24, Neil posted a now deleted letter on NYA that read in part, “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform. But this time is different, with the consequences and implications of Young’s move raising fundamental questions about artistic control, streaming quality, and free speech. So, when Neil announced that he would remove his music from the streaming platform, Spotify, my first thought was, “well, good ol’ Neil being Neil again.” He’d done the same thing back in 2015 over the quality of the music Spotify was streaming, claiming that listeners were hearing less than 10% of each recording. This is all to say that Neil follows his muse, his instincts, letting nothing get in his way, no matter what. Even his newsletter, published on the Neil Young Archives website (), is named The NYA Times-Contrarian. Eat a peach, Neil.” If one peruses Neil Young’s Wikipedia page, his tendency to jump abruptly from one project to the next becomes abundantly obvious. The ill-fated 1976 Stills-Young tour ended after only a few dates when Neil left the tour sending a telegram to Stephen Stills that read, “Funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. During the 1974 “reunion” tour Neil traveled from gig to gig on his own bus, eschewing his band mates’ company. His partnership with Crosby Stills Nash and Young (CSNY) has been an on and off again affair for decades. His restless relationship with Buffalo Springfield’s other members and management led to repeated band break-ups in the late 1960s. Neil Young performs in Baltimore on April 28, 2011.
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