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Neil Young


guitars of Stills and Young, made Buffalo Springfield a critical success, and their first record "Buffalo Springfield" (1966) sold well after Stills' topical song "For What It's Worth" became a hit, aided by Young's melodic harmonics played on electric guitar. According to "Rolling Stone", the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and other sources, Buffalo Springfield helped create the genres of folk rock and country rock. Distrust of their management, as well as the arrest and deportation of Palmer, worsened
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The Squires


The Squires or Neil Young & The Squires were a Canadian band formed in 1963 in Winnipeg. It was one of the first bands of singer-songwriter Neil Young. Young formed the Squires in 1963, and the group played at community clubs, high school dances and proms in Winnipeg with Neil on electric guitar. They played a lot of songs by The Shadows, The Ventures, and The Fireballs. Young began writing songs, which the band played regularly. On July 23, two of these were recorded by Harry Taylor
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Frank Sampedro


work at the time was such that Young's co-producer Niko Bolas stated, "You can't do a Neil Young album without Poncho...there's no one thing he does, but if he wasn't there it'd come apart." As a member of The Bluenotes (a horn-driven blues rock ensemble later rechristened Ten Men Workin'), Sampedro played on Young's "This Note's for You" (1987) and contributed keyboards and guitar to the band's ensuing support tour; a selection
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Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)


.' A little tongue in cheek. A little sarcasm there." Vocalist Vince Neil added: "That's a great song. We've been playing it for years. I love to play guitar and sing that song. It's kind of a feel-good song. When that song comes on everybody wants to sing along with you." This song also contains lyrical references to 1984's "Too Young to Fall in Love". The phrase "Don't go away mad, just go away" is
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No More (Neil Young song)


anything definitively" and that it's "completely ambiguous what's going on." Young further stated that "How many times do you have to say 'no more' before it means 'no more'? Because that song doesn't mean 'no more.'" Beilen describes "No More" as having a "pop aesthetic. Rogan and music journalist Nigel Williamson describe the guitar playing as being in the style of Young's songs with Crazy Horse. But Beilen also notes some unusual elements. He notes that
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Poco


Around", lead singers Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay each recorded songs without the other members present. One of Furay's solo efforts was the country-influenced ballad "Kind Woman", which he recorded with the help of producer/engineer/bassist Jim Messina and pedal steel guitarist Rusty Young. When Buffalo Springfield split up, Furay, Messina and Rusty Young decided to start their own group oriented toward such songs. Its original lineup was Furay (vocals and rhythm guitar), Messina (lead guitar,
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Bill Connors


guitar in a sophisticated context, like with Chick [Corea]. I like to play jazz with that electric-rock sound. For me it's a lot closer to a horn than the traditional guitar, and that's what I love about it; I can sustain notes, get into different kinds of phrasing—do things other instruments do naturally, only the guitar does it with the aid of technology." Connors moved to San Francisco in 1972 to join the Mike Nock Group (formerly known as The Fourth Way
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Melissa Greener


in Detroit, Michigan. She began playing guitar at the age of nine and was influenced by her childhood guitar teacher Billy Brandt and his heroes Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Gram Parsons. After graduating from high school, Greener traveled to Tel Aviv and then to Montreal. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in ceramics from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia and then taught in Jingdezhen, China, where she began writing songs for what would become her first album. After Greener's
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Soul Flower Union


the band leader and does vocals, guitar, and sanshin. Hiroshi Kawamura plays slide guitar, guitar and mandolin, Shinya Okuno plays keyboards and accordion, Kohki plays the drums and Jigen plays the bass. The newest member, Mihoko Kamimura, does backing vocals and "hayashi" call-and-response vocals, plus occasional lead vocals and percussion. Founding member Hideko Itami sings "hayashi" and plays various kinds of Japanese, Okinawan and Korea percussion instruments. However, Itami often does not appear in SFU's live concerts
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Danger Bird (Neil Young song)


the editors of "Rolling Stone" rated "Danger Bird" to be the 24th best Neil Young song of all time. Young almost never plays "Danger Bird" live unless he is performing with Crazy Horse. A live version appears on the 1997 live album "Year of the Horse". Bielen describes the guitar playing at the beginning of the song to have an "industrial wah-wah sound" before proceeding to "distorted power chords." This version lasts more than 13 minutes as a result of a lot
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in a more recent version of the list, he has been moved up to seventeenth place), describing him as a "restless experimenter ... who transform[s] the most obvious music into something revelatory". Young is a collector of second-hand guitars, but in recording and performing, he uses frequently just a few instruments, as is explained by his longtime guitar technician Larry Cragg in the film "". They include: Other notable (or odd) instruments played by Young include: Young plays Hohner Marine Band harmonicas
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Neil Young


sometimes warring with his recording company along the way. Young's guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice define his long career. Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums, which frequently combine folk, rock, country and other musical styles. His often distorted electric guitar playing, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname "Godfather of Grunge" and led to his 1995 album "Mirror Ball" with Pearl Jam. More recently Young has been backed by Promise of the Real. Young directed
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Neil Levang


Neil Levang (January 3, 1932 – January 26, 2015) was an American musician who was best known from television's "The Lawrence Welk Show", playing guitar, violin and banjo. The younger of two boys, Levang was born in Adams, North Dakota, a farmer's son of Swedish and Norwegian descent. He got his start playing the banjo and soon added guitar and violin. As a young boy, Levang moved with his family between Adams, North Dakota and Bemidji, Minnesota before migrating west.
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Stephen Stills


with CSN and Buffalo Springfield. Fender Guitars crafted a custom guitar and presented it to Stills to commemorate the occasion, a Telecaster-style guitar bearing an inscription on the neck plate. Neil Young joined CSN for their second concert at Woodstock and subsequent album "Déjà Vu". Stills played bass, guitar and keyboard on the title track and electric guitar and piano on "Helpless". The album sold over eight million copies. In its wake all four members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) released
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Neil Young


, called the "Neil Young Trunk Show" premiered on March 21, 2009, at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas. It was featured at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2009 and was released in the U.S. on March 19, 2010 to critical acclaim. Young's guested on the album "Potato Hole", released on April 21, 2009 by Memphis organ player Booker T. Jones, of Booker T. & the MGs fame. Young plays guitar on nine of
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Thirteenth Step (band)


meets Bob Dylan and Neil Young guitar work sound. Nicholas begun working as a solo artist again as of July 2016 and plays open mics on the regular basis when off from work he now does his music for free and fun. He holds a day job and tries to get out and play on his free time. He has released a demo's EP on PureVolume Jonathan Barnes has been recording solo work off and on for over 15 years he has since returned to recording solo music and touring small clubs and bars on the
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Between the Times and the Tides


acoustic versions of the songs he would "often kind of 'Sonic' them up." The album's overall sound has been described as "a set of catchy, poppy tunes that establish a new aspect in [Ranaldo's] career." Ranaldo further explained that "it wasn't a conscious choice to write pop songs, they just sprung out of the guitars." Certain musicians influenced Ranaldo's songwriting including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Cat Power, which he referred to as "a kind
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Paul James (Canadian musician)


Mynah Birds, (Rick James was the lead singer, Neil Young was Rhythm guitar, and Bruce Palmer was bass guitar, Neil & Bruce would later go the USA to play in the group, Buffalo Springfield), again there was great applause. Paul James and John Butt were invited by the owner of the Devils Den to come back once more, this time they sat in with The Sparrow (who would later form the band Steppenwolf). James started playing in Toronto bars full-time following his high school graduation
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Old Black


Old Black is the name given to the main electric guitar used by rock musician Neil Young. Most of Young's electric guitar parts were recorded on "Old Black," though some were played on Gretsch White Falcons or on an orange Gretsch Chet Atkins. Young acquired Old Black in 1969 through a trade with one-time Buffalo Springfield collaborator Jim Messina, who received one of Young's orange Gretsch guitars (Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins) in exchange. Old Black is a 1953 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, painted black and customized
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Down by the River (Neil Young song)


-minute mark with no trace of virtuosity at all, just staccato guitar blasts sounding as though Young is parachuting down into the middle of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. In one solo, the same staccato note is repeated 38 times. In 2015, Phish guitarist, Trey Anastasio wrote, "If I was ever going to teach a master class to young guitarists, the first thing I would play them is the first minute of Neil Young's original "Down by the River" solo. It's one note, but
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I Got Id


" It is rumored that when Vedder proposed the idea of a single to Epic, the label made him change the title of the song. "I Got Id" was written by vocalist Eddie Vedder. The song was recorded during the sessions for the Neil Young/Pearl Jam collaboration "Mirror Ball". Only two members of Pearl Jam appear on the track, Vedder and drummer Jack Irons. Neil Young plays lead guitar on the track and "Mirror Ball" producer Brendan O'Brien plays bass. Upon introducing the song
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Fred Neil


Roy Orbison. He played guitar on the demo version of Bobby Darin's 1958 hit "Dream Lover" and was a demo singer on a late-1950s Elvis Presley movie soundtrack session. In Neil's obituary in "Rolling Stone", Anthony DeCurtis wrote, "So why is Neil a hero to David Crosby? Because back when Crosby was an aspiring folkie who just arrived in New York, Neil bothered to take an interest in him, just as he did for the young Bob Dylan, who backed Neil on harmonica at the
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Danger Bird (Neil Young song)


. A combination of two songs. 'L.A. Girls and Ocean Boys' I never recorded, but it's part of 'Danger Bird.' Hey, sometimes that's what happens—one song doesn't come out, I'll be writin' another and say 'Oh, that fits.' Bang! Drop it right in." Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Lou Reed considered the guitar playing on "Danger Bird" to be the best he had ever heard, stating "It makes me cry,
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Heart of Gold (Neil Young song)


" ranked it No. 297 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The song, which features backup vocals of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, is one of a series of soft acoustic pieces which were written partly as a result of a back injury. Unable to stand for long periods of time, Young could not play his electric guitar and so returned to his acoustic guitar, which he could play sitting down. He also played his harmonica during the three instrumental portions, including the introduction to the
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young


and wearing a Young-mocking outfit and being referred to by Nash as "Neil". In 2009, Crosby, Stills & Nash released "Demos", an album made up of demo recordings of popular group and solo songs. In June 2009 Crosby, Stills and Nash performed at the Glastonbury Festival. Stephen Stills was praised for his exceptional guitar playing. Neil Young did not appear onstage with them but did perform as a solo artist. In July 2009, they headlined the 14th annual Gathering of the Vibes festival.
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Interesting (The Young Ones)


arriving from the pub. Neil is beaten up, only to awaken in his bed believing the whole episode was a dream. Neil gets out of bed and busies himself as the credits play. At the end, however, party noises cause Neil to realize that "This is the dream!" as he wakes up back at the party. The episode features a guest appearance of the band Rip Rig + Panic performing "You're My Kind of Climate". Some other notable music playing throughout the progression of the party
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Bleecker & MacDougal


Bleecker & MacDougal, issued by Elektra in 1965, is the debut album from Fred Neil, a pioneer folk rock musician. The recording, which unlike many folk albums at the time featured electric guitar backing, had a significant influence on the folk rock movement. Guest musicians included Felix Pappalardi on bass, a young John Sebastian playing harmonica, and Pete Childs on dobro and electric guitar. Except for one track, all of the songs on the album were written by Neil. "Bleecker & MacDougal" was reissued as "
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Hugh Pool


and plays standard electric guitars. Inspired by the album Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Bob Dylan, The Allman Brothers and Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pool started playing the guitar at the age of 15 . At the age of 20, Hugh moved to New York City and began performing in the city's subway system. During this time he frequented The Sun Mountain Cafe, The Speakeasy and Matt Uminov Guitars, where he befriended and played with Chris Whitley and John Campbell, until their respective and untimely
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Deep Fried Man


Daniel Friedman(born 9 January 1981), known on stage as Deep Fried Man, is a South African musical comedian and writer based in Johannesburg. He describes what he does as "stand-up comedy with a guitar". He adopted his stage name, a play on his real name, because "it went along with the kind of musical comedy I wanted to do, which was an unhealthy kind of comedy". In 2018 Willem Petzer and him feuded about jokes Friedman had made 6 years earlier about white genocide in
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Noel Redding


Grammar School in Folkestone. At age nine, he played violin at school and then mandolin and guitar. His first public appearances were at the Hythe Youth Club then at his school. His first local bands, in which he played lead guitar, were: At 17 Redding went professional and toured clubs in Scotland and Germany with Neil Landon and the Burnettes (formed in late 1962) and The Loving Kind (formed in November 1965). In addition, The Lonely Ones reunited in September 1964, and Redding remained with them
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The Loner (Neil Young song)


fuzztoned rave-up"). The lyrics are characterized by dread and disorientation, coming from an "immobile protagonist" who "witnesses extraordinary visual displays". Praise came quickly, for instance in the album review in "Rolling Stone": "'The Loner' is a contemporary lament that features a nice blending of Neil's guitar with strings in non-obtrusive fashion, allowing Young's balanced ice-pick vocal to chip effectively at the listener." The song is still played live, as is one other
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Danger Bird (Neil Young song)


line about flying with stone wings, where Downing feels that the guitar playing allows the listener to feel how heavy those stone wings are but still makes the listener believe that the bird will find a way to fly with them anyway. AllMusic critic Matthew Greenwald describes the guitar solos by Young and Crazy Horse rhythm guitarist Frank Sampedro as being "exquisite." Williamson describes the song as representing Young and Crazy Horse "at their brooding best." Young biographer Jimmy McDonough describes "Danger Bird" as "perhaps the most unsettling song
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For What It's Worth


guitar harmonics" technique and sound. "For What It's Worth" quickly became a well-known protest song. In 2006, when interviewed on Tom Kent's radio show "Into the '70s", Stills pointed out that many people think the song is about the Kent State shootings of 1970, even though its release predates that event by over three years. Neil Young—Stills' bandmate in both Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY)—would later write "Ohio" in response to the
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Rusty Young (musician)


guitar at age 6, and taught guitar and steel guitar lessons during his high school years. During that time, he also played country music in late night bars. Rusty played in a well known Denver psychedelic rock band "Boenzee Cryque". In the late 1960s, a former guitar student became the road manager for Buffalo Springfield. Richie Furay and Jim Messina needed a steel guitarist for the Furay ballad "Kind Woman" on their final album "Last Time Around" and Young was hired. Along with Furay and Messina
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Down by the River (Neil Young song)


a lot of trouble controlling himself" who catches his woman cheating on him, then meets her down by the river and shoots her. According to Young, the local sheriff comes to the man's house and arrests him a few hours later. "Down by the River" begins with electric guitars followed by bass guitar and snare drum before the vocals begin. The vocal sections are taken at a slow tempo. There are long instrumental passages after each of the first two refrains, during which Young plays short, staccato notes
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Neil Flanz


with Nashville’s "The Kelly Rogers Breed" with a regular engagement at the "Broadway Barn" around the corner from the Grand Ole Opry. In 1973, Phil Kaufman contacted Neil to play a six-week tour with Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. The band was called "The Fallen Angels" and also featured Kyle Tullis on bass, N.D. Smart on drums and Jock Bartley on lead guitar. Neil cites the tour as one of the most exciting parts of his career, with “thousands of cheering young long haired
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Tonight's the Night (Neil Young album)


There is no relief in it at all. It does not release you for one second. It's like some guy having you by the throat from the first note, and all the way to the end." After all the real smooth stuff Neil had been doing, David felt most critics and others simply failed to read what they should have into "Tonight's the Night" -- that it was an artist making a giant growth step. Neil came in during this conversation, which was in his living room.
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Neil Young Archives


three years" after "Volume 1." In October 2009, Young told "Guitar World" that a disc called "Time Fades Away II" would be included in the second volume, noting: "It's interesting because ["Time Fades Away II"] has a different drummer than what was on that album. Kenny Buttrey was in there for the first half, and Johnny Barbata came in for the second. It's a completely different thing, with completely different songs." Young has said that "
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Grasshopper (musician)


Coltrane, or John Gillmore, who played with Sun Ra," Grasshopper explained in 2001. "Then as I started playing more and more guitar, as a kid I liked [laughs] The Allman Brothers and Neil Young's guitar playing. Then I got into, obviously, Sterling Morrison of The Velvet Underground, and Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd - I love that stuff. I like Robert Quine, who played with Richard Hell, and Lou Reed. I've also got some jazz and punk rock influences, but
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Neil Young


, Young embarked upon a North American solo tour to promote his then upcoming album, "Le Noise", playing a mix of older songs and new material. Although billed as a solo acoustic tour, Young also played some songs on electric guitars, including Old Black. Young continued his Twisted Road tour with a short East Coast venture during spring 2011. Young also contributed vocals to the Elton John–Leon Russell album "The Union", singing the second stanza on the track "Gone to Shiloh" and providing backing
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remain a staple of his live shows including "The Loner." For his next album, Young recruited three musicians from a band called The Rockets: Danny Whitten on guitar, Billy Talbot on bass guitar, and Ralph Molina on drums. These three took the name Crazy Horse (after the historical figure of the same name), and "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (May 1969), is credited to "Neil Young with Crazy Horse." Recorded in just two weeks, the album includes "Cinnamon Girl
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Gala Mill


in the Australian homeland, and a massacre that is infamous in Aussie history". The track has been described as a "roller coaster" and as "one part love song to nine parts apocalyptic nightmare" featuring allegorical lyrics. The track "Dog-Eared", featuring slide guitar has been described as "Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer" crossed with Nick Cave's "Boatman's Call" album" in which "the kind of love revealed [...] is so vulnerable that it becomes abusive".
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Ellis Paul


guitar to pass the time. He taught himself to play guitar with the help of a "Hits of the 70s" songbook, and began to write songs. Boston radio included a classic hits station that played the music of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and James Taylor; artists who were mostly unfamiliar to Paul. Within a few years they became major influences. Having a career in music was the furthest thing from Paul's mind at that point, but as his playing and writing improved it became a bigger
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Steve Hunter


father would play the guitar. He watched the Lawrence Welk show on TV at his grandparents' home where he saw Neil LeVang and Buddy Merrill. His grandparents had a Harmonium; his father would pump the organ while Steve sat on his lap and worked out melodies on the keyboard. When he was eight years old, he began taking guitar lessons on a Lap steel guitar. He saw and heard Jerry Byrd play lap steel and learned what could be done on the instrument. He eventually switched to standard guitar and was influenced
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Neil's Heavy Concept Album


Neil's Heavy Concept Album is a 1984 recording of songs and spoken comedy routines by British actor Nigel Planer, in character as the long-suffering hippie Neil from the BBC comedy series "The Young Ones". Production, arrangements and keyboards are by Canterbury scene keyboardist Dave Stewart, who also plays guitar, bass and drums. Other players on the album include ex-members of bands such as Gong, Spooky Tooth and Level 42. The title is self-referentially ironic, since progressive rock concept albums are supposed to
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American III: Solitary Man


mixed review , saying that “the onus here lies on the production...Rick Rubin's work is too timid; mostly, the shy combos of guitar, fiddle and accordion, or Benmont Tench's subliminal contributions on keyboards, make up the kind of severe meal that one is forced to think of as tasteful.” In a mixed review, the A.V. Club said, “Like Neil Young's Silver And Gold, it feels like a thematically empty, knockabout place-holder. American Recordings, one of Cash's towering
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Light Years (Pearl Jam song)


was originally kind of a different vibe to that song and it kind of sounded like a song I had written before so me and Eddie kind of sat down and jammed on it one day and just two guitars and out of playing for about an hour it turned into what it is now. And it's kind of a cool, I think, melodic song and lyrically it's pretty beautiful and I have my interpretation about what the song is about and I think everybody should get what they want to get out of it
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Stolen Apples (album)


unless otherwise indicated. Credits: For the tour on the back of this album, Paul decided to play the entire album in full and then play a collection of his greatest hits. In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Kelly stated that the idea was inspired by the setlist structure of Neil Young's concert tour supporting the 2003 album "Greendale". The band for this tour was: Paul Kelly – Lead vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica Dan Kelly and Dan Luscombe – Electric guitar and harmonies Peter Luscombe – drums
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Brett Dennen


. After becoming proficient in the guitar, he started to write his own songs. Dennen attended Camp Jack Hazard, a residential summer camp, as a child.His camp counselors played the music of Neil Young, John Denver, and Joni Mitchell, the same music that his parents listened to. He idolized the counselors and, it was there in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, that he learned to play guitar. As an adolescent, he worked there as a counselor. He has continued to help the camp,
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Johnny Marr


Gallagher's High Flying Birds' "Chasing Yesterday", playing lead guitar, and joined the band for this song at a concert in Manchester. Marr contributed the track "My Monster" for the Blondie album "Pollinator", released on 5 May 2017. On 12 March 2018 Marr announced his third solo album, "Call the Comet". Marr's jangly guitar-playing was influenced by Neil Young's work with Crazy Horse, George Harrison (with the Beatles) and James Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders.
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Charley Drayton


played bass guitar alongside Neil Young on the September 30, 1989 Saturday Night Live performance of "Rockin' in the Free World" He played bass guitar on The Cult's 1991 album "Ceremony." He played drums on two albums for Australian band Divinyls: 1991's "Divinyls" and 1996's "Underworld" (which he also produced), the band's last album before their hiatus in late 1996. In 1999, Drayton married Divinyls' lead singer Chrissy Amphlett and the couple lived in New York City.
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Chvrches


does not go down well with the Breezy fans. We were like, 'maybe don’t promote serial convicted violence to kids, to young people,' and then they were like 'you know what we’re gonna do? We’re gonna rape you and shoot you.' You kind of proved the point." Touring musicians When Chvrches plays live, Mayberry performs lead vocals and occasionally plays synthesisers and samplers. She also played drums as a part of their second album tour as seen in "Playing Dead
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Neil Flanz


Neil Flanz is a pedal steel guitar player living in Austin, TX. He has played and toured for over 30 years with artists including Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Charlie Louvin and Joe Sun. Neil was inducted into the International Steel Guitar Hall Of Fame on June 12, 2016 Neil was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His musical influences as a child included Jimmie Rodgers, Wilf Carter, Hawaiian music and the Grand Ole Opry radio broadcasts. He began playing guitar at the age of 13 when his
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The Ducks


" was done in a kind of psychedelic/surf manner, but it grew into a more traditional Young guitar piece as the weeks went on. Young played his "Old Black" guitar. In the smaller clubs the band would shake hands with the crowd at the end. Even in larger venues like the Catalyst, which had a maximum capacity of 1,000 people, people would often bump into Young and company waiting in line at the bar between sets. Young was spending money that summer on the band, and by midsummer
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Rob Bochnik


studios and maintaining them. In 2002, he began playing guitar and touring with The Frames. In 2003 he was asked to join the band and has been recording and touring with them ever since. The Frames have toured the world and have shared billings with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Levon Helm. In 2007, he released a solo album, Blowing Out the Cobwebs. In 2008, he began touring with The Swell Season. He played guitar and mandolin on the band's current release "Strict Joy" and
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Shane Alexander (musician)


his father. Artists such as Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin, the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and The Moody Blues shaped the impressionable young Alexander’s musical tastes. Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits album particularly moved him, but it was the music of Neil Young whom he cites today as his biggest influence. At 10 years old, Alexander received his first guitar from his grandmother. Alexander soon taught himself to play guitar and by 12 years old, had joined his first band. Countless followed throughout his teen years.
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Hank Marvin


, Peter Frampton, Steve Howe, Roy Wood, Tony Iommi, Pete Townshend, Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy McCulloch, Andy Powell and Jeff Beck. Australian guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel has also paid homage to Marvin on various recordings. In Canada, Cliff Richard and the Shadows had top 10 hits, especially from 1961 to 1965. Canadian guitarists Randy Bachman and Neil Young credit Marvin as influential, Young penning the song "From Hank to Hendrix" on his "Harvest Moon" album in partial tribute. Marvin also played guitar on
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Max Volume


He graduated from Crescenta Valley High School in La Crescenta California. Volume earned his associate degree from Truckee Meadows Community College in 2006. After receiving a guitar at age 9 he taught himself to play, and studied the music of Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend and Neil Young. Volume's father, Ralph, the chief deputy coroner of Los Angeles County, did not support his musical aspirations, due to the amount of dead young guitar players in the L.A. County Morgue. His mother Joni was the International President of Sweet Adelines International
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Physical Graffiti


was influenced by Neil Young. It was reworked as an electric track during sessions for the fourth album the following year. Page and Bonham led the arranging, changing tempo from the slow to fast section and then back again. "Ten Years Gone" was mostly composed by Plant about an old love affair, and was combined with an instrumental piece from Page, featuring overdubbed electric and acoustic guitar parts. When the track was performed live, Jones played a triple-neck guitar featuring mandolin, six- and twelve-string guitars
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Marek Bliziński


guitar. His playing reveals sound knowledge of guitar improvisation history. On four bars distance he went up to his knees in blues mud, somewhere in the Mississippi delta, rendered guitar canons of the 1950s and finally sailed across some funk patterns of the kind that make you feel dizzy. Technical problems seem to be totally unknown to him. He swings strongly when he wants to. Whatever he does, he does it with a temporal precision sharp as a razor. A noteworthy man: one of the best I've ever heard
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Neil Young


precursor of grunge music and many grunge artists have said they were inspired by Young's distorted guitars on the B side to this album. Young also compared the rise of Johnny Rotten with that of the recently deceased "King" Elvis Presley, who himself had once been disparaged as a dangerous influence only to later become an icon. Rotten returned the favour by playing one of Young's songs, "Revolution Blues" from "On the Beach", on a London radio show, an early sign of Young's eventual embrace
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I've Been Waiting for You (Neil Young song)


"I've Been Waiting for You" is a song written by Neil Young, which he recorded for his 1968 debut solo album. In a song review for AllMusic, critic Matthew Greenwald described it as "One of the most powerful and well-crafted songs from Neil Young's self-titled solo debut... A very strong and engaging melody is set against a striking, descending guitar riff, which serves as the song's hook." Young did not perform the song with Crazy Horse or Crosby, Stills, Nash
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Heart of Gold (Neil Young song)


concert (preserved on "Live at Massey Hall 1971", released in 2007) he played it on piano, starting with "A Man Needs a Maid" and then segueing into this song. By the time of "Harvest" he had separated the two songs and played "Heart of Gold" on guitar and harmonica. Young wrote in the liner notes of his 1977 compilation album "Decade": "This song put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for
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Nick Driver


The more up-tempo acoustic pop songs work very well for Driver, whereas the slow ballads find Driver losing energy, focus and sound." "Music Spectrum" also compared Driver's style to Mraz, and stated, "Aside from the Mraz comparison, I also hear what's called Speedwood by the group Lost & Found. What they mean are some hard acoustic guitar lines—kind of a punk energy to folk music. Driver displays this on 'Young Beautiful,' with the guitar accentuated by congas."
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Like a Hurricane (Neil Young song)


's guitar riff is one of the most famous in rock history. The song has been played on nearly every tour Young has done since its release. It has also appeared on the compilations "Decade" and "Greatest Hits" and on the live albums "Live Rust", "Weld" and "Unplugged" (this last rendition is played almost entirely on a pump organ). An edited version of "Like a Hurricane" was released as a single on August 8, 1977, with "Hold Back the
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Where the Buffalo Roam


by Neil Young, who sings the opening theme, "Home on the Range", accompanied by a harmonica. Variations on "Home on the Range" are played by Young on electric guitar as "Ode to Wild Bill" and by an orchestra with arrangements by David Blumberg on "Buffalo Stomp". Music in the film included rock and R&B songs by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Temptations, the Four Tops and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Additionally, characters played by Bill Murray and René Auberjonois sing lyrics from "
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of the decade. Accompanied by a video that parodied corporate rock, the pretensions of advertising, and Michael Jackson, the song was initially unofficially banned by MTV for mentioning the brand names of some of their sponsors. Young wrote an open letter, "What does the M in MTV stand for: music or money?" Despite this, the video was eventually named best video of the year by the network in 1989. By comparison, the major music cable network of Young's home nation, Muchmusic, ran the video
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Tom Keifer


Carl Thomas Keifer (born January 26, 1961, in Springfield, Pennsylvania) is an American vocalist and guitarist for the band Cinderella. Tom Keifer grew up in a musical family and began playing guitar at a young age. Keifer soon fell in love with the blues and was heavily influenced by this kind of music. Keifer joined his first rock band while in junior high school. He soon learned to play the electric guitar. The young musician struggled with drug and alcohol abuse in high school, and considered dropping out of
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VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock" that same year. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame explained that while Young has "avoided sticking to one style for very long, the unifying factors throughout Young's peripatetic musical journey have been his unmistakable voice, his raw and expressive guitar playing, and his consummate songwriting skill." Young's political outspokenness and social awareness influenced artists such as Blind Melon, Phish, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana. Young is referred to as "the Godfather of Grunge" because of the
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Elliot Roberts


, but I’m fair… No, I think I’m way tough, and I don’t think I’m fair at all. Fairness comes into the equation sometimes, but when I deal with Neil for Neil, I don’t care what’s fair — I only care what Neil wants. Not what’s fair.” Roberts also supported Young's philanthropic and political work, and collaborated with Young creatively on film and video projects, often under his birth name of Elliot Rabinowitz. He launched Vapor Records with Young in
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The Loner (Neil Young song)


with former Springfield member Jim Messina (bass) and George Grantham (drums) (they were uncredited on the album sleeve), it is the first Young track produced by David Briggs, with whom Young would collaborate until Briggs's death. Strings were arranged by David Blumberg, whom Young met through Briggs. Young's guitar is in Double drop D tuning; "psycho guitar noises" were made, according to Briggs, by putting the guitar through a Leslie speaker (the sound has also been referred to as a "
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Larry Johnson (film producer)


who brought a fresh sensibility to the conventions of television documentaries and their work appeared on PBS and gained much critical respect. L.A. Johnson and Neil Young first crossed paths at Woodstock in 1969 where Young, who was performing as part of Crosby, Stills & Nash, refused to be filmed (although there is footage on Young's "Archives" of Young and Stills playing the slower, original arrangement of "Mr. Soul" on acoustic guitars). Johnson and cameraman David Meyers were recruited by CSNY to film their residence at the
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A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window


". It is the Floyd, it is Genesis, it is King Crimson, does it matter? "A Little Man…" is the very worst bits of "Tommy" stretched out to an eternity; it's Emerson, Lake & Palmer; it's "Brain Salad Burglary" as the NME of its day might have said. By way of variation 'In a City Lining' knocks off one of those Neil Young/Mission cryogenic guitar solos and to bewilder us completely there is a nutty body-stomp
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Woodstock (song)


arrangement – a solo vocal, multi-tracked backing vocals, and a tremoloed Wurlitzer electric piano, all performed by Mitchell. About the same time that "Ladies of the Canyon" appeared, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's upbeat hard rock arrangement was released as the lead single from their 1970 "Déjà Vu" album. This version opens with a lead guitar lick played by Neil Young, who also plays the solo. Stephen Stills sings the lead vocal with backing harmonies from David Crosby and Graham Nash. The
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Rick Rosas


film "Ricki and The Flash." The band was composed of guitarist Rick Springfield, drummer Joe Vitale, and keyboardist Bernie Worrell, backing up Meryl Streep, as "Ricki", on vocals and guitar. In 2014, Rosas joined Neil Young and Crazy Horse on their European tour, following Billy Talbot's inability to tour due to a stroke. This act made Rosas the only bassist to have played with three of Young's major band-based projects, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and
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Steve Jordan (drummer)


, this album features Tamio Okuda on lead guitars, Pino Palladino on bass and additional classic guitar work by Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar. The Verbs played their first gig outside of Earth Fare in Rockwood Plaza, Forest City, NC. With Patti Austin With Don Pullen With Booker T. & the M.G.'s With Cat Stevens With Keith Richards With Neil Young With John Scofield Jordan plays Yamaha Drums, Paiste Cymbals and Remo drumheads. He has signature drumsticks from Vic Firth. Acoustic Drums:Yamaha Maple Custom Paiste: Drumheads: Jordan
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Robin Auld (musician)


, South Africa, in 1970. They settled in the False Bay area and he attended both primary and high schools in Fish Hoek. Auld learned to play the guitar by listening to Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Ry Cooder and Neil Young. He was also influenced by the African guitar styles of mbaqanga and maskandi after seeing Philip Tabane and Malombo at his first concert experience. He started out playing as a sideman guitarist in several seminal South African bands, most notably the anti-establishment Lancaster Band between 1977 and 1979,
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William Finn


his bar mitzvah, he received a guitar and taught himself to play. He went on to attend Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts as a music major. He originally entered as a guitar major, "When I got to college I kind of transferred to the piano. I transferred what I knew on the guitar to the piano. But when I was playing the guitar I was always writing my own songs — and singing a few of — I only had one book of folk songs, a blue book, of these
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Exile in Guyville


Actually we just played our parts separately. I laid down the guitar, and then I would just tell them what kind of song it would be and what kinds of instruments we needed to do. And then they would go in there and figure out a part and then do it. It was more like collage work than really playing with a band." "Johnny Sunshine" was one of the first songs recorded in 1992 that eventually made the record. The songs "Fuck and Run", "Never Said"
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Alex Webster


thought he could have been a little louder on those albums though. That's the thing. In thrash metal or any other kind of metal where the bass is playing exactly what the guitar is playing, automatically the bass went down in the mix. If you notice those older bands like Accept, the bass is doing something that's a little bit different from the guitar. It's more with the kick drum instead of playing the riff the guitar is doing. In thrash metal and then death metal, the bass player
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Nils Lofgren


trio (Lofgren, Daly and Berberich) drove out west and lived for some months at a home Neil Young rented in Laurel Canyon. Lofgren joined Young's band at age 19, playing piano and guitar on the album "After the Gold Rush". Lofgren maintained a close musical relationship with Young, appearing on his "Tonight's the Night" album and tour among others. He has also been a recurring member of Crazy Horse (1970–1971; 1973; 2018–present), appearing on their 1971 LP and contributing songs to
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On the Beach (Neil Young album)


Revolution Blues" was inspired by Charles Manson, whom Young had met in his Topanga Canyon days. "For the Turnstiles" is a country-folk hybrid featuring Young's banjo guitar and a harmony vocal from Ben Keith, who also plays Dobro. The side closes with "Vampire Blues," a cynical attack on the oil industry. Side two of the LP version opens with "On the Beach", a bluesy meditation on the downside of fame, which has been covered by many artists including Radiohead and Golden Smog
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Tell Me Why (Neil Young song)


are two acoustic guitars, played by Young and Nils Lofgren. He is, however, backed by the vocal harmonies of Crazy Horse during the choruses. 'Tell Me Why' has a simple lyrical structure, with 2 verses each followed by a bridge then chorus, and one final bridge and chorus before a short instrumental outro. The chorus line "Tell me why, tell me why/Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself/When you're old enough to repay/but young enough to sell?" is
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ukulele to a baritone ukulele – everything but a guitar." Young and his mother settled into the working-class area of Fort Rouge, Winnipeg, where the shy, dry-humoured youth enrolled at Earl Grey Junior High School. It was there that he formed his first band, the Jades, and met Ken Koblun. While attending Kelvin High School in Winnipeg, he played in several instrumental rock bands, eventually dropping out of school in favour of a musical career. Young's first stable band was the Squires,
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Ronnie Van Zant was later photographed wearing a "Tonight's the Night" T-shirt on the cover of an album. In the autumn of 1970, Young began a solo acoustic tour of North America, during which he played a variety of his Buffalo Springfield and CSNY songs on guitar and piano, along with material from his solo albums and a number of new songs. Some songs premiered by Young on the tour, like "Journey through the Past", would never find a home on a studio album, while
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Human Highway


Human Highway is a 1982 American comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the band Devo. Included is a collaborative performance of "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" by Devo and Young with Booji Boy singing lead vocals and Young playing lead guitar. The film was shown in only select theaters and was not released on VHS until 1995. It received poor reviews upon
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Still Brazy


, what's on the radio, or what safe, suburban America believes." Martín Caballero of "The Boston Globe" said, "Here, it's less about what Y.G. does than how he does it; digging deeper into vintage G-funk flavors with a blend of personal, party, and political tracks, the young Compton rapper takes a sizzling step forward." Michael Madden of "Consequence of Sound" said, "It's full of the kind of warm G-funk that never fails to transport
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Angus Young


his own back, while he played an extended improvised guitar solo, usually during the song "Rocker" with Scott or during "Let There Be Rock" with Johnson. He frequently does his own version of Chuck Berry's duck walk, as well as a "spasm", during which he throws himself to the ground, kicking, shaking, and spinning in circles, while playing the guitar. Young was advised by older brother George that if he ever tripped over his lead to keep playing and make it look like
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Like a Hurricane (Neil Young song)


"Like a Hurricane" is a song written by Neil Young in 1975 and first released on the album "American Stars 'n Bars" in 1977. Young wrote the song in July 1975 with the help of his friend and La Honda neighbor Taylor Phelps in the back of his DeSoto Suburban, during a time when Young was unable to sing because of an operation on his vocal cords. Driven by Young's trademark fierce guitars, the song became a landmark of the 'electric side' of his concerts. The song
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No More (Neil Young song)


"No More" is a song written by Neil Young that was first released on his 1989 album "Freedom". Although not released commercially as a single, it reached #7 on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock chart. Young performed the song live on a "Saturday Night Live" performance on September 30, 1989. The lyrics of the song address drug addiction. Neil Young biographer Brian Kreizer describes it as a sequel to "The Needle and the Damage Done." However, "No More" does not
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List of Coronation Street characters (2017)


it is his money that paid for all of Bethany's vlogging equipment. Nathan warns Bethany that she should be kind and polite to Neil, especially after a number of electronic goods supposedly belonging to Neil are stolen from the flat. Suggesting that Bethany make up the loss to Neil by going to dinner with him, Nathan later watches on and does nothing as Neil takes Bethany into the bedroom and rapes her. Neil, Nathan and the other members of the grooming gang are later arrested. Neil tells Craig that he was not
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Will to Love


"Will to Love" is a song written by Neil Young that was first released on his 1977 album "American Stars 'N Bars". A promotional single of "Will to Love" was released, backed with a live performance of "Cortez the Killer." "Will to Love" had been intended for Young's never released "Chrome Dreams" album. He recorded the song alone in a single take on a two track cassette tape, sitting in front of a fireplace playing acoustic guitar. He used a
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No. 2 (band)


What Does Good Luck Bring?" followed in 2002. In April 2007, a studio recorded demo was leaked by Neil Gust of a No. 2 song recorded in 2003. The song, titled "Who's Behind the Door" features former bandmate Elliott Smith on guitar and keyboards, and John Moen (currently of The Decemberists) on drums. According to Gust: It was recorded in Elliott [Smith]'s studio in LA. It was a surreal experience. Long story. Elliott came to our last show in
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Fat Worm of Error


(guitar), Chris Cooper (guitar), Donny Shaw (bass), Neil "Neel" Young Cloaca (drums). They formed in 2002 in Western Massachusetts and played their first show at The Schoolhouse in Hadley, MA. Members have been in various bands and solo projects. Members Chris Cooper and Jess Goddard are former members of the band Deerhoof, and pioneering conceptual noise rock band Caroliner. Solo projects include Schurt Kwitters (Goddard), Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase (Cooper), Offal (Shaw),
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Booker T. & the M.G.'s


outstanding performers in various musical genres who play guitar as their primary instrument. A two-disc DVD of the show was released in the same year. Jones, in collaboration with the band Drive-By Truckers, released the album "Potato Hole", featuring Neil Young on guitar, in 2009. He released "The Road from Memphis" in 2011; the album won a Grammy Award. On May 13, 2012, Dunn died following two concerts in Tokyo. For many years, Stax publicity releases stated that the
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Francesco Piu


the festival and took up a solo career as a one-man band, playing the acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, banjo, weissenborn, washboard and harmonica. His first musical repertoire featured acoustic covers of blues classics, as well as blues reinterpretations of rock classics by artists such as Neil Young and Jimi Hendrix. His covers also included elements of soul, funk and rock. In 2007, he released his first album, "Blues Journey", for the Groove Company. After the album came out, he participated in
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Danger Bird (Neil Young song)


Young has created, a soundtrack worthy of those ten-cent portraits of Hell found in a Coffin Joe flick," and also "a masterpiece, a trip inside the darkest recesses of Shakey's mind." "Pitchfork" contributor Rob Mitchum describes the song as a "triumphantly moody, electric epic" which provides "spacious opportunities for Young to revive his trademark lacerating guitar tone." "Neil Young FAQ" author Glen Boyd, comparing it to "Cortez the Killer," calls it an "equally stunning,
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Shinobu Ito (musician)


of Brazil.BR These styles of music were mostly composed originally for the guitar, while even orchestral works as well as piano pieces were arranged for the guitar, all of them made up the core repertory for classical guitar. “When these types of music are played with improvisation, they organically link with jazz, which enables the creation of a new kind of music, does it not?” wonders Ito.BR Fortunately, there are many of Latin guitarists in New York, who all exchange ideas with each other.
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Violet Hill


me go?", talks about a man's love of a woman, who does not reciprocate his love. The song ends with Martin playing the piano and singing, and pleading in nearly spoken-words: "If you love me, won't you let me know?" In live performances of the song, he plays the piano part on his acoustic guitar. According to Neil McCormick of "The Sydney Morning Herald", he writes that the lyrics "I don't want to be a soldier",
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Neil Young (album)


Haeco-CSG processing. The words "Neil Young" were added to the album cover after what was left of the original stock had been used up, so copies of both mixes exist in the original sleeve. Copies of the original mix are now rare and sought-after, because many Neil Young fans believe that the remix diminished the songs, especially "Here We Are in the Years". "Neil Young" was remastered and released on HDCD-encoded compact discs and digital download on July 14, 2009 as
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