New Spider Species Named After Neil Young

Named by a university biologist

[Marcia]

Ha! almost tempting post in the Spider Identification forum.

From the article in Wired [blog.wired.com]

Bond discovered a new species of trapdoor spider last year in Alabama and set about publishing a paper about it with Norman I. Platnick, curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. When it came time to name his discovery, Bond reached not into the annals of science but those of music, dubbing it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi (teach your children how to pronounce that).

[rocker]

teach your children

I wonder if the reporter was intentionally being clever?

[rocknbil]

trapdoor spider last year in Alabama

On two counts. :-) (See: Harvest album)

[Rugles]

"Alabama, you've got the weight on your shoulders"

re: >>>>teach your children

Was Neil on that song? I know that Jerry Garcia played pedal steel on it .. hmmmmm

This is fantastic news, very cool. I saw Neil twice in the last year. Once at Massey Hall in Toronto .. in the 6th row no less. He is still fantastic. We are very proud of him up here.

[rocker]

re: >>>>teach your children

Was Neil on that song? I know that Jerry Garcia played pedal steel on it .. hmmmmm

Yes, that song is from the Deja Vu album, the first album to include Neil Young in the group.

[Marcia]

I think "Parents, Teach Your Children Well" was from before Neil Young was added to Crosby, Stills and Nash.

YouTube video [youtube.com]

But it's very clever in the article, and he'll probably always be associated with them and the song.

[Rugles]

I was correct, Neil did not play on it. Not sure why I knew that.

Graham Nash wrote this. The lyrics deal with the often difficult relationship he had with his father, who spent time in prison.
Jerry Garcia performs the pedal steel guitar part of this track. He had been playing steel guitar for only a short period of time. Garcia played on this album in exchange for harmony lessons for the Grateful Dead, who were at the time recording their acoustic albums Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. Graham Nash (from the liner notes of their 1991 boxed set): "The idea is that you write something so personal that every single person on the planet can relate to it. Once it's there on vinyl it unfolds, outwards, so that it applies to almost any situation. 'Teach' started out as a slightly funky English Folk song but Stephen (Stills) put a country beat to it and turned it into a hit record."

Deja Vu was the first album the band recorded with Neil Young, but Young did not play on this.