Crosby Stills and Nash are touring Oz in February.

Shaymus,
What happened to Young? Does he have much to do with Cosby, Nash and Stills these days? They've kinda faded haven't they.

Here is a good neil young site
http://bad-news-beat.org

Shaymus,
Thanks for that. I see that the folks over at Bad News Beat also think that Young's latest work--for them its Living with War--is a bunch of mostly average songs.

Pity. Young can do better. I do enjoy the Live at the Fillimore East 1970

Yeah Great Stuff!!!
Well, there is a point I think where Artists do their Best stuff and for him I think it was back then too. But hey! Who cares. Whatever he does is Ok with me. I was going to give him a good play last week but got stuck into Walter "Wolfman" Washington instead.

I've been playing parie Wind.There are 3 or 4 good songs--my favourite is This Old Guitar.It was also a high point in the Ryman concert.

The only CD of Young's that I have is Tonight's the Night. I haven't heard Rust Never Sleeps.

gary - until lately I couldn't get through to any of your sites. I think I like the new set up.

I have the Prairie Wind DVD and despite a few sweet moments I'd have to agree it isn't something to rush out and buy. I tend to think of Neil fans as like me - prefering the loud harnessed raw electricity style to the "folkie" however I'm constantly reminded that there is a very large cohort out there who are just the opposite - they prefer Goldrush and Harvest Moon and look upon the other works as aberations. For them I guess Prairie will be a wonderful thing.

I would say that Rust is the companion to Tonight. I'd strongly suggest you get the DVD of Rust

Francis,
it's the spam. It's been very heavy especially with 4 weblogs. Around Xmas I'd turned off the comments on the old posts to reduce the amount of spam.

The hosting company had instituted an ISP ban to control spam----it was meant to be specific but it actually worked in general terms and it caught a lot of people-- including me--in the net.

It took me a while to catch on to the malfunctioning of the ISP bans.

We'd agreed to remove the ISP bans in return for turning off trackback to reduce spam.

I presume that you can get through now because they have removed the ISP ban. Though trackback is still on and the spam is rolling through full of spyware and viruses.

Francis,
Yeah, Im not sure the Prairie Wind DVD is worth buying---it has a good happy vibe, nice to watch over Xmas but not again.I'm not that fussed with Young the folkie.

I presume by Rust you mean the film of Rust Never Sleeps? If sos I haven't seen it--nor heard the CD. I'll order the DVD from Quickflix and take a look.

Francis,
thanks for the vote re the new set up. Only the odd person has said much about it.those who have commented are lioek you--they have reservations.

Gary - when I said I think I like the new design - It wasn't ambivelance. I certainly like what you are doing maybe the odd tweek will get it perfect - I'll look forward to. You've put into operation a few ideas I've been dicking around with on design for a group (ish) blog that isn't like other group blogs.

When I say I couldnt get into your sites - I mean they were throwing up 403's "you do not have permission" etc. no content at all.

Neil as folkie is ok but not what I signed on for. [Well excepting Long May You Run - but then thats about his car.]

I'm sure you'll enjoy Rust Never Sleeps Concert - it's enjoyable in itself, the design works for Neal and his music, it's mostly loud electricity, I loved the hooded roadies and giant Marshall stacks and I reckon it made a few of the big acts think a bit more creatively about their tour presentation and design.

Best Neal live next to WELD /ARC.

One problem is that if you are going to play music DVDs through the TV you need a good amp with a bit of headroom and good speakers that will go loud and not distort.

its not remembering me

Francis,
I realise that 'no access' to the weblogs meant 403's "you do not have permission" etc. as it was happening to my IP no. as well. Hopefully that kind of IP denial is history. I'll look into 'no memory' thingy.

Can you say more about the

few ideas I've been dicking around with on design for a group (ish) blog that isn't like other group blogs.

I'd wanted junk for code to be a group blog but it never really happened--lack of contacts---so I decided to introduce my photography.

Unless you have a web designer and computer coder on board its an expensive step.

Quickflix don't have Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps. I'll try a video store.

It would be nice to establish a network of similar 'culture' blogs. Are we ready for that in Australia, or is it already happening?

Francis,
Late year I did set up a home entertainment unit (a digital ready LCD tele + good music equipment) in the weekender at Victor Harbor so that we can play music DVD's.

The Neil Young show looked very lush on it and sounded good. We are going to watch Visconti's very lush The Leopard on it this weekend.

What I discovered is that its entering a new world;one that requires money to be invested---eg., in a High Definition set top box, a high quality separate CD player etc etc, a high quality DVD player.

I skimped when I bought an all in one DVD CD, MP3 player.