Would you consider Neil Young a hippie?

...or was he back in the 60's? He did woodstock but did he ever identify with the whole hippie movement?

...and I wonder if he still smokes

 

maybe back in the day, but now i think hes a douche.

"Keep on rockin in the free world"

his tickets are outrageously prices. The guy is in it for the money not the music.

 

i would definitly consider him a hippie!

listen to many of his songs, very political, especially his new one Living With War

 

Neil Young hung out with the infamous Charles Manson for a while, and wrote at least one song about him (and even gave Manson a motorcycle). Manson didn't like hippies, and even made his followers get haircuts, wear non-hippie clothing, etc.

Aside from that, I think Neil qualifies nicely.

 

I would say he's just a sellout.

 

Isn't Neil is pregnant?

 

WTF neil young is a guy, where did that come from???

 

In the mid-to-late 70s he really got out of the hippie ideals and his music was definitely darker than before. I totally dug that era. I wouldn't consider it to be a hippie sort of thing that he did.

Although, nowadays, all he's been doing is talking about the "good old days" in interviews and whatnot.

 

Manson knew and met a lot of people around that time, he was all over the scene in L.A., he had a lot of girls and drugs so people hung out to get high or laid.

[Quote from Neil Young (about Manson)]: "Glad he didn't get around to ME when he was punishing people for the fact he didn't make it in the music biz. That's what that was all about. Didn't get to be a rock and roll star, so he started fuckin' wipin' people out. Dig that."

 

Supposedly Neil's "Revolution Blues" was about Manson.

A number of the "Manson family" were musicians, most notably Bobby Beausoleil (sp?), whose band opened up for acts like Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, and whose bandmates went on to form the band "Love." BobbyB was hired in place of Jimmy Page to do music for a movie by Kenneth Anger, and had also appeared in at least one movie. The girls did some interesting harmonies, and Paul Watkins and Brooks Poston recorded some material that's beautiful, haunting, and which (in terms of lyrics) gives a lot of insight into the family's beliefs.

"When mountains reach like fingers to the sky,
Never ask why we'll never die...
Take the sun and moon in your hands, your head in the sky,
Never ask why they'll never die,
Love never dies."

 

how much are they?

 

i never considered him not a hippie. i mean hes basically what i think of when i think of hippie, his style of music, his political views and protests songs, everything

 

I think Neil Young is an asshole, his singing sounds like a cat being stabbed to death.

 

I love Neil Young..I dont know if he's a hippy..he's way before my time.

 

Hippy or not, he still kicks Neil Diamonds butt!