[Scpg] Biodiesel music tour by Neil Young

[Faramarz Nabavi]

Below is an excerpt of an article that talks about Neil Young's biodiesel
tour - for the full text, go to this link:

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/0315-10.htm

Published on Monday, March 15, 2004 by Reuters
Neil Young Tour Powered by Vegetable Oil
by Sheri Linden

LOS ANGELES - Neil Young wants to talk about vegetable oil.

It would be reasonable to expect that the rock 'n' roll veteran has more
pressing matters on his mind -- he's just launched a month-long concert
tour to complement the theatrical release of "Greendale," his first film
in 22 years.

But for anyone familiar with the project's storyline, which tackles such
weighty subjects as religious warfare, corporate duplicity, the erosion of
privacy and the destruction of natural resources, it will come as no
surprise that its creator is eager to discuss not merely the tour itself
but the tour's means of transportation.

"I have 17 diesel vehicles, and they're all running on vegetable oil
farmed by American farmers," Young, one of the founders of the annual Farm
Aid charity concerts, said in a recent interview with Reuters.

Traveling cross-country in that biodiesel caravan with Young are his
longtime backing band Crazy Horse and a troupe of friends and family, most
of whom are reprising roles they created in the film. In Young's visionary
slant on contemporary Americana, they play the residents of an invented
California town.

With its rural setting and "down-home" people, Young said, "Greendale" is
"almost like Disney at first. It's pretty mellow." But there's a decidedly
non-Disney resonance to the fictional story's events -- murder, civil
disobedience, FBI surveillance and media voyeurism.