{"id":2471,"date":"2010-06-17T17:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T00:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2010-06-18T00:06:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T07:06:28","slug":"calling-all-neil-young-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/06\/17\/calling-all-neil-young-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all Neil Young fans…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Book Review]<\/p>\n

Neil Young, Long May You Run:
\nAn Illustrated History<\/i><\/h1>\n

\nBy Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff
\nVoyageur Press Minneapolis, 2010,
\nhardcover<\/h3>\n

book review by Kent Manthie<\/b><\/p>\n

Into his fifth decade as an uncompromising, unpredictable and awe-inspiring songwriter Neil Young has touched the hearts and minds of many types of people: in other words, there\u2019s no particular demographic for who listens to Neil. Punkers like his irreverent style and noisy charms, \u201cclassic rockers\u201d still dig the old stuff (even though Neil\u2019s always been about forging ahead and not staying stuck in the past) – like \u201cSouthern Man\u201d, \u201cOld Man\u201d, \u201cCinnamon Girl\u201d and that particular oeuvre. Few realize, I\u2019m sure, the way most Americans are blissfully unaware of most things, Neil was one fourth of Buffalo Springfield (he wrote \u201cBroken Arrow\u201d, \u201cMr. Soul\u201d, \u201cI Am A Child\u201d and others even though, sadly, the only song that most people are aware of is the Steven Stills song \u201cFor What It\u2019s Worth\u201d (Stop! Children, what\u2019s that sound\/Everybody look what\u2019s going on). Young\u2019s time in Springfield with Steven Stills probably is why Young shows up on Crosby Stills & Nash\u2019s D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu album in \u201871. Still, the Neil Young-penned songs on that record are distinctly Young\u2019s music and the other three are merely backup singers on songs like \u201cHelpless\u201d and \u201cOhio\u201d, songs that have become part of Neil\u2019s concert catalog over the years. Personally, I think CSN\u2019s best album was their eponymous debut (on which Young, un-credited, plays pump organ on a couple tracks). I still LOVE \u201cGuinevere\u201d and \u201cSuite Judy Blue Eyes\u201d has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. <\/p>\n

Anyway, this brand new coffee-table sized book from Minneapolis\u2019s Voyageur Press, just out, chronicles Neil Young\u2019s career and personal life in both excellent photographs and much text too. It not only contains many photos, some of which are new to the public in this book, but on certain pages you can see pictures of memorabilia like concert tickets, showbills, and pictures of 45 rpm singles as well as other stuff. But, in between all those cool pix and stuff, there is a lot to read about the man, the myth and the long and winding road he\u2019s traveled, with no signs of stopping. He\u2019s even done film – he played a \u201cbad guy\u201d in some b-flick, the name of which escapes me and has done some work with auteur extraordinaire, Jim Jarmusch. So, between the interesting anecdotes, histories, interviews, narratives and whatnot in the textual material combined with the great pictures that capture many phases of Neil in his chameleonic career. <\/p>\n

Anyone who is a huge fan of Neil\u2019s (and that group encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of people – even the dude from the Bay Area\u2019s agitprop collective, Consolidated (American cousin to Meat Beat Manifesto but much more agitating in their lyrics), in stating his favorite music, on one line wrote \u201cAnything by Neil Young\u201d. <\/p>\n

In fact, Young\u2019s music, if it wasn\u2019t already, was handed down to a new generation, who, no doubt, hear all his \u201chits\u201d – you know, the same 10 or 12 songs they play on \u201cclassic rock\u201d radio stations, on the radio, etc, when Young started doing something the Rolling Stones used to do all the time in the 1970s and on their Tattoo You tour in 1981 – have newer, up-and-coming bands\/artists open for them – Prince got booed off the stage opening for the Stones in Los Angeles in 1981. George Thoroghgood has also opened for the Stones, back when he was still a relative newcomer. As for Neil, in 1991, coincidentally, just two or three days after the Gulf War started, I saw Neil Young play in Minneapolis and the coolest thing about the show was that the two opening bands were: first Social Distortion and then Sonic Youth put on as good a show as they could, though I felt kind of bad for them because they weren\u2019t in their element, I mean, the audience was obviously there to see Neil Young and I suppose that 90 % of the people in attendance came to see Neil play, not the opening bands (although I was just as psyched to see Sonic Youth).<\/p>\n

Anyone who lives in the Bay Area is no doubt aware of the annual Bridge School Benefit – started by Neil Young and continuously performed at by him as well as an ever-changing roster of \u201cfriends\u201d. The Bridge School was established by Young\u2019s wife Pegi, after their son, Ben, was diagnosed with a severe form of Cerebral Palsy. The couple looked and looked but were ultimately dismayed by the quality of care and education possibilities. In 1986 Neil hosted the first of what would become the annual Bridge School Benefit, becoming an awaited affair, with a who\u2019s who of rock & rollers playing the benefits: in the past, Bruce Springsteen, REM, Tom Petty, Don Henley and especially Pearl Jam have played the annual event at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA. One ticket stub photo in the book shows one year\u2019s line-up: Headlining, of course, is Neil himself and then it was Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Brian Wilson, Foo Fighters, Trent Reznor, Death Cab for Cutie, Gillian Welch and Devendra Banhart and in parentheses it read \u201cwith special guests\u201d. <\/p>\n

The book is full of little bits of info like that and stories of things that went on between him and all sorts of people in here, it\u2019s a great read and just looking at the photos alone is worth it. You get to see Neil in all the different phases of his career, with his mildly varying looks and whatnot. Definitely a must-have for any Neil Young fan. – KM<\/p>\n

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