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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Neil Young tries to cancel Joe Rogan and spotify cancels Young

Young says it's him or Rogan... Spotify starts removing Young music from their platform
“I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he continued. “They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.”

“I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” he wrote. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.” 

So perhaps Young already knew that Spotify would side with Rogan over an aging singer/songwriter.  I have to say that as a someone who is personally a hack of a singer songwriter (my original material would barely make one album) that I have always respected the musical abilities of Young. Some of his stuff was pure genius and his live guitar playing and singing back in the day was truly phenomenal. Just take the time to watch this video and you will know what I mean. 


I thought he went off the beaten track and like many aging musicians started pushing his political views into his music, but such is life. There was a time when you could write about what you believe without bringing the actual partisan party politics of present day into things. The musicians of the sixties and seventies were political in terms of pushing certain beliefs. Heck even the Beatles had beliefs you could relate to without having to feel like it was liberal versus conservative deal.   

But those days appear long gone for people like Young. I find it sad that such a rare talent would (at the end of his days of relevance) pick a fight with the guy who has the most listened to Podcast in the world. 


22 comments:

  1. He did that because of people like you Scott.

    Neil Young's music will be removed from Spotify at his request, following the veteran rock star's protest over the streaming service airing a popular podcast that featured a figure criticized for spreading COVID misinformation.

    I saw all four of them in Staples.

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    1. Date Apr 1, 2002

      Steve Stills and David Crosby walked past our table about 15 feet away.

      There were celebrities everywhere...

      A friend had a suite with an open bar on the celebrity floor.


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  2. Well I heard Mister Young sing about her
    Well I heard ol' Neil put her down
    Well I hope Neil Young will remember

    A southern man don't need him around anyhow
    Sweet home Alabama
    Where the skies are so blue
    Sweet home Alabama
    Lord I'm comin' home to you

    In Birmingham they love the governor (boo-hoo-hoo)
    Now we all did what we could do
    Now Watergate does not bother me
    Does your conscience bother you?
    Tell the truth
    Sweet home Alabama
    Where the skies are so blue
    Sweet home Alabama (oh yeah)
    Lord I'm comin' home to you
    Here I come, Alabama
    Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
    And they've been known to pick a song or two (yes they do)
    Lord they get me off so much
    They pick me up when I'm feelin' blue
    Now how about you?

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  4. Neil Young's music will be removed from Spotify


    I’ve never had Neil on anything I’d pay for

    Shocking

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  5. I’ve never had Neil on anything I’d pay for

    Shocking


    Me either. I've always considered him to be one of the biggest assholes of all time in rock music. And a dumb fuck too. I don't pay any attention to Rogan at all and even I'm aware of his $100 MILLION deal with Spotify.

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  6. I’ve never had Neil on anything I’d pay for


    BWAAAAASAAAAAAA!!!! But you buy the trash of the Ramons!!!!!!! LOLOLOLO

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  7. Re: the thread video

    Old Man

    Old man, look at my life
    I'm a lot like you were
    Old man, look at my life
    I'm a lot like you were

    Old man, look at my life
    Twenty-four, and there's so much more
    Live alone in a paradise
    That makes me think of two
    Love lost, such a cost
    Give me things that don't get lost
    Like a coin that won't get tossed
    Rolling home to you

    Old man, take a look at my life
    I'm a lot like you
    I need someone to love me
    The whole day through
    Ah, one look in my eyes
    And you can tell that's true

    Lullabies, look in your eyes
    Run around the same old town
    Doesn't mean that much to me
    To mean that much to you
    I've been first and last
    Look at how the time goes past
    But I'm all alone at last
    Rolling home to you

    Old man, take a look at my life
    I'm a lot like you
    I need someone to love me
    The whole day through
    Ah, one look in my eyes
    And you can tell that's true

    Old man, look at my life
    I'm a lot like you were
    Old man, look at my life
    I'm a lot like you were

    Neil ponders age, sex and death in a ballad for his groundsman. As he explains during his 1971 Massey Hall performance in Toronto, this song is about the foreman who lived on Neil’s ranch – “he came with the place when I bought it.”

    The song was released on his 1972 album Harvest. James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt both contributed vocals.


    In the documentary Heart of Gold, Neil said the following about the song:

    About that time when I wrote (“Heart of Gold”), and I was touring, I had also – just, you know, being a rich hippie for the first time – I had purchased a ranch, and I still live there today. And there was a couple living on it that were the caretakers, an old gentleman named Louis Avila and his wife Clara. And there was this old blue Jeep there, and Louis took me for a ride in this blue Jeep. He gets me up there on the top side of the place, and there’s this lake up there that fed all the pastures, and he says, “Well, tell me, how does a young man like yourself have enough money to buy a place like this?” And I said, “Well, just lucky, Louie, just real lucky.” And he said, “Well, that’s the darndest thing I ever heard.” And I wrote this song for him.

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  8. After Harvest, music fans begged him to write more songs like it but he refused, not wanting to duplicate anything He had already done.

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  9. But you buy the trash of the Ramons!!!!

    It's a punk rock band that you put in the microwave with about a cup of water and it is an unsatisfying meal... led by a skinny as a noodle lead singer Joey Ramon.

    Yeah, I get it... the noodle is spelled Ramen but the band was being ironic and clever with the spelling.

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  10. KD has a degree in economics from KU.

    You're a drunken wife beater who drank himself to a liver transplant and who is now confined to a nursing home.

    I think I'll follow KD's guidance instead of your alcoholic plagiarisms, thanks."

    Thank RRB.



    "Passing tests is not proof of intelligence..." Alky

    RRB , skool Alky , again.

    Roger has education envy.

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  11. I love Rogers posts on the Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed.

    Spectacularly wrong on purpose by using his own posts .
    "Sleepy Joe Biden has exceeded even President Ronald Reagan's recovery.

    Yet , Alky posted.
    BIDEN = 5.7 % rise

    Reagan = 7.2 % rise

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  12. Roger always says "people like you Scott" and it always makes me think... you mean people who scored 400 points higher than you on the SAT and graduated from college with tangible degrees?

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  13. Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
    Who are the Ramons fat man?


    BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Playing the dumb white fucking asshole card shorty?????? Your the fan not me.....I guess you don't remember your post about Styx and your love of the Ramones........asshole!!!!!!

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  14. I guess you don't remember your post about Styx and your love of the Ramones........asshole!!!!!!

    Nope. I have never written a post about Styx (whom I saw in concert) and while I appreciate the Ramones and loved Rock and Roll High School, I am not exactly in "love" with that band.

    Either way... the Ramones are a classic band who stands out historically. Like it or not.

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  15. Gee CH...I thought you had a brain....that comment was aimed at shorty....who just had a very senior moment with his feigning dumb on Ramones........BTW....they stood out like sore thumbs......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

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  16. No fatman you fucked up the Ramones name

    You dumbass

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  17. Yeah shorty.....I forgot the e doesn't change the fact you had a senior alcohol moment......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

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  18. Ch claims to have so many degrees, yet constantly makes grammar mistakes. Strange.

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