403. Gypsy Wedding
is a Mosley jam from the Grape's 20 Granite Creek
http://youtu.be/QphAfZq_HUI?t=27s
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
pretty fun sidetrip for neil overall, don't know exactly how into it was, but he seems to be having a good time being a guitar player in a band. i guess he was into it enough to have pants made thoughhttp://www.sugarmtn.org/extras/197708220p003.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
"Jimmy Page has dragon pants? Big deal! I've got Duck pants!"
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
Until he breaks out some PONO pants I'm not taking that endeavor seriously.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
new song. kinda sounds like zz top. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pLVpVtstNw
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
what? performing in a small club?! when!? why?! who?!
― nostormo, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
the lady there is his wife -- he usually plays with her if he's not on tour, i think... that's johnny d's in beautiful somerville, ma.
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
yeahPegi Young & The Survivors
― nostormo, Thursday, 12 September 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
A friend of mine was there. He's the Fenway Park organist and a huge Spooner Oldham fan, and was pretty pleasantly surprised to see Neil show up. Posted about 20 fb updates with many exclamation points.
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
haha, awesome, yeah thought that was spooner there. i would post lots of exclamation points if i was seeing neil young play guitar at a club that size. johnny d's is probably , what, 300 capacity? when i lived out there, i saw richard buckner play there, if that gives any indication.
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
It was funny, all the fb comments were "Neil played in a club?! How did I not know about this?!"
I can't even fathom how mindblowing that would be to see Neil just pop out of the shadows like that.
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Oof that song is pretty bad
― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
I like it
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
in a dumb-boogie-about-cars way
it's better than "hole in the sky" the other new song he's been playing this year, that's for sure.
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Neil takes a journey through the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ufauKwn28E#t=51
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 September 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
Full transcript:
"This is good.""I like this one.""This is a good one."
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 September 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
George Harrison wasn't a fan (at 14:00)http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xYUglwhHpuw
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 8 November 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
that's pretty funny
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 November 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
anyone going to these carnegie hall shows in January? i'm assuming it'll be on the folkier spectrum of things, but who knows?
― tylerw, Friday, 8 November 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
neil totally missed his chance to celebrate the 30th anniversary of everybody's rockin
― tylerw, Friday, 8 November 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
George complaining about Neil's voice is pretty rich
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
haha yeah. though it is interesting to hear classic rock dudes talk a little shit -- you get the impression everyone's buddy buddy sometimes. obviously neil was the best thing about that bobfest tribute (w/ a little competition from lou).
― tylerw, Friday, 8 November 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
who's the other half of that conversation - sounds Scottish...? Is that Dave Stewart?
but yeah this kind of candid convo seems pretty rare, nice to see George just hanging out talking shit
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
George didn't hide his opinions.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
It's Bob Geldof, for some reason.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
George probably just hated Neil because McCartney dug him:
Neil,Linda and I have been listening to Live Rust over and over, side four kicks ass.Lotta Love,Paul
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
in fairness i think i did hear george say "he sings even worse than me" or something like that
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
is this why neil wasn't asked to be a traveling wilbury!? hold on, i'm going to pitch an investigative piece to mojo magazine.
― tylerw, Friday, 8 November 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
I can totally get why Harrison and Clapton would be mystified at Neil's guitar technique - Neil doesn't worship at the same blues/R&B altars they do, his style comes from a different place
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
naturally clean soloists like Clapton and Harrison would hate Young.
"He's the one person I thought who sings worse than me!"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
"He just stands and hits that one string and goes ERRREWEERRRERR."
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
also, they are all revered classic rock icons but there's just a touch of a mini-generational thing i think going on too...neil came up just a bit behind them, didn't really peak until harvest commercially and was more associated with that LA movement, so i could see some distance between dudes like clapton and harrison (like proper 1960s UK guys) and this weird canadian loner
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 November 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
but <3 this weird canadian loner
over gross old clapton, who may as well have been an eagle.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
heard everybody knows this is nowhere played in three different places over the past two weeks -- is there any other record that sounds as good in every context imaginable?
― tylerw, Friday, 8 November 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
also neil didn't throw his kid out the window xp
― I have a friend who works at Kroger (Matt P), Friday, 8 November 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link
the last recent neil young album i listened to and loved was "sleeps with angels" which is 20 years old now. i keep going back to the old stuff. whats a good neil young album since 1994?
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 25 April 2014 11:16 (ten years ago) link
Prairie Wind is ok. (rehashing old country ideas, of course, which he had already rehashed in Harvest Moon)
anyway...
― Ludo, Friday, 25 April 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
Silver & Gold is better than Prairie Wind in the folkie Neil vein, thought Harvest Moon isn't really a country album anyway and I don't really think Neil Young writing Neil Young songs constitutes "rehashing" stuff.
Anyway...I'm a Mirror Ball guy (Pearl Jam as his backing band) but opinions vary...Living With War was pretty divisive but I think people should at least check out the later version where the children's choir was scrubbed from the record...
obviously, Psychedelic Pill would probably be most ppl's choice, there's some pretty vintage Crazy Horse on that and a couple of tunes that I put in the company of all time Neil jams
Le Noise is a really cool sounding record, solo electric, swamped in weird Lanois reverb etc...so maybe that might appeal to you if you like the kinda weird throbbing vibe of Sleeps With Angels...it's definitely like nothing else he's done...also features the first proper recording of Hitchhiker, a 70s song that's up there among his best
Greendale is a weird, low key concept/story album that some ppl love, i'm not super huge on it...
Chrome Dreams II is assembled from tracks from the 00s and I think maybe some 80 stuff, not bad...
Broken Arrow is pretty solid stuff
Are You Passionate and Fork in the Road I would avoid
also assuming that you've dived into the Archives material because if not you're basically missing some of the best music of his career that's ever been released
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 April 2014 12:16 (ten years ago) link
Broken Arrow is great; I'd put it just a slight notch below Ragged Glory (and largely for the weirdly desultory Jimmy Reed cover that closes the record). UMS OTM re: Le Noise. And A Treasure (live mid-80s stuff) is shockingly good, and arguably better than any of his pre-Freedom 80s stuff.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 25 April 2014 12:21 (ten years ago) link
thanks john. ive heard some of mirror ball, i remember thinking it was pretty good atm. no i havent heard the archives stuff either!
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 25 April 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
imo :)
― cwkiii, Friday, 25 April 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
Also Americana is worth hearing at least once.
― cwkiii, Friday, 25 April 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah americana and the new covers album stuff i've heard as well sounds cool
i don't mind fork in the road but i was sort of assuming that the asker of the question was not as far gone as me personally so like it's not exactly the first one i would point anyone to
are you passionate does have one REALLY good song, a crazy horse raver stuck in the middle for no reason
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
I agree, Fork in the Road is probably like my 4th/5th favorite from the era in question, whereas Are You Passionate is my least favorite thing he's ever done. But yeah it has "Goin' Home" and I think "She's a Healer" is OK, too.
― cwkiii, Friday, 25 April 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
i'm actually super pumped for a letter home based on the song i heard on the radio
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
"Ordinary People" - 18:13 - on Chrome Dreams II is worth a listen.
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
The anecdotes about/responses to "Ordinary People" in "Shakey" are pretty funny ("Neil doesn't fucking know any ordinary people!")
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
i think the solo live recordings of neil playing/explaining Greendale are generally more successful than the album itself.
― tylerw, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
since sleeps with angels, i spent a lot of time listening to broken arrow & mirror ball. mirror ball has a couple of incredible cuts, 'i'm the ocean' is a towering tune imo. broken arrow is good but it doesn't really thrill me to death. it's one of the jammiest NY&CH albums and at the same time it moves along pretty slowly, ranges from slow cuts to midtempo jams. vocally, neil sounds like he's gonna pass out most of the time. i do like it, though. it's just the guys doing their thing. 'big time' and 'music arcade' are especially strong imo.
living with war was good the one time i heard it. i like silver and gold and prairie wind well enough, agree that the former is better.
chrome dreams II has some great tunes on it and if you're a neil fan probably worth the $1 the CD will cost.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link