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I'm conflicted on this one!

Much of it is THE BEST biography ever! A wonderful format intertwined with "innaresting" conversations with Neil. At the same time it pauses way to frequently to paint portraits of each character. Four pages of comments from artist about Elliot!? That's a real who cares picture that could paint itself through time.

It also struck me JmcD was not much of a fan which works well on one level but ends up interjecting negative opinions on recordings. Key thing is NY's market much of the time was high school long hair, flannel wearing, Red Wing boot, stoner males. WE LOVED 4 Way Street! WE LOVED the extended loose jams! Heck at the time before I understood guitar I considered NY one of THE best guitarist EVER! Hendrix like! On one level this is true as he get right to it with very little extra. But of course he's an average picker who took mediocre guitar abilities to the top of the heap!

Has great in depth stories about each album especially the Ditch Trilogy and pulls no punches on sensitive topics like Witten and Berry with NY chiming in on each.

NY steps up each time and while he'd take long breaks and who know what's not included or refused by NY there are plenty of personal opinions and truths to really make for some unsettling real reading.

It's a long book and can be intense. I had to take a break after Tonights the Night to digest it all!

Not perfect but a daring unique biography!


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Shakey Neil Young Biography Jimmy McDonough 9780679750963 Books Reviews

Very detailed without being text book boring. Jimmy is one fine writer & passionate about music. When the two are combined expect a "page turner." Few have ever had such a long and varied career & Neil is still plying & writing great songs. He's stuck to his "principles." Might help you answer without further investigations ... recordings from CSN available at the same time period when a release from CSN&Y was also available. Neil gets involved when he's moved towards a cause. Farm Aid would be a good example. Loves big old clunky cars ... but, the guilt of the efficiency & pollution moved him to become involved with modifications for big ole' electric & bio diesels. Two seriously handicapped sons got his wife & himself looking for and coming up with help. He owns one of Hank William's guitars .. I've heard him state this off the stage "don't expect to see this ever hanging on the wall of a Hard Rock Cafe." I'm not certain the legal angles, but this labor of love was held back from release for many years & grievances were heard in several courtrooms. Bravo Jimmy & Neil .. glad it got to be read by the light of day. Don't expect an MTV "behind the music" type of thing here. Principles!
This will forever be the definitive biography of Neil Young for one, simple reason no one else is going to, or even can at this point, write one nearly as detailed. Many of the key figures who were with Neil during his formative years are now gone. David Briggs. Ben Keith. Larry Johnson. Neil's parents. Carrie Snodgress. And that's just a sampling of the ones McDonough talked to.

Jimmy McDonough is pretty clearly a near-superfan of Young, and that's where many of the less than stellar reviews of this book come into play. Yes, Jimmy often inserts himself into the story in ways that many would argue a biographer should not. And yes, Jimmy is sometimes willing to gloss over the train wrecks Neil left behind him at the urging of "the muse" or whatever fleeting feeling he had at a given moment, sometimes ignoring that his actions did indeed have consequences for people other than himself.

The thing is this McDonough's book is so painstakingly detailed and researched that attempting to write anything coming close to it for sheer completeness would be folly. McDonough also manages to scrape together a pretty cohesive timeline of "the ditch years" from '73 to '75, a time Neil has more and more smoothed over as a good 'ol boys-being-boys adventure with a lot of drugs, booze, and bad decisions. McDonough paints a much less pretty picture, with a lot more gritty detail and emotion - this was a time of sadness, anger, and desperation in Neil's career, and I think Jimmy hits it right on the head when he says no one really knew if Neil was going to make it out. They were dicey times because of his lifestyle, as dicey as they ever got. There's stuff in there that Neil just won't talk about today because, as he says in his own autobiographies, he could be a really angry, irrational guy. There's a reason Jimmy and Neil were so on-again off-again while he was writing this book - Jimmy was poking around in history where Neil wasn't comfortable. Hell, Neil threatened to sue him if he published for a while there in the 90s.

Could the book be shorter? Absolutely. I can't even get into Neil's toy train obsession - it's tedious stuff. And the latter years portions of the book are a little tainted by McDonough's self-involvement in Neil's life. Granted, doing a biography on Neil Young probably put 5 extra years on Jimmy's face, so I think he gets a pass on some of it. This cannot have been an easy book to finish.

It's not perfect, but it's as close as we'll get. If you want a book that doesn't ignore the ugly parts of Neil's career, even relishes in them at times, this is one of a kind, and always will be.
I'm conflicted on this one!

Much of it is THE BEST biography ever! A wonderful format intertwined with "innaresting" conversations with Neil. At the same time it pauses way to frequently to paint portraits of each character. Four pages of comments from artist about Elliot!? That's a real who cares picture that could paint itself through time.

It also struck me JmcD was not much of a fan which works well on one level but ends up interjecting negative opinions on recordings. Key thing is NY's market much of the time was high school long hair, flannel wearing, Red Wing boot, stoner males. WE LOVED 4 Way Street! WE LOVED the extended loose jams! Heck at the time before I understood guitar I considered NY one of THE best guitarist EVER! Hendrix like! On one level this is true as he get right to it with very little extra. But of course he's an average picker who took mediocre guitar abilities to the top of the heap!

Has great in depth stories about each album especially the Ditch Trilogy and pulls no punches on sensitive topics like Witten and Berry with NY chiming in on each.

NY steps up each time and while he'd take long breaks and who know what's not included or refused by NY there are plenty of personal opinions and truths to really make for some unsettling real reading.

It's a long book and can be intense. I had to take a break after Tonights the Night to digest it all!

Not perfect but a daring unique biography!