I've been reading all these threads and I have very little to say. So here goes.

I) Never care for Neil Young's music. However there are exceptions. The one song that i really liked was "This Old House" on his record American Dream.

2) I cannot Imagen a world without music. I am 60 years old and have been screaming (singing) since I was born. Playing music since I was 16 and writing for about 20 years. I go to bed with a tune in my head and still wake up with a tune to try on the piano. Neil Young needs to join Mudcat so he can realize that there are folks here that think (oh never mind.) he is wrong. Well most of us.

3) Than again. What is he really saying? "No longer changes?" Sounds like he is referring to the days when he was big and is now starting to fade from that era and wants to set a spark to his career. Hell why not.

4) Then maybe in his thinking he is right. Where are the Dylan's, Lightfoots, Paxton's, Mitchell's, Murdoch's, Lang's, Guthrie's, Prine, not to mention the Eric Bogle, And all those other great great performers that we grew up to love. He maybe very right. Maybe there is no one out there "NOW" that we can relate to as far as the music we love. Maybe it is just that the music has changed and we have stayed behind.

5) I just want to finish by saying that there are other mediums out there that even music lovers have little knowledge of. The variety of trees, plants, gardening, and on and on. One that I will touch on is birds. I can look at a bird in flight and tell you what it is just by the way it flies. I can tell you most birds by the songs they sing without seeing them.

The point I'm trying to make is that Music/Birds/gardening/ and all the things around us are all related to the whole. Most of us will never grasp it all but just a part. if it is not music it might be trees or plant life. But music just happens to be one of those things that you can't hold in you hand, but you can hold in your heart.

Beer (adrien)