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He Who Has Beautiful Eyes that Are a Blessing From God
Joined: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:51 am Posts: 3583 Location: Toronto
to make me appreciate a fellow Canucklehead named Neil Young.
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I'm glad you're enjoying his music. Whenever I think of it, I try and send out a Neil C.D. with a book package.
I spent part of my weekend trying to figure out how to make a compilation disc on my computer. I have some friends who are very involved with the Special Olympic's who asked me if I could take some c.d.'s they had and make one that had the best songs from them. I was able to figure it out and do it for them.
The timing was strange because I am friends with this couple that live in upstate N.Y., and I recently found out the wife has colon cancer. Its bad and it looks like she's not going to make it. She is fighting a hard fight though so there is always hope. I'd met them about 15 years ago through work and would visit with them about 4 times a year and always around Christmas. I really enjoyed this couple, and with others that I had met up there in northern N.Y., we always had a good time.
I'm telling you this is because you never know the impact you have had on people. Through a series of business decisions, the work went down south and I didn't have much of a reason to go up that way anymore. I still kept in touch with them, but haven't seen them in many many years.
When I got the email telling me of her cancer we wound up talking to each other more. I discovered that my impact on her was much larger than I ever could have imagined. Last friday I sent them an email of some pictures and they replied with a short sentence...."what? We thought it might have been some Silver And Gold".
Silver And Gold is a Neil Young song. During one of my Christmas visits, a life time ago it seems now, there were about 14 of us, including her and her husband, who went out to dinner. I brought my guitar with me that Christmas and played one song at dinner in the resturant, it was Silver And Gold. They all seemed to enjoy it, were polite and clapped. and the one other person who knew the song sang it along with me. At the time, Neil had never officially released the song and it was only known on bootlegs. This one guy at the dinner loved Neil Young so I had sent him a copy of it a year before. When I finished playing the song, I put the guitar away and forgot about it.
It came to my attention fairly recently that the woman who has cancer, loved Neil Young though she didn't know any other songs of his other than what she had heard on the radio. It seems she really loved my short performance and had never forgot it. She would often bring it up to others and talk about the dinner we all had that night which is how it got back to me that she enjoyed it.
So this weekend, fresh from figuring out how to make a compilation c.d. on my computer, I made a Neil Young compilation c.d. for her and included two seperate versions of the song. I'm not sure I did the right thing, but the c.d. is full of 18 songs that are pretty stark, emotional and mellow in nature, a few of them spiritual in fact. For those that don't know, Neil recently had a stroke but survived. A few songs on his last couple of albums have dealt with spirtuality as a result. Not religion mind you, but his feeling that there is something else out there.
My point in this rambling post I guess is that you never know what you can find in music...or when you will find it. Neil Young has been around since the 1960's (Stop, hey, what's that sound every knows whats going round - Neil with the Buffalo Springfield) and still going strong 50 years later. And people are still discovering him.
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:58 pm Posts: 6411 Location: The Back of Beyond.
Hmm ... Ttzuma playing the guitar ... I knew this guy had a lot of hidden talents.
I'll always remember how I got turned on to Neil Young, because it was the year I was sixteen, in the winter, and I always used to skip out of my highschool (hey, I was young and rebellious), walk home, and thaw out in front of my stereo.
In the afternoon's there was always one classic rock station that just played every jam from the sixties and seventies you could think of-everything from Zeppelin to Dylan, Eric Clapton to Neil Young. And every time songs like Southern Man, Heart of Gold, Cinnamon Girl, Ohio and Old Man would come on, I'd always crank it, kick back and watch the snowflakes float around outside my window with Neil's cool voice bouncing off the walls of my room.
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