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Neil Young voices opinion in CSNY
By
Derek Malcolm
17 Jul 2008
Bernard Shakey, the named director of this music film, is actually Neil Young, who has constructed a chronicle of his old band's Freedom of Speech tour of 2006 which has gathered the ire of America's right with its left-leaning digressions on the iraq war. They include the testimony of veterans and war correspondents and a song which begins: "let's impeach the President for lying."
The song caused a riot in conservative Atlanta. But elsewhere the film does not treat itself too seriously. CSNY, of course, means Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and many will go simply for the music and images of the tour. They will find plenty of that but also a documentary, loosely based on Young's living With War CD, that may seem eccentrically droll but sincerely attempted to make some sort of political difference.
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