Neil's a poet and shouldn't always be taken literally. This is imagery from three time settings: the past, the present and the future. You can take it from there
Hi Harri, as I remember, this wonderful song came out around 1970, at the time I took it to be a call to look after Mother Nature and it certainly influenced me in that direction along with a certain song by Joni Mitchell and funnily enough Paul McCartney's Mother Nature's Son from his Beatles years. In one way or another they all tried to wake us up way back then.
Oh… you really should listen to the version by the group Trio. Trio is comprised of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Rondstadt. Even thinking of it sends a shiver up my spine- the harmonies are so heavenly. I think you would truly enjoy it because you respect harmonies so much, and you won’t find any better than this. Thanks for the reaction on this version, but please consider adding Trio. Have a great day!
I've never heard that cover, but I can HIGHLY recommend the performance of "After the Gold Rush" by Radiohead front-man Thom Yorke, solo, live, acoustic AND on Neil Young's own piano at the Bridge School Benefit concert in 2002.
This version is in my top 3 favorite Young songs ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Still have my original copy Lp I purchased in 1979. I wore out that album gatefold deseeding ……. 🤗 vinyl was always on the turntable 🔥❤️🎸🤘🏼
Thank you Harri for playing this song. I have always loved Neil singing this. I also hope that you will some day react to Philip Bailey singing "Walking On The Chinese Wall" I think you will like it.
Hell, Harri-B - Neil was singing about climate change about a half century ago - "Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s" - Among other profound topics. I kind of think of Neil Young as a Canadian Bob Dylan lyrically sometimes .... A little further in to your review, about the vulnerability Neil reflects in his voice and harmonica playing - "like he needs a hug" -- HECK, humanity needs a hug about now, and then - THAT'S why you, and we, still listen to his music - He perceived our precarious positions, personally and globally, and laid it out there for us, don't you think?
It's sort of in line with Joni Mitchell's song, Big Yellow Taxi. Rivers were so polluted in the USA they were catching on fire. The Nuclear Arms Race....Now the entire planet is burning! Our leaders are more corrupt than ever. (The is a movie that has these live performances. It's called Rust Never Sleeps.)
Dolly Parton recorded this song twice. She asked Linda Ronstadt to call Neal to ask him what the song was about. “I have no idea,” was his response. (Apparently it was inspired by an unproduced screen play of the same name that a friend of his wrote).
This was the second album I bought when I was in junior high, after having bought Led Zepplins's "The Song Remains the Same." Between the two, I was conditioned to love live performances and got into so many arguments in high school about which versions of songs were better - studio vs live. LIve is typically better in my opinion because you get a better feeling about the artists and what they are feeling during a performance. Much truer music than produced studio version IMHO.
Agreed. I create a lot of YT music playlists and try to favour live performances where available. As I say in my channel description " then you see who can come up with the goods.""
This is such a beautiful and profound song that is more relevant than ever today. Linda, Dolly and Emmylou (Trio) did a great cover of this song. Thanks Harri and Oddball 1958🌺✌️
This was the first song I ever heard of his. I've heard hundreds since then. I think it's just a song about a dream. He dreams of knights in armour, then dreams of leaving in a spaceship. Maybe it's deeper than that?
This tour of Uncle Neil and Crazy Horse with the Roadeyes, was actually in '78. I was fortunate to see it Charlotte, NC fall of '78, after a NASCAR race that afternoon...lolol Loooong day. (Sedan Delivery got us home that night. lololol)
You were very fortunate indeed, as Neil had a penchant for scheduling shows in Charlotte then canceling at the last minute or because he disagreed with some policy or other put out by the city the state or just because he felt like it.
When he did storytellers on VH1 with CS and N they all had pretty logic exampels about how they came up with whatever song they were about to sing. Neil gets up to talk about this song and said something like.. i woke up one morning... it was a nice morning... i had some ideas in my head... and umm it was a nice morning and then staretd playing this song.. you can find the live version i belive as far as visual
58 club , special, just lived thru the best time in history ever , never to be repeated get to listen to this , and argue why the stereo had too much bass , look at mother nature
Hi har just wanted to put this out there again. Brothers comatose and jr jones you don’t know how it feels cover for Tom petty miss him ! Have a great day 80 in Philadelphia beautiful day ! ❤
true story! david koresh, then called vernon howell was in dartmouth mass, to help a group of people get ready to move to texas. they had purchased an old bus. i got hired to put a clutch in it for them. vernon was looking the bus over and removing the seats. and he asked me where he could go to get some paint to paint the bus. he wasnt from around here so i took him to a store. on the way 'live rust' was in my tape player like it just about always was back then. he heard this song and he told me god was sending him a message the bus should be silver. we get to the hardware store and there on the bargain rack was 2 gallons of rustoleum aluminum paint. later i was there and this guy i also knew was there telling the people they were all going to die if they went to texas. i didnt get it at the time but if you listen to the song david koresh based a whole religion on a song by neil young. i can take you thru the song and prove it!
knights in armor was the fbi and the queen was janet reno. the burned out basement was of course waco the band was neil young and crazyhorse,thinking about what a friend had said was that guy stu telling them they would all die. the branch davidians believed they were the chosen ones. there was this big part of the religion about the trinity and vernon(koresh) said the father the son and the holy spirit . the holy spirit according to him is female . i wasnt into religion at all i kinda took it to mean like mother nature. the silver space ship was the bus. when the compound was under seige the bus was parked outside.
If you're interested in more Blues stuff ya should check-out R.L. Burnside. R.L. passed away in the mid 2000's, and he actually gained quite a bit of notoriety in his later life in the 1990's. When R.L. was a child he was a neighbour of, and grew up listening to, Blues musician 'Mississippi' Fred McDowell, and Fred became R.L.'s mentor. R.L. Burnside's type of Blues is a little different from the Mississippi Delta Blues. Burnside plays what's known as North Mississippi Hill County Blues. Other popular Hill Country Blues artists are Junior Kimbrough, T-Model Ford, Othar Turner, North Mississippi Allstars, to name just a few. Goin' Down South -- R.L. Burnside & Jon Spencer would be an interesting start...
I second that! See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978) I learned of this guy back in the Nineties on a cassette I bought, a soundtrack from the movie "Deep Blues". Then, back in 2007 I encountered a recording from Mali, in the Sahara Desert, by people known as Tuaregs, a band called Tinariwen. You can hear the family resemblance straight away.
The closest analogy I can come to with this song Harri, is James Joyce stream of consciousness type writing. It isnt supposed to be understood. Its supposed to touch you emotionally and the spoken word doesn't do it justice. A lot of my climate change friends feel that this is about what we have done to nature (very very little as it turns out) but the song twists turns and branches so much that it cant be pinned to one topic ir even general vague expression of an idea.
To me this was an environmental protest; in his dream we have messed up the world and some chosen few will get to leave to find a new one. This is my Captain Obvious view anyway and I don’t think is a completely satisfactory take. But leaning into the environmental protest: After the Gold Rush was released in 1970. Silent Spring was published in 1962, the EPA was created in 1970 and DDT was banned in the US in 1972 (although exports continued for years after). Environmentalism was an emerging concern for the general public.
Oddball 1958 - If there ever was a classic live album, Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" would have to be included, in my opinion. Harri, this song's central message is climate change. He knew then that we may have to live on another planet unless we stop destroying this one.
I cried the first time I heard this. Rinse and repeat.
Neil's a poet and shouldn't always be taken literally. This is imagery from three time settings: the past, the present and the future. You can take it from there
Hi Harri, as I remember, this wonderful song came out around 1970, at the time I took it to be a call to look after Mother Nature and it certainly influenced me in that direction along with a certain song by Joni Mitchell and funnily enough Paul McCartney's Mother Nature's Son from his Beatles years. In one way or another they all tried to wake us up way back then.
Pure Gold.
I saw Neil Young in Sydney about 30 years ago , great show . Solo acoustic , country rock band and then heavy rock .
Love Neil he’s just Awsome!!!!!
Powderfinger and Cortez the Killer are very powerful as well.
Especially when they are electric ...
Too bad we don't get any requesters for the electric Neil .....no one has the balls
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN i love neil young on electric guitar. have you heard his work on Dead Man?
It was indoor, and I was there. Watch the movie of Live Rust ... great stuff.
Still know every word ❤❤❤
Love this live album. It's amazing and strong songs. Starts simple acoustic, and ends fuzzy electrical. Heard it over and over again.
My favorite live album ever
Oh… you really should listen to the version by the group Trio. Trio is comprised of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Rondstadt. Even thinking of it sends a shiver up my spine- the harmonies are so heavenly. I think you would truly enjoy it because you respect harmonies so much, and you won’t find any better than this. Thanks for the reaction on this version, but please consider adding Trio. Have a great day!
Absolutely not
I've never heard that cover, but I can HIGHLY recommend the performance of "After the Gold Rush" by Radiohead front-man Thom Yorke, solo, live, acoustic AND on Neil Young's own piano at the Bridge School Benefit concert in 2002.
This version is in my top 3 favorite Young songs ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Still have my original copy Lp I purchased in 1979. I wore out that album gatefold deseeding ……. 🤗
vinyl was always on the turntable 🔥❤️🎸🤘🏼
LOVE NEIL YOUNG
Thank you Harri for playing this song. I have always loved Neil singing this. I also hope that you will some day react to Philip Bailey singing "Walking On The Chinese Wall" I think you will like it.
Hell, Harri-B - Neil was singing about climate change about a half century ago - "Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s" - Among other profound topics. I kind of think of Neil Young as a Canadian Bob Dylan lyrically sometimes .... A little further in to your review, about the vulnerability Neil reflects in his voice and harmonica playing - "like he needs a hug" -- HECK, humanity needs a hug about now, and then - THAT'S why you, and we, still listen to his music - He perceived our precarious positions, personally and globally, and laid it out there for us, don't you think?
Those were the days my friends
Those days were my friends…
We thought they'd never end
@@rjayzee52 We’d sing and dance…
@@mythicsin3083 forever and a day
@@rjayzee52 We’d live the life we choose…
probably his best album is AFTER THE GOLDRUSH.
Saw the Live Rust concert in Toronto with the "road eyes' and giant fender equipment.
It's sort of in line with Joni Mitchell's song, Big Yellow Taxi. Rivers were so polluted in the USA they were catching on fire. The Nuclear Arms Race....Now the entire planet is burning! Our leaders are more corrupt than ever. (The is a movie that has these live performances. It's called Rust Never Sleeps.)
Dolly Parton recorded this song twice. She asked Linda Ronstadt to call Neal to ask him what the song was about. “I have no idea,” was his response. (Apparently it was inspired by an unproduced screen play of the same name that a friend of his wrote).
I always think of the Heaven’s Gate cult when I hear this great song!
This was the second album I bought when I was in junior high, after having bought Led Zepplins's "The Song Remains the Same." Between the two, I was conditioned to love live performances and got into so many arguments in high school about which versions of songs were better - studio vs live. LIve is typically better in my opinion because you get a better feeling about the artists and what they are feeling during a performance. Much truer music than produced studio version IMHO.
Agreed. I create a lot of YT music playlists and try to favour live performances where available. As I say in my channel description " then you see who can come up with the goods.""
This is such a beautiful and profound song that is more relevant than ever today. Linda, Dolly and Emmylou (Trio) did a great cover of this song. Thanks Harri and Oddball 1958🌺✌️
But they horribly changed the words!!! Now we need electric..
Stop wiping out
This was the first song I ever heard of his. I've heard hundreds since then. I think it's just a song about a dream. He dreams of knights in armour, then dreams of leaving in a spaceship. Maybe it's deeper than that?
It's about the ecological collapse of the Earth, with mankind leaving it to look for another place to live.
@@strifeknot Ah. Makes sense.
This tour of Uncle Neil and Crazy Horse with the Roadeyes, was actually in '78. I was fortunate to see it Charlotte, NC fall of '78, after a NASCAR race that afternoon...lolol
Loooong day.
(Sedan Delivery got us home that night. lololol)
You were very fortunate indeed, as Neil had a penchant for scheduling shows in Charlotte then canceling at the last minute or because he disagreed with some policy or other put out by the city the state or just because he felt like it.
Original album is the best version. Thanks love it.
Yup too many wimps better is Neil's electric but fanboys can't handle rock
It's a song about destitution and at the possibility of being taken away from all pain. Like death quite a bit.
When he did storytellers on VH1 with CS and N they all had pretty logic exampels about how they came up with whatever song they were about to sing. Neil gets up to talk about this song and said something like.. i woke up one morning... it was a nice morning... i had some ideas in my head... and umm it was a nice morning and then staretd playing this song.. you can find the live version i belive as far as visual
58 club , special, just lived thru the best time in history ever , never to be repeated get to listen to this , and argue why the stereo had too much bass , look at mother nature
Hi har just wanted to put this out there again. Brothers comatose and jr jones you don’t know how it feels cover for Tom petty miss him ! Have a great day 80 in Philadelphia beautiful day ! ❤
Mesmerizing love you
One of the greatest live albums ever ..Cortez the Killer will absolutely knock you senseless .. Check it out Harri
Nope not hardly need 4 Way Street with electric stiff instead of the wimp
Nope best live album was 4 way street with the rock
all recorded indoors at various arenas
Studio version far superior
I thought this was going to have video. I don't see listening to this version, instead of the studio version, unless you are seeing it played live.
If I remember right, this was to be part of a movie soundtrack, but the movie never came into being.
I know someone who believes that she was abducted by aliens. She adores this song.🖖🏼
true story! david koresh, then called vernon howell was in dartmouth mass, to help a group of people get ready to move to texas. they had purchased an old bus. i got hired to put a clutch in it for them. vernon was looking the bus over and removing the seats. and he asked me where he could go to get some paint to paint the bus. he wasnt from around here so i took him to a store. on the way 'live rust' was in my tape player like it just about always was back then. he heard this song and he told me god was sending him a message the bus should be silver. we get to the hardware store and there on the bargain rack was 2 gallons of rustoleum aluminum paint. later i was there and this guy i also knew was there telling the people they were all going to die if they went to texas. i didnt get it at the time but if you listen to the song david koresh based a whole religion on a song by neil young. i can take you thru the song and prove it!
knights in armor was the fbi and the queen was janet reno. the burned out basement was of course waco the band was neil young and crazyhorse,thinking about what a friend had said was that guy stu telling them they would all die. the branch davidians believed they were the chosen ones. there was this big part of the religion about the trinity and vernon(koresh) said the father the son and the holy spirit . the holy spirit according to him is female . i wasnt into religion at all i kinda took it to mean like mother nature. the silver space ship was the bus. when the compound was under seige the bus was parked outside.
Do....Sugar Mountain!!
If you're interested in more Blues stuff ya should check-out R.L. Burnside.
R.L. passed away in the mid 2000's, and he actually gained quite a bit of notoriety in his later life in the 1990's.
When R.L. was a child he was a neighbour of, and grew up listening to, Blues musician 'Mississippi' Fred McDowell, and Fred became R.L.'s mentor.
R.L. Burnside's type of Blues is a little different from the Mississippi Delta Blues. Burnside plays what's known as North Mississippi Hill County Blues.
Other popular Hill Country Blues artists are Junior Kimbrough, T-Model Ford, Othar Turner, North Mississippi Allstars, to name just a few.
Goin' Down South -- R.L. Burnside & Jon Spencer
would be an interesting start...
I second that!
See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978)
I learned of this guy back in the Nineties on a cassette I bought, a soundtrack from the movie "Deep Blues". Then, back in 2007 I encountered a recording from Mali, in the Sahara Desert, by people known as Tuaregs, a band called Tinariwen. You can hear the family resemblance straight away.
But we re not we want rock not wimp
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Who is this "we" you type of?
The closest analogy I can come to with this song Harri, is James Joyce stream of consciousness type writing. It isnt supposed to be understood. Its supposed to touch you emotionally and the spoken word doesn't do it justice. A lot of my climate change friends feel that this is about what we have done to nature (very very little as it turns out) but the song twists turns and branches so much that it cant be pinned to one topic ir even general vague expression of an idea.
I believe this is from the point of view of a war weary WWI solider waiting to relieved.
its about the futile attempt to believe our cortex matters more than it really does
"the gold rush" is human thought
Post apocalyptic (nuke)
New Heaven & New Earth, as promised.
A dream about nuclear destruction of the earth.
If you want to compare someone to Dylan it would be Neil Young. Dylan is the greatest of all time. Neil is is 2nd.
To me this was an environmental protest; in his dream we have messed up the world and some chosen few will get to leave to find a new one. This is my Captain Obvious view anyway and I don’t think is a completely satisfactory take.
But leaning into the environmental protest: After the Gold Rush was released in 1970. Silent Spring was published in 1962, the EPA was created in 1970 and DDT was banned in the US in 1972 (although exports continued for years after). Environmentalism was an emerging concern for the general public.
Completely agree. Also reminds me of Slow Death Comix.
Nope not at all
Oddball 1958 - If there ever was a classic live album, Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" would have to be included, in my opinion. Harri, this song's central message is climate change. He knew then that we may have to live on another planet unless we stop destroying this one.
Nope nothing to do with climate change duh
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN So, what do you think is the meaning of this song?
@@davebzen795 He's a troll and all over the place.
Harri, you’ve reacted to this song in the past, you did a reaction video by Trio covering this song about a year ago or more.
This is better with CORRECT LYRICS
Why I hate live performances. It’s not live for me. All I get is the noise from the 🙄 audience.
great song, but i like the version from Live at Massey Hall better. too much noise from the crowd on this one.
Nope just a wimpy concert for Jr high kiddies get setious
scientology
A rather underwhelming song...