This was BBC live I think in 19 freaking 71 .. shout out to the BBC for the audio! I think you thinking unplugged ,, one of my favorite live performances .. just Neil and a guitar and his voice cheers
Neil is so influential - truly a musician's musician. Linda Rondstat and Neil Young sang together on the classic "Harvest Moon" one of the prettiest songs ever made. Check out the MTV Unplugged "Harvest Moon." He has limitless classics. In this time of strife and pain and injustice, his song "Ohio" he did with 'Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young" (talk about a supergroup) is one not to be missed AND the story behind it is so deep and heartbreaking, it is up your alley to learn the whole story.
He recorded an album with Pearl Jam called "Mirror Ball" in 1995, and they even toured together! Listen to "I'm The Ocean", great song! Kurt Cobain admired Neil, and quoted the lyrics of his song "Hey Hey My My" in his suicide note.
Some of Neil Young's best stuff was made with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and the with band America. Check out "A Horse with No Name" and "Ventura Highway."
I met Neil when I was recording his sisters first studio record. As a Canadian I can say that he is HUGE! Always tops the list of most important Canadian musicians. He’s “the godfather of grunge” and is spoken of in the same way Bob Dylan is. I still play this song at my Saturday matinees, here in British Columbia. It’s a huge rabbit hole you’re looking down. Peace
You are thinking of the MTV show Unplugged, which is also just a general term for when a normally amplified band performs either partly or fully acoustic. You've got to check out some of his stuff with Crazy Horse, either live or the studio cuts are fantastic as well, which is what we heard on the radio and what we heard when we bought the record albums. I absolutely love the song Powderfinger. It's set during the Civil War era and it just captures so much about so much, and it also really captures the essence of being young and in a difficult situation. Plus it's just a compelling and beautiful song and I do feel some proto grunge in it for sure.
MTV Unplugged. This is way before MTV. But Neil did do an Unplugged. Check it out and check out some live video with his band Crazy Horse, he’s a beast on the guitar. I’ve loved Neil since Harvest came out.
Unplugged was a show frequently shown on MTV…it didn’t start before MTV. (Never mind…I misunderstood 😂 That’s what I get for driving 200 miles today, not eating since lunch and being up too late.)
Unplugged my friend is the mtv show. Seen Neil Young 3 times live going back to early 80's. Despite a huge catalogue not one concert was even remotely close to the previous. Checkout Needle and the Damage Done and the mammoth electric track Cortez the Killer.Truly amazing writer, musician, artist and human 🤟🎸🇨🇦
This album, Harvest, is all fire. It is one of those must have albums in any music collection of that era. There is one song by Neil though that could be credited with ending our participation in the Vietnam War during his time with Crosby, Stills and Nash and that song was "Ohio". He wrote the song after hearing the news reports about the Kent State Massacre and rushed the song to release in record time. The song kept the massacre in the public consciousness with every play on the radio stations across the country.
Watch his version of "The Needle of the Damage Done" live on the Johnny Cash show and wait for the spontaneous standing ovation. As an FYI, though his folk songs did inspire grunge, this is even more true of his noisy loud heavily distorted songs like "Hey Hey, My My” (the electric version) or the bleary, drug-soaked clinical depression of such albums as Tonight's the Night, which flopped because it was a little raw for the radio.
Before this song, Neil Young explained the inspiration of this song, a caretaker on a ranch he had purchased in California. Neil Young has a classic voice. After 9-11, he wrote a song after the guy on the flight that crashed in the Pennsylvania field that fought against the hijackers on the airline. The song is called "Let's Roll." There's a documentary movie that came out a few years ago called Echoes in the Canyon that talked about the rise of folk rock in the 1960's. They talk about Neil Young and his influence on Buffalo Springfield.
Great live version from the BBC in 1971. Try giving The Needle and the Damage Done that he performed at this same venue on the same show. Both these songs would be released on his Harvest album a year later.
FUNFACT....Lynyrd Skynyrds last album Street Survivors (1977) on the cover frontman RVZ is wearing a Neil Young shirt and in respect back there is a photo of Young on stage wearing Lynyrd Skynyrd Florida whiskey shirt that is styled like a Jack Daniels shirt! RVZ and Young had made plans to do some writing together but then we had the plane crash.
There's a longer version of this same performance, We're at the beginning of it he talks to the audience, And explains what inspired him to write this song.
Lovely reaction. I always enjoy seeing people hearing this and seeing Neil Young performing this for the first time. It's so beautiful, clean, clear, simple (as your said), STUNNING!, and really emotional. I appreciate your reaction. ❤
Like someone else said THERE IS A LONGER VERSION of that performance where he EXPLAINS THE LYRICS about THE OLD MAN on his ranch!!! You gotta go watch it!
The song was in England done by the BBC, who did many of these more intimate style concerts there. He also performed his “ Heart of Gold “ there. Give it a listen!
Thanks for playing Neil Young; try some songs like "Cortez The Killerm', 'Like A Hurricane', 'Keep On Rockin' In The Free World' 'Cinnamon Girl', all great songs. Thank you for all your hard work and for bringing us a diverse choice of music.
Name of the show? MTV Unplugged. Song about his Foreman on the ranch he bought. The Old Man who had no idea who Neil is, couldn't figure out how a young kid could afford it. And it was during a time when older people looked down on young people. Calling them Hippies and Communist.
I love this intimate performance with just Neil & his guitar (harmonica). He was only 27 when he recorded this song as a young man. Now he is an older man at 77 years old. Neil is a very talented musician, singer & songwriter. He was with the groups Buffalo Springfield & Crosby, Stills & Nash in the later 60's. Also had his own group with Crazy Horse for a few years. Neil went solo & has had so many great songs over the years. The albums "After The Gold Rush" & "Harvest" from the 70's are considered 2 of his best.
When he says, “ Old man, look at my life, I’m a lot like you were, I need someone to love me my whole life through, take a look in my eyes, you can see it’s true,” ect ect.he’s comparing their two lives and saying they’re not that different on the basic levels. Back in the day, older folk were freaking out about how different the younger generation was. He’s just saying they’re not that different
I miss good old classic folk-rock music. Neil is one of my favs. He was big during the days of Vietnam, hippies, free love & weed. He was like Bob Dylan... poets with deep meanings in their lyrics & often political protest stuff. 'Heart of gold' is my fav.
I saw him in a medium-sized venue around 1980 with Crazy Horse and they had just put out that album rust never sleeps. But anyway, Powderfinger is on that album and it is just incredible. And he performed it at the concert I was at. In fact he did the first part of it like the first part of the album which is more last is Tim acoustically, unplugged for example, and they had the stage so that when he got his foot stomping on the wooden stage floor it would sound like a really loud Kick Drum. And then Crazy Horse would do go sleep hacking vocals sometimes from behind the curtain although a spotlight would go on to the curtain right where they were behind it whenever they were singing. He did this song that you just reacted to, Old Man, in that part of the show and it was beautiful and he told a story about it was the first land he was ever able to buy land and he was surveying this old ranch and he was having a conversation with the old man that managed it. He apparently was quite moved by the conversation and then wrote this song. Powderfinger happens in the second part where Crazy Horse takes the stage and suddenly it's loud and very much rock and borderline punk rock at times, including in Powderfinger. It's such a great song. And check out this connection to Lynyrd Skynyrd! At one point, Neil Young shared it with his friend Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd because Ronnie got all excited when he heard a simple demo that Neil Young had recorded and they were going to cover it, and Neil Young was real excited about that. But then the plane crash in October of 1977 put an abrupt end to that, and it never got recorded. It was planned to go on their very next album after what turned out to be their final album Street Survivors. Can you imagine what that would have been like?!
Heard this guy on the radio my whole life and knew his name. But I only saw him for the 1st time in that same video you watched here, a few years back. I was instantly impressed with his live performance, it being as good or better than the studio version. His voice control, emotion, lyrics and guitar work combined...WOW! Very few have impressed me in a live performances like this. Good catch on the 'Country Grunge' assessment. All music has SEEDS from other genres & artists.
For Ronstadt, try "Blue Bayou" or "I've Been Cheated." For Neil, either go song by song thru "After the Goldrush" or, if you. Want to encounter him as many did, the earlier masterpiece album. "Everybody knows this is Nowhere."" If you'd rather cut to the chase, i recommend jumping straight into live versions (The longer the better) of "Cowgirl in the Sand," "Cinnamon Girl" "Down by the River," " Cortez the Killer" or, perhaps, "Tonight's the Night." Neil always began his shows w/an acoustic set, what you just reacted to exemplifies that side. But he always had a second set, an electric set, and that's where he would really shine, esp while performing w/Crazy Horse
Thank you for reacting to our Canadian treasure, the great Neil Young! Look for "Heart Of Gold" from his 1971 concert, just Neil, his guitar and his harmonica(s). Watch the intro as well as the song, well worth it seeing some of his personality come out. "Needle And The Damage Done" is another song of his you must react to one day! Speaking of Grunge and Pearl Jam, in 1994 I saw both PJ and Neil Young in the same concert. Two great acts on one amazing night! From Buffalo Springfield you will want to hear "For What It's Worth". From Crosby Stills Nash and Young you will want to react to "Ohio"!!
