Friday 2nd May

Neil keeps going, making records, touring, refroming Crazy Horse, doing gigs with Crosby Stills and Nash and now even writing books, though an accomplished writer he is not.  And he keeps changing and yet manages to stay the same.  New songs that sound like old songs but are different with great melodies and often poignant but sometimes stupid words.  His latest album – a double with Crazy Horse was one of his best ‘Psychadelic Pill’ full of long rambling songs that seem to have grown in the studio, like one enormous jam, but I suspect are quite planned.

On one recent live album ‘Year of the Horse’ he says “It’s all one song” – meaning I presume that we are to look on his work as a whole body of work, each song being just a part of the whole thing.  He has managed to achieve what almost nobody else in Rock music has, he is timeless.  Many of his recent songs could have been recorded back in the seventies or any time really.  The only thing you know is that it is just Neil, an ‘ornery old cuss’, who won’t conform to any stereotypes, who will play his music as he wants to, as the muse takes him for as long as he wants to.  And I love him for it.