To corrupt a line from an old financial services company
commercial; Neil Young got his nickname, “Old Weird Neil” the old fashioned
way…he earned it! A rock ‘n’ roll hall of famer, Young has released a paperback
version of his book Waging Heavy Peace –
A Hippie Dream.
Not an autobiography, not really a musical history, or even
a Neil Young manifesto; Waging Heavy
Peace can best be described as a no holds barred journey into the mind of
what can best be described as a genius or a lunatic, depending on your point of
view.
Young lets it all hang out with anecdotes from his musical,
spiritual, geographic, and innovative journey. He uses the literary equivalent
of a pinball machine approach to telling his tale; forget chronology this one
takes on a whatever comes into my head at that moment ends up on page style.
When you look at the breadth and width of Neil Young’s
career as a member of Crosby , Stills, Nash and
Young and as a solo performer who has spanned everything from powerful straight
ahead rock, solo acoustic, rockabilly and even electronic music, it shouldn’t
be surprising that his life is full of entertaining and at times mystifying
tales.
A skilled artist and songwriter; Young is also an inventor
and innovator who has tried his hand at a wide range of projects that he writes
about in loving detail. Not for the faint of heart, Waging
Heavy Peace is a candid portrait of unique individual.
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