He plays whatever the hell he likes at solo concerts and couldn't care less what anybody thinks. I bet he thinks if right before he plays it. When he is with Crazy Horse it's more planned.
I'ver seen him probably 8 or more times and each time is different. The short tours are the best. I have several of his most popular/best albums and sometimes I only know half the songs. Plus he'll play a cover or two that is always better than the original.
He is the real deal. No BS - as he says, "what you see is what you get".
I don't think he is the best businessman. Kind of a hippie with money. I'm sure he lost a ton trying to fight Apple with that Pono thing for better quality. He is a true artist and cares tremendously about quality of records, sound at concerts, etc. |
Vinyl is forever! (unless you melt it or damage it yourself). He rereleased all his best albums on vinyl a couple years ago and they sound great.
Neil is quite grumpy, but he's an old man. He should have a better outlook being married to Darryl Hannah. Don't know what Jackson Browne was thinking.... |
the guy on @mahgister video is an absolute idiot. Attempted comedy and failed miserably.
Neil has millions of fans and is one of very few true artists, although his politics are those of a sixties hippie. He can do whatever he wants and Spotify can do whatever it wants and Joe Rogan can do whatever he wants.
The usual outcome is follow the dollars, except in Neil's case. I'm 60, know Spotify, but never used it.....I do know that Sirius just put in a temporary Neil channel which is great. That should be permanent.
Some things are facts, some are opinions. Hard to distinguish sometimes, and TV news certainly doesn't make it any easier. Now, a lot of printed articles are categorized as "Opinion". Look for that - it is important to remember.
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@mahgister Eric Clapton is one of the all time great guitarists, but is a known anti-vaxxer. I was just saying Neil is a hippie- I never thought of Clapton as such. He is British….from the 60’s, but not a hippie. I wouldn’t consider the Beatles Hippies either. Think Woodstock…(before my time), .Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jefferson Airplane, lots of drugs. The key was anti Vietnam war.
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Look - the pharma companies are no angels, they are like any other - beholden to their shareholders. That does not subtract the good that they have done saving millions of lives, and hospitalizations with the vast majority being those over 65 or people with comorbidity (that may have not known it) including being overweight. That should have been an opportunity for some "get healthy" messaging, which for some reason hasn't happened. That's the point - you take the vaccine to prevent hospitalization or death, and if catching it having milder symptoms, and in most cases, not catching the disease at all. You don't know how you will react to the virus.
We have learned a lot since the onset, like how it is transmitted, yet people still are nuts with all the excessive hand sanitizing, which is generally not something that should be done constantly. You need some exposure to bacteria that can be helpful (I am no doctor, so correct me if I am wrong). Just because we have learned new things doesn't mean there was a conspiracy in the beginning (although I would think they would have know about different masks effectiveness).
If Pfizer is trying to limit their legal liability, I would want that from a shareholder's standpoint, so long as public health is not compromised.
I saw an interview with Clapton, and he came off like a misinformed conspiracy theorist.
You don't have to get a vaccine in the US, but if you don't, it is possible you may lose some privileges (including in some cases employment). The US isn't like China or even some European countries in this regard. I don't see a downside to getting one. The rare side effects are widely publicized and are so rare that they are almost completely anecdotal, from what I can tell. It's always, I know a guy who's this person's boyfriend whose mother got sick from the shot. Also could have gotten sick from a number of other things including other conditions.
If something worked in India, it would be documented by their medical professionals and would surely have been leveraged globally. I haven't heard about that at all. Please share @mahgister , I would love to read about it from a TRUSTED MEDICAL SOURCE.
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The most at risk are now wearing masks where I live without mandate....I am sure all of them got vaccinated. The % of younger people is lower I am sure, especially among the recently approved age levels. As the virulence wanes, hopefully the mandate talk subsides, and some companies have rolled it back.
If you are vaccinated, you are less likely to spread it because if you do catch it, it is at a lower level of presence in your body and therefore less contagious, that is why it is better for the community if everyone gets vaccinated. Those who are ill-informed, selfish, stubborn, or think it is somehow a political issue and not a health one are the only ones not getting vaccinated (except maybe for kids whose parent won't let them get it).
They should never have used the word mandate. It has a bad connotation. Recommendation with potential consequences if not adhered to is better. Places where I live state it best - "Please wear a mask when you enter the store". You can come in without one, which I do if it is not a real crowded place, but forcing me to put one on where there is not another human in sight is ridiculous.
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@mahgister please: Just one word answer.
two people come into the ER. One due through no fault of his own walking down the street getting hit by a bus, and one with Covid who refused to get a vaccine for no reason other than ignorance, stupidity, stubbornness, selfishness, or supposed political affiliation. There is one bed. Who should get it? The one who was most likely a preventable case or the one with a accident/emergency.
Medical personnel in hospitals are sick of hearing the unvaccinated regretting (or in the more insane cases, not regretting) their decision and are treating them with little sympathy.
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Getting admitted to the hospital with others waiting is one privilege the unvaccinated should lose.
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So the unvaxxed should get priority for a likely preventable condition? Take responsibility and do no harm to others.
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No I’m not. Didn’t even consider it.
38,000 lost if true is certainly notable. I would guess there wasn’t a direct causal relationship, just like some of the Covid deaths is probably attributable to multiple causes. As a percentage of the vaccination numbers in the billions, the adverse reactions to the vaccine is very small, far less than the number saved by it.
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@mahgister - glad you are feeling OK. The problem with your logic is that many people are not aware they have comorbidity. Also, this affects overweight people disproportionately, something the media should be emphasizing (and living a healthier lifestyle), but somehow that is politically incorrect and I am sure some of these people do not think of themselves as overweight.
I wouldn't say the number of people badly affected is very small. It is in the millions. Very few of those are vaccinated, almost all of them have comorbidity. The hospitals (I spoke with a doctor the other day) are overwhelmed by unvaccinated patients because of omicron. Even though it is less virulent, the sheer number of people that caught it make even a very small number of those people needing significant medical attention too high for hospitals to handle their normal business.
I am not saying not to treat the unvaccinated, but to give other patients that were vaccinated or in there for other urgent problems priority.
The risk of negative outcomes for covid dwarfs the risk of the vaccine. It should be discussed with the patient's personal doctor. They will not mandate (at least mine wouldn't ever), they will recommend a course of action (I take my doctor's advice and many times he asks me what I think and we decide together). If they think you will have no adverse reaction, I don't envision any doctor except for quacks and complete outliers from the medical profession not recommending the vaccine. I am not talking about listening to corrupt politicians, government agencies or Joe Rogan or one of his guests (like Aaron Rogers did and then lied about it), YOUR DOCTOR.
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Mandates are not enforced. You can choose not to enjoy a privilege that requires proof of vaccination, and you can not enter a place that mandates masks.
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@mahgister - 1) some people do not go to doctors - they obviously don't care about their health, but their carelessness can hurt others by causing health care shortages 2) You don't need a treatment if you are not sick 3)1% is a huge amount of people 4) Did I say anything about shutting down economies, and who says the people who didn't want to get vaxxed would have sought out your preventive treatments or taken vitamin c 5) I was referring to individual personal physicians telling their patients who are not at risk of an adverse reaction to not get vaccinated quacks, not these others you list as scientists. There is a difference between talking heads and scientists and personal physicians who know someone's personal history and have a vested interest in their health 7) they are not mandated - you can go work somewhere else - you can't do that in places like China.
Lastly - mutations seem to be less and less virulent - by not causing as many symptoms, carriers don't isolate and spread it more easily. If they were isolating, it wouldn't spread as fast. That is the theory, and hopefully it will play out by just being a component of the annual flu vaccine, which is not a mandate. The current vaccine is not mandated, there is no punishment for not taking it, just a potential loss of privileges.
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I thought we all agreed that anyone who doesn't want to get the vaccine should consult with their doctor. Forget all the arguments from pundits and politicians and government agencies and statistics with their various spins.
If you have a doctor and trust them, you consult with them and if they say you shouldn't get the vaccine, they can provide a note showing a medical reason why which will allow you the privilege of the vaccinated.
If you don't have a doctor you trust, get one. If not, you deserve what you get.
Please can we now end this Monty Python sketch/discussion?
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I am a big Neil fan as well, but the SQ had nothing to do with his request to have his music removed from Spotify. He wanted Joe Rogan's misinformation about vaccinations removed, and apparently it has been done, but Neil is gone from there anyway and like he say "once you're gone, you can't come back, when you're out of the blue and into the black".
From my understanding, Pono failed because the SQ was too good (files were too large) so the big boys never agreed to carry the files,
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If there was no misinformation, then why were those podcasts removed and Rogan allowed to stay? Rogan also gave advice himself, which he is not qualified to do. Doctors should be giving it to their patients. Everything else is noise.
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I only trust my doctor. He knows me best. Some people shouldn’t get the vaccine. I’d like to know if I am one if them. The most credible talking heads tell anyone questioning if the should get the vaccine to talk to their doctor.
How can anyone possibly argue with that? Unless you yourself are a self-treating one that is.
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@Ozzy62 So I guess you don't seek your doctor's advice? Everything else is noise, censored or not.
This is more serious than what stereo equipment to buy.
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So you don't trust your own doctor? Sad. Time to find a new one. Unless you are among the sorry group that have no doctor (setting said the under 30 crowd who may not have one, who are not as seriously affected by the virus, although the ones that are very overweight or have preexisting conditions can be).
Obviously with a few crackpots on Joe Rogan giving out universal advice and some others they haven't been silenced. There are no right or wrong opinions. Only facts and lies.
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