when Muzu.tv has better quality and you don't have all those rotten parodies jumbled up in the searches?

It really is high time this place started to doing some half-decent research and not putting down comments that are half or complete bollocks about people. Especially when it concerns a shite description of Neil Young for heaven's sake.

And I thought this place was getting better. Jesus.....

This guy is your typical "faith based" musician". Doesn't use wireless or transistor gear because it breaks up the "pure signal" of a guitar - then shoves it through a 50K FET rig. Sigh. In his favour he has his Rainman tendencies - he owns over 400 Fender Deluxe amps but only uses one because the others don't sound the same. "I'm an excellent guitar player. Too much treble, mmaaah, mmaah"

Good grief, man, that's NEIL YOUNG you're talking about. "60s relic"?! I don't remember Paul McCartney releasing a song called "Let's prosecute the Prime Minister" about the Iraq war!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htUI8WiF14w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_cS_iQ-w0

AFAIC, Neil Young has a permanent free pass to say whatever the hell he wants. (I'm a fan. Does it show?)

And you do exactly the same thing (state your opinion) and somehow think yours is worth more.

He wrote something on a blog, he didn't issue a press release, or go on stage during the oscars to let everyone know. The only people who read his blog are hardcore fans, if you are making such a big deal out of it then it is your problem, even if what he says is wrong or not thought through very well.

To AC: He makes a comment agreeing with ONE thing Reagan said in the 80s, and he is now perpetually a Reagan supporter?!

My only thoughts about this are, why is the Reg reporting something so insignificant? The comments of indifference outway just about everything else.

Is the fact that YouTube is reminding people that the cantankerous old git *still exists* not recompense enough?

awhhh , is it not trickling down to him . He supported the dup who broke the unoins and he wonders why ppl do not buy his stuff and want to watch it free? I thought the same price for all was a monopoly or price fixing !

well gotta go , my boot is done cooking , time to eat

Not a fan I'm guessing... what puzzles me is why you care so much that you boil over just because a musician dares to have a point of view. So.. how does it feel to be the only person left that still likes George Bush? Because that's the only reason I can come up with for the diatribe, unless you really, really don't like the idea that all artists are paid the same amount per download, regardless of the record label they're legally chained to.

The big difference is the whiny old git blogged about how whiny and gittish he is - "I am me" didn't.

Poor old insignificant man, his gravy train has derailed and the toys are out the pram.

"Poor old insignificant man, "

Gawd, this guys a bit of a charmer.

"The big difference is the whiny old git blogged about how whiny and gittish he is - "I am me" didn't."

Did he? I was under the impression that he whined about how so many of his songs were used in YouTube videos and that he would never get any royalties for the thousands of plays that they were getting... which is a pretty fair complaint really.

Didn't he say "If all artists were compensated equally, and the people decided who had the hits and misses by virtue of number of downloads and plays, there could be no grounds for disagreement ..."

I don't see much whining involved there anyway, just a man who wants his fair due.

A Southern man don't need him round, anyhow...

all together now...

Bugger

> I don't remember Paul McCartney releasing a song called "Let's prosecute the Prime Minister" about the Iraq war!

Way back, he did release a song called "Give Ireland back to the Irish". Cool enough for you?

Young has a point.

Cripes, he supported Ronald Reagan; I almost forgot about that. I still don't know what the hell was up with that, though it does explain "Welfare Mothers Make Better Lovers".

On the upside, he did an excellent album of songs about why George W. Bush needed a good sound Constitutional ass-whipping... but then finishes off with a version of "God Bless America" so goddamn' smarmy that it busted my internal Smarm-O-Meter™. I _still_ don't know what the hell was up with _that_, either. Rest of the album was great, though.

If Sir (spit) Paul McCartney, the Formerly Cute Beatle, didn't want to make a record about why Tony B. Liar needed a good solid ass-paddling from All Britons, that's his goddamn' problem. (you'll note that's why I called him the Formerly Cute Beatle, as opposed to the Talented Beatle, who, unfortunately, was taken from us years ago).

I wish to hell Young would make up his goddamn' mind if he's going to be a free-thinking, free-wheeling Leftie or a standard-issue cranky-assed Ron Paul Libertarian. I don't care which, as long as he'd just make up his friggin' mind.

Oh, for my high school days, the days of "Harvest", when ol' Neil was a good solid hippie, the guy who put the balls into Crosby, Stills, Nash'n'Young, a guy who, at his gigs, would stop every second or third song and announce from the stage that "I think I'll stop and roll a number..."

...make a record condemning imperial occupation? Well, my apologies, Sir Formerly Cute Beatle.

I haven't actually heard this song myself, but knowing the quality of Sir Formerly Cute's output since becoming a Former Beatle, I'm sure it's nowhere near as ball-busting good as John Lennon's "Luck Of The Irish".