Waging Heavy Peace

A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today bestseller For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Neil Young offers a kaleidoscopic view of his personal life and musical creativity He tells of his childhood in Ontario, where his father instilled in him a love for the written word his first brush with mortality when he contracted polio at the age of five struggling to pay rent during his early days with the Squires traveling the Canadian prairies in Mort, his 1948 Buick hearse performing in a remote town as a polar bear prowled beneath the floorboards leaving Canada on a whim in 1966 to pursue his musical dreams in the pot filled boulevards and communal canyons of Los Angeles the brief but influential life of Buffalo Springfield, which formed almost immediately after his arrival in California He recounts their rapid rise to fame and ultimate break up going solo and overcoming his fear of singing alone forming Crazy Horse and writing Cinnamon Girl, Cowgirl in the Sand, and Down by the River in one day while sick with the flu joining Crosby, Stills Nash, recording the landmark CSNY album, D j vu, and writing the song, Ohio life at his secluded ranch in the redwoods of Northern California and the pot filled jam sessions there falling in love with his wife, Pegi, and the birth of his three children and finally, finding the contemplative paradise of Hawaii Astoundingly candid, witty, and as uncompromising and true as his music, Waging Heavy Peace is Neil Young s journey as only he can tell it. Free Read Waging Heavy Peace author Neil Young For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Neil and I are neighbors, sort of For 30 odd years That is, we live on the same mountain and I pass by his gate all the time when I m on the way to some job or other I m in construction We ve been in the same places, sometimes, but we ve never talked I m fine with that, and I m sure he is, too He s a public person but a private soul People should be left alone when they want to be left alone This book is all the conversations we never had A lifetime of rambling chitchat, some of it sil Neil and I are neighbors, sort of For 30 odd years That is, we live on the same mountain and I pass by his gate all the time when I m on the way to some job or other I m in co...Not the best biography I have ever read In fact, honestly, not really a biography at all If you re looking for a bio of Neil Young, this is not the book to read I found it incoherent, in the sense that it did not stick together I am not sure if this was the effect the author wanted to create, a lot of random mini stories thrown together If so, he succeeded If he was going for a biography, he failed He says at one point he didn t want a ghost writer I think it actually needed one, or perh Not the best biography I have ever read In fact, honestly, not really a biography at all If you re looking for a bio of Neil Young, this is not the book to read I found it incoherent, in the sense that it ...Three stars by any rational measure but somehow I m giving it four anyway It rambles, repeats itself, bogs down in detail or flies over important stuff It s easy to say it needs an editor or a ghost writer but it wouldn t have been the same and might not have been better.Near the end Young reflects that he might have been a better person But througho...A very interesting book by Neil Young For one it is not really a memoir of sorts, butof an open ended series of short essays on the nature of getting old, some music, hardcore car culture, and an obsession with the sound quality of digital recordings and the nature of how music has been affected by technology All of it is interesting to me, because he s Neil Young.He repeats himself a tad much the book could use some extra editing in this regard but still, its nice to get inside h A very interesting book by Neil Young For one it is not really a memoir of sorts, butof an open ended series of short essays on the nature of getting old, some music, hardcore car culture, and an obsession with the sound quality of digital recordings and the nature of how music has been affected by technology All of it is interesting to me, because he s Neil Young.He repeats himself a tad much the book could use some extra editing in this regard but still, its nice to get inside his head and this is what the book is really about And what concerns Young is the writing of the book itself in many ways it...Neil Young is one of my best friends He, along with David Foster Wallace and Louis C K, are three people who I feel I can have a conversation with and be on the same page I am starving for the stimulation of connection with like minded souls Wallace has said all he ever will, and I ve read and listened to most of it I wo...I was given this book for Christmas and although I have been a big Neil young fan for decades I wasn t really optimistic that I would enjoy it But I really did I know that some people will find it rambling but I think it s a gem It s very personal and I got a real sense that Neil was trying to communicate something very complex, essential and yet dynamic in and everyday kind of way This is not a book about celebrity There are drug stories here and lots of little incidents about past mistake I was given this book for Christmas and although I have been a big Neil young fan for decades I wasn t really optimistic that I would enjoy it But I really did I know that some people will find it rambling but I think it s a gem It s very personal and I got a real sense that Neil was trying to communicate something very complex, essential and yet dynamic in and everyday kind of way This is not a book about celebrity There are drug stories here and lots of little incidents about past mistakes, but it never gets self centred This is a book that started as an idea that just emerged to fill a cyclic void of song writing A normal and...HOMERUNYou know that feeling of scurrying away to a secret place with someone s diaries in your hot little paws Err, okay maybe you don t This is how it felt to read through the wonderfully thick Waging Heavy Peace This is not a chronology of Neil Young in the way one might expect a rock memoir to be this is a collection of his musing on life, on his past, on his family, on his loves, and his relationship with drugs This is everything you want it to be I think I smiled while I read it litera You know that feeling of scurrying away to a secret place with someone s diaries in your hot little paws Err, okay maybe you don t This is how it felt to read through the wonderfully thick Waging Heavy Peace This is not a chronology of Neil Young in the way one might expect a rock memoir to be this is a collection of his musing on life, on his past, on his family, on his loves, and his relationship with drugs This is everything you want it to be I think I smiled while I read it...Disappointing Rambling and repetitive Too much car talk and not enough music talk It s too badchapters weren t like Ch 67 where Neil finally gives the reader an interesting glimpse into his songwriting process Unfortunately, this occurs at the end of the book.NEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL This shit is classically exasperating, pure Neil Young Like a lot of his albums over the past 15 years one gets the feeling that it might have beenpowerful with a little reflection and editing in the process but that s not Neil s thing and the diamonds are still scattered around in a lot of rough here As some critics have noted it is interesting to see the writing and flow get better as the book goes on Because it s basically unedit NEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL This shit is classically exasperating, pure Neil Young Like a lot of his albums over the past 15 years one gets the feeling that it might have beenpowerful with a little reflection and editing in the process but that s not Neil s thing and the diamonds are still scattered around in a lot of rough here As some critics have noted it is interesting to see the writing and flow get better as the book goes on Because it s basically unedited and Neil hasn t written a book before he starts pretty clunky, his voicedictational and having not yet found his literary voice yet but he picks up fast and by the end is actually p...

• English
• 11 October 2017
Neil Young
• Hardcover
• 512 pages
• 0399159460
• Neil Young
• Waging Heavy Peace