• From: SF Bay Area
  • Registered: 2008-12-16
  • Posts: 261

Topic: Will To Love (a Monumental Neil Young song)

Probably a song best known by only hardcore Neil Young fans and certainly way too long for the average YouTube attention span.
Give it a try if you haven't heard of it and if you know the song please enjoy.

I consider this song to be one of Young's masterpieces of songwriting.
A beautiful song which uses dream imagery of a salmon swimming upstream to spawn as a metaphor for the human will to love.

I never did get a good video performing the song. It turned out way too dark (a failed lighting experiment). So I searched for a video that went well with the imagery of the song.

The video is Public Domain video depicting Atlantic salmon courtesy of the U.S. Dept. of Fish & Game. I slowed the video way down to give it a dreamlike feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3PXxMGZdOE

Original Songs on YouTube:   www.youtube.com/thegilsongs
Cover Songs on YouTube:   www.youtube.com/All1Song
  • From: Chico, Ca.
  • Registered: 2007-09-08
  • Posts: 327

Re: Will To Love (a Monumental Neil Young song)

I like this as well,  I enjoy most of your work Gil, Well done I think.

I thought ; If I had one idea,
and took it from beginning to end.
I would try another.

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