First time hearing Neil Young - Old Man 

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The Stephen Stills quote about Neil Young was that he was doing what he wanted to do: "play folk music in a rock band."

The beef between Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd was built up more in rumors than anything else. Ronnie Van Zant, Skynyrd's lead singer, was a big fan of Neil Young's music and they met together on more than a few occasions and were friendly with each other.

This performance (Feb 1971) was the very first time it was ever played live and the very first time anyone in the public heard it. It hadn't had radio airplay yet and the album "Harvest" was released 1 year after this performance. (Feb 1972)

I have no words each and every time I watch and listen....

As Neil talks about the inspiration of the song before the song starts with a bit more info: Young wrote this about the caretaker of the ranch he bought in 1970. The song compares a young man's life to an old man's and shows that the old man was once like this young man. The caretaker of the that cattle ranch? His name was Louis Avila. The ranch was the Broken Arrow Ranch, purchased for $350,000 in 1970. Reportedly, Avila was giving Young a tour of the place and asked him how a young man like him could afford a place like this. Young, aged 25, replied "Just lucky, Louie, just real lucky." Avila was quite bemused.

Heart of Gold from the same show is also fantastic, make sure to watch the long version where he fumbles around finding the right harmonica!

Neil to me is the definition of an artist... it's a classic song and i just love the way he presents the story... so glad we have these early recordings of songs like this presented in such a simple and perfect way live.

love that song got to see him live

great singer song writer for sure. Has a great catalog of music.

We love Alexis!

I literally just played this song this morning on my acoustic. Dejavu lol

Never tire of hearing that song.

It’s called Folk music.

I remember the day this album came out and have seen Neil many times, thanks!

Introduced my dad to this and he loved it,played it at his funeral,the words meant so much to us both

LOVE the Guild 12 string!!!

Love you guys, now a days its hard to find people who can separate things and simply enjoy stuff. Neil Young will always remind me of my father and will ALWAYS give great memories! I don't care what he does outside of his music! This song may make me tear up a bit because I relate the lyrics to him. Great stuff!

Note, for today's young people. Genius at work 😊

neil young, joni mitchell and gordon lightfoot all began as folk musicians in the same era/scene in canada.

I first learned of Neal after getting his "After the Gold Rush" album in the early 70's. He's been one of my favorite musicians ever since.

Hello. Enjoying your reactions. Great job to both you

I just love this song, and I must have watched this live video a bunch of times many years ago. Thanks for this! ❤️🎸👌

While Sweet Home Alabama was a bit like a clap back song, Young and the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd got along just fine.

As much as I love Nickelback, Rush, metal, country, the singer-songwriters are my most missed musical influences.

Neil Young's voice is the kind of voice that is very unique and very immediately identifiable to the artist, like John Fogherty and Paul Rogers. Speaking of John Fogherty, is there a chance you could react to Long As I Can See The Light or Born On The Bayou ? 🙌✌️

Jimmy Fallon did this song with Neil Young and it was a great duo

Fun Fact: Neil Young and Rick James were in an R&B band from 1964 to 1967 called The Mynah Birds,,,,, Neil Young has so many good songs,,,,, I just didn't open my last night and played Harvest Moon and Only Love Can Break Your Heart,,,,, people love those songs and I love playing them,,,, good stuff🎶🎶

Well, I was attending a Military School in Chatham Viginia. I remember playing his records while the breeze flowed through the window. Good memories of all the different artists I listened too. Also guys click the subscribe bell and put it at all. It helps a lot.

Such a unique talent and person... so glad i got to grow up with his music!!

Agreed, there's a lot of artists out there, love their music but their views may not line up with mine. Oh well. Still Neil was brilliant at writing songs and also with Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

6:44 She nailed it! She felt the vibe. That beautiful vibe. This is Folk, Folk/Rock. Singer/songwriter "types" def aren't limited to country music. Plus, Neil's accent would never fit into Country. Neil, Bob Dylan, and many others in the hippy era gave us wonderful stories, put to beautiful music. Folk Music. And, trust me, Country music lovers don't often care for Folk music. It's very different. And a Country music radio station would never play this. Also, I don't believe Neil would allow it.

Thanks for getting this favorite of mine on the channel.

Neil Young is a legend in the music world. He has been with Buffalo Springfield & Crosby, Still, Nash & Young. He has his own band named Crazy Horse. He is known for penning the song Ohio with CSN&Y. Also, he plays his incredible talent on the song For What It's Worth with Buffalo Springfield. He has so many incredible creations. We saw live & it was one of the best shows that I have ever been to. Thank you for sharing this one!

Saw James Taylor live. I would love to see Neil Young live.

Yes those were TV lights, having done the job back in those days the colour cameras took a lot of light and the set needed to be lit as well. It took three lights to light a person properly let alone the area around them. You had a key light just to see the person, a fill light on the other side of the face of the key light to fill in the shadows and a back light to help separate the person from the background.

Jimmy Fallon’s impression is great and when he Neil singing together it it’s amazing. I always send this to my dad every Father’s Day.

It seems this was recorded on February 23rd 1971, in BBC's Radio Theatre, London, UK, and broadcast April 1st, 1971. So this came 1 1/2 year after his performance at Woodstock with Crosby, Stills & Nash. Where they played in the night fro Sunday to Monday between 3AM and 4AM with an acoustic set, an electric set, and two encores, one acoustic, one electric - two of the pieces were Stills/Young only. Also released April 1971, their live album after Woodstock, recorded 1970 in NYC, Chicago, and LA, was called "For Way Street". This has a similar acoustic/electric pattern and recorded with more care than Woodstock. Awesome album.

Oh Canada❤

there is a good reason they do not want people to touch the Manatees they swim in close to boats and many are Hit and Killed because they are slow.

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FOLK ROCK!!

Show her life without you-Stevie ray vaughen she’ll love it it’s one of his more emotional song instead of this regular blues but it still shows how amazing he is at the guitar

Hi Alexis & Burch, I'm a musician from the 1970s thru 1990 and this was a great performance and all the things he did with Crazy Horse & CSN&Y are all wonderful. Now that Neil is 78 he is the song

This is my favorite Neil Young song. "The Needle and the Damage Done" is a very close second.

great performance great song. Alexis looks ready to pop! when's the baby due? congrats!

One of my favorite concert experiences was seeing Neil at the Dallas Opera House. One man concert. Did a set on baby grand piano. Another set with the acoustic and for the third set, he put some shades on, laid down some drums and electronic tracks, picked up old Black and jammed his ass off. 🤣 It was absolute greatness.

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It seems people usually mention Southern Man as the song Sweet Home Alabama was referring to, but there was a song named Alabama on his album Harvest that had a similar tone lyrically to Southern Man, but in a little different way.

Gotta say it, Neil Young is The MAN! Seen him live four times, and each show was completely different from the others, set list and bands included. His farm in California is called Broken Arrow, he still owns it. The Neil/Skynyrd thing was a creation of the fourth estate, they were actually on very good terms when Lynyrd Skynyrd had their plane crash. Ronnie Van Zant used to wear Neil Young T Shirts on stage at shows, and members of Crazy Horse, Neil's sometime backup band, wore Skynyrd T's during shows too. For something more rock oriented try "Rockin' In The Free World". Neil isn't "The Godfather Of Grunge" for no reason.

Of course it's good, it's Neil Young.

The Skinner Young “Feaud” was blown out of proportion,Neil was a pall bearer at Leonard’s funeral 😢, they were friends. ❤

Haha do you guys Realize just how large California is there is a ton of open land parks and Farmland.?

I have this in my library. More folk than rock

Neil Young is a GEM....

This song, Southern Man and Ohio are pure 🔥

Hey you should do “Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)” which was one of Neil Young’s best, either that or “The Needle and the Damage Done” or “Rocking in the Free World.”

Being a longtime Skynyrd fan, I started looking up more reactions to this song and Sweet Home Alabama to hear different people’s thoughts on the whole Neil Young/Ronnie Van Zant thing. Lol.. Oh, Neil Young’s song Alabama apparently inspired SHA to some extent as well.

Saw Neil 3 times 1986 Dallas and farm aids 1986 1987 Austin.

the OG of Grunge

I think "folk music" is a better description of this style of music..?

Mr. Young recorded country with Crazy Horse.

He wrote about being treated bad in the South when CSN&Y

The Godfather of grunge, hence why despite his music sounding a bit country, his voice ensures that it is firmly rock...that, and his guitar playing.

I swam with dolphins. That was an experience. I'd swim with manatees if it was safe for me and the manatee.

Originally Canadian

Young was an early folk-rock and could switch between traditional one man guitar/sing and many times harmonica as well as if in a Sixties coffee shop but then can pick up an electric guitar and make a unique form of heavier rock which foreshadowed the Grunge of the nineties to the point the Seattle Grunge scene took after his flannel shirts and unkempt appearance and somewhat imitated his sound. Hey Hey My My.

If we didn't listen to music by artist we didn't agree with, politically, we wouldn't have much music to listen to!

I would say folk rock, but especially in this song, the country vibe is strong. This live version is beautiful, but if Alexis heard the album version with the banjo, lap steel, and twangy backing vocals she might perceive the country in it.

Not been a sub since you started and had way less than 100 subs I would love to hear Faith no More edge of the world or Faith no More superhero Mike Patton voices incredible

Neil Young may well be the best lyricist of a generation...

I WISH "country" today sounded like this 😉

NY goes beyond country. Try out Rockin' in the Free World.

Play southern man for her 🤔

He's always been political going all the way back to CSNY and Buffalo Springfield. From "Southern Man" and especially "OHIO".

I wore the Harvest album out back in the day. I also don't care about the artist's politics. I love Tom Cruise movies even though he is a fruitcake off screen. Don't care.

Back when singers were actually able to sing without "studio magic." Just him an a guitar.

It's almost the same as Taylor Swift and Britney Spears singing together. 😂😂🤣 We are living sad times.

With Stephen Stills, Neil recorded under "The Stills-Young Band" name an album called "Long may you run." "Do" the track "Fontainebleau" (fountain blue) that comments on how humans have sunk deeply and the singer "left before he got out of it." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-29uiishq0bY.html

React to Neil Young and Crazy Horse....

Now a days??? This would be considered “roots music”

Neil read about the Kent State massacre in Life magazine and within 15 minutes he penned Ohio, the quintessential Vietnam protest song, and he's not even an American. 😊

lol He has always worked politics into his music and lyrics. That's not a recent development.

But there really wasn't a thing about them, Neil and Ronny Van zandt liked and respected each other, try to remember Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote 38 special 😁

LOVE THIS SONG. Don't care for his politics either. just like Kanye west early work but i dont care for him or his politics. Music is music.

Top song , Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa I'd rather go blind live, ACDC ride on 😊😊

I don’t like him because of his politics, but I love him because he was extremely talented.

I hate his politics , but grew up with his music .All these old songs comes with memories for me and I can't delete the memories ,nor how the songs make me feel. Keep on rockin in the free world!

Ted Nugent is another one 😎

I would never call this Country music. I would call it Folk Music.

I can't imagine calling Young "country". His songs are to complex. Folk, rock, even pop, but not country.

I also don’t mix music and politics. I don’t go seeking out the political views of other people in general, no good comes from it. This is one of many tremendous songs Neil has written over the years and my life would be worse if I decided I wasn’t going to listen to his songs any more

First time hearing Neil Young should be barefoot in one's room. No internet ! You're totally missing the point of what folk music is.

How do you two know eachother? I assume step-father/step-daughter?

Today we no longer get new country music. Today, country music is soft rock/folk

His voice doesn't sound like rock music.That's one of the reasons why he is called the "godfather of grunge"

It’s not country music It’s Canadian

It’s not country music! EDIT: “Country” music was originally the same as folk music, before music recordings became a big industry. After that it devolved into *exclusively* white, southern music of generally poor composition. “Folk” music kept quality high and commercialism low, and this relation remains, except that Country has improved, on the whole, in the last generation. Great reaction, thank you!

He's always been political - "Ohio" 1970

The reason at this time it was not country music, is because at this time country music sounded nothing like this song