Music was a fantastic part or expression of the 60's but it didn't create the mind-set of that time. It was a part of it, though.

The mind-set of people now is quite different: hence the music of nothing worth listening to unless I hear good soul (not the "soul" music put out today)like Marvin Gaye or blues.

I try to get the most from music, and not the most music that I can get.
Music, which is noise, is part of the spiritual being and by what people listen to can give a person a lot of information to catagorize and judge a person for 1st impressions.
But do not exclude the sounds of a forest(with as few sounds from civilization)or the rain or the beach and other places are as good as any piece of music written by mankind.

Like a setting sun, Neil's just fading away.

169 or 163 posts. 4 censored? Make up your mind. No one under 40 understands the point of this article. Brain dead, tone deaf generation bohemian psycho just doesn't understand.

Neil is oh so right on this one. In the last 20 years media gatekeepers have abused their power by using bad music the same way they do fake news and opinion---to champion society's crooks, might makes righters and lowest common denominators so as depress salt earthy masses.

Can't write message songs when the zeitgeist is mentally ill and moguls sell sounds and not songs. Civilized pop culture has been MIA or DOA ever since advent of rap & hip hop. 60s, 70s, 80s ear candy or classic rock is labeled old school. Now brain dead and tone deaf rule.

"i heard Mr. Young sing about her
i heard ol' Neil put'er down
well i hope Neil Young will remember,
a Southern man don't need him around, anyhow."


i think Sweet Home Alabama could be an national anthem for any seperatist Country-- even Israel. i would love to hear that song sung in Yiddish!

"where the skies, they are so BLUE!"

Neil's entitled to a moment of pessimism...but he's so wrong...in fact...it may be that music & poetry and art are the only things that ever change the world. to wit the amazing "and world changing" video clip...Yes We Can...here's the link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY
Keep looking for that lyrical miracle that just could be the shot heard round the world!!!! you listening Neil?

music and srt are the beauty of mans soul- whether about joyful things or sorrowful things.
Music still touches my heart and soul and mind and humanity.
Many of Us miss J.Lennon- we could use somone to take the torch NOW.
Many of us have stayed true to our ideals but the organization we invested in have turned to clay. NOW, Useless. Green Peace- usless. ACLU- useless, UN useless, WHO -useless...
Why ...because they have all missed the bigger picture they all should work together to move US forward. We aren't gone- but the ones who claim our memberships have.
Prime Directives...
Human Rights
Human and environmental welfare.
I don't need a thousand memberships to confuse the issues. FOCUS! FOCUS! FOCUS!
(or is that 'Hocus Pocus' by Focus)

I was thinking about what a friend had said. I was hoping it was a lie. . . Don't let it bring you down. It's only castle's burning. Just find someone who's turning. And you will come around. . . Tomorrow see the things that never come today. . . Music can't change the world? Only if you're tone-deaf.

That may be true. I don't know. But still, you have to try.

“CAUGHT BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE”

By: Billy Stone


HE WAS JUST ONE MORE WEEKEND WARRIOR
TRYIN’ TO MAKE ENDS MEET
‘TIL HIS UNIT GOT CALLED UP
NOW HE’S FIGHTIN’ OVERSEAS
BACK HOME HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN
WORRY, WEEP, AND WAIT
CAUGHT BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE

TRADING TROOPS AND TREASURE
ON SOMEONE’S SO CALLED PLAN
OF BLOOD AND OIL AND SAND
LED BY LIES AND BOTTOM LINES
THIS WORLD WILL REMAIN
CAUGHT BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION I KNOW WHERE THEY ARE
THEY’RE HIDDEN DEEP IN SOME MENS’ MINDS
DEEP IN SOME MENS’ HEARTS
PEACE IS NOT AN ANSWER
WHEN WAR’S A CHOICE YOU MAKE
CAUGHT BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE



Copyright 2004 Billy Stone Music/ASCAP
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
4-15-04

So just because he is a musician he shoudn't be in the least affected by world issues? My husband had spent
two years living in Toronto before I met him and he
brought all of his Neil Young albums with him.We were
very young and I was into Motown at that time,we fought
often about musical tastes.As I grew older I started to
understand that Neil Young was always Neil Young. He
had always tried to carry the world's problems on his
shoulders.That is a great concept but I think we have
to at least,sort out our own lives first.My husband still sneaks off for his re-union with his youth as I strut
what is left of my stuff to Marvin Gaye's "What's going
on."

Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.

He's right. He knows the scene is dead.
A big focus on science and innovation is indeed necessary to save the planet and our civilization.

We can write new songs (and I do) after we find solutions to some of the epic challenges we and our children are now facing.

When we figure out how to save our asses from the problems we have created and inherited, and ethical, socially responsible practices replace the greed oriented, mass-consumer, trash culture that now prevails, a new scene will emerge amid a new inspiration. A renaissance.

By the way Neil knows, along with Dan Akroyd that UFO's are infact real. Anyone not up to speed on this needs to study up. I honestly don't think it is our government or any secret government entity horse assin' around with super science and breakthrough quantum physics. It is Aliens.
Anyone that reads this and follows up with some research on current events may just encounter some astonishing information that changes their life. Once you know about some of what many have seen or experienced recently you will find yourself on a search for answers. Again I've got your answer, It's Aliens.
I saw my first two UFO's this last summer. It was a very clear night and knowing what many people, all over the planet were witnessing I thought hell I might just see something amazing myself up in that vast dark sky. I was looking up, half expecting to see something strange and soon, sure as can be a brilliant light much brighter than the brightest star cruises across the sky at a very high rate of speed. Fifteen minutes later another object, even brighter, like a small white and gold sun, far brighter than any star and much faster and lower than any satellite soars silently from one end of the sky to the other, west to east. This is no known aircraft, absolutely unlike anything I have ever seen before and I have been a passionate sky watcher all my life.
I'm certain we have entered a new era here.

Art trumps politics. If an artist has a social conscience, it'll show in his work naturally. It doesn't have to be forced or heavy-handed. The intelligent listener will know what to do with it.

Neil does know a thing or two about artistic integrity.