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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Best movie ever!

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

this was excellent. After all these years, he's still GOT it! He looks older (don't we all), but his sound is still soo Neil-Young-good. I first saw his "Rust Never Sleeps" movie back in the late 70s, and decided I must get myself a harmonica-holder thingie as a result. His voice and his emotions/passion for music clearly have weathered the years. Goes through Prairie Wind stuff, then the classics. I had not realized that his dad had died shortly before he worked on this. Kudos that he didn't shy away from or downplay this subject. Nor did I know this was done by the Stop Making Sense bunch (thanks to user....sorry don't know name... for those info tidbits). While I'm not a dire Talking Heads fan, I found THAT video to be excellent as well, and this clearly shows the talent of the producers/makers. At Half-Price Books, I stumbled across and picked up the soundtrack to Neil Young's Journey Through the Past, also a great ear-ful. I'm amazed at his diversity, the way his multiple musical influences play out in the selections here (and his anecdotes). As for the PG rating for drug references, as far as I could tell, that's just the lyrics for The Needle and the Damage Done. Would that all pg movies could be no worse than this.

I too, like Neil Young. He is definitely an icon in the music world, and much of what we have today in the way of music is based on people like him, the Beatles, Sex Pistols, etc.HOWEVER...I think that people come to a point where they think something is GOOD just because an ICON is singing it. This movie, for the most part, bored the crap out me as Neil sung about his guitar "it cries when I leave it" his kids "they will move on." It is like he takes a statement and puts it to music, and that is BORING. Like me singing "I went to the store. Bought some eggs" The end of the show is awesome...he plays some of the songs with which most are familiar.

Rarely have I experienced the kind of karma brought to me last night by Neil and his mates. A true musical genius laid bare. From the soul-stripping lyrics of his near death music to the more traditional songs of the past, the movie exposes Young as nothing more than a thoroughly normal bloke with a rounded and admirable attitude to life and those he loves. Stunning sepia tinged photography mixed with crystal clear sound quality give Young's music the stage it deserves. A unique opportunity to catch a true legend still at the peak of his powers. Wonderful, happy, life-affirming, joyous. Go see. Wallow. Enjoy.

"Thrasher" has always been one of my all-time favourite Neil songs. Hence the 'Summary' quotation. 'Course, most of Neil's words are quotable at the best of times.I would offer that, given the annual nature of Red Rocks per se, that the Warner DVD issued 2000 "Red Rocks Live" was an intimation/invitation for what was to come: "Heart of Gold" or, 'HoG'.Regardless of content, I would/will fall over any 'live' presentation of Neil's work. HoG, however, has a nuance, a special feeling if you will, which reflects our/his mortality but, at the same time has a positive 'read' on life. Young doesn't have Randy Newman's cynical take on the 'American Dream': what he offers is that same dream complete with hope. Physically, he's getting craggier: looks more and more like cro-magnon man. BUT, we've been taught that that same 'man' is a genetic 'dead-end'. Neanderthals rule. Did I just say that? Neil Young sits, always, balanced upon a fence which OUR perceptions have created. As a poet and social commentator and, at times, eclectic rocker, his ability to move us, mentally, emotionally and sensually, makes him a 20th Century icon who has moved, almost seamlessly, into the 21st Century. HoG is a wonderful evocation of what it means to never ever be invited into/onto "The Grand Ol' Opry(?)" but to cram a large Nashville audience into another (perhaps better) venue, and there to slay them!Yet, in the middle of some of the best acoustic/country songs ever written, there is a singer/songwriter seemingly uncomfortable with his legacy: "From Hank to Hendrix". There has always been an honesty and integrity to Young's work. Uncomfortable as it at times seems: "Tonight's The Night" or, perhaps, "Trans"; his reasons for recording same are the same reasons that drove him to record "ARC/WELD". Young is always 'pushing the envelope' at the same time that he revisits country and folk music per se. Always, there is a seemingly positive attitude to life: one reflected in the golden light (a la Dutch masters) constantly present in the film. And therein, perhaps, lies a lesson. Mortality waits for all of us. Neil makes it more acceptable.