Cracks me up!
What a complete douche!
Love his tunes though and his guitar tone is fugging awesome, but he's a total ding dong!
Higginez;
Top of the morning my friend, I hope that you and yours are well this morning.
Likely I've told you this one before, but in the event that your memory is as faulty as mine, herein lies the Neil Young story.
In the mid '80's we had a fairly harsh turndown in the economy up here, so I went from skilled laborer wages in construction to half that working at a BC Fruit Grower's Test Orchard and felt blessed to be working at all.
We were listening to the radio at work, some Neil Young song came on and I said something like, "Man I can't stand listening to his voice. I don't understand how he became popular at all sounding like that".
I mean being me and all Higginez, it likely went longer than that and had a colorful simile to his singing voice sounding like a tortured tom cat - likely...
Anyways new coworker Mark turns to me and says, "I love Neil Young man. Have all the albums. I even went to San Francisco to see where he'd carved his name in the dock. It was like a pilgrimage for me. He's a Canadian icon, a legend man..."
"Oh" was my reply!
Honestly while I respected their instrumental talent, I didn't start listening to Rush until I was in my late '50's.
By then a lifetime of shooting and working in industry had damaged my hearing sufficiently that I can kinda sorta listen to Geddy Lee sing.
Still can't do Neil, sorry to all those who can and do.
All the best to you all this weekend Higginez.
Dwayne