ntm: a song of fourteen minutes and 33 seconds...

Neil, an 18 minute song. Is that a movement, or what. "Trying to Help the People get the drugs tot he street allright"

I mean I love the sax, and the somewhat zombie rythmic beat of the song, but it's a marathon rant.....

18 minutes....

I got it for Xmas. I'm skipping over the 18 minute song, to listen to Shining Light. It's just over 4 minutes. 4 pages of words..... I'm sure I'll get into it.... I would of loved to see "Greendale" live, but recorded as a record as a whole, I don't believe it to be youngs best work... Living with War, however necesary, sure gets depressing... Neil has always pulled that depressive side of him off, as it quickly rolls down his back, as anyone that's . Listened to Neil... Prairie Wind, a masterpiece... Maybe I'm pre judgeing Chrome #2 because of my love for PRARIE WIND, or the fact I've never heard Chrome before... He seems to be in some sorta race with Dylan, who can make more records. Records are like my friends. I'd rather have 3 good friends, than 10 mediocre ones... Lifes too short... Mediocre can be good tho, I suppose.


I sorta figured how, the phenomenon about talking to your favorite artist. And not being able to say, always feel comfortable with words. I think, when you've listened to a persons, works in great detail, especially when they write most of they'r own stuff, and picked they're own covers, you allready mostly know that person.... The songs seem to be forever, imprinted in them, like a spike grown into a sugar maple tree, and it's so easy to relate, words seem fruitless, or unnessesary...

rb

He did have that really upbeat song on his first album...Last trip to Tulsa...if you ever need a ride there...be sure and let me know...

I like the song "last trip to tulsa" probly mostly because I can play it on the guitar, and for some stange reason, have memorized all the words....

It's most like better compared to Alice Coopers "Balled Of Dwight Fry" as anyone that goes chopping down Palm Trees to watch them fall on a lyers back, is prone to being committed... ( rb's opinion. )

For some strange reason I've all the words to Alice's ( as in Cooper ) Ballad of Dwight Fry memorized, and it's an easy guitar piece as well... I like the Dead Babies, song too, so I guess that qualifys me for being sick and twisted??/ I dunno... ?

Music is just sometimes plainly put, a stage, a blank canves, to make it anything you want???

My favorite song on Neils first L.P. simply called Neil Young, is "The old Laughing Lady"

If you haven't caught Neils new movie, "Heart Of Gold" ya need too... Best works Neils done in over a decade. His wife, seems to really be a catylyst to the music... Goofus, after everyone's left, and Neil is sitting all along in the Rhineman Auditorium in Nashville, he does a obviously live version of that song. It really hits home with me, as it always reminded me, of some old lady I had come to know and love. Upon my mother's demise, some few yrs. back, I now realize the song ( to me, ) will always be about my mother.....

Can't call pretty sadie, she don't live here no more..... It breaks my heart, but sometimes, tears are good, for all the other worldly shit that ails you....

The old laughin lady, she aint around no more. My Mom had this terrific sence of humor... After all, she raised me.... ":-)

Thanks for the peep, Goofus.... And Happy New yrs. to boot!!!

Sincerely/Rb

Happy NY rb! That's really weird cause I was listening to The Ballad of Dwight Fry on the way to work (and singing along). I've never actually tried to learn it. What are the chords?

I wanna get out of here...

Chords to Ballad of Dwight Fry

E/C/D/E---- then it goes to E/G/D/C/E


the intro, followed by the chorus, there are chord changes in the bridge of the song, I usually fudge, by finding an F say on the 5th or 6th fret, and just hammer it, till it goes back to the chorus again...

Rb: That's how I learned playing it from ear, and I was told by a working musician, that's it. I used to love, jamming that song with him, he me, as he knew the bridge and could really wail it, & I could do the accoustic part, and not only sing, and sound insane, but remember all the words...

Best Regards/Rob

You can also just hang on the the C chord when playing the bridge..... It makes a good accoustic, that is sorta unnoticable, to any novice. It really sounds great, when you learn to walk down that E chord to C... Hard to explain?