I first heard Neil Young way back in 1966. At the time he was in a group called Buffalo Springfield. I was at a friend’s house, and their album was on the “record player”.  His older brother had been in the military overseas and had come back with this gummy substance that he called “hash” that you smoked in a corncob pipe that was lined with tinfoil. It was the first time I had gotten “high” and it was to “For what it’s worth”.

 

Three years later I heard “Cinnamon Girl”, a song that I would be playing on air guitar for the next three decades.

And during those decades, I purchased every album he released. At that time of my life and the things that I was going through his music related to me. But years go by and attitudes (mine) change. The last CD I ever bought of his was in 2000. It was “Silver and Gold” It was a beautiful pean of love and commitment to his wife (14 years later he dumped her).

 

Now I don’t begrudge Neil Young a dime of the revenue he has earned from his recording and performing career, he has a net worth of over 200 million dollars, and to be fair over the years he has done a bit of philanthropy. But, I’ve always known that Young was very left of center in his politics. Most old multi-millionaire rock stars are. He’s heavily into climate change hysteria, against GMO foods, and concern for the homeless and downtrodden only during Republican administrations, E.g. “rocking in the free world”.  He had no love for Bush the younger either.

 

As for Donald Trump, well, this goes without saying.

 

Neil Young, he’s now the “old man” he sang about so long ago. I’ll bet most people under fifty have never heard of him. But being “woke”, a Trump hater, married to a much younger Hollywood actress, and now a do-not-question-the-government, anti-free speech zealot when it comes to government orthodoxy on COVID vaccines and treatment. This of course gets you a lot of fawning publicity from the mainstream media, progressives, and music critics reviewing your latest release.

 

“Reviewing in his Substack-published “Consumer Guide” column, Robert Christgau gave Barn an “A” and declared it the first worthwhile album of new Young songs since 2009’s Fork in the Road.”

I haven’t heard any songs off it, maybe it’s decent. But I stopped caring a long time ago. And after seeing your attempt at censoring people who disagree with your opinions it’s apparent that a lot of people feel the same. However, you don’t seem to care in the least that both the United States and Canada are becoming more and more authoritarian coupled with the breakdown of law and order.

 

And Neil, what do you think of the truckers of Canada? Are you going to write a song condemning them?

 

 

A final note: I’ve just heard that 76 y/o Neil Young’s 60+ y/o wife (WTF) is pregnant!!!! You’ve previously sired three children with two women and all of them had genetic diseases.

 

Just STFU, live what’s left of your life and stop embarrassing yourself. 

Once I thought you were cool, now I think your pathetic.