The Pirate
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The man can coach. Plus, he's a character. He decided to give his thoughts on Neil Young and disco at a weekday press conference last month:
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“Neil Young was just a shade before my time, a little bit, I would say. See, when I was in high school, music was evolving toward disco and that was a very dark time. And it was a horrible, horrible period. To all the disco people out there, I’m going to offend I don’t care. I really don’t care. If you’re a disco person, your music’s awful. It is terrible. And the damage that it’s done to music, we still haven’t fully recovered. OK.
“And, so anyway, as the bottom’s melting out of the music world your choice is to hold your breath toward the future, or you have to go backwards. So a lot of us, we went way back. We’re talking Beatles and Buddy Holly, which is obviously way back.
“And those that held their breath toward the future, well then the overcorrection from music is punk. And then punk came out. And yes, it was an improvement to disco, but I don’t think that we’re fully happy and fully comfortable with that, and that didn’t totally withstand the test of time. But it did usher us into something better. OK.
“So in drawing backwards, Neil Young I guess was almost the anti-disco. I’ve always valued lyrics a great deal. A song should say something instead of just be strictly music and I always, he had a wide variety of message. Everything he touched musically, he was a master of. He thought independently when disco personified those that didn’t think independently. Neil Young was the ultimate in independent thinking. Elevated every group he was every with. I still like Crosby, Stills and Nash, but they weren’t the same when Neil Young left, not even close. Neil Young’s kind of on the list of people I’d most like to meet. I don’t imagine he loves meeting people very much but, nevertheless, yeah, Neil Young’s always been toward the top of my list.”
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“Neil Young was just a shade before my time, a little bit, I would say. See, when I was in high school, music was evolving toward disco and that was a very dark time. And it was a horrible, horrible period. To all the disco people out there, I’m going to offend I don’t care. I really don’t care. If you’re a disco person, your music’s awful. It is terrible. And the damage that it’s done to music, we still haven’t fully recovered. OK.
“And, so anyway, as the bottom’s melting out of the music world your choice is to hold your breath toward the future, or you have to go backwards. So a lot of us, we went way back. We’re talking Beatles and Buddy Holly, which is obviously way back.
“And those that held their breath toward the future, well then the overcorrection from music is punk. And then punk came out. And yes, it was an improvement to disco, but I don’t think that we’re fully happy and fully comfortable with that, and that didn’t totally withstand the test of time. But it did usher us into something better. OK.
“So in drawing backwards, Neil Young I guess was almost the anti-disco. I’ve always valued lyrics a great deal. A song should say something instead of just be strictly music and I always, he had a wide variety of message. Everything he touched musically, he was a master of. He thought independently when disco personified those that didn’t think independently. Neil Young was the ultimate in independent thinking. Elevated every group he was every with. I still like Crosby, Stills and Nash, but they weren’t the same when Neil Young left, not even close. Neil Young’s kind of on the list of people I’d most like to meet. I don’t imagine he loves meeting people very much but, nevertheless, yeah, Neil Young’s always been toward the top of my list.”
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I love the guy, he is a good coach and he has a personality (a little off shelf), unlike most college coaches who are about as interesting as cardboard.
