Portfolio of the Week

[Bean Stocks]

Thanks Lye, it is good to make some $ going contra the market.

[billyjoe]

Rockin' Rob,

The grunge music scene blasted out of Seattle a few years ago to dominate the music world for several years. Is "Bean Stocks" on it's way to a repeat in the investment field?


billyjoe

[An2n33]

Rob,
Stop the bleeding, can't take that anymore. did I say long or short? Just Kidding. Sell Vclk and get me some STX long.

Thanks

[IIC]

1C
2D
3E
4A
5B


Doug, you are the SOTW!

Stooge of the week, NYUK. NYUK!!!!

Thanks Gary...But I was expecting a little bit better prize than that...Heck...And I didn't even cheat except that I saw Spike's answers and I knew Anna Conda was a woman...IIS

[IIC]

Yesterday

Hmm...Jack and Spike are way up...But I was thinking...Wouldn't it be amazing if I could win this thing by staying in cash all week???...Tied for 11th out of 27 so far...Doug

[Rob]

Wild Ride

The grunge music scene blasted out of Seattle a few years ago to dominate the music world for several years. Is "Bean Stocks" on it's way to a repeat in the investment field?

I certainly hope not, for Jack's sake. If you remember, that Cobain dude wound up blowing his brains out with a shotgun. Seatle's greatest contribution to music is, without a shadow of a doubt, Jimi Hendrix, though tragically he died young too.

Bean Stocks' EONC pick turned out to be a stellar performer for sure. Those two-dollar stocks can pay off handsomly if they don't bust you. They're a wild ride. Diogenes' AFOP was up 10.17% at Monday's close and as of today, it's back to 1.69%. It's like the financial equivalent of riding a mechanical bull--or a real one.

[Rob]

Cash Is King?

Wouldn't it be amazing if I could win this thing by staying in cash all week???

It's possible I suppose. If the market's that bad, though, just think of all the $$$ you could make in short positions.

[Bean Stocks]

If you remember, that Cobain dude wound up blowing his brains out with a shotgun. Seatle's greatest contribution to music is, without a shadow of a doubt, Jimi Hendrix, though tragically he died young too.

Hey, the sun came out today about the time that EONC started to rise. We will see if EONC becomes EOINK. Jimi definitely was the king of Seattle music followed by Neil Young. I'll take In Utero over Nevermind.

Alice to da moon with TWTC.

[IIC]

Jimi Hendrix Bio:




27 November 1942
Johnny Allen Hendrix is born in Seattle, Washington, the son of Al Hendrix and Lucille Jeter, who married on 31st March in this year. Hendrix is originally raised by his mother, while his father is in the Services. The couple rarely live together with their son.

11 September 1946
Al Hendrix changes his sons name to James Marshall Hendrix.

13 January 1948
Jimi's brother Leon is born in Seattle.

Mid-1949
A third brother, Joseph Allen Hendrix, is also born in Seattle. Around this time, Jimi and Leon are sent to Vancouver to live with Al's sister and her husband. They return to Seattle in 1950.

27 September 1950
Jimi's sister Cathy Ira Hendrix is born in Seattle.

17 December 1951
Al and Lucille Hendrix are divorced. Jimi, Leon and Joseph live with their father, though Joseph soon moves elsewhere, and Leon is often fostered out during the 1950s.

2 February 1958
Jimi's mother Lucille dies in Seattle: neither he nor his father attend the funeral.

Autumn 1958
Al Hendrix gives Jimi a ukelele, inspiring him to buy a $5 guitar later in the year. Jimi soon joins his first group, The Velvetones, playing acoustic guitar.

Summer 1959
Al purchases an electric guitar for his son, allowing Jimi to join another band, The Rocking Kings - with whom he makes his live debut later that year.

Summer 1960
The Rocking Kings evolve into Thomas & The Tomcats.

31 October 1960
Jimi leaves high school without graduating.

31 May 1961
After several run-ins with the Seattle police, Jimi enlists in the US Army, and begins his basic training.

31 October 1961
Jimi joins the 101st Airborne Division, where he undergoes parachute training.

2 July 1962
After breaking his ankle in his 26th parachute jump, Jimi is invalid out of the army.

October 1962
With his army buddy Billy Cox, Jimi starts work as a musician-for-hire in Nashville clubs.

December 1962
Jimi joins the mixed-race R&B band Bobby Taylor and The Vancouvers, who later sign to Motown.

March 1963
Back in Nashville, Hendrix and Cox form The King Kasuals.

Late 1963
Jimi journeys to New York via Philadelphia, where he plays some recording sessions - his first authenticated visit to a professional studio - with R&B performer Lonnie Youngblood.

Early 1964
In New York, Jimi joins The Isley Brothers' backing band, and begins to record and tour with them

October 1964
Jimi quits The Isleys' band and joins a touring group which supports musicians like Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke.

December 1964
Little Richard enlists Jimi for his touring band.

March 1965
Jimi and future Love vocalist Arthur Lee collaborate on a single by Rose Lee Brooks.

July 1965
Little Richard fires Jimi for missing the bus after a New York show.

27 July 1965
Hendrix signs a two-year recording deal with R&B label Sue Records in New York.

October 1965
In mid-town Manhattan, Jimi meets struggling R&B singer Curtis Knight, who invites him to join his band, The Squires.

15 October 1965
Jimi signs another exclusive recording deal, this time with Curtis Knight's recording manager, Ed Chalpin of PPX Records. Knight and Hendrix record several studio and live sessions over the next few months.

January 1966
Leaving Curtis Knight, Jimi begins to perform with King Curtis' band.

May 1966
Jimi rejoins The Squires for two weeks on New York gigs, but leaves at the end of the first week. He plays briefly with Carl Holmes and The Commanders, before inaugurating his own band, The Rainflowers.

June 1966
The Rainflowers become Jimmy James and The Blue Flames, with a line-up including future rock stars Randy California and Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter.

23 June 1966
Keith Richards' girlfriend, Linda Keith, watches a Hendrix show in Manhattan, and tries to interest Stones manager Andrew Oldham in the group.

5 July 1966
As Oldham isn't impressed, Linda Keith turns here attention to Animals' bassist Chas Chandler, who accompanies her to a Jimmy James and The Blue Flames performance at the Cafe Wah? in Greenwich Village.

9 September 1966
Jimi and Chas reach London: that night, Jimi plays in public for the first time in England.

29 September 1966
Bassist Noel Redding is enlisted for Hendrix's new band: they begin rehearsals with drummer Aynsley Dunbar. Chas Chandler's business partner, Mike Jeffery, begins to take a keen interest in Hendrix's career.

5 October 1966
Mitch Mitchell is appointed the permanent drummer in the band, now named The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

13 October 1966
The Experience play their first gig, in Evreux near Paris.

23 October 1966
Back in London, they record 'Hey Joe' with producer Chas Chandler and vocal support from The Breakaways.

2 November 1966
Jimi begins work on his debut album.

13 December 1966
The Experience make their TV debut on ITV's Ready, Steady, Go!

30 January 1967
The Experience perform three songs at their debut BBC Radio Session.

3 February 1967
They start to record their second single, 'Purple Haze', and work on its follow-up, 'The Wind Cries Mary'.

31 March 1967
The Experience begin a controversial UK tour supporting pop idols The Walker Brothers.

4 April 1967
The final day of recording for the 'Are You Experienced?' LP.

4 May 1967
Work begins at Olympic Studios on Jimi's second album.

18 June 1967
The Experience play their first American concert, at the Monterey Pop Festival in California.

8 July 1967
In another mismatch, Hendrix and The Experience begin their first US tour, supporting the world's No. 1 teen idols, The Monkees.

16 July 1967
By mutual consent, the Experience play their final date on The Monkees' tour. Their publicists subsequently claim that their early departure is sparked by protests from The Daughters of the American Revolution.

30 July 1967
Jimi jams with former boss Curtis Knight during a session at PPX Studios: the results of the reunion are later realised by Ed Chalpin, prompting a flurry of lawsuits.

30 October 1967
Work on 'Axis: Bold As Love', the second Experience album, is completed.

22 December 1967
The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform as part of the Christmas Pop Spectacular in London's Olympia Hall, on the same bill as The Who, Pink Floyd, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Soft Machine and The Move.

4 January 1968
Jimi is arrested in Gothenburg, Sweden, and charged with damaging his hotel room.

21 January 1968
He starts to record his version of Bob Dylan's 'All Along The Watchtower', the first track attempted for his third album.

25 February 1968
Jimi and the other Experience members - in both senses of the word - are immortalised in plaster by the Plaster Casters of Chicago.

13 March 1968
At the Scene Club in New York, Jimi takes part in a drunken jam with Jim Morrison of The Doors.

18 April 1968
Works begins in earnest at the Record Plant in New York on what becomes the 'Electric Ladyland' album.

18 May 1968
Hendrix interrupts his sessions to perform at the Miami Pop Festival.

27 August 1968
The final day of recording for 'Electric Ladyland'.

10 October 1968
The Experience begin a short season of concerts at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

November 1968
Jimi produces an album for Cat Mother & The All Nigh Newsboys in New York.

4 January 1969
The Experience commemorate the break-up of Cream by performing an unplanned 'Sunshine Of Your Love' on the live TV programme, The Lulu Show, forcing the host to abandon her closing number.

14 February 1969
The Experience regroup at Olympic Studios in London to work abortively on a fourth album.

24 February 1969
A chaotic, often splendid show at the Royal Albert Hall in London is taped and filmed for future release.

March 1969
Jimi produces several songs for an album by The Buddy Miles Express.

18 March 1969
Jimi tapes a studion rendition of 'The Star Spangled Banner', which becomes a highlight of his subsequent live shows.

May 1969
Jimi is arrested for possession of illegal drugs on his arrival at Toronto International Airport.

9 June 1969
A performance at the Denver Pop Festival becomes the Experience's final show when Noel Redding discovers that Hendrix is planning to replace him with Billy Cox.

10 July 1969
Jimi debuts his new band, with Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox, on American TV's The Tonight Show.

14 August 1969
Jimi begins rehearsals with an extended line-up, adding a second guitarist, Larry Lee, plus percussionists Juma Sultan and Jerry Velez.

18 August 1969
The newly named Gypsy Sons & Rainbows Band headline the Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York.

28 August 1969
Jimi resumes work on another studio album, a year after completing 'Electric Ladyland'.

7 November 1969
After Mitch Mitchell returns to London to work on a solo project, Jimi enlists Billy Cox, Juma Sultan and drummer Buddy Miles to the Record Plant in New York, for sessions by what he comes to call The Band Of Gypsys.

10 December 1969
Despite effectively admitting his guilt, Jimi is found not guilty of his drug possession charges in Toronto.

31 December 1969
Jimi begins two nights of shows at the Fillmore East in New York, which are taped for the 'Band Of Gypsys' album - the rights to which are presented to Ed Chalpin in settlement of his outstanding contractual claim on Hendrix's services, dating back to 1965.

28 January 1970
Hendrix has to leave the stage after two songs of a New York performance with The Band Of Gypsys; the line-up is disbanded soon afterwards.

4 February 1970
Hendrix, Mitchell and Redding announce the reformation of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, though they never record or perform together again.

March 1970
In London, Hendrix guests on sessions by Arthur Lee and Stephen Stills.

23 March 1970
Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox are established as Jimi's rhythm section for the first of a series of sessions, intended to spawn a double-album called 'The First Rays Of The New Rising Sun'.

30 May 1970
The trio - now know as the Cry Of Love band - are taped and filmed during their performance at the Berkeley Community Theater in California.

15 June 1970
Jimi inaugurates his own Electric Lady Studios in New York, though they aren't officially opened for another two months.

30 July 1970
The Cry Of Love band perform two shows on the Hawaiian island of Maui, which are filmed for a documentary movie eventually released as Rainbow Bridge.

1 August 1970
Jimi performs his last US concert.

22 August 1970
Jimi's final recording session takes place at Electric Lady Studios, as he tapes his solo rendition of 'Belly Button Window'.

26 August 1970
The Electric Lady studio complex is officially opened.

27 August 1970
Hendrix flies to England.

30 August 1970
Jimi, Mitch and Billy perform an erratic show at the Isle Of Wight festival in England.

2 September 1970
Three songs into his performance in Aarhus, Denmark, Jimi has to leave the stage, suffering from too heavy a dose of sleeping pills.

6 September 1970
At the Fenham festival in Germany, Hendrix's last full live performance is greeted with sporatic booing by an ill-tempered crowd. Jimi the flies to London.

10 September 1970
Journalist Keith Altham conduct Jimi's last interview.

16/17 September 1970
Jimi makes his last appearance on stage at Ronnie Scott's club in London, jamming with Eric Burdon and War.

18 September 1970
Ambulances are called to the Samarkand Hotel in London, where Jimi is found unconscious, having vomited in his sleep. The ambulance-men are unable to revive him. He is taken to St. Mary Abbot's Hospital, where he is officially pronounced dead just after midday.

28 Septemer 1970
At a London inquest, the coroner instructs the jury to return an open verdict on Hendrix's death, which is blamed on "inhalation of vomit due to barbiturate intoxication". 1 October 1970
James Marshall Hendrix is buried in Greenwood Cemetary, Renton, Seattle.

[spikefader]

....It's like the financial equivalent of riding a mechanical bull.....

[IIC]

Hey, the sun came out today about the time that EONC started to rise. We will see if EONC becomes EOINK. Jimi definitely was the king of Seattle music followed by Neil Young. I'll take In Utero over Nevermind.

Alice to da moon with TWTC.

OK...You got Hendrix...But Young??? No way:

Neil Young Biography

The Godfather of Grunge

By Dave Zimmer

Neil Young News

Release "Time Fades Away"

Neil Young
Neil Young was born November 12, 1945 in Toronto, Ontario to Rassy
and Scott Young. As a youth, he survived diabetes, polio, epilepsy and the
divorce of his parents. His father was a highly respected sportswriter for
The Toronto Sun and has authored several books, including Neil & Me,
a 1984 title covering his relationship with his musician son.




In 1960, Neil moved with his mother to Winnipeg,
Manitoba. It was there that music first became the
driving force in his life. After switching from
ukulele to guitar, he was in a succession of Winnipeg-
based bands, including The Jades, The Esquires, The
Classics and Neil Young & The Squires. Initially an
instrumental band in the mold of The Shadows, The
Squires eventually became more of a folk-rock group.
Several early Neil originals from this era, including
"Ain't It The Truth" and "Find Another Shoulder,"
would be resurrected years later with the Bluenotes.
From early 1963 to mid- 1965, The Squires performed
regularly at clubs and dance halls in Manitoba and
Ontario.



At a club in Fort William, Ontario in '65, The Squires
crossed paths with an American folk-rock band called
The Company, which featured a singer/guitarist named
Stephen Stills. Young and Stills became fast friends
but soon lost track of one another as The Squires
disbanded in the summer of '65.

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Neil Hangin Neil Young recorded an acoustic demo for Elektra Records in
New York in 1965 featuring early versions of "Sugar
Mountain" and "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing," but
he was not offered a contract by the label. Returning
to Toronto, Young played the same Yorkville district
coffeehouse circuit as fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell
before he joined The Mynah Birds, a Toronto-based band
led by singer Ricky James Matthews (later to be known
as Rick James and singer of such dance hits as "Super
Freak"). The Mynah Birds recorded several songs for
Motown Records in Detroit that were never released.
During one of these recording sessions, James was
arrested and charged with deserting the U.S. Navy. The
Mynah Birds flew apart when James was forced to
complete his tour of duty.



In search of fresh opportunities, Young and ex-Mynah
Birds bassist Bruce Palmer packed most of their
worldly possessions into Young's car (a black hearse!)
and drove from Toronto to Los Angeles. On Sunset
Boulevard in Hollywood, the hearse was spotted in
traffic by Stills and singer/guitarist Richie Furay
(who previously met Young in New York and had come
West a short time earlier.) The four musicians huddled
in a supermarket parking lot and immediately talked of
forming a band. With the addition of drummer Dewey
Martin, the Buffalo Springfield was born. Fusing folk
and rock with dashes of country and R&B, the
Springfield gained immediate raves sharing bills with
The Byrds at The Whisky on the Sunset Strip. Live,
Young unleashed his stinging lead guitar and high
vocal cries. On the band's subsequent three albums,
Young's songwriting excellence was evident on such
songs as "Mr. Soul," "Broken Arrow," "Expecting to
Fly" and "I Am a Child."



Neil Young at Farm Aid 2000 Neil Young quit the Buffalo Springfield in the spring of
'67, before the band's appearance at The Monterey Pop
Festival in June, then re-joined later that year. The
Buffalo Springfield broke up for good in May of 1968.
With no small amount of original material to work
with, Young, now living in Topanga Canyon, launched
his solo career in earnest. His self-titled debut
album was released on Reprise Records in January of
1969, and featured such songs as "The Loner" and "The
Last Trip to Tulsa." He would later refer to Neil
Young as "overdub city." Indeed, most of his recorded
work to follow would bear little resemblance to the
layered process used on much of his first album.



Early in '69, Young got re-acquainted with a rough-
hewn Los Angeles-based band he'd first encountered
during the early days of the Buffalo Springfield.
Called The Rockets, the group featured
guitarist/vocalist Danny Whitten, bassist Billy Talbot
and drummer Ralph Molina. In a matter of weeks, Young
and these musicians would record "Down By the River"
and then, transformed into Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
would go on to cut more songs with visceral immediacy,
including "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl In The Sand,"
for the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,
released in July.



Though enjoying success as a solo artist, Young agreed
to join forces with Crosby, Stills & Nash in the
summer of '69. He added dark grain to CSN's front
porch harmony. Following an appearance at Woodstock,
the riotously-received "Carry On Tour" and the early
1970 release of the album Deja Vu, Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young were often referred to as "The American
Beatles." This level of fame, however, did not deter
Young from his commitment to pursuing his solo career.



Neil Young recorded After the Gold Rush with contributions
from Crazy Horse, Stephen Stills and several other
musicians. The 1970 album included poetic acoustic
songs like "Tell Me Why" and "Birds" and unbridled
rockers such as "Southern Man" and "When You Dance I
Can Really Love." After the Gold Rush exhibited the
full range of Young's formidable musical talents
during this phase of his career.



In the spring of 1970, Neil Young wrote "Ohio" in the wake
of the Kent State killings and CSNY recorded it as a
single. And while CSNY succeeded in achieving several
moments of musical magic on stage - some of which were
captured on the aptly titled 4-Way Street live album -
the group splintered in July.



Young's solo career kept right on rolling. A good
portion of the new material he performed on a '70 -
'71 acoustic tour was inspired by his recently
purchased Northern California ranch. Songs such as
"Old Man" and "Heart of Gold" would eventually be
recorded by Young and a band he dubbed the Stray
Gators (featuring bassist Tim Drummond, steel
guitarist Ben Keith and drummer Kenny Buttrey). James
Taylor, Linda Ronstadt and the London Symphony
Orchestra also made guest appearances on Harvest,
which was released in early 1972 and remains Young's
best-selling album, featuring the only Number 1 single
of his career, "Heart of Gold."



Young also completed his first film, Journey Through
the Past, in '72. A soundtrack album, released in
November, preceded the film's '73 release.



The drug overdose death of former Crazy Horse
guitarist Danny Whitten happened right before Young
began a post-Harvest tour. Fans expecting "Heart of
Gold" instead heard sets dominated by a passel of new
reckless rockers. Time Fades Away, a live album
released in September of '73, captured Young's edgy
emotions.



Crosby & Nash made guest appearances on the last leg
of the Time Fades Away tour, while Young had dropped
in on several early '70s Crosby & Nash shows (as well
as recording a single with Nash called "War Song") and
a couple of '73 Stills/Manassas gigs. But CSNY did not
re-group for any extended period until the 1974 summer
stadium tour. Several of the new songs Young performed
at these shows were released on his '74 solo album, On
the Beach. Despite cutting several new tracks in the
mid '70s, CSNY only managed to release a greatest hits
album called So Far during this period.



Young could have released three albums in 1975.
However, he shelved one of them, a collection of
introspective songs called Homegrown, in favor of a
dark, ragged song cycle called Tonight's the Night.
Most of the songs on the album, influenced by the
drug-related deaths of Danny Whitten and CSNY roadie
Bruce Berry, were recorded in '73 with a band that
included Talbot, Molina and Nils Lofgren.



A new version of Crazy Horse, featuring new
guitarist/singer Frank "Poncho" Sampedro, recorded a
powerful, often jagged-edged album called Zuma in
'75. It was released in the fall of that year and
featured such songs as "Cortez the Killer" and "Danger
Bird."



Crazy Horse would contribute to several other Young
projects during the rest of the '70s, including the
'77 album American Stars 'n' Bars ("Like A Hurricane"
soared next to songs that featured Linda Ronstadt and
Nicolette Larson) and '78's Comes A Time (Two songs
that showed the quieter side of the Horse fit well
amidst a set of harmony-filled numbers recorded with
Nicolette Larson and The Gone With the Wind
Orchestra). Then there were the transcendent NY&CH
live shows in America and Japan in '76 and the tour de
force concerts in late '78. On stage, Young
accentuated the feeling that he was "dwarfed" by the
music industry by using oversized amp covers and a
gigantic microphone - all documented on the 1979 Rust
Never Sleeps album and film, and the Live Rust album
released later that same year.



In addition to working with Crazy Horse, Neil Young also
formed the short-lived Stills-Young Band with Stephen
Stills, resulting in one album, Long May You Run, and
one aborted tour - both in 1976. Later that year
Young was one of the all-star performers at The Band's
last "Last Waltz" concert at Winterland in San
Francisco.



Other Young highlights in the 1970s included his
tenure with The Ducks, a Santa Cruz, CA band led by an
old Springfield-era friend of Young's, singer Jeff
Blackburn. Young performed numerous raucous sets of
"country roll" with The Ducks during the latter part
of the summer of '77 at small bars around the coastal
town. In the spring of '78, Young played and recorded
five straight nights of solo acoustic music at a cozy
150-seat club in San Francisco called The Boarding
House. The first side of Rust Never Sleeps was drawn
from these shows. Is it any wonder both Rolling Stone
and The Village Voice named Young "Artist of the
Decade" in their reviews of the '70s?



Rock's most intriguing chameleon revealed an even
broader spectrum of musical colors in the 1980s. He
forcefully ricocheted between many different genres,
performing and recording with an ever-revolving (often
recurring) collection of old and new musician friends.



Young swung hard into country music on parts of 1980's
Hawks & Doves and again throughout 1985's Old Ways
(featuring guests Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings).
Adopting a perceptible twang in his voice, he toured
extensively in the mid '80s with The International
Harvesters (including Tim Drummond, Ben Keith, singer
Anthony Crawford and fiddler Rufus Thibodeaux).



Inspired by European groups such as Kraftwerk, Young
experimented with computers and synthesized vocals on
1982's Trans album and subsequent tours in '82 and
'83.



Techno evolved into retro when Young and The Shocking
Pinks (featuring Drummond, Keith and drummer Karl
Himmel) rattled and rolled on stage and recorded the
1983 album Everybody's Rockin', featuring '50s-style
Young originals alongside covers of such vintage
classics as "Mystery Train" and "Betty Lou's Got A New
Pair of Shoes."



Young plugged back into modern technology on 1986's
Landing On Water, a jittery collection of songs co-
produced by Danny Kortchmar, who also contributed
guitar, synthesizer and vocals to the recording.



And what would a decade be without Crazy Horse and
CSN&Y? Young saddled up with Frank, Billy and Ralph
for 1981's rampaging Re*ac*tor (featuring the
stuttering "Rapid Transit" and war-like "Shots"),
1986's bruising "In A Rusted-Out Garage" Tour and the
1987 album, Life, featuring "Inca Queen" and
"Prisoners of Rock and Roll." Next, Young fulfilled a
promise to David Crosby that he'd work with CSNY again
if his old partner ever licked his severe drug
addiction. The 1988 CSNY album, American Dream,
included such Young songs as the title track, "Name of
Love" and "This Old House."



Though elements of the blues had been present in many
of Young's songs over the years, the style didn't take
center stage in his music until the 1988 album, This
Note's For You, and during corresponding live shows,
featuring Neil Young & the Bluenotes (later
incarnations of which were to be billed as The
Restless and The Lost Dogs). The video for the song
"This Note's For You," a pointed swipe at corporate
sponsorship, was banned for a time by MTV, then,
ironically, voted "Video of the Year" at the 1988 MTV
Music Video Awards.



A special late fall tradition began in 1986 with the
presentation of the first Bridge School Benefit at the
Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. Hosted by
Young and his wife, Pegi, the now annual and largely
acoustic concerts benefit a special school where
children (such as Neil's youngest son) afflicted with
severe cerebral palsy are taught how to communicate
with computers and other technology. Bruce
Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel, Don Henley and Willie
Nelson are among the artists who have appeared at this
continuing event.



Young's forays into the film world also continued in
the '80s with the 1982 release of his surreal "nuclear
comedy" Human Highway, starring Dennis Hopper, Sally
Kirkland, Dean Stockwell, Devo and himself. Young also
had parts in the films '68, Made In Heaven and Love At
Large (the latter actually released in early '90).
The end of the '80s found Young issuing stark electric
statements, first on a Neil Young & The Restless five-
song EP called Eldorado (initially released in limited
quantities in Australia), then on Freedom, a riveting
album which shared several songs and players with
Eldorado and was framed by acoustic and electric
versions of "Rockin In The Free World". A blistering
live take of "Free World" on Saturday Night Live in
September of '89 served notice to all that Young was
still very much a vital rock and roll artist. He
reinforced this fact on the road in '89, performing
mostly solo with occasional subtle backing from Ben
Keith and Frank Sampedro.



Crazy Horse galloped back onto the scene in 1990,
recording the album Ragged Glory with Young and
hitching up for numerous searing live shows on the
"Don't Spook The Horse" Tour. Some of the best moments
were chronicled on 1991's live double-CD Weld. A third
CD, Arc, was an electric guitar "sound sculpture"
comprised of extended, feedback-laden instrumental
outros and sundry other live fragments. Alternative
bands such as Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and Dinosaur
Jr opened many of the "Spook the Horse" shows and
legions of Generation X fans began referring to Young
as "The Godfather of Grunge."



In 1992, Young returned to his warm, acoustic side
with the release of Harvest Moon, featuring most of
the same core players (The Stray Gators) and singers
(Ronstadt and Taylor) he used on Harvest over 20 years
earlier. Young's half-sister, Astrid, and Nicolette
Larson also appeared on this record as well as on
Unplugged, a CD and video gleaned from Young's
February '93 "MTV Unplugged" performance.



In typical fashion, Young shifted musical gears once
again in 1993 and teamed up with Booker T. & the M.G.s
for a series of soulful live shows that included new
arrangements of many familiar Young classics as well
as covers of such songs as Otis Redding's "Dock Of The
Bay" and Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" (the
latter of which Young had performed with feverish
abandon at the Tribute To Bob Dylan concert at Madison
Square Garden in October of '92).



At the personal request of director Jonathan Demme,
Young wrote the title track for the 1993 film,
Philadelphia. The emotion-filled song was nominated
for an Academy Award and Young performed it live at
the 66th Academy Awards ceremony.

With the 1994 album Sleeps With Angels, Young & Crazy
Horse further extend the realm of their sonic library
and are letting the challenging new music speak for
itself.

[Bean Stocks]

Oops. I always thought he was from Seattle probably due to the "father of grunge" tag. I grew up in VA and have lived in Seattle for less than a year.

[IIC]

Have to disagree with Spike:

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$BP...d=p18914352446

I think the market is going down the drain short term.

[spikefader]

Have to disagree with Spike:

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$BP...d=p18914352446

I think the market is going down the drain short term.

LOL, nah, we are on the same page IIC. I turned bull at Monday's close. I was just posting that pick cuz Rob mentioned mechanical bull. I should have quoted him and have edited the post.

Market direction
Longs may feel some of this

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Hey Beanstocks.
Nice pick dude.

You need an avatar like this one hehe:


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