I really can’t afford a subscription right now but … My stepfather just died of cancer but he was fighting frontal lobe dementia. When he was getting sick he would try to read your book to keep the cognitive parts of his brain going. He was a huge fan his whole life and he didn’t have a lot of money. So what he left me was his most important things to him. One was your book and Gregg Allman’s book. Any time someone said Crosby Stills and Nash, he would add the Young forcefully lol.
Well if this gets back to you, which it probably won’t, thank you for being there in his last few months even if you didn’t know you were.
HIS NAME WAS STEPHEN AND HE LOVED YOU.
John M Kendrick.
Thank you again.
John
Just to be clear, all these letters get to me.
Sorry about your dad.
PEACE
Love neil.
be well
I think it’s very important that Canadian cultural icons like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, and others know what the Ontario government is proposing to do by expanding Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport. This expansion will quintuple air traffic, expand runways by a kilometer, and allow jets, essentially destroying Toronto’s Harbourfront, Toronto Island’s beaches, the recreational boating in the inner harbour, and the views/experience from Ontario Place. It is a planning disaster on a greater scale than the Spadina Expressway.
Neil, please say something publicly if you can.
Sincerely,
Mark Gibson
Thanks Mark
I will write something about this for the CANADA page
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Best to Neil. I saw him for the 61st time in Bend OR last year wonderful. Hope to see you again as we are getting old. I hope for One Last Ride..
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Me too. We will try to be there!
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Hi.
I am interested in the possibility of publishing “Baby Don’t Scold Me (stereo)” from the first stereo LP “Buffalo Springfield.”
It still is unavailable here at NYA.
Thanks for EVERYTHING!
Peace,
Bob
*Bob.
I looked and it was not there.
Mono is there and Buffalo Springfield mixed it. Not our managers, who mixed the stereo.
I recommend the mono.
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Hi,
I was just browsing the Movietone section of the Archives in the hopes of watching the Noise and Flowers movie but I cannot find it? I can find all the other films save this one.
I am just writing to enquire if maybe it is an issue with my browser. I am a Rust member and have full access to all the movies & videos.
Thank you very much for your time!
Kind regards,
Ryan
Ryan
It is there as a record. I am not sure there is a film.
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Hi Neil,
Hope you are well and enjoying time off the road and your recent dives into the Archives for Volume 4.
Speaking of the Archives …
With a group of friends we all chipped in and acquired a cassette tape from eBay quite some years ago (2010, 2011, 2012???) that contained a few songs or demos by you, possibly a rehearsal by you with Dewey Martin on drums and Bruce Palmer on bass, dated June 24, 1997.
If I remember it correctly, it may have been a cassette that was put on eBay after Dewey had passed away, maybe from his personal collection after his death.
The little black TDK cassette had a label on it that said: “Bruce, Dewey & Neil 6-24-97 Work Tape” and contained three songs, being:
1. Horseshoe Man
2. Singin’ The Blues (Marty Robbins song composed by Melvin Endsley)
3. Razor Love
Personnel (apparently):
– You yourself on electric guitar and vocals
– Dewey on drums and vocals
– Bruce on bass
The cassette appears to have been copied from a recording from a small soundboard or PA used during the rehearsal. Razor Love is recorded a bit hot and bassy, but all songs, although partially incomplete, are great renditions with electric guitar, bass and drums.
They are not completed songs, rather rehearsals with some stops explaining the breaks, chords and choruses.
We never realised or could have imagined that you had been rehearsing with Dewey and Bruce and even recorded some songs.
Do you remember anything from those rehearsals or recordings with just Dewey and Bruce in June of 1997?
Maybe you could check in the Archives to see if there are more recordings with Dewey and Bruce from around that period in 1997 and possibly even with finished songs.
Dewey and Bruce sound great and these rehearsals, although not finished songs, sound amazing and are a great indication of what could have been, so it would be great to hear some more of these sessions.
Thanks for all the music and be well!
Cornell
The Netherlands
Cornell
Interesting.
Thanks
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Hi Neil,
I hope you are well. I am wondering what other projects you have going apart from Vol IV?
Lots have been mentioned in the past (Canary, lyric book among others)
I hope your health is not stopping you from touring
Cheers
Stringman
Stringman
Canary is coming.
lyric book is in the works.
Love neil
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Happy Fathers Day! I hope you are having a great day.
Peace to you.
JTR
Thanks JTR
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Neil, thanks for the cool concert movie. DH and Mr. Vollick and co. do a very good job. It was especially nice to see part of the show from Dove Of Peace’s point of view!
Greg
Greg, I will read that to D!
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The film Corduroy Plants is an unexpected special treat.
I assume that the filmed performances are the same as the audio versions that are on As Time Explodes.
The film ends with a short tease of This Notes For You.
Can we please have the full version as an Outtake?
Thanks,
Harris
Harris
the versions are the same as the record.
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Wow, that performance of Cortez in Corduroy Plants was powerful. What show was that from?
Dale from Toronto
Dale
Bergen Norway
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It’s been a while since a music film has had such a big impact on me as Corduroy Plants did. Big thanks to Daryl and whole film team and The Chrome Hearts!
Thanks!
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Hi. I have a song I wrote back in 2009, the day I heard that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s called “Peace Prize.” I hear you every time I play it. Needs some lyrics, and it’ll be ready to go. Would you work with me on it?
Peace.
Bruce Kloss
Cinnaminson NJ
Do it!
LOVE
neil
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Daryl, Neil and all at the Archives,
It was a pleasure to wake up to Corduroy Plants. Your message is visually loud, the music clear and the song selection appropriate for today.
Peace, Love and Music!
-Mudflow Mike
Thanks Mike
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Enjoyed Corduroy Plants (and an old pad shirt?!) in the Times-Contrarian. A couple of faves are Daddy Went Walkin’ and Be the Rain, songs I never thought I’d hear at a show (and was thrilled to partake in at TO last year).
Just finished Waging Heavy Peace, a swell ride to be taken on. Apt you give the reader an out to pass it off, as someone did to me years ago and I didn’t read it, with this copy showing up at a Value Village. All in good time.
I dog-eared several pages to mark highlights. I’m glad you got to: “live on a lake up there in Northern Ontario.” “How many places are there on Earth that really are healing places? There must be countless ones where people each can find their own peace. I hope you find all of yours, and I find the rest of mine.” Feeling devastated to part from Briggs, his body being all f#cked up and he advising: “make sure to have as much of you in the recording as you can.” The sound of Red Wing Blackbirds. The train way up to Churchill (which is my favourite in this country). The story of Will to Love; and that you played some drums (I’ve wondered ever since seeing the photo on the Decade jacket of you at the drums, if you ever did on a recording). Thanks for the trip and the ponder prompts.
The next book I had show up (at Currie’s Music and Antiques in Gravenhurst—I bet you’d enjoy that place, crowded with loved guitars and all manner of music goodies) was Scott Young’s “Hello Canada: The Life and Times of Foster Hewitt,” which so far is an amazing story of early commercial radio. Can still hear Foster’s voice.
Cheers,
Sandy, Lake of Bays, Ontario
Sandy
My dad’s books are cool
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I saw those Geese in the Sky!
Actually, I didn’t really see them—but I felt as if they were flying above us, as if that moment could be yours too.
Last Sunday, June 21st, we celebrated the start of summer in a beautiful place: Torriglia, a small village in the countryside near Genoa, Italy. Imagine a wide green meadow surrounded by trees, with a castle in the background. Happy people were dancing in a circle, hand in hand, around flowers, smiling at the sun and the blue sky after the rain.
Love Earth
Gianluca
LOVE!
Love neil
be well