Neil Young and Stephen Stills alnost invented country-rock and/or folk rock. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, Neil Young is at number 17 on the list of "The Greatest Guitar Players of All Time" and he was ranked No. 26 in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. His influence on the some recent groups caused some to dub him the "Godfather of Grunge".
Neil Young - Austin City Limits Festival 2012 - Full Concert http://youtu.be/yktUfxfFBuo 'Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream' by Neil Young Plume, 2013 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 8:30 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com < no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > "Neal" Young plays very serious music - It is an interesting distinction > that some people make, between serious, and 'not serious' music. Someone > recently told me that electronic and/or sampled music, is not real music. > On the one hand, I can see that musicians like Neil Young, do not try to > master the classical works, or play music with a lot of tradition behind > it. On the other, I've been a fan of his sound, since, "After the Gold > Rush". He has inspired me in a lot of ways - far more than any classical > music. > Music is said to be the most abstract of the arts. I find it amusing that > someone who diligently copies Mozart, for example, is hailed as a prodigy, > yet someone doing the same thing with a Rembrandt, is labeled a forger. > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: > > *Yeah, not quite the same thing. I'm talking about serious music and > highly trained singers.* > > Justin Timberlake, for one, sings in a much higher voice than his regular > voice. Same for Neal Young I believe. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSVHoHyErBQ > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: > > I'm not a big fan of countertenors myself; the voices always sound a > little strained to me. But this dude is special, not just the voice but the > musicality. > > The ear is more important than any musical knowledge (for the listener, at > any rate). > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyLkjxKCNo > > Phew! And this is not generally my kind of "thing" but it certainly evokes > all sorts of primal, albeit refined primal, sensations. His voice and those > instruments and the light and the setting and the crystal hanging from the > ceiling. All of these things transported me to a long-ago time. Thank you > for that. I am an ignoramus when it comes to knowing about music but my ear > seems to make up for what I lack in theoretical musical knowledge. > > >
