Living with Neil Young
Here is a blog dedicated to Neil Young's forthcoming anti-album, "Living with War." It includes a long interview he did with CNN, a task made excruciatingly difficult by the fact that he was the only sentient being taking part in the conversation.
Young has never been a knee-jerk lefty. His 2001 song "Let's Roll" showed he was deeply affected by the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In the '80s he was seen as something of a Ronald Reagan supporter. Which makes it all the more sad that he's going to be dismissed as a burned-out hippie when "Let's Impeach the President" hits (or, more likely, doesn't hit) the airwaves a couple of weeks from now.
posted by Dan Kennedy @ 9:47 PM
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6 Comments:
It's easier to dismiss him than that. I'm not sure he became an American citizen: "If he can't vote, why care?" Somehow the first Rolling Stone article about the song left that tidbit out.
I'll be curious to see the actual product, free of spin any way.
Utterly amazing interview technique.
Sabila Vargas: "You've got one song that's called 'Let's Impeach the President'. What is this song about?"
I wonder what Neil would have answered if he wasn't "on the record"?
Well, DUH, Sabila - the song is called "Let's Impeach the President"! What do YOU think it's about?
Sheeple: Watch the CNN interview if you can. Young talks quite eloquently about being a Canadian citizen, coming to the United States 40 years ago, paying taxes here, having American kids, etc., etc. You can buy it or not, but he addresses the issue head-on.
Lex: "Kinder, gentler machine-gun hand" is clearly a reference to Bush Sr., not Reagan.
Even Richard Nixon has got soul
Dan, how does being deeply affected by 9/11 preclude one from being a knee jerk lefty? As a knee jerk lefty, I'm offended. You're implying that 9/11 didn't affect me.
I'm a fan of the Boston/Cambridge/Somerville folk scene, not exactly a hotbed of conservatism. Everybody and his brother has at least one traumatized 9/11 song and is still performing it in concert.
The link has moved, oddly, to 2007:
http://livingwithwar.blogspot.com/2007/04/cnn-interview.html
This might work as a direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/v/7utryGZ25dg
That interviewer is appalling.
I'm glad to see Neil Young being upfront about being Canadian. Now I have to wonder if he was equally upfront with Rolling Stone, which should have known anyway, and the magazine just decided it somehow wasn't relevant.
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