I'm halfway thru this great book at the moment.
It's titled 'Shakey', Neil Young's Biography by Jimmy McDonough.
Here's an excerpt from it:

"I bought this Beaulieu super-8 camera and I was workin' with it. And I worked with it and worked with it. Super-8 made me ill. I got sick. I think I musta OD'd on it or somethin' -- I was so into it. I got a fever."

"It was like when you eat some poison and you get sick, you never wanna have it again. After that, every time I thought about filming I got sick. That was the end of it."

"It's a little like windsurfing. I was really into it. I got all the equipment, and I windsurfed a couple of years. I thought about it a lot. Read windsurfing magazines."

"Finally one day I realised -- F#ck, I could just be doin' this for the rest of time, just buying equipment. New equipment comes every four months. Windsurfing's great, but I'm not really very good. I never was able to get a jibe down. So I stopped. But I did it for two or three years. It totally distracted me."

Can't you read plain english, dude ? ^^^
He got into windsurfing. There's no mention of kiting.

I think Moby's thinking of Ian Young...

Waveslave thankyou for an informative post.
Factual, with quotes, and very interesting to know Neil Young windsurfed for a while.
Makes a change from trolling so congratulations again.

Neil Young? Was that the guy on The Young Ones?

You are, like a hurricane ...

slowboat said...

http://crocmusic.com/track/147370/neil_young/sugar_mountain/

check out the wife beater he's wearing...

I lent Neil a Mistral Malibu for a couple of weeks while he was he in Sydney staying up at Palm Beach. He owned a Mistral Malibu and Mistral Tarifa back in the USA.
He played every night and we all turned up to the concerts late every night in a Toyota Tarago with Neil still in his wetsuit.
This clip is from LIVE AID, He loved that shirt I gave him, MISTRAL "Red Hot Dot." But he did cut the sleeves and neck out of it. The Grunge look I guess.
The nicest guy you could ever meet.
Other "Mistral Shop" clients were Dire Straits, Police and Bruce Springsteen. I still have a pair of Bruces Levis he left in my car somewhere.

Mark _australia said...

Waveslave thankyou for an informative post.
Factual, with quotes, and very interesting to know Neil Young windsurfed for a while.
Makes a change from trolling so congratulations again.

Wait for it,
Slave will lure you into it,then strike while your defences are down.

He will find a way,trust me,,he is the master.[}:)]

maybe neil didn't get many blowjobs after going windsurfing.

unlike backstage after a gig!

hard to have the world at your feet and then realise you can't jibe.

^^^^Judging by his music, you would not find that all that hard to believe.

waveslave said...

Can't you read plain english, dude ? ^^^
He got into windsurfing. There's no mention of kiting.

He so did so. He even wrote a song about kitesurfing before this...

"Hey, Hey, My, My, kitesurfing is so damn fly",