I’m so grateful knowing that I had the opportunity to see this when it originally aired years ago. This is a truly legendary performance and no matter how many times I see it, I never get tired of it!!
This moment changed my life. I'm a 12-13 yr old boy. Almost exclusively listening to pop music, and then I stay up late to watch the MTV Music Video Awards. I have to keep the living room TV volume down because my parents are sleeping. There is some kind of delay in the show where everybody is on stage, except Eddie. He stumbles out with a 5th of whiskey in his hand, clearly drunk out of his mind. He sets the bottle down and they take off. It was a revelation. It was barely controlled chaos. It was just the greatest thing I've ever seen. Before I knew what was what: I had the volume at full blast and I was bouncing around the living room going nuts. My mom came out of her bedroom with that, 'what in the hell do you think your doing' energy, but when she saw me rocking out, instead of getting mad she just smiled and watched me. When the song ended, I was huffing and puffing but elated. My mom said, "Baby, that's Rock-N-Roll. I know it's great, but try to keep the volume at half.", then she smiled and went back to bed. I was a Rocker from that day on.
Essa música quer me dizer algo. No ônibus indo vê uma amiga que não via a 30 anos, toca essa música no meu Mp3, no aleatório. Agora, almoçando com minha amiga, falo da música e ao abrir o RU-vid, a mesma música "salta" para mim. Bons tempos, boas amizades, e música insuperável.
He's played like this all his life. I'm glad other groups invite him to play with them because he's really hard to keep up with. You know the song Cinnamon Girl? Another kick ass song, well he released it in 1969
Young dudes in the presents of a guitar god. It’s never about the notes Probably one of the best rock performances ever!!!! Wow...The Grandfather of grunge...and grunge!!! freakin' great find my friend..!!!
Watching this again is timeless. Love Neil Young's spirit. Sharing this to my friends. Can't help it. As everyone has said "Greatest live performance." With Pearl Jam just makes it all the better.
Check "The Guardian" story about the recent Neil and Bob Dylan concert and his attitude about the sponsorship and just life in general. He'll never flicker or fade.
THE greatest live performance ever! Remember this was prime time LIVE tv. Pearl jam had just killed it with Animal and then GOD walks on! Neil just absolutely owned it - can you imagine something like this on the BRITS now in 2020?! We now get Ed Sheeran FFS🙄
I agree with every word. I remember watching this when it happened as I was a mega Pearl Jam fan and it introduced me to Neil Young and the rest is history. Lucky to see Neil Young play Hammersmith Apollo (mid 2000s I think) Was quite an experience. This stuff makes all the crap in life worthwhile.
I remember watching the live airing of this absolutely amazing gave me chills. Later I heard Peter Buck said to Michael Stipe," When Pj new album versus comes out they are going to rule the world" "How can we follow that" they did with"Everybody Hurts."
Oh man … absolutely insane, Pearl Jam turned out to be a great band full of amazing talent not just rockers but true musician's and Neil Young is Epic just wind him up and he will take you wherever the music wants you to go !
One of the many things that I've always loved about Neil is the ability to embrace those up and coming, the new, instead of clutching bitterly only to the past. Here he really sets his ego aside and let's Pearl Jam have their moment, yeah they were huge then but not Neil huge. It's flippin' brilliant.
Every time I see this I'm blown away as I was the day I saw it happen live. I miss bands destroying their gear. It's 2024 and I cant think of anyone wrecking guitars and keyboards anymore
I remember watching this performance live. The kids like to use the word “epic” to describe things. Well this performance was epic. Blew everyone away.
Neil Young's stage presence here is the stuff LEGENDS are made of. He stomps around the stage with the confidence of a God. I bet you every single person in that audience could feel the passion & electricity he was playing with. Absolute Monster!
A see a girl in the night with a baby in her hands, his performance singing his stance, and laugh between him and the guitarist, lost in Neil Youngs sound, luv this 💚🍀
This is Neil at his best. Relaxed but deeply present with lyrics that is definitely present today. His guitar? Magic, again and like my favourite Like a Hurricane from the Live Rust album.
To this day! When someone asks me Shawn. What the greatest Rock n Roll Performace you have seen. This is one I talk about! Never in the history of live or video performances. Will this be topped! Neil Young can't sing a lick. But Pearl Jam and Neil together. O. M. G. Every time I start having a bad Day. I will play this song! It puts a smile on my face. Shawn
The moment when Vedder finally realizes that he is n WAY OVER HIS HEAD. Grunge was invented by a 70 year old Canadian. Reality strikes hard, it strikes swift. Neil Young is God.
Dude,Neil is my all time favorite.hands down.some how never seen him.i was at the show.this was just shy of 730 live shows for me.thousands of musicians.never made it to saw my favorite.when Neil walked out I thought I was Gona choke up and fkn cry man.was jus beyond epic for me.greatest stage surprise to this day and I'm just over 1100 live shows now.dont think I will ever top it
My Mum threw Neil Young vinyl at me when I was a teen. I read about him in music magazines, about influences etc. Asked her who this dude was... She told me to listen.. and gave me a copy of harvest moon. Fair play... She took me to see Dylan three times too. Good mother.. X
I watched it live too back then but I appreciated it. Id never seen people really rock their ASSES if like this before. No pretense just RAW emotion. It makes me feel really old too with the lyrics referencing George H.W. Bush quotes from the late 80's "thousanf points of light", "kinder gentler nation (machine gun hand). Somebody 25 years old today probably only remembers his son as president George W Bush.
I saw this too, I knew of Pearl Jam of course, but as a young teenager just getting into rock, this was the first time I had ever seen or heard of Neil Young.
Addicted, animals stance how so many people fall foot , he's heavily medicated love the smile between the 2 when neils giving it big licks, he could make a guitar play just looking at one, love it here in Scotland 💚🍀
This is awesome. What happened with musicians today? Today's music lacks of passion. MTV also lost the direction. I miss the nineties, the last decade of good music. F... the new century
Only a stupid gen X-er (redundant phrase, sorry) would say a thing like that. Just like you dumb dumbs told us John Lennon had no musical talent, raped kids and believed in torturing prisoners and terrorism. REAL SMART STUFF (like wearing facial hair that no one ever wore because it was ugly, or saying everything is extreme or perhaps vertically challenged. Bunch of fucking Einsteins. You did NOTHING for our society in the way of fixing any problems, fighting for needed things. NOTHING. NOTHING!! Meanwhile: "GRUNGE"???? NEIL HATED GRUNGE. It wasn't even a bonafide genre, it wasn't sufficiently different than any other musics preceding or around it. It was just depressed kids without a clue (oh, REAL NEW!!) wearing dumpster clothes. That's right. NOT fashion, just Salvation Army handouts. And this is music? And you wanna say Neil spawned it??? HA!! FUCKING HA!!! NEIL SHOULD PUNCH YOU!! NEIL WAS GREAT! Cobain OTH was a sicko in a dress crying that success made him unhappy somehow (AND YOU DUMMIES took that as your code he spoke for????????????? HELLOOOO???!!!!) JESUS CHRIST!! GET A CLUE!!! Now if you'll excuse me I have others to correct, like the flummox heads who think the Earth is flat, or that Trump is an honest man with good intentions *ROLL EYES SO FAR THEY DISAPPER* And if any of you wonder why I'm so caustic towards your sucky PC-for-fun and no good reason generation, hey. You suck. You do! Whenever I meet one of you, you're damning OUR good stuff (boomers) while the total garbage that came after it, because the music industry went broke in the late 70's and couldn't MAKE any interesting new stuff...oh THAT crap you claim to be yours and SOOOO BETTER. *ROOOOLLLL EYES AGAIN* JESUS!!!! ..Tone deaf yutzes you are, telling me who wrote hundreds of songs that the SUCKY SHIT is the good music that finally happened after 1976 was over. FAAHK YOU. A POX ON A GENERATION THAT DAMNED WHAT WAS GOOD, SUPPORTED WHAT WAS CRAP, CALLED IT 'EXTREME' BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THAT MADE YOU CLEVER!! AND THEN CONTRIBUTED NOTHING TO SOCIETY AT ALL!
Remember seeing this at the time and being blown away. Had heard Neil Young but it was the first time I'd heard Pearl Jam - been a massive fan of them ever since!!
Neil Young brings life to wherever he goes, his voice alone is outstanding as is Eddie's & the other handful the world has. Eddie's happy, he has his favourite bottle of wine in hand & still holds his own, I absolutely love this !!!
I remember watching this on TV at my friend's house. His dad said, "Look at that old geezer on the stage thinking he can keep up with the kids!" As soon as Neil started stomping around kicking ass everyone was blown away. He had to eat those words.
It is the best ever performance of a live song. And i have heard some. Led zeppelin deep purple Metallica etc. I would give my life away just to be there live and hear it live.
I was lucky enough to see crosby stills nash and young back in the 70s lol i am old but concerts back then were amazing and soo much cheaper than now earlier this summer i saw finger death punch and bad wolf at a outdoor concert
vicki king I envy you for seeing Crosby Stills Nash and Young, big time....I´ve always loved their music but unfortunately I was to young to going abroad when they were active as a group.....
