Listening this evening. I visited my dad age 95 today in hospital. He has got corona and some serious heart issues. He is very weak but still alert. It seems that I am still his little boy. I am turning 60 next year. Neils music drags me back for at least 30 years....time ist flying by...🤗...I am very thankful for my dad and Neils music ❤
@DrPsychedelic He did? That would be nice to hear more of - as I recall Lynard Skynard and Mr. Young were not always best friends... ("Well I hope Neil Young will remember / A southern man don't need him around")
@@Jonas013 yep. The listener is left to theorize about who was coming after the narrator. People just going about life when war happens. Could mean civil war given the song name. Could be either north or south. Bad stuff was happening on both sides for people who just wanted to be left alone. Haunting song. Always brings tears for this 66 year old guy. But yeah, as the story goes, it was to have been on a Skynyrd album but Ronnie died in the plane crash (per Wikipedia),
It's a long, long way from C, S, N and Y... But Damn can Mr Young kick some Rock and Roll butt..Still in 2024... Or What.??!!! Hell Yeah.. Mr Dilly.. Approved.!!! 👍 🎸 😎 ❤️
Powderfinger ... One of the best lyrical narratives ever written in the history of songwriting. Neil Young and Leonard Cohen are divine masters of their craft. What a pleasure it is to be gifted with such incredible art and music. Thanks Neil.
I took a Greyhound to Charlotte to see Neil and the Horse for the Freedom tour when I was a young man of 17 years. I wouldn't trade those minutes for any amount of money. Some things are priceless
All these years later and I still get goosebumps when I hear this song. After The Gold Rush always affected me the same way. Neil Young will never die.
I’m listening to one of my favourite tunes by Neil Young in this crazy post pandemic world of 2024. Had the privilege of seeing him do this live some years ago in St. John’s.
REAL ROCK: Not nervous, real emotion, real voices, real instruments, memorable melody, not cheesy or cheap, not made just to dance or jump around to. I.E. From someone who was THERE at the birth of real rock!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn, that's one of the saddest and most beautiful songs I've ever heard. I'm old, must've listened to it a couple hundred times down over the years and it always moves me. I think it's one of Neil's best, though I'd be hard-pressed to pick a favorite. Thanks for the upload, this is a great performance of it.
Okay, his voice is...different. When he is singing with CSN it adds depth to the harmony that defies explanation. His lyrics contain a visual quality that's truly unmatched. He finds the perfect words that take you to another place emotionally. He's probably the greatest songwriter of h iui s generation - and that's really saying something. Listening to a Neil Young song can change my mood entirely in 3 minutes or less. He really IS in a league of his own.
I agree with it being the best Neil song for sure. I think it is certainly top 10 all time. I don't believe it's the best song of all time though.. Like a Rolling Stone is the best song of all time in my opinion. Neil Young and Bob Dylan have at least 10 out of the 20 best songs of all-time just between them, and the fact they're both still touring should be celebrated more than it is.
I really love this song for so many reasons; the main being it is king in putting you THERE. You can look around and see the mountains, trees... and the boat... I am transported completely each time. One of Neil's best, agreed, but they all are. It just depends on where and who you are that day. Thanks to Neil Young for so much great music!!
I'm 59 and was introduced to live rust at the age of 14 living in Westminster MD. so glad I foúnd Neil's music , it's so incredible. He's a master at his music. I today still get lifted when I hear that rust . I'm sure there's a lot of people that feel the same.rock on Neil!
Neil restores my faith in a lot. The depth of a human. He is my idol I love him so dearly 💕no pretense w this real man. Role model. Legend. Musical genius, truth seeker, Icon … etc etc
Most beautiful solo I've ever heard played on guitar. One of my top 3 musical influences as a guitarist of All Time along with Jimmy Page, and David Gilmour. Always playing what they feel instead of what's popular. That kind of playing is just what Musical Freedom means to me!
I used to be a drummer in a band that was put together 1983, lasting about eighteen years (without any changes in the personnel). Our setlist during those years of course evolved as the amount of our own material grew - but there was always a core of cover songs we played. Two of those were Neil's: Powderfinger and Like A Hurricane. And they were always a real, real pleasure to play.
After listening to him for thirty five years I finally got to see him in concert what made it even better was my wife and daughter were with me. Just wish my brother would've gotten to be there rip.
From the First Note, and following with each chord change, this song reaches out to grab your very Soul.. The Imagery of the lyrics creates a Visual perspective of a young life lost to the danger and confusion of the moment, never to be fully realized or ever completely understood.. Neil's ability to Capture Moments such as these is what places All of us in that time and place, and sets him Light Years beyond all other Singer/Songwriters.. The Raw Emotion in his vocals, and in his musicianship, creates an almost Ethereal quality that just sends Chills into the listener.. It's such a Unique perspective, and is something that only Neil Young seems to have the ability to achieve.. His work has that certain Power to it that has been the primary source of his music, Song after Song.. Just Amazing... Lary
In real life though neil young would have run away because he is a cowardly liberal who wouldn't even own a gun I think ted nugent would have taken the shot though lol
I discovered this song back in 1995 when I was 21. At that time, my father was dying of cancer. I took a lot of comfort in listening to this song then and I still do now.
I love Neil Young because he played what he wanted to play, not what the record labels told him to, and they did indeed try to control him if you know his story. Some of his oddball albums I did not like, others I loved, but I respect this fellow musician for his integrity to play his music. Now, if you've read this far, let me share that Neil is known for not always having the most well tuned guitar, as some of his recordings will testify. At the beginning of this video, Neil tunes his obviously out of tune guitar, which was used on the previous song too. So when he tunes his guitar, by ear mind you, he gets it close enough and says "Perfect!" and his band mate laughs knowing the backstory.
If you havent read his autbiography, check it out, very interesting I love Neil Young, my sister actually turned me on to him, she has almost all his many albums. He is very versatile, and you are right about him playing what he wants. That is one of the things I love about him. Rock on Neil!!!
If I understood correctly, he wanted to send this song to Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant specifically) and when he died, he decided that it would be a live performed song as he didn't want to put a definitive version on it. That the studio version would belong to the Ronnie Van Zant led Lynyrd Skynyrd. Of course, he was probably high as a kite when he told my brother that back in the late 70's (maybe early 80's) after a concert.
+Brian Himes I have to admit, Live Rust is one of his best, I still have an old VHS tape that has the whole concert where Billy goes insane and destroys a bass guitar, and neil pretty much breaks all his guitars strings. Good times.
The same, tho’ 15 in my case. Eminently ass-kicking but tinged with such tenderness and mournfulness is what killed me; still gives me the chills and makes my eyes moist.
I'll never forget hangin' on the stage, right in front of Neil, while he & Crazy Horse blasted this out at the Cow Palace, Daly City, sometime in the early '90s.
Never be another one like Neil. Great Music is timeless and this one is a classic! A rare gem I have been fortunate to have heard in my lifetime along with so many other of his hits! From the 60's to present day he is still putting it out there.
Willow -Does anybody else hear “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl (Beatles) in the fill he does on Powderfinger between choruses? Not a criticism, I think it’s brilliant!
This, Cortez the Killer and down by the River are my favorites of Uncle Neil... my first album I bought was his “Everybody knows this is nowhere “ I was five, I’m 54 now and he’s still one of my faves.... #GodfatherOfGrunge
One of the all time rockers, great lyricist beyond words, plus playing with the great Booker T and MG's on this cut. What more can you ask for. Doing it for over 50 years, unbelieveable
one artist who sends the chills up my spine, what control on his harmonics, the guy always wants to reinvent and sometimes it is hit and miss, but a prolific songwriterand well respected by most musicians. seen Neil probly 6-8 times and always have liked his different approach,like the shocking pinks show was a great rockabilly, I liked thr transformer period as well, the old stuff rules. 90's albums ragged glory,broken arrow and mirror ball rocked hard some of my faves love his acoustic songs
Got some amount of respect for Neil Young, even though his voice is a bit squeaky. What I like about “Powderfinger” is the lyric, “Big John’s been drinking ever since the river took Emmy Lou.” Makes me think immediately of losing that last one, the dream girl, and how I could have easily taken to the drink. Instead I wrote two novels, back to back, and channeled my energy productively instead of destructively. Maybe that makes a hell of a lot sense to you, maybe you can’t even relate, but there is it.
He pulled this one out to close out the Spokane show with POTR. When they got done playing the absolute hell out of it - I turned to the dude next to me and said " is it possible that song sounds better now then when he first did it" The guy looked at me and I thought he was stoned. He goes " wow man, I was just gonna' ask you that!"
This is the song I always go to when I have to go there, if ya dig. Had it on a bootleg tape couple years before the official release. Kept playing it for anyone who would listen; "You guys gotta hear this tune!". It's been my go-to number ever since. Thanks, Neil.
One of my all-time favorites from Neil Young. I wish I had been there for this concert. My older brother turned me on to this album and I loved the sound and it marked the end of my wasting time in disco clubs (it was the women and not the music that had me there). I love the fact that Neil has always been about the music and re-inventing his sound and experimenting. To me, that's what an artist does...experiments, pushes convention, and constantly changes. As an artist, he's in my top 10.
Seriously, Live Rust hit me on 8 track in 1980 and changed my life forever. I love Neil. I took my daughter to a concert in 2014 and she enjoyed it. She may have been the youngest person there.
@@drberube1963 I also took my daughter to see Neil and Crazy Horse in 2012 in Toronto. She was 24 so I am guessing your daughter was younger. I knew this song was on the play list and I really wanted to see it live but she wanted to see Helpless, which was a potential encore. They played them both. So glad you and your daughter share the same experience we did. And 7 years later our father daughter dance at her wedding was "Here for You".
What a joy to watch as well as listen smiles on all the musician's faces and guitar solos that as someone once said would make Ritchie Blackmore take up road sweeping:)
I had the pleasure of seeing Neil play with CSN&Y on his last time around. no superlatives, just that it was good, real, real good. my contemporary friends ( I'm 53) either love him or hate him. I understand that. But sometimes I think they don't know what they are missing
reminds me of driving my dad and great grandpa around while they were having beers. i was probably 10 years old and i drove them around the river bottom and my grandpa would always say 'there used to be a road that ran up that way' ha.
The day this musical genius passes on will be a very sad day. VERY SAD. Thank you Neil Young, for all your work over the last few decades. Keep on rockin' in the free world. ( and the next...)
I was listening to a very early version of this song on here, but am having trouble finding it now, Neil looked like he was 20 yo. My first & only album for along time was after the Gold Rush, I was about 13 & would listen to it over & over at night on my real crummy little record player. I love NEIL & still do finally got to see him live at a benefit concert he did at Cuesta College in their old gym near San Luis Obispo, CA, 4 the Red Wing Indians. There was only like 40 people there & I was about 15 & sat on floor near where Neil was standing, I was 15 yo & too shy to say anything to him but wanted to take him & show him my awesome county after the show was over...I think he was w his first wife so I probably would have had to take her along too...not what i had in mind 4 us. The Indians performed first & then Neil, they were both awesome & with so few people there it was once in a lifetime experiance. The next time I saw him was in Santa Barbara CA at their University & it was crazy with many students & including motercycle guys ( hells angels ? ) who were being assholes, people there were passing around cheap jugs of wine laced with LSD, luckily 4 me I didnt drink any as again I was not very old & would later learn the hard way I hate LSD & think its scary evil drug. Neil was with CSN&Y & of coarse they were awesome. Still have a raging crush & got all his albums really love Powder Finger & Rainbow Tepee, Cin Girl. I'm still here in SLO County & or Monterey County Ca, still madly in love w Neil whom I believe married another movie actress & left CA & moved back to his hometown in Canada. I hate Trump as much as Neil does but I am American so I must stay here & fight 4 our Country & the Planet here. Neil pls do not give animal ag any mo money, they r destroying the planet & r the main cause of Climate Crisis, corruption, & ecocide to CA & OUR PLANET. If u all want to support vital change support those who grow VEGANIC or at least ORGANIC FRUITS, NUTS , VEGTABLES, SEE; drawdown.org & climatehealers.org/the-science/animal-agriculture-position-paper/ & www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000008091680/climate-sustainability-agriculture-lobby.html
The Democratic party & mainstream leftists supported or coddled marxists...as sort of useful idiots to them , or to the party --- they fostered this culture. But now ? --- The idiots are more or less running the asylum
A timeless and universal portrayal for coming of age and finding social consciousness; facing life and death as an adult on your own no matter what you encounter. You could run, kill or be killed, live long or go with your conscience and stand your ground. It is some very Dylanesque poetry like "Mr Tambourine Man"
I'll take a shot at this. It's a song about a Civil War family defending themselves against a riverboat. The loss of life and innocence in violent times.( Remember me for the one you never figured.)
saw Neil last summer in Lincoln, NE it was our 25th wedding anniversary. the tickets were a gift from 2 of my sister in laws. almost made me cry when they gave them to us. I've wanted to see Neil since 1972. what a show.