Neil Young

@pgaulke60 

  I remember reading someone else who described Neil as a one string soloist when it comes to rock guitar playing.

FWIW, learning to play up and down the neck on one string is often prescribed for players who are stuck in pentatonic boxes. Especially when used in conjunction with neighboring tones on adjacent strings, this can be a very useful approach. 

As a long time fan I’d say pass. His best days are long gone. I saw him at SXSW a few years ago and he was awful. Played a few hits then went into a self indulgent guitar trance that was completely incoherent. 

And that was before he acquired TDS.

Harvest is still good though and nicely recorded.

Thanks for the post, as Neil has been a longtime muse of mine and the Greendale tour, landing mid-week, has been the only tour I had a chance to see him but didn’t.

His blunt lyric honesty, beautifully melodic acoustic, and cathartic electric guitar songs never get old.

His latest political song about crime in the White House is good but doesn’t deliver the sledgehammer blow that Ohio did back in the day, however, at least he’s saying something, unlike everyone else.

Hall of famer indeed, he’s a giant!

Freedom, Rust Never Sleeps, Zuma, On The Beach, Tonight's The Night, American Stars And Bars, Harvest, This Notes for You..............  Many songwriters would sell their soul to have a fraction of Young's prodigious catalog.  Up there with Dylan IMHO.  And like Dylan, his voice is an acquired taste.  Able to convey so much emotion.  Hey hey, my my.

One of my fav songs from the '70s is 'Lotta love' by Nicolette Larson---I didn't realize that Neil Young wrote the song until recently.