Sweat and Tears, Jim Messina of Loggins and Messina, and others.
You are thinking of the MTV show Unplugged, which is also just a general term for when a normally amplified band performs either partly or fully acoustic. You've got to check out some of his stuff with Crazy Horse, either live or the studio cuts are fantastic as well, which is what we heard on the radio and what we heard when we bought the record albums. I absolutely love the song Powderfinger. It's set during the Civil War era and it just captures so much about so much, and it also really captures the essence of being young and in a difficult situation. Plus it's just a compelling and beautiful song and I do feel some proto grunge in it for sure.
Watch his version of "The Needle of the Damage Done" live on the Johnny Cash show and wait for the spontaneous standing ovation. As an FYI, though his folk songs did inspire grunge, this is even more true of his noisy loud heavily distorted songs like "Hey Hey, My My” (the electric version) or the bleary, drug-soaked clinical depression of such albums as Tonight's the Night, which flopped because it was a little raw for the radio.
Niel is great. I love all of it. I will give you a couple of my favorites ❤"Don't let it get you down" ( this one has a live version that he tells a little joke before he does the song. "Needle and the damage done" and "Heart of Gold". This is a good start❤ I know you'll like them.
"Needle and the Damage Done" by Neil Young should be next.
Neil was born in Toronto, but grew up in my home town of Winnipeg, Canadian icon🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
masterpiece ever
Heart Of Gold, from the same concert!
Yes!
Love this for you, Neil Young's just wonderful.
His voice is hauntingly beautiful.
Neil Young - Cortez The Killer 🔥
Just another example of our great music from the 70s! Heart of Gold is another great hit!
oh whow....now we are fading EVERYTHING! So we haven´t gotta ask the question of sense.
Very haunting yet beautiful.
Neil kept that old ranch hand , and paid him for the rest of his life. A class act all the way! Southern man and Ohio are worth a look!
Yeah, this classy guy used to blow up frogs by sticking firecrackers down their throats.
Heart of gold live from the same show.
Rabbit hole. 🐰 one of the top 10 ever to me
@dagm. says it all in your comments. ✌Jodi/child of the 60s
SAW NEIL 7 TIMES , HE IS SO DIVERSE , ACOUSTIC, ELECTRIC, TECHNO, "50"'s BEBOP "NEIL YOUNG AND THE SHOCKING PINKS", GRUNGE AND CSNY !!!! 😁😍🎸🔥🐐
A prolific great song writer.
Unplugged:)
This album, Harvest, is all fire. It is one of those must have albums in any music collection of that era. There is one song by Neil though that could be credited with ending our participation in the Vietnam War during his time with Crosby, Stills and Nash and that song was "Ohio". He wrote the song after hearing the news reports about the Kent State Massacre and rushed the song to release in record time. The song kept the massacre in the public consciousness with every play on the radio stations across the country.
"Heart Of Gold", "Hey Hey My My" ,"Rocking In The Free World" "Who's Gonna Stand Up" are all great songs from Neil Young.
Great list.
Run it back further and he tells about the old man that worked on the ranch that he bought in his early 20's.
Like a Hurricane - Cowgirl in the Sand - the list could take a DECADE to listen to.
Always had a soft spot for Piece Of Crap.
Needle and the Damage is done.
Check out the entire Harvest album.
This is the true “test” of a songwriter - can you captivate and audience with an acoustic guitar and your voice!
Fantastically perceptive reaction - Neil's electric Guitar work - is grunge personified -smacking his White Falcon about was emotional
1 hell of a rabbit hole to explore❤🎶💯👊👑
Unplugged my friend is the mtv show. Seen Neil Young 3 times live going back to early 80's. Despite a huge catalogue not one concert was even remotely close to the previous. Checkout Needle and the Damage Done and the mammoth electric track Cortez the Killer.Truly amazing writer, musician, artist and human 🤟🎸🇨🇦
Heart of Gold is another one his very best 💛
You're thinking of "unplugged"😊
Like A Hurricane!!!
When he says, “ Old man, look at my life, I’m a lot like you were, I need someone to love me my whole life through, take a look in my eyes, you can see it’s true,” ect ect.he’s comparing their two lives and saying they’re not that different on the basic levels. Back in the day, older folk were freaking out about how different the younger generation was. He’s just saying they’re not that different
Neil is so influential - truly a musician's musician. Linda Rondstat and Neil Young sang together on the classic "Harvest Moon" one of the prettiest songs ever made. Check out the MTV Unplugged "Harvest Moon." He has limitless classics. In this time of strife and pain and injustice, his song "Ohio" he did with 'Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young" (talk about a supergroup) is one not to be missed AND the story behind it is so deep and heartbreaking, it is up your alley to learn the whole story.
He also wrote the song "Ohio" about the Kent State shootings.
My favourite line in this song is "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you".
Unplugged!
MTV Unplugged. This is way before MTV. But Neil did do an Unplugged. Check it out and check out some live video with his band Crazy Horse, he’s a beast on the guitar.
I’ve loved Neil since Harvest came out.
Unplugged was a show frequently shown on MTV…it didn’t start before MTV. (Never mind…I misunderstood 😂 That’s what I get for driving 200 miles today, not eating since lunch and being up too late.)
Unplugged I screamed!
Hey hey..my my..rock and roll can never die..thanks the art ...Uncle Niel....🇨🇦
Great reaction.
Notice that he’s all by himself and the show was when he was closer to 24 than the 70’s he is now, so this is many years before MTV’s unplugged.
This was BBC live I think in 19 freaking 71 .. shout out to the BBC for the audio! I think you thinking unplugged ,, one of my favorite live performances .. just Neil and a guitar and his voice cheers
Performing at the BBC in london live.
I met Neil when I was recording his sisters first studio record. As a Canadian I can say that he is HUGE! Always tops the list of most important Canadian musicians. He’s “the godfather of grunge” and is spoken of in the same way Bob Dylan is.
I still play this song at my Saturday matinees, here in British Columbia.
It’s a huge rabbit hole you’re looking down.
Peace
Don't miss "The Needle and the Damage Done".
Check out Needle and the damage done! One of his best!❤
There's a longer version of this same performance, We're at the beginning of it he talks to the audience, And explains what inspired him to write this song.
Dude go deep down this rabbit hole. Worth going back to Buffalo Springfield but I truly became a fan when he was with Crazy Horse. Those early albums were fantastic enjoyed him with CSNY but always preferred him as a solo artist. Enjoy your dive into his rabbit hole. Peace
Like someone else said THERE IS A LONGER VERSION of that performance where he EXPLAINS THE LYRICS about THE OLD MAN on his ranch!!!
You gotta go watch it!
It was a show. It was filmed in London England and you are right it is very similar. Very personal and dramatic
Some of Neil Young's best stuff was made with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and the with band America. Check out "A Horse with No Name" and "Ventura Highway."
Great lyricist
"Needle and the Damage Done", then "Heart of Gold"
Remember this was fresh off the Vietnam War.
His album Harvest is top 5 for me
Never thought about Neil’s folk music but punk ethos as the granddaddy of grunge. 🤯 Great reaction.
Unplugged is the name of the show 😃
Great live version from the BBC in 1971. Try giving The Needle and the Damage Done that he performed at this same venue on the same show. Both these songs would be released on his Harvest album a year later.
Unplugged!!!
The closest I’ve ever come to turning into my parents, is becoming a big Neil Young fan. Besides great, traditional songwriting, he espouses strong values of integrity.
When Neil Young was in a band in Toronto (before moving to LA) the bass player was Rick James. Would have loved to hear that combo!
Neil Young is a top 10 singer/songwriter, IMO. He has a deep catalog
He recorded an album with Pearl Jam called "Mirror Ball" in 1995, and they even toured together! Listen to "I'm The Ocean", great song!
Kurt Cobain admired Neil, and quoted the lyrics of his song "Hey Hey My My" in his suicide note.
I don't find it depressing at all! I think he was just saying that the old man was a farm hand on a ranch and he (Neil) was a Rock and Roll superstar but in the end they are soo much alike !!
The song was in England done by the BBC, who did many of these more intimate style concerts there. He also performed his “ Heart of Gold “ there. Give it a listen!
Neil Young wirh Crazy Horse, any song they do!!! 😃
Young's most impactful songs are: Ohio (with CSNY) and Needle and The Damage Done (with his own band).
Rockin' in the Free World is a good gut punch too...
Love Neil and buffalo springfield
Just a man and his guitar, nothing else needed
I miss good old classic folk-rock music. Neil is one of my favs. He was big during the days of Vietnam, hippies, free love & weed. He was like Bob Dylan... poets with deep meanings in their lyrics & often political protest stuff. 'Heart of gold' is my fav.
I believe this was at the BBC in England, and the stage was "in the round."
Another one of those songs that didn't chart that well at the time but got played on the radio constantly, until it became known and loved by everyone.
Thanks for playing Neil Young; try some songs like "Cortez The Killerm', 'Like A Hurricane', 'Keep On Rockin' In The Free World' 'Cinnamon Girl', all
great songs. Thank you for all your hard work and for bringing us a diverse choice of music.
Wow. What an absolutely amazing reaction!!! KEEEP EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOUNG ❤!!!!
The Heart of Gold video from this same show is also great, Neil adds in the harmonica to his vocals and guitar.
Thanks man, good reaction - I'm not at the end yet, but "Unplugged" I think is the show you are referencing.
Lovely reaction. I always enjoy seeing people hearing this and seeing Neil Young performing this for the first time. It's so beautiful, clean, clear, simple (as your said), STUNNING!, and really emotional. I appreciate your reaction. ❤
Before this song, Neil Young explained the inspiration of this song, a caretaker on a ranch he had purchased in California. Neil Young has a classic voice. After 9-11, he wrote a song after the guy on the flight that crashed in the Pennsylvania field that fought against the hijackers on the airline. The song is called "Let's Roll." There's a documentary movie that came out a few years ago called Echoes in the Canyon that talked about the rise of folk rock in the 1960's. They talk about Neil Young and his influence on Buffalo Springfield.
I love this intimate performance with just Neil & his guitar (harmonica). He was only 27 when he recorded this song as a young man. Now he is an older man at 77 years old. Neil is a very talented musician, singer & songwriter. He was with the groups Buffalo Springfield & Crosby, Stills & Nash in the later 60's. Also had his own group with Crazy Horse for a few years. Neil went solo & has had so many great songs over the years. The albums "After The Gold Rush" & "Harvest" from the 70's are considered 2 of his best.
Thank you for reacting to our Canadian treasure, the great Neil Young! Look for "Heart Of Gold" from his 1971 concert, just Neil, his guitar and his harmonica(s). Watch the intro as well as the song, well worth it seeing some of his personality come out. "Needle And The Damage Done" is another song of his you must react to one day! Speaking of Grunge and Pearl Jam, in 1994 I saw both PJ and Neil Young in the same concert. Two great acts on one amazing night! From Buffalo Springfield you will want to hear "For What It's Worth". From Crosby Stills Nash and Young you will want to react to "Ohio"!!
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This was a BBC concert from the 70s. I'm pretty sure he did an MTV Unplugged in the 90s too
Neil Young was Grunge, before it had a name.
A great Canadian. Even his bad songs are pretty good.
Name of the show? MTV Unplugged. Song about his Foreman on the ranch he bought. The Old Man who had no idea who Neil is, couldn't figure out how a young kid could afford it. And it was during a time when older people looked down on young people. Calling them Hippies and Communist.
In another video, same concert, he explains who the old man is
Heard this guy on the radio my whole life and knew his name.
But I only saw him for the 1st time in that same video you watched here, a few years back.
I was instantly impressed with his live performance, it being as good or better than the studio version.
His voice control, emotion, lyrics and guitar work combined...WOW!
Very few have impressed me in a live performances like this.
Good catch on the 'Country Grunge' assessment.
All music has SEEDS from other genres & artists.
Unplugged
Unplugged MTV
Good call. This is garage music, in the best sense of the term. Just like Nirvana. Neil played with them a bit. Can't think of when or where, but they were aware of each other for sure. You have a great ear brother. Love the depth with which you persist and explore, and learn...and teach. Thanks man❤
Brilliant song!
One word. Albuquerque.
This is in the BBC studio in London England with a live audience.
Neil Young is great. He's like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, a writer. I love My My Hey Hey best and the Chromatics did a cover of it called Into the Black that I love.
OMG yeah... Leonard Cohen's What Happens to the Heart is like if Lou Reed had a love child with Bob Dylon raised by Johnny Cash.
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I think I always heard it kinda the same way you are hearing it. I was around 24 whin I first heard this song and it really stuck with me. now I'm a couple years away from fifty and it still resonates but from a different perspective. I'm always the first to yell, "Nah, man, the kids are okay!" when I hear old (my age) people trashing the younger generations. Yo, the kids are doing the same damn things we did, feeling the same damn things we felt, needing the same things we needed. they're just the same as us but young. we're all humans on this planet together on the same journey we just all started at different times
Neil Young is one of the greats. A great musical poet, an intense guitarist, and the first grunge-rocker. In the late 60s Young helped create the "American Roots-Rock" musical movement, geting back to a more acoustic style, rural themes, and Country/Bluegrass influences. The great CCR were also exploring "Roots-Rock". But the founders of "American Roots" was "The Band", often with "Folk-Rocker" Bob Dylan. Check out The Band live (1976) playing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and "It Makes No Difference."
You really should react to Buffalo Springfield: “For What It’s Worth”. It’s a classic. 😀 Also in the band was Stephen Stills, Jim Fielder of Blood, Sweat and Tears, Jim Messina of Loggins and Messina, and others.
Listen to Rockin' in the Free World. Pearl Jam has performed it live with him many times.
You are thinking of the MTV show Unplugged, which is also just a general term for when a normally amplified band performs either partly or fully acoustic.
You've got to check out some of his stuff with Crazy Horse, either live or the studio cuts are fantastic as well, which is what we heard on the radio and what we heard when we bought the record albums. I absolutely love the song Powderfinger.
It's set during the Civil War era and it just captures so much about so much, and it also really captures the essence of being young and in a difficult situation. Plus it's just a compelling and beautiful song and I do feel some proto grunge in it for sure.
the MTV show you're thinking of is Unplugged.
At the beginning of this performance, he tells the story of an old ranch foreman who worked on his property.
Watch his version of "The Needle of the Damage Done" live on the Johnny Cash show and wait for the spontaneous standing ovation. As an FYI, though his folk songs did inspire grunge, this is even more true of his noisy loud heavily distorted songs like "Hey Hey, My My” (the electric version) or the bleary, drug-soaked clinical depression of such albums as Tonight's the Night, which flopped because it was a little raw for the radio.
There's a version of this video that starts earlier in the show where he talks to the crowd.
the needle and the damaged done ,great song though short
Please do HEART OF GOLD next LIVE in England concert !
Niel is great. I love all of it. I will give you a couple of my favorites ❤"Don't let it get you down" ( this one has a live version that he tells a little joke before he does the song. "Needle and the damage done" and "Heart of Gold". This is a good start❤ I know you'll like them.