I'm 72 years old (2024) and have watched Neil Young age like the finest of wines since "Harvest". "It's better to burn out then to fade away or rust". 60's child still running wild! Rocking on...👨🚀✌
I bought John Mayer’s first album in Tokyo in 2003 and I discovered Neil Young through John. Japan is my favourite place in the world for many reasons. Such a beautiful country, and amazing people ✌️
Neill'd passaged my Live also from 14 til today,i'm a 54 yo. male and german what means it's not my language and there have been too long distances in my lived Life where i have lost any Kind of music through! But as Iifted up again and the music got finding my soul again these "Heart of Gold",named Neill Young was gettin' back and has become a proofstone for how I feel a man has to think and musically, together with his lyrics we're a form of Symbiosys😊👍💔=💝!😉?
Across the water, a small village in a china where it is still stuck in the poor and sadness like JiaZhangke's film. Cortez the killer is my searching of heart of gold.
I saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse last night in Forest Hills , Queens , NYC at the old tennis stadium . This was the opening tune and it melted the place
Been listening to this since Live Rust. Saw Crazy Horse in concert in 1985 with a mate and after they finished 'Cinnamon Girl' my mate yelled out 'Cortez!' and they played it.😁
What’s amazing about this song is that the lyrics and chords are pretty straight forward - Neil wrote the song when he was 15. And who knows what it might have sounded at that time. But this performance- it’s a man who has lived a lot and puts such incredible emotional depth into his singing, the solos and interacts with the band so seamlessly. I like that I can hear the boy and the man in this performance
Cortez the Killer is an alternate universe that we get to glimpse once in a while when a musician finds a wormhole into it, but they can only keep the wormhole open for between 9 and 20 minutes or so. The musical soundscape of that universe is eternal and all-encompassing, and it would be incomprehensibly cool to exist there, but we can only get filtered short bursts of it. Thanks, Neil, for finding it.
Today my uncle passed away. He had corona, now i'm listening this song in loop. In this song is something like longing for good. I wish you all stay healthy, Lord loves each of you.
LIke I do when I listen to most of Neil's music. I'm 64, American, and a musician myself. I cover lots of his tunes. But lots of his stuff just takes me back to 69-71 so perfectly -- if you don't believe in time machines, take a very close listen.
how many times had he played this song already, yet here he plays it like his life depends on it! Absolutely amazing performance, when so many other bands literally go through the motions....
I got this album in 1992, and it's never left my walkman, mini-disc player, portable CD player, MP3 player, android device since. Especially this song. This song is high school, confusion, first love, nights wondering, darkness, dreams, this song is everything.
2024 .... en France... et ce morceau qui m'a toujours émerveillé ...les paroles..la voix...et ce jeu de guitare . Merci Neil Young de m'avoir accompagné durant ces 57 années !!!
Post-rock and grunge owed alot from Neil Young, his such a beautiful mess and full of emotions in his tune: his guitar and his vocals. Long live Neil Young.
Absolutely. The group Built to Spill covers this song in they album aptly titled Live, and if you listen to that and then hear some of their studio work you'll hear just how indebted their guitarist Doug Martsch is to Neil Young's sound and inventiveness
Sometimes when I forget how good Mr. Young's guitar skills are I remind myself with "Cortez the Killer" "Like a Hurricane " and "Rust Never Sleeps " rock on Sir !
It's almost to beautiful, so sublime that it's painful. Of all the versions of this song, on all the platforms, over all the decades this one feels the most perfect to me. What a gift to this world Neil Young is.
Who knew one click on an obscure song I stumbled into breaking a cycle of mindless binging RU-vid would inspire such emotion and be the most beautiful guitar song I’ve ever heard wow. What a song so much emotion in those sound waves.
I was there live. And it still shakes my soul today. Neil is by far, without exception, the greatest artist ever. I am so thankful to have lived in his time and to have been able to experience his greatness. No one can match his soul shaking magnificence. Thank you for being a part of my life!
One of the greatest TRUE ARTISTS in music history. Writes it. Sings it. Plays It. Feels It. And most of all conveys it... for all of us to enjoy! Damn I love this guy. 40+ years ago and still today!!!
Someone tried to tell me that there were no Latin influences in Rock online the other day. And they were serious. Latin music has been added to countless Rock and Country songs.
The first time I heard this song I was frankly hypnotized by the eerie sound and style of play. There is no one like Neil Young. He holds a special place in my heart and soul; growing up in the 70's. He stands out completely.
Neil Young - for me still simply the best. His music, idealism, straightforwardness, clearity, joy and depth. A lot of light shining through his words, music and eyes. Listening to this song and watching this performance ... I have no words to describe how deep it touches.
Total genius, my favorite performance of this masterpiece... everybody has said it all already, and it is clear this is something very special. All I can add, possibly, is that Crazy Horse know exactly what NOT to play, and how NOT to rush the pace at all. It's unreal...
As the say save the best till last was lucky enough to see Neil and Crazy Horse back in 93 at Slane Castle Ireland Van Morrison played the same day along with a few more ,had just turned 18 the day before what a way to start my manhood one of the best days of my life can remember it like yesterday now I'm 43 and iv got my ticket for Neil and Promise of the Real with Bob Dylan and his Band in July when the come to Ireland cant wait to see Neil again best wishes from Ireland and long may you run
The guitar work in this particular version is actually unreal. It's not that there's just a blistering solo in it, and there is, but it's some of the most technical, experimental, and emotional playing I've ever heard. Watermelon in Easter Hay kind of stuff. Dream gig/show for all involved.
Yes. I feel you are correct in your observation. Actually the whole band was clicking. Right time, right place, right mood of all band members. We are fortunate that it was captured on film/audio. I have no doubt that all of their shows were excellent, but I doubt they were this fruitful.
Oh how to have been there! EASILY the most influencial performane EVER. Love Comfortably Numb but this hits me in the guts evertime...forever new, forever relevent and never forgetaba bul...I am 72 years old.
Neil Young is a kind, yet deep sasquatch with a heart of gooey gold that some Canadian hunter trapped, shaved & taught the gentle Bigfoot how to play gnarly riffs with bar chords. Then he set the beast loose & told him, "Go tell nature's story." God bless Uncle Neil, the hairless sasquatch Goonie Goo Goo
Scott Pullen he does come from a whole different way of thought, just a whole different paradigm. Some might say he delivers these lyrics almost blandly, like a shopping list, but I know what he would say to this one: that there isn’t enough anger in anyone’s voice to do it justice, and it is not his place. He can however, as a story teller (a term he almost took religiously) remind people of what happened and he can use his guitar to honor and mourn the lost. I have also heard him say that lyrics are static, they are what he was thinking at a specific time and place, while the guitar is how he feels about it now, which is why some songs change a great deal over time. Very few people could break through the Sasquatch part f his personality, but I knew a dj that could get a good talk with him as long as he had final say on the cut. I think these epic interviews are everywhere now, but I don’t have permission to use the person’s name so I shall not.
He stopped by the volcano On the road to Tenochtiklan You need to make your pistol jump If the Aztecs won't respond Christ blead just to save all souls Victims of the throng Blood thirsty gods of Mexico Had to answer for their wrongs Niel he strummed his old guitar He sipped his cup of tea He loved the sight of bloody hearts It filled him full of glee Don't know if he was sober Don't know if he was high But when they tossed the bouncing skulls I saw a tear drop in his eye. Bachus had his followers I'm sure you will agree Dionisus met his match When niel went on his spreeI
Just a fake tag of the grandfather of Grunge. Mr Young was far beyond the tag and more importantly his music style. The man’s music was and is far beyond any grunge phase!!
I think the best guitar on stage was ... intro / sweetjane .. lou reed .. on rock n roll animal ... a master piece written by marsters .... it blows me away every time i hear it loud and clear ... and ive heard it 1#₩€##₩##00 times ..
I absolutely agree with you both. I feel a strong Gilmour vibe between their styles of soloing. Just a bend of a string with a slight vibrato of real emotional can mean some of the most ethereal experiences you'll ever encounter.
He opened his show up with this the other night. I’m 25 years old and went to the show by myself, was absolutely immersed from start to finish. I could not imagine how insane he was back during his youth. 😊
Many great musicians, but not many bands where the musicians are so in-tune with each other, on the same existencial plane as each other. The true meaning of a Super Band. Double Trouble proved to be such a band when SVR played a concert the night of his father's funeral, losing himself in the guitar.
I’m here because a friend posted an “inspirational quote” they read off of their bicycle tire. “On the shores of….” Verse. Neither of us knew where it came from so I googled it and came across this great tune!
In 1977...Neil was hanging out in Santa Cruz...... neighbors complained about Late Night Jam sessions at Jeff Blackburns Ranch.... We , the Locals were so thrilled to have Young play the local clubs for $2.00 That was Neils hold out ..... 2 bucks.........Thank God there were No Cell phones in those glorious days..... The secret would have got out in days.... it lasted about 4 months... neils guitars got stolen , people found out he was hangin in SC... and he flew away.... The Ducks have flown South for this lifetime... Aloha Brother Duck
I saw this tour on March 10, 1991 at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida. Social Distortion followed by Sonic Youth, followed by Neil Young & Crazy Horse. It just may have been the greatest concert ever.
Showin' my age, but Grateful Dead opening (yeah, OPENING) for Janis Joplin and her nascent Kozmic Blues band, Fillmore East, February 1969. The Dead were still into the Wall of Sound, played like two numbers in the whole set, but each was nearly an hour long, just improv over improv, Jerry and Bob never stopping, playing off each other and the whole band, rising, rising. But there were so many at the Fillmore -- oh what a time. (And in no way denigrating ANY show with Neil -- hard to get better, always innovating)
I saw the show in chapel Hill NC on this tour. Social distortion and Sonic youth. They were light weights compared to him. Neil is a level all his own.
Fuck these Godfather of Grunge thing. Sounds disrespectful and stupid as for me. Like if somebody praised The Beatles for inspiring One Direction. This grunge is just another subgenre and Neil is just one of all time greats. A great artist who inspired so many different musicians, genres and just people outside of any classifications.
of all the songs of electric neil, this really transcends the studio cut. it has the most feeling and most soul of all. the solos just drift over you and into your pulse. it's just ......there
Some people laugh at me when talking about best guitarists ever, I always mention Neil along with Freddy Mercury or Steve Marriot as among the best vocalists as well. They can laugh all they want but I KNOW I'm RIGHT. He's also one of the best songwriters along with Dylan, Lennon & McCartney
I'm sure I've been so very lucky to have been born in '54. Keith Moon. Hendrix, as mentioned Marriot, Lennon, Dylan, Mr Young (C, S and N) Jon Anderson, Ian Anderson, Joni Mitchell, Cream, Roy Harper, Floyd, The Kinks, Peter Gabriel's Genesis to name but a few and believe me I could go on and on but suffice to say Aren't we lucky? 😂
I agree, in like technical ability, sure there’s better vocalists, but the raw emotion this guy has, that vibrato just gives me chills every time, not everyone can do it like Neil or Freddy. It takes talent.
I’m sitting here on May 19th 2021, sobbing. i have listened to this song daily, for many years. It never fails to make my eyes water. Neil Young, you are truly the best.
The amazing thing about this song if you imagine the characters, is that they sound perfectly represents the art, sophistication, fear and desperation of each man. Montezoma and Cortez. Cortez who burnt his own ships, so his men would know they had to succeed or die. Montezoma fought for his home, but still wanted peace, supposedly killed by his own men in disgust "... suddenly such a shower of stones and darts were discharged that (our men who were shielding him having neglected for a moment their duty, because they saw how the attack ceased while he spoke to them) he was hit by three stones, one on the head, another on the arm and another on the leg, and although they begged him to have the wounds dressed and to take food, and spoke kind words to him about it, he would not. Indeed, when we least expected it, they came to say that he was dead." So tragic but confusing this must have been to see on either side, except for Cortez. "Better to die with honor than live dishonored", "I love to travel, but hate to arrive", "We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure." Cortez was a man getting his gold, and one wise enough to realize what his bottom line was, the point in which man will do scary things. What a Killer
Cortez was a greedy, gold hungry psychopath killer who through deception and disease brought down one of the most advanced civilization in the New World.
After a two year boycott of Spotify, in which he protested the site's allowing of disinformation and false narratives to poison the streaming site, Neil Young has officially allowed his music to return! This was the first song that I played to celebrate.
I was just a kid in ‘91 and bought weld double live album. I got it cuz of the cover, not know who Neil was. I listened to that thing over and over till I knew every song by heart. That’s all I had back then, music.
Fantastic version of a fantastic song! Surely Neil Young and his music have been part of the soundtrack of my life. It looks like yesterday I was with my friends sitting only few yards away from the stage for a memorable concert in Viareggio, Italy! But it was Saturday the 11th of September 1982.... 36 plus years ago!!!! Tears rolling down my nose... He came dancing across the water With his galleons and guns Looking for the new world In that palace in the sun On the shore lay Montezuma With his coca leaves and pearls In his halls he often wondered With the secrets of the worlds His subjects gathered 'round him Like the leaves around a tree In their clothes of many colors For the angry Gods to see The women all were beautiful Men stood straight and strong They offered life in sacrifice So others could go on Hate was just a legend War was never known People worked together And they lifted many stones They carried them to the flatlands And they died along the way But they built up with their bare hands What we still can't do today And I know she's living there She loves me to this day I still can't remember how Or where I lost my way He came dancing across the water Cortez, Cortez What a killer Yeah dancing across the water Cortez, Cortez What a killer, killer He came dancing across the water Cortez, Cortez What a killer
Wonderfully said. All the best. 60 years old here. Where have the last 45 gone. Neil remains THE artist of my life. "Never knew a man who could tell so many lies. He had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to. But I know it isn't me and I hope it isn't you.....you're all just pissin in the wind. You don't know it, but you are, and there ain't no one like a friend who will tell you 'You're just pissin the wind'." Sublime brilliance when he was just a kid. His lessons have endured and grown more profound with each new one over the years."Long may you Run" sir.
@@chrisweidner4768 Ambulance Blues is very intense. Thanks for turning me to it. Jerry Jeff is a hell of a lot different. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EZDBXm11WXY.html
What’s your interpretation of punk rock??? Why I ask is because the term “punk rock” has been watered down so much! Through the corruption of the markable of a so called product
What's cool about Neil was that he was never demissive of punk rock like many of his contemporaries. His collaboration with Devo showed his openminded nature.
Kids today , I ask you PLEASE have a listen ;cause this is the real stuff.....this is what a musical soul sounds like...can’t make my mind up between this and’ Like a hurricane ‘. Anyway they are all wonderful, when we loose these guys who in the hell is there to replace them......? God bless you Neil.
The feeling he inspires are that of the slow blues players, but he did it to rock, I remember when I figured out, when giving a talk- NOT TO BE AFRAID OF SILENCe while working aheasd on ones next thought- Neil is like that- he could stop for a minute or two, and wee would be glad- because , the pause was leading to his long climax.. repeat and rinse- Think of your best men mentors/ they could let an idea, SIMMER!!! Maybe 40 years ago I loved Santana - I knew he was not fast- but HIS TONE, etc….
When learning to play guitar 40+ years ago, Neil was an inspiration to me - mostly because he didn't play lightning-fast arpeggios and fancy chords. He got to the root of the guitar while supporting it with his soulful voice. I didn't follow him down all of his paths, but I love to return to the trailhead and drink from the well every so often. One of a kind!! Thanks for the video!
the beginning guitar riff keeps shining bright in my head. Just have to play it again and again .....can't get it out my head. such an incredible song.
