@burtbronson If you would study another languaje we wouldn´t need to be writting in english, so everyone can read it.
Refering about your last word: DOUCHE. I won´t spend any energy to find out to whom you did call that. But I don´t know if you have noticed, that it is an insult. And should never take place overhere. I understand that the first exit that analfabetism takes is always insulting, but still.
@charrockerito I understand very well all that you said refering to Mesoamerican cultures´, not need help, mate. It is just a different point of view.
He's talking about how Cortez and his men brought disease and unintentionally killed millions. Not necessarily a negative song towards Cortez because they did not know what they were doing. Brilliant lyricist.
Because it just a futile try to get worked up centuries of years later. It's sad to read things about people who only concentrates their effort in hating instead of working and learning, and about this point I repeat improvement it's important and it has been passed many years, to keep watching the same thing everytime.
So if someone living at 21th century is still annoyed for that, or have broght the Pizarro's point to personal, or has something against the spanish people at 21th Century...well that one should do another thing than write overhere.
The spanish did something like the romans did to them. They teached to the natives the civilization way to make themselves better how to develop the cultur and civilization, this point is very important if you compare this to the colonialism that the French and England practised.
I'd never will justified the actions of this two.But when the spanish empire arrived in America they founded people throwing ripped heads to the botton of their monuments or pyramids, the natives had a bloddy and advanced way to make sacrifice rituals, or at least most of them.
@RAPPALUSSA69 I don't think you understand the appreciation or the importance the Mesoamerican cultures had with the Human Sacrifices.
Let me begin, for these mesoamerican folks the fact that nature gave them all they needed (food, water, houses, etc.), if there was something they couldn't explain (like death, earthquakes, etc) they could only get into reason with the existence of a god. These mesoamerican cultures were polytheistic and had their own Pantheon of gods just like the Greeks.
@RAPPALUSSA69 So, There were many gods for them and in Aztec culture we have the main ones like the Sun God, Quetzaltcoatl "The feathered serpent", Tezcatlipoca "The smoked mirror" the lord of the land and skies, Tláloc "nectar fallen to the earth" who represents the rain and fertility and others not so natured influenced but equally important because it represented a mayor human activity like Huitzilopochtli, the war god.
For these people, gods needed reverance and worship.
@RAPPALUSSA69 When drought came and there was no harvest, the only explanation for them was that Tlaloc was angry. So sacrifices were to be made, these people sacrificed themselves voluntarily, but most of times they were war prisoners. The rituals were made mostly in specific times of the year and when they really urged sacrifices, they would engage in Guerras Floridas, wars made between the nations to get war prisoners and fulfill their sacrifices.
@RAPPALUSSA69 Human sacrifice signified important bloodshed, just as unnecesary as the Inquisition in Europe
But this behavior can't match the slaughter of these people nor excuses the lost of a human prosperous civilization. These nations were happy, they were crafty in many activities like agriculture, astronomy, literature (yeah they were), and many other things.
I don't hate spaniards, modern Mexico is a clash of many cultures including them and we mexicans need to appreciate what we are.
I thought people were going to speak about music, not about history :(
Pizarro and Cortes were two men of his era, and that justified only one thing: violence. Because it was the only way to do things at that time or to solve them.
Human is evil by nature, i'm mexican and proud of having the blood of brave conquistadores in me, there's no black and white, only different shades of grey
Fe de erratas: la Nueva España se fundó en 1531 (1821 es el nacimiento de México como país).
Cortéz did not only kill the Aztec culture, but all of the others that surrounded it (Olmecas, Tlaxcalteca, Cholulteca and what was left of the Mayan history in their codex).
The Spanish Crown did this in all Latin America. In Argentina there are NO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, THEY KILLED THEM ALL.
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Una mentira, Hernán Cortés no era un asesino, ni un matador. Con 113 soldados españoles venció al ejército de Moctezuma que no olvidemos realizaba sacrificios con humanos.
@hugacas 113 soldados repletos de armas de fuego y el apoyo de caballería, cosas que no existían en América; contra la desventaja tecnológica de los Mexicas (Aztecas) que lo único que conocían eran arcos y garrotes de madera y piedra y que además miles murieron sin levantarse en armas gracias a las enfermedades traídas de Europa como la viruela y el sarampión.
Los sacrificios humanos eran parte de las Guerras Floridas entre Aztecas vs sus enemigos.
Y Cortéz no solo mató miles de personas (Tenochtitlán, la capital azteca superaba el millón), sino que tambien con la llegada de los evangelistas y la fundación de la Nueva España en 1821 le lavaron el cerebro a los indígenas y fueron sometidos brutalmente a abusos de autoridad, violaciones, asesinatos y demás barbaridades. No solo la cultura Azteca sufrió, los evangelistas quemaron los Códices Mayas, libros donde se albergaba el basto conocimiento de la zona mesoamericana.
@hugacas ¿No era un asesino? ¿Entonces qué? ¿Un violador de indígenas que creo una nueva raza? ¿Una buena persona que trajo una estúpida religión que mató a muchas personas en la santa Inquisición?
@hugacas Pff... amigo español, hay tanto que debes saber sobre la historia de América. No todo era sacrificios humanos. Aquí existía un vasto mundo lleno de maravillas, un mundo que se vino abajo de una forma terrible con la llegada de Cortés (que de Cortés no tuvo nada) y sus 113 hombres. Destruyeron siglos de historia a su paso. Acabaron con la vida de miles de personas al traer enfermedades que aquí no existían. Si, "Cortez the killer"... Neil Young tiene razón.
Em 1996, ao pagar a conta numa livraria em Madrid a atendente (uma galega de Vigo) pega uma das notas e me diz em português irrepreensível: nesta aqui (1000 ptas.) estão dois dos três maiores assassinos nascidos aqui, Hernán Cortez e Francisco Pizarro.
I own the original studio version with others from 1974 ,1975 , 1976 , 1977 on a LP 3 records album set to a 2 cds collection in one same jewell case some years later . Cortez the Killer is my favorite , what a sound , Neil is( was ) a genious !
The LP album is beautifully decorated and it's version of Cortez the Killer is faboulous ! But listen also to , Down by the River , Cinnamon Cowgirl , you won't want nothing else anymore .
This is brilliant the recent solo electric version he has been doing for his solo tour is absolutly incredible anyone reading this comment you've gotta see it because it will blow your mind
@quezcatol beside that, his mission was never to conqured the Aztec empire, in fact he was hunted by 1000 conquistords for not doing what he was asked for, which was:scout the area,look for surivvors was was lost and take contact with chieftains and try to allying themselves with them.
Then when he came home he was in trial for treason and mass murder.
Also, the reason why so many indians died was because of small pox spreading, you gonna claim the europeans did that with purpose?
@quezcatol All I know is the fucking white assholes are the rich owners and oppressors of the poor in this world. Just watch "darwin's nightmare" and you might get a better view on that subject
Just remember this. We are all on this planet together. All human. In the end, we all share our sins. "White men" are not the only people that committed horrendous atrocities as you so much want to believe. They are just the ones that documented it. Remember too, Neil Young wrote and sings this song-- he's a white man. How many Mayans & others died at the hands of the Mayans? There is strong evidence that Caucasians were the first to inhabit this land. Who exterminated them?
Give it a break-- read the real history. Texians (manly Mexicans) revolted against Santa Anna. Only after Texians applied for stateship did the US get involved, finally buying TX, AZ and NM from greedy Mexicans. Hate whites all you want. Then complain there is no peace in the world. Mayan civilization was already on the decline when Cortez arrived. Due to drought and their own ecological disasters (deforestation). It's a fact.
@darkcowboyhero Yup, that's what it is. Just close your mind, go to sleep and believe with all your heart that only you know everything. Hope you dream the dream of a world with no evil white men. Accept what you are told. Do not seek the truth.
Did not Santa Anna abolish the Mexican Constitution? Did not many Mexican Provinces rise up in revolt against him? Was not Texia a Province of Mexico? Are you going to believe a Province of Mexico was not a large majority-- Mexicans?
@undersolen Who where the owner the tribes victims of the Aztecs, that sacrifies then by hundreds. Please learn about reality, or the Incas exploiding all their neighbours. You have to go deeper. In that time power means lots of killing
there is 48 countries in Europe, Spain and England is two of them.
My reletives here in scandinavia didnt take any slaves from africa nor any land in America. So stfu.
But seeing how you wanna talk history, Aztec was a cruel,evil and blood thirsty empire which lived on slaves and sacrifice. So live in your fantasy world that eveyrthing was fantastic until the "white men" showed up.-
This is from Live Rust and a great song. I normally don't like Reggae but for this song it's so fuckin' great, thanks to Neil's genius. I must say, and sorry to blow this for all you Montezuma lovers but just like we read untruths about Cortex in history books the story about Montezuma is a lie. Neil is right about Cortex and Neil's heart is in the right place but Montezuma did some cruel things. You can look it up.
@11xzxzxz The Aztec human sacrifices were horrible; but so was the Spanish Inquisition. Moctezuma (sic Montezuma) was no saint; but he wasn't any more of a devil than Hernando Cortez. I await the day when the people of Mesoamerica will rise again and rebuild their great culture from the ruin that colonialism rendered it.
@ogbobbydee Thanks for expressing yourself. As a Jew (non-practicing) I knew more about the Spanish Inquisition than I did about Cortez's unbelievable cruelty. So I agree with what you said and I didn't mean to imply in any way that Moctezuma was worse than Cortez; I still think he was not the horrible guy that Cortez was.
@ogbobbydee Continued... At least Neil did a great thing to point out what most history books and too many scholars fail to do: they fuckin' failed to teach us the real history and it's complexity and it truth got "lost along the way" . Take care and hope you get your dream fulfilled. .
@ogbobbydee Yeah sometimes I am blunt and not so gracious myself but I am a sensitive person and I appreciate your sensitivity and your want for a better world. Me too. And Youtubers are often not nice .. you noticed too..
Cortez showed up at the exact time that the god quetzalcoatl was supposed to return. Montezuma mistook Cortez for that god and in doing so allowed the spaniard to take mexico. If you read on it its interesting. The costumes of the spanish. resembled the bird god in alot of ways. Cortez also won several battles fighting larger numbers. Just a bunch of crazy circumstances that convinced Montezuma.
Great song, yeah but the pre-Columbian native populations were, in fact, quite fierce and unquestionably cruel in a vast array of their dealings with not only settler but with each other. Don't wanna burst your bubble, but we're all going straight to Hell for this.
I remember seeing this "movie" when it came out in the movie theaters in 1976. It was shown as a special feature at midnight. I had never been to a concert before, and had never been to a midnight movie before. I was a junior in high school. I was captivated. I could've stayed all night watching this Rust Never Sleep's movie. I've loved Neil Young ever since. So nice to see it in 2010 on FB. Wow, time flies....
When i saw his latest performance at the Bass Hall in austin it was alright... He made this song into about a 3 minute version and same with all of the other songs he usually goes out on, i don't know what but something was goin on that night
This song is about a girl. "And I know she's living there, And she loves me to this day, I still can't remember when Or how I lost my way."
Neil uses the metaphor of the lost, destroyed, civilization to describe a lost, destroyed, love. - riffing on Donovan's Atlantis: "Way down below the ocean, where I wanna be, she may be..."
This song remember me Cortez the killer and many false priest killing the entire Maya population, and all the secrets wrote in their books was burned and now we have an unknown population with a lot of threasure of their lives.
@TheMiki64 The Maya created the idea of using zero, years before the Europeans; they calculated the orbit of the planet Venus to within 0.01 seconds of arc;Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, was larger and more prosperous than any European city of its time; the Spanish BURNED the Aztec library city and slaughtered the entire educated class of Mesoamerica. I weep to think of all that was lost because of the conquest.
@TheMiki64 Those priests were not false. They were what the Roman Catholics are all about. Every problem you can find south of the U.S. could probably be traced to the mother of harlots who ruined it all.
@mgmorrell who is this mother of harlots? Also I am Christian but I don't necessarily think that everything a religious figure or the catholic church has done was always right. The Catholic Church killed tons of people in the past for not believing in Jesus, which is obviously wrong and goes against Jesus' teachings.
@BURNINGHAMMER76 not to start an argument but you need to read the bible again Jesus tells his disciples to kill those who do not believe in him. and I would say this to your face too
@nintendonut100 actually that sounds familiar but I dont think he meant seek out and kill people. If i wasnt out of town I would actually look it up. Still who is the mother of harlots you refer to?
@TheMiki64 Those priests were not false. They were what the Roman Catholics are all about. Every problem you can find south of the U.S. could probably be traced to the mother of harlots who ruined it all.
@TheMiki64 this song remember me that many people should study a little bit more of History. Neil has said many times that he wrote this song while he was in highschool, its not correct, its not historic. I love Neil Young, this is one of my favourite songs, the way the music and the lyrics flow, but it pisses me off when people take that song as a History lesson.
@TheMiki64 you realise this song is historicly incorrect right? also the Aztecs destroyed the Mayans it was the Aztecs Cortez killed and both civilizations were brutal and violent not damning them just saying they were clever though.
actually I'm not really a great fan of young, but he does have some wonderful songs. hey hey my my, heart of gold, dead man soudntrack and this one is just stunning. Only three chords, but it takes me to the most beautiful places so far away from this world
I think whoever said that meant that the Aztecs are idealized in Young's song; which I've always seen as the whole point--it's about lost love and longing, really, not just (maybe not even primarily) about the Aztecs.
"... Eso me dejó alucinado. Me dejó jodidamente alucinado. Quería a Danny. Me sentí responsable. Y desde entonces, tuve que hacer esa gira en recintos grandes. Estaba muy nervioso y me sentía inseguro".
El 19 es Danny Whitten? Neil dijo esto de él: "Estábamos ensayando con él y simplemente no podía hacerlo. No podía recordar nada. Estaba demasiado fuera de sí. Demasiado lejos. Le tuve que decir que se fuera a Los Ángeles. "No está sucediendo, tío". Él dijo: "No tengo ningún sitio a donde ir, tío. ¿Qué le voy a decir a mis amigos?". Y se marchó. Aquella noche el forense me llamó desde Los Ángeles y me dijo que había muerto.
@burtbronson If you would study another languaje we wouldn´t need to be writting in english, so everyone can read it.
Refering about your last word: DOUCHE. I won´t spend any energy to find out to whom you did call that. But I don´t know if you have noticed, that it is an insult. And should never take place overhere. I understand that the first exit that analfabetism takes is always insulting, but still.
RAPPALUSSA69 6 days ago
@charrockerito I understand very well all that you said refering to Mesoamerican cultures´, not need help, mate. It is just a different point of view.
RAPPALUSSA69 6 days ago
Just an amazing song the guitar alone could bring tears to your eyes
Chilli5240 2 weeks ago
LOS JAWAS!!
Azcatlehecatl 3 weeks ago
He's talking about how Cortez and his men brought disease and unintentionally killed millions. Not necessarily a negative song towards Cortez because they did not know what they were doing. Brilliant lyricist.
Kjcaine69 1 month ago
and btw. when aztecs were sacrificing people, we were burning witches. same shit, different package.
SuridaCity 1 month ago
lol..some people took the lyrics too much seriously. chill down and enjoy this masterpiece
SuridaCity 1 month ago
And by the way, Neil Young with or without this song is a bad azz rock and roller :D
I recommend to hear all his discography!
RAPPALUSSA69 1 month ago
Because it just a futile try to get worked up centuries of years later. It's sad to read things about people who only concentrates their effort in hating instead of working and learning, and about this point I repeat improvement it's important and it has been passed many years, to keep watching the same thing everytime.
RAPPALUSSA69 1 month ago
So if someone living at 21th century is still annoyed for that, or have broght the Pizarro's point to personal, or has something against the spanish people at 21th Century...well that one should do another thing than write overhere.
RAPPALUSSA69 1 month ago
The spanish did something like the romans did to them. They teached to the natives the civilization way to make themselves better how to develop the cultur and civilization, this point is very important if you compare this to the colonialism that the French and England practised.
RAPPALUSSA69 1 month ago
I'd never will justified the actions of this two.But when the spanish empire arrived in America they founded people throwing ripped heads to the botton of their monuments or pyramids, the natives had a bloddy and advanced way to make sacrifice rituals, or at least most of them.
RAPPALUSSA69 1 month ago
@RAPPALUSSA69 I don't think you understand the appreciation or the importance the Mesoamerican cultures had with the Human Sacrifices.
Let me begin, for these mesoamerican folks the fact that nature gave them all they needed (food, water, houses, etc.), if there was something they couldn't explain (like death, earthquakes, etc) they could only get into reason with the existence of a god. These mesoamerican cultures were polytheistic and had their own Pantheon of gods just like the Greeks.
charrockerito 2 weeks ago
@RAPPALUSSA69 So, There were many gods for them and in Aztec culture we have the main ones like the Sun God, Quetzaltcoatl "The feathered serpent", Tezcatlipoca "The smoked mirror" the lord of the land and skies, Tláloc "nectar fallen to the earth" who represents the rain and fertility and others not so natured influenced but equally important because it represented a mayor human activity like Huitzilopochtli, the war god.
For these people, gods needed reverance and worship.
charrockerito 2 weeks ago
@RAPPALUSSA69 When drought came and there was no harvest, the only explanation for them was that Tlaloc was angry. So sacrifices were to be made, these people sacrificed themselves voluntarily, but most of times they were war prisoners. The rituals were made mostly in specific times of the year and when they really urged sacrifices, they would engage in Guerras Floridas, wars made between the nations to get war prisoners and fulfill their sacrifices.
charrockerito 2 weeks ago
@RAPPALUSSA69 Human sacrifice signified important bloodshed, just as unnecesary as the Inquisition in Europe
But this behavior can't match the slaughter of these people nor excuses the lost of a human prosperous civilization. These nations were happy, they were crafty in many activities like agriculture, astronomy, literature (yeah they were), and many other things.
I don't hate spaniards, modern Mexico is a clash of many cultures including them and we mexicans need to appreciate what we are.
charrockerito 2 weeks ago
I thought people were going to speak about music, not about history :(
Pizarro and Cortes were two men of his era, and that justified only one thing: violence. Because it was the only way to do things at that time or to solve them.
RAPPALUSSA69 1 month ago
2:32
Neil Young: I want my roadies to dress like Jawas.
Production Manager: I guess we could arrange that, but what for?
NY: Because I'm Neil fuckin' Young and I'm the greatest singer-songwriter and guitarist ever, that's why! Go get costumes.
PM: *scurries away* Man, he's badass.
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Zuma es uno de los mejores discos que escuche!
GodySanchez 4 months ago 2
old black without the ages
concombre78310 4 months ago
pure quailty aint no bands in town like this any more dancing across the water
MrTaximusic 5 months ago
Human is evil by nature, i'm mexican and proud of having the blood of brave conquistadores in me, there's no black and white, only different shades of grey
Zpluspunch 5 months ago
Fe de erratas: la Nueva España se fundó en 1531 (1821 es el nacimiento de México como país).
Cortéz did not only kill the Aztec culture, but all of the others that surrounded it (Olmecas, Tlaxcalteca, Cholulteca and what was left of the Mayan history in their codex).
The Spanish Crown did this in all Latin America. In Argentina there are NO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, THEY KILLED THEM ALL.
321heroe 6 months ago 4
@321heroe really? many mexicans have been there and say there are many indigenous-looking people. Why are you trying to hide this?
fruan 1 month ago
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good guitar solos, nonsense lyrics
jesuisravi 6 months ago
Neil could have used a few hours a week in the weight room.
slowtoast 6 months ago
@slowtoast
What he lacked in muscles, he made up with his MONSTER FUCKING SIDEBURNS.
Seriously, he's prob one of the manliest dudes ever with those babies.
degree7 5 months ago
A masterpiece. Forget the politics.
cccustard 6 months ago 2
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Una mentira, Hernán Cortés no era un asesino, ni un matador. Con 113 soldados españoles venció al ejército de Moctezuma que no olvidemos realizaba sacrificios con humanos.
Neil Young está equivocado
Juan Navarro- Alicante Spain
hugacas 6 months ago
@hugacas 113 soldados repletos de armas de fuego y el apoyo de caballería, cosas que no existían en América; contra la desventaja tecnológica de los Mexicas (Aztecas) que lo único que conocían eran arcos y garrotes de madera y piedra y que además miles murieron sin levantarse en armas gracias a las enfermedades traídas de Europa como la viruela y el sarampión.
Los sacrificios humanos eran parte de las Guerras Floridas entre Aztecas vs sus enemigos.
321heroe 6 months ago
Y Cortéz no solo mató miles de personas (Tenochtitlán, la capital azteca superaba el millón), sino que tambien con la llegada de los evangelistas y la fundación de la Nueva España en 1821 le lavaron el cerebro a los indígenas y fueron sometidos brutalmente a abusos de autoridad, violaciones, asesinatos y demás barbaridades. No solo la cultura Azteca sufrió, los evangelistas quemaron los Códices Mayas, libros donde se albergaba el basto conocimiento de la zona mesoamericana.
321heroe 6 months ago
@hugacas ¿No era un asesino? ¿Entonces qué? ¿Un violador de indígenas que creo una nueva raza? ¿Una buena persona que trajo una estúpida religión que mató a muchas personas en la santa Inquisición?
No seas ignorante español ...
fruan 1 month ago
@hugacas Pff... amigo español, hay tanto que debes saber sobre la historia de América. No todo era sacrificios humanos. Aquí existía un vasto mundo lleno de maravillas, un mundo que se vino abajo de una forma terrible con la llegada de Cortés (que de Cortés no tuvo nada) y sus 113 hombres. Destruyeron siglos de historia a su paso. Acabaron con la vida de miles de personas al traer enfermedades que aquí no existían. Si, "Cortez the killer"... Neil Young tiene razón.
nudoruG23 1 month ago
7 people need to die
msm8504 7 months ago
There was just nothing like Crazy Horse. When Neil played with them it was truly magical.
swaggs 7 months ago
magia pura
alexfloydchanito 7 months ago
National Treasure
F3FisGoodforYou 7 months ago
pretty sure he's stoned
rustyechoes 8 months ago
i want his guitar strap O.o
hendrixandfloyd2 8 months ago
amazing.................
SteelkiltX 8 months ago
GUY LAFLEUR!!!!!
MIssStrutter 9 months ago
lets just appreciate the music and dont go all political like. An oldie but a goodie,great guitar work .luv u neil.
sharks1957 9 months ago
@sharks1957 I agree....just chill people and appreciate the music. very moving. saw Neil sing this live in Oakland in ummmmmmm 1988. Blew me away.
SuperRanger43 8 months ago
THERE ARE NO TRUE OWNERS OF LAND ANYWHERE THE WORLD IS A GIFT TO ALL!!!!!! TM BOSTON
tomtomdrum69 10 months ago
muchas gracias!!
chromedreamz 10 months ago
loved this little known song by Neil Young espically when he was with Crazy Horse
jbibb66 10 months ago
Em 1996, ao pagar a conta numa livraria em Madrid a atendente (uma galega de Vigo) pega uma das notas e me diz em português irrepreensível: nesta aqui (1000 ptas.) estão dois dos três maiores assassinos nascidos aqui, Hernán Cortez e Francisco Pizarro.
O 3 º ela se referia a Francisco Franco.
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mrjohn1964 11 months ago
I enjoy the part at about 7:30 where he starts yelling "Here he comes! Here he comes!" and scanning the horizon for a Spanish galleon
306ness 11 months ago
Fucking JAWA's dancing at the beginning.
BURNINGHAMMER76 11 months ago
Been looking for a good guitar tab for this song for ages. Fucking epic song
twiztedmike 1 year ago
This was from the rust never sleeps tour..... the best concert I have ever seen!!!!!! Neil is Best!!!!
McMinnvilleLarry 1 year ago
Im mexican, I love this song, thank you for this (In nahuátl -the language of aztecs- Tlasojkamati)!
hiearthling 1 year ago
It's an utterly fabulous ending: ''here he comes'' means cortez is still among us....
09dedalus 1 year ago 2
Hail Cortez, for great minds are to be misunderstood.
Mirrorbeholding 1 year ago
I own the original studio version with others from 1974 ,1975 , 1976 , 1977 on a LP 3 records album set to a 2 cds collection in one same jewell case some years later . Cortez the Killer is my favorite , what a sound , Neil is( was ) a genious !
The LP album is beautifully decorated and it's version of Cortez the Killer is faboulous ! But listen also to , Down by the River , Cinnamon Cowgirl , you won't want nothing else anymore .
cv0910 1 year ago
Happy Birthday Neil
hissheedness 1 year ago
He looks a LOT like Kevin Bacon here.
TomLikesGuitar 1 year ago
Maybe the best performance of Cortez ever, Neil still only in his mid 30s, skinny, and crying out his anger
Max2006MyDog 1 year ago
read the rust
bodiefisher 1 year ago
Great song. The jawas on the side of the stage are a bit curious.
Ouch! Better check that tuning.
5killPaul 1 year ago
@5killPaul It wouldn't be Neil Young if it wasn't beautifully slightly out of tune.
TomLikesGuitar 1 year ago
This is brilliant the recent solo electric version he has been doing for his solo tour is absolutly incredible anyone reading this comment you've gotta see it because it will blow your mind
bryt12693 1 year ago
@bryt12693 it did man it blew my mind.
Panasper 1 year ago
rise up my friends its cortez
natluvscards 1 year ago
if 2012 is for real like the maya said, this is the song i'm playing.
SaypheZonE 1 year ago 2
So great, so true, so sad, don't need more comments
Alcar1612 1 year ago
@Alcar1612 Well put Alcar, the only thing I might add is Hauntingly Beautiful.
jwippel 1 year ago
Christ these guys are so stoned it's a miracle they can play. Never change Neil, awesome song.
SailorMan69 1 year ago 3
The song remember me the white men killing the true owners of this land... from North to South. All the same.
undersolen 1 year ago
@undersolen
we belong to this land, that's all that matters
entropiavideos 1 year ago 6
@entropiavideos We are but mere visitors
clickswitchh 7 months ago
@undersolen your not a owner of any land until other states acknowledge you.
quezcatol 1 year ago
@undersolen organized religeon came across the water.
ceag600 1 year ago
@undersolen another bs statement.
Its well known the aztec took slaves and sacrificed people from diffrent tribes and towns.
thats why over 200.000 soldiers allied themselves with Cortez.
Look it up next time, you just come across like a retard.
They already had an empire based off slaves when the white man came. (you mean spain though?, dont call them white men like they represented Europe)
quezcatol 1 year ago 2
@quezcatol beside that, his mission was never to conqured the Aztec empire, in fact he was hunted by 1000 conquistords for not doing what he was asked for, which was:scout the area,look for surivvors was was lost and take contact with chieftains and try to allying themselves with them.
Then when he came home he was in trial for treason and mass murder.
Also, the reason why so many indians died was because of small pox spreading, you gonna claim the europeans did that with purpose?
quezcatol 1 year ago 2
@quezcatol All I know is the fucking white assholes are the rich owners and oppressors of the poor in this world. Just watch "darwin's nightmare" and you might get a better view on that subject
Al1Pilgrim 11 months ago
@Al1Pilgrim It's a white mans world. Never forget that....
hebertoclemente 11 months ago
@undersolen
Just remember this. We are all on this planet together. All human. In the end, we all share our sins. "White men" are not the only people that committed horrendous atrocities as you so much want to believe. They are just the ones that documented it. Remember too, Neil Young wrote and sings this song-- he's a white man. How many Mayans & others died at the hands of the Mayans? There is strong evidence that Caucasians were the first to inhabit this land. Who exterminated them?
WOZERD 11 months ago
@undersolen
Give it a break-- read the real history. Texians (manly Mexicans) revolted against Santa Anna. Only after Texians applied for stateship did the US get involved, finally buying TX, AZ and NM from greedy Mexicans. Hate whites all you want. Then complain there is no peace in the world. Mayan civilization was already on the decline when Cortez arrived. Due to drought and their own ecological disasters (deforestation). It's a fact.
WOZERD 11 months ago
@WOZERD Horseshit revisionist history.
darkcowboyhero 11 months ago
@darkcowboyhero Yup, that's what it is. Just close your mind, go to sleep and believe with all your heart that only you know everything. Hope you dream the dream of a world with no evil white men. Accept what you are told. Do not seek the truth.
Did not Santa Anna abolish the Mexican Constitution? Did not many Mexican Provinces rise up in revolt against him? Was not Texia a Province of Mexico? Are you going to believe a Province of Mexico was not a large majority-- Mexicans?
WOZERD 11 months ago
@undersolen Who where the owner the tribes victims of the Aztecs, that sacrifies then by hundreds. Please learn about reality, or the Incas exploiding all their neighbours. You have to go deeper. In that time power means lots of killing
nomarsuil 11 months ago
@undersolen seriously stfu.
there is 48 countries in Europe, Spain and England is two of them.
My reletives here in scandinavia didnt take any slaves from africa nor any land in America. So stfu.
But seeing how you wanna talk history, Aztec was a cruel,evil and blood thirsty empire which lived on slaves and sacrifice. So live in your fantasy world that eveyrthing was fantastic until the "white men" showed up.-
quezcatol 9 months ago
@quezcatol Your relatives just raped and pillaged and took slaves from other ueropean nations. ala vikings
rozzapezza 8 months ago
Fantastic Neil! Your the maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
darms23 8 months ago
This is from Live Rust and a great song. I normally don't like Reggae but for this song it's so fuckin' great, thanks to Neil's genius. I must say, and sorry to blow this for all you Montezuma lovers but just like we read untruths about Cortex in history books the story about Montezuma is a lie. Neil is right about Cortex and Neil's heart is in the right place but Montezuma did some cruel things. You can look it up.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz The Aztec human sacrifices were horrible; but so was the Spanish Inquisition. Moctezuma (sic Montezuma) was no saint; but he wasn't any more of a devil than Hernando Cortez. I await the day when the people of Mesoamerica will rise again and rebuild their great culture from the ruin that colonialism rendered it.
ogbobbydee 1 year ago
@ogbobbydee Thanks for expressing yourself. As a Jew (non-practicing) I knew more about the Spanish Inquisition than I did about Cortez's unbelievable cruelty. So I agree with what you said and I didn't mean to imply in any way that Moctezuma was worse than Cortez; I still think he was not the horrible guy that Cortez was.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@ogbobbydee Continued... At least Neil did a great thing to point out what most history books and too many scholars fail to do: they fuckin' failed to teach us the real history and it's complexity and it truth got "lost along the way" . Take care and hope you get your dream fulfilled. .
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@11xzxzxz That was a gracious response. So unusual for YouTube. Shalom!
ogbobbydee 1 year ago
@ogbobbydee Yeah sometimes I am blunt and not so gracious myself but I am a sensitive person and I appreciate your sensitivity and your want for a better world. Me too. And Youtubers are often not nice .. you noticed too..
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
your truly a legend neil young. i like your songs...
ags0728 1 year ago
Best intro ever!!
MARTYCLFC 1 year ago
Cortez showed up at the exact time that the god quetzalcoatl was supposed to return. Montezuma mistook Cortez for that god and in doing so allowed the spaniard to take mexico. If you read on it its interesting. The costumes of the spanish. resembled the bird god in alot of ways. Cortez also won several battles fighting larger numbers. Just a bunch of crazy circumstances that convinced Montezuma.
obbierayukacslay 1 year ago
Great song, yeah but the pre-Columbian native populations were, in fact, quite fierce and unquestionably cruel in a vast array of their dealings with not only settler but with each other. Don't wanna burst your bubble, but we're all going straight to Hell for this.
rivv3tify 1 year ago
What show and year is this from?? Awesome song
scennkah 1 year ago
I remember seeing this "movie" when it came out in the movie theaters in 1976. It was shown as a special feature at midnight. I had never been to a concert before, and had never been to a midnight movie before. I was a junior in high school. I was captivated. I could've stayed all night watching this Rust Never Sleep's movie. I've loved Neil Young ever since. So nice to see it in 2010 on FB. Wow, time flies....
somabodytherapy 1 year ago
Such a killer performance.
spicyMcHAGGIS9green 1 year ago
Neil is a living, breathing god.
icenine2 1 year ago
brilliant song!!!!
xXForeverFourteenXx 1 year ago
my favorite version of the song i think
ShiztnGigz 1 year ago
What's with the Jawas? Beautiful song btw.
Scottishpunk77 1 year ago
Neil the visionary! Neil the Canadian arch druid of folk rock, what a true artiste
sasaigor 1 year ago
When i saw his latest performance at the Bass Hall in austin it was alright... He made this song into about a 3 minute version and same with all of the other songs he usually goes out on, i don't know what but something was goin on that night
heth6 1 year ago
The Mayan calender isnt true because they didnt know about Cortes. they couldnt see the future at all
eddo1983 1 year ago
This song is about a girl. "And I know she's living there, And she loves me to this day, I still can't remember when Or how I lost my way."
Neil uses the metaphor of the lost, destroyed, civilization to describe a lost, destroyed, love. - riffing on Donovan's Atlantis: "Way down below the ocean, where I wanna be, she may be..."
jeffreybevans 1 year ago
Neil has something special that a lot of guitarists dont have. Passion!
olekirkeng 1 year ago
mike da bass recommended this to me its awesome think we'll add this 1 to the set
beanie9507 1 year ago
para cagarse!!!!
eltoriviodecamelias 1 year ago
I am being objective:
There are many great songs and there are many great live performances. Thousands!!
But this live performance of this song is hard to surpass. No! Let me get it straight: This live performance of this song stands alone!
orphangun 1 year ago 2
This song remember me Cortez the killer and many false priest killing the entire Maya population, and all the secrets wrote in their books was burned and now we have an unknown population with a lot of threasure of their lives.
Thank U Neil for this masterpiece
TheMiki64 1 year ago 7
@TheMiki64
Amen
entropiavideos 1 year ago
@entropiavideos When he says "Palace of the sun" he means the piramyd of the sun, from teotihuacan. So he is talking about Aztecas not Mayas
JimmyJosafat 1 year ago
@JimmyJosafat is talking about teotihuacans, an early toltecs, the aztecs were much later, and the mexicas were a tribe of the aztecs.
Santyago0o 1 year ago
@Santyago0o True
JimmyJosafat 1 year ago
@TheMiki64
I totally agree with one exception - Cortez tore up the Aztec nation.
ArtemisFowlGuff 1 year ago
@TheMiki64 The Maya created the idea of using zero, years before the Europeans; they calculated the orbit of the planet Venus to within 0.01 seconds of arc;Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, was larger and more prosperous than any European city of its time; the Spanish BURNED the Aztec library city and slaughtered the entire educated class of Mesoamerica. I weep to think of all that was lost because of the conquest.
ogbobbydee 1 year ago
@TheMiki64 Those priests were not false. They were what the Roman Catholics are all about. Every problem you can find south of the U.S. could probably be traced to the mother of harlots who ruined it all.
mgmorrell 11 months ago
@mgmorrell who is this mother of harlots? Also I am Christian but I don't necessarily think that everything a religious figure or the catholic church has done was always right. The Catholic Church killed tons of people in the past for not believing in Jesus, which is obviously wrong and goes against Jesus' teachings.
BURNINGHAMMER76 11 months ago
@BURNINGHAMMER76 not to start an argument but you need to read the bible again Jesus tells his disciples to kill those who do not believe in him. and I would say this to your face too
nintendonut100 10 months ago
@nintendonut100 actually that sounds familiar but I dont think he meant seek out and kill people. If i wasnt out of town I would actually look it up. Still who is the mother of harlots you refer to?
BURNINGHAMMER76 10 months ago
@BURNINGHAMMER76 I don't refer to a mother of Harlots anyway it may be worded somewhat vaguely in a way open to interperatation I'm going of memory.
nintendonut100 10 months ago
@BURNINGHAMMER76 but anyways it's of no real relevance
nintendonut100 10 months ago
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@TheMiki64 Those priests were not false. They were what the Roman Catholics are all about. Every problem you can find south of the U.S. could probably be traced to the mother of harlots who ruined it all.
mgmorrell 11 months ago
@TheMiki64 this song remember me that many people should study a little bit more of History. Neil has said many times that he wrote this song while he was in highschool, its not correct, its not historic. I love Neil Young, this is one of my favourite songs, the way the music and the lyrics flow, but it pisses me off when people take that song as a History lesson.
AnthonBateman 10 months ago 10
Thanks for the history lesson.... Take an English class douche.
burtbronson 1 week ago in playlist skipping stones so long the waters almost gone
@TheMiki64 you realise this song is historicly incorrect right? also the Aztecs destroyed the Mayans it was the Aztecs Cortez killed and both civilizations were brutal and violent not damning them just saying they were clever though.
nintendonut100 10 months ago
Nothing has been learned. From all sides of all things.
gtell79 1 year ago
He is so small between these large speakers and cabinets.
But he is so great among all the other musicians
vanhewitt 1 year ago 13
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vanhewitt 1 year ago
this song makes me melancholic about an age i never met
simpleman6942 1 year ago
let it be
fabelsen 1 year ago
HA! He's so fucking high on this one.
escepticojr 1 year ago
Beautiful words:-).....
Mariekesone 1 year ago
better to burn out than fade away
msjewelry 1 year ago
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LeeCreek 1 year ago
I don't know about the best, but it's certainly in the conversation. That's for damn sure.
manopike 1 year ago
yes i love this song ^_^
eye025 2 years ago
i love you xxxxxxxxxxxx
neils86 2 years ago
takes me to a place far away and a long time ago with someone who was so close and and so far away.
geezerstretch 2 years ago
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I like Neil's art, but I still think the three best things that ever happened to him were Crosby, Stills and Nash
north005 2 years ago
Dude! Crosby, Stills and Nash were the WORST thing that ever happened to him.
conbonz666 2 years ago
no man i dont think the same..
simpleman6942 1 year ago
It could be argued that Neil was the best thing that ever happened to them and he got smart and left.
willard10s 1 year ago
actually I'm not really a great fan of young, but he does have some wonderful songs. hey hey my my, heart of gold, dead man soudntrack and this one is just stunning. Only three chords, but it takes me to the most beautiful places so far away from this world
Anaben11 2 years ago
,Hate was just a legend,war was never known,,
ileanagabriela1 2 years ago 2
This live version is great! Can anyone tell me where it was filmed?
theolredneck 2 years ago
Recorded at the Cow Palace San Francisco, CA. October 22, 1978. Says back cover of my DVD.
JustADreamer01 2 years ago
it's on the Rust Never Sleeps DVD. get it, you wont regret it.
JonB83 2 years ago 10
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Excelente canción! Fuck SPAIN!
josueortega1 2 years ago
neil young is canadian, born in Toronto, raised in Winnipeg, still holds canadian citizenship
sjollema40 2 years ago
Nothing like this song can really give me the emotion and the sound that no other song.
I love Neil Young and his music since I was a boy, and is the best all over the others.
ZebVideoProjects 2 years ago
He looks so drugged out man, he looks bad, but he's a legend in the flesh
jarbo26 2 years ago
neal was on the money with this performance he is so fuckin talented hes the man
martyotb 2 years ago
EPIC...
komandant10 2 years ago 5
Neil Young, Incredible talent, True American and one of my all time favorite musicians. His music will be around forever!!!
gilly6666 2 years ago
Neil Young is from Canada.. He has adopted America as his home though... and we're damn lucky for that.
0pioid 2 years ago 2
not historically accurate? what exactly is it you think cortez did when he arrived. embrace the culture already in place. i dont think so
22jessejames22 2 years ago
Yeah, you're right; Cortez--stone cold killer, man.
I think whoever said that meant that the Aztecs are idealized in Young's song; which I've always seen as the whole point--it's about lost love and longing, really, not just (maybe not even primarily) about the Aztecs.
brentmcf 2 years ago
totally agreed with you on that one. amazing track
22jessejames22 2 years ago
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But you have to keep in mind that the Aztecs were barbaric,And they killed eachother for sacrifice.
Sanbev 2 years ago
Moctezuma was a barbaric ruler.
Doesn't mean you can label the entire Aztec people as barbarians.
degree7 2 years ago 3
Live Neil and be strong.
powerease 2 years ago
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thepoozer 2 years ago
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Love this song, very beautiful, although not very historically accurate.
Humbertusmarius 2 years ago
Nice he got a Habs shirt
antosplit 2 years ago
que es FODA?
entropiavideos 2 years ago
@entropiavideos federacion orgiastica de los dioses de antaño?
simpleman6942 1 year ago
que musica FODA!
BequiDelarge 2 years ago
"... Eso me dejó alucinado. Me dejó jodidamente alucinado. Quería a Danny. Me sentí responsable. Y desde entonces, tuve que hacer esa gira en recintos grandes. Estaba muy nervioso y me sentía inseguro".
kpdpq 2 years ago
El 19 es Danny Whitten? Neil dijo esto de él: "Estábamos ensayando con él y simplemente no podía hacerlo. No podía recordar nada. Estaba demasiado fuera de sí. Demasiado lejos. Le tuve que decir que se fuera a Los Ángeles. "No está sucediendo, tío". Él dijo: "No tengo ningún sitio a donde ir, tío. ¿Qué le voy a decir a mis amigos?". Y se marchó. Aquella noche el forense me llamó desde Los Ángeles y me dijo que había muerto.
kpdpq 2 years ago
Es Frank "Poncho" Sampedro.
supersonyk 2 years ago
Outstanding live performance of one of the best songs from Neil Young.
My second favorite version of this song is from
Gov't Mule "Live....With a Little Help From Our Friends" The Roxy Atlanta, GA. New Years Eve 1998. If you can find this CD buy it.
mrsickandtired 2 years ago
News sucks! Listen to music.
2short2q 2 years ago 2
there are jawas backstage.
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