50 years ago today

[Aqua Letifer]

Joe Walsh was a student there, too.

[jon-nyc]

@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.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:

Young still has his voice.

Which I always hated.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

He's a Canuck.

I have really grown to appreciate his songs over the years.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.

[George K]

@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 video

http://www.thrasherswheat.org/tfa/trains-neil-young-1993.htm

[Aqua Letifer]

That's like saying Jeff Bezos' hobby is online shopping.

[George K]

@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.

[Aqua Letifer]

But doesn't he more or less own Lionel now?

[George K]

@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.

[Copper]

@Copper said in 50 years ago today:

79 haunting photos from the Kent State University shootings you’ve likely never seen before

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/05/79-haunting-photos-from-the-kent-state-university-shootings-youve-likely-never-seen-before.html

The bell-bottoms and hair and the vehicles

The black and white pictures

And the scenes of college rioters and national guard facing each other on campus

And of course this was in the context of Vietnam protest, Nixon, moon landings and hippies

None of that really exists anymore and probably couldn't exist.

There is definitely a different group of players on stage these days.