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Neil Young at our fingertips

31 Jul, 2021 | Author: Shar | 1 Comment »

Who would have imagined a future in which Neil Young is there before us. At the touch of our fingertips we can take a journey through the past. https://neilyoungarchives.com/ This old beast of a website is creeping along, an ancient treasure chest of buried memories. Layers upon layers of dusty dreams deferred. And this quirky [Continue]

Happiness hoped for in New Year

24 Dec, 2017 | Author: Shar | No Comments »

Happy Xmas, Ymas to all the Zumans along the Human Highway. 2017 was a rough year for this planet. We could expand on this ad nauseam. Instead, here’s an excerpt from a Christmas story by Scott Young about his son, Neil Young, found in the book: “Home for Christmas, and other stories”  on the blog, “The Dusty Bookcase” [Continue]

Powderfinger revisited

03 Oct, 2017 | Author: Shar | No Comments »

Check out the beautifully done video of “Powderfinger” off Neil Young’s latest release “Hitchhiker.” Haunting, watercolor scenes, tells the story we have heard for so long. Neil writes, cryptically: “You fortune tellers, take my hand, see what’s there. Its sifting sands – The Visitor…”       [Continue]

Children of Destiny

30 Jun, 2017 | Author: Shar | No Comments »

Enjoy the latest musical release by Neil Young and the Nelson brothers from Promise of the Real, along with your Independence Day festivities. According to Rolling Stone,”Children of Destiny”  is directed by  Shakey Pictures, combines footage of recent large-scale protests alongside patriotic imagery like children waving American flags and Fourth of July cookouts. [Continue]

Remembering Rainer

01 Apr, 2017 | Author: Shar | No Comments »

  In memory of Rainer B. (The Baron) on the anniversary of his journey to the celestial Human Highway. Sept 30, 1964 to April 2, 2014 German physicist, administrator of Human Highway and Bad News Beat, dreamer, music aficionado, devoted Bayern futbol fan, quirky nerd with brilliant sense of humor, fierce friend and the perfect stranger, like [Continue]

RAW

19 Feb, 2017 | Author: Shar | 1 Comment »

Pegi Young sings of the heartbreak she endured when Neil Young cheated on her and their decades-long marriage and left her for Daryl Hannah, in her new album: “RAW.” You can listen to a National Public Radio interview with Ms. Young at: http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/516064686/pegi-youngs-new-album-is-emotionally-raw She sings: “Why’d you have to ruin ,my life, why’d [Continue]

Videos

Happiness hoped for in New Year

Happy Xmas, Ymas to all the Zumans along the Human Highway. 2017 was a rough year for this planet. We could expand on this ad nauseam. Instead, here’s an excerpt from a Christmas story by Scott Young about his son, Neil Young, found in the book: “Home for Christmas, and other [Continue]

Powderfinger revisited

Check out the beautifully done video of “Powderfinger” off Neil Young’s latest release “Hitchhiker.” Haunting, watercolor scenes, tells the story we have heard for so long. Neil writes, cryptically: “You fortune tellers, take my hand, see what’s there. Its [Continue]

Children of Destiny

Enjoy the latest musical release by Neil Young and the Nelson brothers from Promise of the Real, along with your Independence Day festivities. According to Rolling Stone,”Children of Destiny”  is directed by  Shakey Pictures, combines footage of recent large-scale protests [Continue]

Pix-of-the-day

Human Highway Gathering

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Setlists

Revolution Blues

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• Bethel, New York Show: Long May he Run, setlist, videos
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Interviews

Record store bootleg blues

        A 1971 video of Neil Young confiscating a CSNY bootleg album from a record store was making the rounds on social media this weekend. The rare footage shows Young meandering through a record store, discovering bootlegged albums, including a Dylan album, and leaving the [Continue]

Rev. Billy talks about playing with Young at Jones Beach-Earthalujah!

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir opened for Neil Young Tuesday, July 21 at the NYC-venue Jones Beach. Accompanying Young is the band “Promise of the Real,” with Lukas and Micah Nelson, sons of Willie Nelson. The Stop Shopping Choir are singing activists who began their life [Continue]

Young joins Vermont’s Fight against GMO

    Young holds news conference prior to the Vermont show Sunday, July 20. He meets with Gov. Peter Shumlin, wants to help him beat Monsanto. The GMO labeling controversy……. He said he is just a rock ‘n roller who wants people to know what they are eating. Vermont [Continue]

More on the Monsanto Years: Trailer

Here’s a mini-documentary on  Neil Young’s new album The Monsanto Years –  a behind-the-scenes trailer shedding some light on the album and how the collaboration came about. Lukas and Micah Nelson are members of the Promise of the Real are longtime Young fans, as you will find [Continue]