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Neil Young<\/a> has always been extremely fickle when it comes to the things he liked.\u00a0<\/p>\n If he loved it, it didn\u2019t take him long to want to sing its praises, but if he so much as had an inkling that things were moving in the wrong direction with Crosby, Stills, and Nash, it didn\u2019t take him long to jump ship and move on to something entirely different. While that might be annoying for anyone that tries to get a read on the guy, that\u2019s only because he\u2019s constantly in search of artists in it for the right reasons.<\/p>\n Because the minute that any rockstar becomes famous, there\u2019s only a few years where they can make the kind of impact that they want to. A handful of them might use that as their golden opportunity to work their magic on their audience, but there\u2019s also bound to be a few people that only see the dollar signs in front of their faces and start working on making the bastard son of whatever tune that had turned them into the biggest band to begin with.<\/p>\n That kind of career move certainly has its place, but it wasn\u2019t necessarily where Young saw himself going. He subscribed to the punk rock attitude of being yourself years before punk even had a name, and even when he was being considered as yesterday\u2019s news by some, you can tell that he couldn\u2019t give a shit either way. He was still a great songwriter, and that usually meant doing whatever the muse told him to do.<\/p>\n And while the 1980s weren\u2019t kind to his rustic brand of songwriting and even more scathing regarding his experimental period, it was a breath of fresh air seeing what the new school of grunge bands were doing. Nirvana felt like they kicked down the door for a new musical revolution, but when it came to pure rock and roll, Young knew that nothing could get any better than what he saw out of Pearl Jam.<\/p>\n Even though he had his favourite rock and roll acts from decades past, Young figured that nothing else compared to listening to Pearl Jam stripping rock down to its best features, saying<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019ll tell you what: If all I had was Pearl Jam, and I didn\u2019t have another band in the world, I would not be worried. Because in there is the essence of making great music. You don\u2019t have to use it all at once, but it\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n