50 years ago today
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Such a distinctive sound he gets at the beginning of this piece.
Mark, Improv, other guitar peeps, any idea what he’s doing there?
@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:
Such a distinctive sound he gets at the beginning of this piece.
Mark, Improv, other guitar peeps, any idea what he’s doing there?
Notice at the beginning, he's tuning? He's tuning the low E string to a D, which is called "drop D" tuning. The other distinct thing he's doing is hammering the string. He hits the string first and THEN places his finger on the string.
Found this that can explain it better.
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While in the subject of Neil Young, this was pretty cool. I remember watching it when it was live. Couldn't believe it was Fallon.
Link to videoWe have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on. -
@89th said in 50 years ago today:
Trivia: this woman is actually a 14 year old girl.
If memory serves, that girl was a runaway from home, and after the photo she was found and returned to her parents.
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Joe Walsh was a student there, too.
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While in the subject of Neil Young, this was pretty cool. I remember watching it when it was live. Couldn't believe it was Fallon.
Link to video@Improviso said in 50 years ago today:
While in the subject of Neil Young, this was pretty cool. I remember watching it when it was live. Couldn't believe it was Fallon.
I remember we had a thread on it.
Fallon was impressive. Young still has his voice.
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@Improviso said in 50 years ago today:
While in the subject of Neil Young, this was pretty cool. I remember watching it when it was live. Couldn't believe it was Fallon.
I remember we had a thread on it.
Fallon was impressive. Young still has his voice.
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@George-K said in 50 years ago today:
@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:
Young still has his voice.
Which I always hated.
I strongly suspect that there's a 1:1 correlation between liking Neil Young and geographic proximity to New England.
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@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:
He's a Canuck.
I have really grown to appreciate his songs over the years.
I know, I think it's a region thing, not a political map thing. Canadians in that area like him, too.
He's an absolutely bad ass songwriter and guitarist. Folks might not like him, but he's damn talented anyway.
Saw him play with Crazy Horse in PA a couple of times in the 90s. I was there, man.
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@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:
He's a Canuck.
I have really grown to appreciate his songs over the years.
I know, I think it's a region thing, not a political map thing. Canadians in that area like him, too.
He's an absolutely bad ass songwriter and guitarist. Folks might not like him, but he's damn talented anyway.
Saw him play with Crazy Horse in PA a couple of times in the 90s. I was there, man.
@Aqua-Letifer said in 50 years ago today:
@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:
He's a Canuck.
I have really grown to appreciate his songs over the years.
I know, I think it's a region thing, not a political map thing. Canadians in that area like him, too.
He's an absolutely bad ass songwriter and guitarist. Folks might not like him, but he's damn talented anyway.
Saw him play with Crazy Horse in PA a couple of times in the 90s. I was there, man.
Harvest Moon is one of my favorite albums, and the only one in which I don't find his voice irritating.
He became a US citizen (while still being a Canadian citizen) in January this year.
He has a son with severe CP, and his hobby is Lionel Trains.
Link to videohttp://www.thrasherswheat.org/tfa/trains-neil-young-1993.htm
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That's like saying Jeff Bezos' hobby is online shopping.
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That's like saying Jeff Bezos' hobby is online shopping.
@Aqua-Letifer said in 50 years ago today:
That's like saying Jeff Bezos' hobby is online shopping.
Actually, no.
He got into Lionel Trains as a way of helping his son.
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But doesn't he more or less own Lionel now?
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But doesn't he more or less own Lionel now?
@Aqua-Letifer said in 50 years ago today:
But doesn't he more or less own Lionel now?
20% until about 2008. Now he's a "consultant."
http://www.feelnumb.com/2010/02/23/neil-youngs-obsession-with-model-trains/
Neil Young is such a model train enthusiast that he actually invented a Trainmaster Command Control and was part owner of Lionel, LLC, the model train company and model railroad accessories. In 2008 Lionel emerged from bankruptcy and his shares of the company were wiped out but he is still a consultant for the company. Young was instrumental in the design of the Lionel Legacy control system for model trains and has been named as co-inventor on seven U.S. Patents related to model trains.
