http://www.neilyoung.com

[Wilms]

http://www.neilyoung.com

[roguevalley]

1. its beautiful. Grammy time, here he comes. again.

I am amazed that we have these kinds of people on our side and they have no one.

[lostexpectation]

2. From the man who still thinks the US did nothing to invite 911???

[Kurovski]

4. ???

Anyone know what the dead guy is talking about?

[Dunvegan]

3. Neil Young TRULY HAS a "Heart of Gold"...

Having worked at both Hollywood recording studios and at Napster 2.0, I love what Neil is doing by streaming the album for free with a streaming news ticker.

If the RIAA allows a recording artist a contract that nets them one and one-half cent per CD, they have a very, very good deal. The REAL money comes from touring...the artists can keep most of that money.

I'm going to save up and see the this summer's Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Freedom of Speech Tour." I can hardly wait.

The New York Times
Critic's Notebook
Neil Young's 'Living With War' Shows He Doesn't Like It
By JON PARELES
Published: April 28, 2006

Mr. Young's Web site will have a more elaborate presentation, available free. It will include a page designed like a cable-news broadcast, complete with visuals (including recording-session scenes), ticker and logo: LWW (for "Living With War") rather than CNN. "Even if it turns out that we can't sell it with the news in it, we won't sell it, we'll just stream it," he said. "We don't have to sell it. We can still get it out there. This has nothing to do with money as far as I'm concerned."

Mr. Young wants the album heard as a whole. The online streams play through from beginning to end; until the CD is ready, the downloadable copies will be available only as a bundle of the full album. "That first impression is so important," he said. "Instead of just going to 'Let's Impeach the President,' people will have to absorb the whole thing. To understand the songs, you need to understand where the whole album's coming from. It protects my right as an artist to have the work presented the way I created it."

Mr. Young has always been impatient with the time lag between writing a song and getting it to the world. When four student protesters were shot dead at Kent State University in 1970, he wrote "Ohio," recorded it with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and released it two and a half weeks later by sending acetates — preliminary pressings — to radio stations. (He will be on tour this summer as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in what's billed as the Freedom of Speech Tour.)